Comments on: Source-to-Sink: The future of sedimentary geology?

By: Igor Rubio

Igor Rubio — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:58:24 +0000

Since late 2007 I’ve been reading your clasticdetritus posts (http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/05/28/the-future-of-sedimentary-geology/). I was pretty amazed, in 2007, when I found one person’s work, you, related to the concepts of sedimentary geology while I was doing my bachelor thesis. But now on 2011, as young PhD researcher, I found once more a review/post from you, one named: Source-to-Sink: The future of sedimentary geology? I found your discussion great to fulfill a gap on information concerning the Source-to-Sink concept, and moreover the existence of Allen’s paper. Since in my university at Mexico there is limited access to literature, specially AAAS and NAS publications, it’s been a difficult task to assemble a good conceptual support about certain sedimentary geological topics (e.g., Source-to-Sink).

On the latter post, you say [I have a paper in press right now from some work I did on a Holocene system that attempts to address this ... I'll post about it when it's out]; may I ask for it? It will be of great help since a colleague and I are preparing a manuscript entitled as: APPLING A DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION FOR DETERMINING A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DETRITAL MODES AND TECTONIC SETTINGS: AN APPROACH TOWARDS UNVEILING SOME SOURCE-TO-SINK FACTORS.

I really appreciate your support, and it will be an honor to invite you as our reviewer, obviously if you accept. We are preparing to launch the MS by and of April. We really need support from native English speakers to acquire a good grammatical expression on our writing.

I will wait either response for your article and/or the acceptance to review our manuscript.

Best,

Igor Ishi Rubio Cisneros

- Major in Geology, Cand.-Dr. in Geosciences –

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By: BrianR

BrianR — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:22:11 +0000

Peter says: “And note that part of what people interpret as external signal in these systems could well be unforced periodic behaviour of the system itself.”

Yeah, I agree … and a lot of work from experimental systems (where the initial/boundary conditions are precisely known and external forcings kept constant) show that.

Peter says: “Only through understanding this can we have a chance of recognizing the real external signal; currently we don’t.”

Exactly … that’s why I think it’s a pretty exciting time!

By: Peter Burgess

Peter Burgess — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:07:51 +0000

Pehaps geologists should be more interested in the noise, especially if by noise one means the record of the complex internal dynamics of the Earth surface systems we study. And note that part of what people interpret as external signal in these systems could well be unforced periodic behaviour of the system itself. Only through understanding this can we have a chance of recognizing the real external signal; currently we don’t.

By: BrianR

BrianR — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:37:00 +0000

“We become hydrologists, and then the noise is our primary interest…”

True … but if we only focus on the noise (i.e., autogenic dynamics) do we potentially miss the big (integrated) picture?

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:11:48 +0000

“I saw a talk by University of Minnesota geologist, Chris Paola, at a conference in April that concluded that, at least in some cases (and based on scaled-down experiments), the internal dynamics will indeed completely destroy the original signal.

So, where do we go from here?”

We become hydrologists, and then the noise is our primary interest…