About
Brian
San Francisco Bay Area, California
I am a sedimentary geologist currently working as a researcher. I write mostly about Earth science (usually sedimentary and/or marine geology) and like to share photographs I’ve taken.
What does Clastic Detritus mean? These words refer to pieces or fragments of other rocks. Sediments and sedimentary geology is what I spend most of my waking hours pondering. See my research interests for more.
If you’re looking for a place to start, here are some of the most popular posts (according to site stats):
- Submarine Canyon Offshore San Diego, California
- Hudson Shelf Valley
- Sediment Accumulation Rates and Bias: The Sadler Effect
- Submarine Landslide (offshore Santa Barbara, California)
- Submarine Fans During a Highstand in Sea Level
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Here is a bit of info about me and this blog from elsewhere on the internet:
- Geotimes (now Earth magazine), June 2008 — Geology Bloggers Rock
- Q&A with The Reef Tank blog, April 2009 — Geological Breakdown
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You can contact me at brian ‘at’ clasticdetritus.com
If you use a feed aggregator like GoogleReader, here is the feed for this blog: http://clasticdetritus.com/feed
The photograph of me (above) and the header image (top image with title) are from my Ph.D. field area in southern Chile. In the above photo, I am standing on outcropping Cretaceous sedimentary rocks looking at the Miocene Paine laccolith complex in the distance (Parque Nacional Torres del Paine).
Click here to see all posts tagged with ‘Patagonia’.
To see more of my photographs of Patagonia, check out this Flickr collection.
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Check out some other internets stuff:
- bookmarks shared on delicious with tag ‘geoscience‘
- Flickr photostream
- LibraryThing book catalog
- shared blog posts and other stuff

