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class="container"><a href="/">EGU Blogs</a> » <a href="/divisions/">Divisions</a> » Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology</div></nav> <header class="entry-header page-header" style=""> <div class="container"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="">Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology</h1> </div> </header> <div id="content-wrapper" class="container"> <div id="content"> <div class="post-wrapper blog-masonry"> <article class="post-loop post-1043 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail sticky hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2020/11/03/when-huge-masses-of-salt-move-underground-lessons-from-outcrops-that-go-beyond-the-table-salt/" title="When huge masses of salt move underground: lessons from outcrops that go beyond the table salt" target="">When huge masses of salt move underground: lessons from outcrops that go beyond the table salt</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/author/ramonlopez/" title="Posts by Ramon Lopez" class="author url fn" rel="author">Ramon Lopez</a></span> <span class="meta-date">November 3, 2020</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2020/11/03/when-huge-masses-of-salt-move-underground-lessons-from-outcrops-that-go-beyond-the-table-salt/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2020/11/Options_Header2-e1604315568568-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2020/11/Options_Header2-e1604315568568-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="When huge masses of salt move underground: lessons from outcrops that go beyond the table salt" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">Aerial view of the El Gordo Anticlinal (foreground) and La Popa Mountain (background). Credit: Ramon Lopez </div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>There is a place in the NE of Mexico where anyone can learn heaps about the dynamics of the ground beneath our feet while enjoying the wonders of the desert. Geologists call the area ‘La Popa Basin’. La Popa means “The Bow”, a name that comes from the shape of one of the mountains in this area, which resembles the front part of a very large boat. This place is a perfect training field for ge ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2020/11/03/when-huge-masses-of-salt-move-underground-lessons-from-outcrops-that-go-beyond-the-table-salt/" class="read-more more-link" title="When huge masses of salt move underground: lessons from outcrops that go beyond the table salt">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-5061 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-ancient-outcrop tag-coastal tag-estuary tag-marine-geology tag-outcrop tag-outcrop-analogue tag-sand-bars tag-sand-dunes tag-sedimentology tag-shallow-marine tag-tides"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2025/03/14/unlocking-the-secrets-of-ancient-estuarine-deposits/" title="Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits" target="">Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/author/ramonlopez/" title="Posts by Ramon Lopez" class="author url fn" rel="author">Ramon Lopez</a></span> <span class="meta-date">March 14, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2025/03/14/unlocking-the-secrets-of-ancient-estuarine-deposits/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2025/03/Sandbar_seq_model-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2025/03/Sandbar_seq_model-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>In recent months, I had the opportunity to work on a project analysing subsurface data from a rock sequence previously interpreted as the product of an estuarine depositional environment. The client sought subsurface maps to characterize the spatial distribution of various geobodies associated with sedimentary deposits typically found in modern estuaries. In other words, the goal was to reconstruc ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2025/03/14/unlocking-the-secrets-of-ancient-estuarine-deposits/" class="read-more more-link" title="Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-4923 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2025/02/06/broadening-our-understanding-of-bird-ichnology-through-neoichnology/" title="Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology" target="">Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/author/jonnoad/" title="Posts by Jon Noad" class="author url fn" rel="author">Jon Noad</a></span> <span class="meta-date">February 6, 2025</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2025/02/06/broadening-our-understanding-of-bird-ichnology-through-neoichnology/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2025/02/22b-sdkn-swish-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2025/02/22b-sdkn-swish-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> <div class="featured_caption">New type of fossil bird feeding trace from the Miocene of eastern Borneo</div> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>Introduction Bird footprints are some of the most recognizable traces in the fossil record. Yet birds exhibit a wide variety of behaviours which may be preserved as ancient traces. Records include feeding traces like probing, nesting structures and possibly coprolites, but the study of the traces left by modern birds extends their scope to courtship-related scrapes, swimming and diving traces, bir ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2025/02/06/broadening-our-understanding-of-bird-ichnology-through-neoichnology/" class="read-more more-link" title="Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-4881 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2024/11/19/drilling-on-worlds-rooftop-the-nam-co-icdp-campaign-on-the-tibetan-plateau/" title="Drilling on world’s rooftop – the Nam Co-ICDP campaign on the Tibetan Plateau" target="">Drilling on world’s rooftop – the Nam Co-ICDP campaign on the Tibetan Plateau</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/author/mathiasvinnepand/" title="Posts by mathiasvinnepand" class="author url fn" rel="author">mathiasvinnepand</a></span> <span class="meta-date">November 19, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2024/11/19/drilling-on-worlds-rooftop-the-nam-co-icdp-campaign-on-the-tibetan-plateau/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2024/11/TSC00626_1200_800-700x400.jpg" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2024/11/TSC00626_1200_800-1400x800.jpg" width="700" height="400" alt="Drilling on world’s rooftop – the Nam Co-ICDP campaign on the Tibetan Plateau" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>International Scientific Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) campaigns may lead scientists from all over the world to most exciting places that are often of extraordinary beauty and remoteness. All these attributes certainly apply to Lake Nam Co situated at an altitude of 4700 m above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. Today this area supplies one third of the humankind with fresh ...<a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2024/11/19/drilling-on-worlds-rooftop-the-nam-co-icdp-campaign-on-the-tibetan-plateau/" class="read-more more-link" title="Drilling on world’s rooftop – the Nam Co-ICDP campaign on the Tibetan Plateau">[Read More]</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="post-loop post-4814 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-baja-california tag-deep-water tag-fossil tag-fossilization tag-mexico tag-outcrop tag-palaeoenvironment tag-silicification tag-tree-trunk"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="loop-title"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2024/07/24/fossilized-tree-trunks-preservation-in-continental-and-marine-ancient-outcrops-of-baja-california/" title="Fossilized Tree Trunks: Preservation in Continental and Marine Ancient Outcrops of Baja California" target="">Fossilized Tree Trunks: Preservation in Continental and Marine Ancient Outcrops of Baja California</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="meta-author"><a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/author/ramonlopez/" title="Posts by Ramon Lopez" class="author url fn" rel="author">Ramon Lopez</a></span> <span class="meta-date">July 24, 2024</span> </div>  </header>  <div class="post-thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/2024/07/24/fossilized-tree-trunks-preservation-in-continental-and-marine-ancient-outcrops-of-baja-california/"> <img src="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2024/07/Tree_trunk-700x400.png" data-rel="https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ssp/files/2024/07/Tree_trunk-1400x800.png" width="700" height="400" alt="Fossilized Tree Trunks: Preservation in Continental and Marine Ancient Outcrops of Baja California" class="wp-post-image" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-content"> <p>While working on the exceptional, but remote outcrops of Baja California, I have encountered an extraordinary quantity of fossilized tree fragments in Cretaceous deposits. These fossils were preserved in both subaerial, fluvial, and marine environments. Does this mean that preservation of tree trunks is easy? How can wood be preserved for more than 70 million years? 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