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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@txgeosciences.bsky.social @zzsylvester.bsky.social presenting @geosociety.bsky.social SedGeo lecture: '... strange ordinariness of signals in stratigraphy...' 2 July, 11 am MST. Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

3D animation of shelf-edge deltas in NE Gulf of Mexico for new paper w/ @hdaigle.bsky.social 'Causes of slope failure...' See #OA @geosociety.bsky.social #Geosphere doi.org/10.1130/GES0... for subsurface & depositional context

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

@zzsylvester.bsky.social presenting @txgeosciences.bsky.social BEG this afternoon, 1 PM CT: 'Accreting, fast & slow...' utexas.zoom.us/j/9320137763...

Maps of Rio Mamore, Bolivia, deposition and erosion over time.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Exploring Death Valley w/ @zzsylvester.bsky.social for fall field trip this week

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

New #OA @geosociety.bsky.social Geosphere pub 'landslide influenced delta stratigraphy' w/ @zzsylvester.bsky.social, Dunlap & Covault: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geospher.... Paper's Figure 11 compares deltas w/ landslides v 'typical' delta ('typical' see: zsylvester.github.io/papers/fuji_...).

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Navajo Sst during @txgeosciences.bsky.social QCL Clastics Lab field trip last week.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

@txgeosciences.bsky.social QCL Clastics Lab at Tusher Canyon, north of Green River, UT. Origin & architecture of channels incising parasequences.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

@txgeosciences.bsky.social QCL Clastics Lab field trip to Cedar Mtn Fm last week (see Cole Speed PhD: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...).

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Former @ClasticsLab PhD Paul Morris w/ #OA publication @segpublications @AAPGPubs #Interpretation on modeling & simulation of deep-water channel reservoirs: library.seg.org/doi/full/10....

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

More field trip planning- Navajo Sandstone near Capitol Reef NP

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Utah field trip planning: Cedar Mountain channel belts south of Green River; Navajo & Ferron ssts in San Rafael Swell

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Field trip planning w/ @zzsylvester.bsky.social- photos from Gentile Wash & Tusher Canyon, UT

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Turbidite (mostly) canyon fill & some slides(?) at the crown jewel of @californiaparks.bsky.social- Point Lobos

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

In northern CA helping @txgeosciences.bsky.social PhD student Cassandra Guzman- Pigeon Pt Fm turbidites in the am, La Jolla fan @mbarinews.bsky.social sediment in the pm

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

@txgeosciences.bsky.social QCL PhD students Juan Gutierrez & Jenna Kohn receive West Texas Geo Society scholarships! Congrats!

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Piece reporting some of our collaborative research w/ USGS in @txgeosciences.bsky.social seasonal 'Geoscientist' publication: www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Dallas Dunlap successfully defended PhD today

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@txgeosciences.bsky.social PhD Jenna Kohn working on some Cherry Canyon Formation cores from the Delaware Basin this morning

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

@txgeosciences.bsky.social QCL student Jenna Kohn awarded GEM Fellowship (www.gemfellowship.org/gem-fellowsh...)

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

QCL students Cassandra Guzman & Jenna Kohn recognized for posters @txgeosciences.bsky.social Research Symposium last week. Congrats!

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2024/12...

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hosted QCL sponsor meeting & workshops last week. A couple of images incl Tim Lawton career retrospective & @xding.bsky.social new projects in ML/AI. Spraberry Fm core workshop incl some new Midland Basin correlations w/ @zzsylvester.bsky.social ChronoLog.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Check out @txgeosciences press release for recent QCL @geosociety Bulletin #OA paper 'Turbidite correlation for paleoseismology' collaborating w/ @NorskiGeo & @USGS Gomberg, @faultscarp & McBrearty: jsg.utexas.edu/news/2024/08/a… pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulleti…

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

New #OA #GSApubs @GSAPublications @geosociety w/ @NorskiGeo, @zzsylvester, Covault, Gomberg, @faultscarp & McBrearty ‘Turbidite correlation for paleoseismology’: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulleti…

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

Spent last week in Co. Clare, Ireland, looking at the Tullig & Ross formations w/ Andy Pulham et al. Framing a future PhD project on the Tullig shelf margin.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Congrats to former QCL @PaulMGeo winning @txgeosciences best grad student paper. Check it out: lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11…

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Congrats to @ColeSpeed successfully defending his @txgeosciences PhD today! Congrats also to supervisor @zzsylvester.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

.@zzsylvester & @txgeosciences colleagues leading efforts geoscience ML/AI certificate:Kudos to QCL @ColeSpeed for visualization example in ad. app.econnect.utexas.edu/e/es.aspx?s=17

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

QCL & @GeoscienceTexas @xuesong_ding w/ insightful seminar showing Badlands models of nearshore sequence stratigraphy. New insights into alongshore deposition variability. Abstract:Maybe on @Bureau3E #YouTube channel soon? youtube.com/@BureauofEcono… beg.utexas.edu/presentations/…

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Tim Lawton wrapping @ClasticsLab short course 'Integrated Basin Analysis & Provenance' this afternoon. Sandstone petrology & detrital zircon geochronology methods and examples.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

Exploring turbidites in Guadalupe Mountains w/ @zzsylvester, PhD student Jenna Kohn & Covault.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Preparing for upcoming core workshop, Spraberry Formation, West Texas. New year, and, to us, new cores and new proximal-distal facies observations.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Interested in depositional processes & landscape evolution graduate research? Subsurface exploration, energy transition & hazards? Work w/ @txgeosciences QCL Clastics Lab. Fall '24 graduate fellowships. Contact @zzsylvester or DM @ClasticsLab (J. Covault) for info. Please RT

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

.@zzsylvester crowd pleasing w/ new 'stratigraph' Python module applied to XES-02 Jurassic Tank @saflumn experiment at today's @txgeosciences @Bureau3E @ClasticsLab sponsor meeting.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

Please apply to our collaborative @USGS Mendenhall postdoc opportunity w/ J Gomberg, @faultscarp, J Covault, @zzsylvester & @NorskiGeo to study turbidite deposition & great earthquakes: usgs.gov/centers/menden…

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 29/06/2023

Former @txgeosciences @Bureau3E QCL postdoc @glennrsharman finally pub’d ‘Coastal response [to]… PETM’ in Palaeo3. Talk about integrated sed/strat data- core description, C-isotope chronostratigraphy, U-Pb geochronology, palynology. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hKBo73N%7EA…

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 13/05/2023

Covault co-leading deepwater depositional system field school w/ @Repsol Dominic Armitage this week. Great group!

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

Thanks to @GeoscienceTexas researcher @Strat_traps for a tour of Permian Basin ‘salt’ of the Castile & Salado overlying Bell Canyon clastics.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 24/04/2023

Some QCL presentations @GeoGulf_2021 this week. Mike Sweet re. a collaboration w/ @GbdsUtig on Mississippi Canyon. Tim Lawton in Mexico session.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 15/04/2023

.@txgeosciences QCL student @GeoBasinsZr successfully defended her PhD last week! Congrats, Gaby!

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 24/02/2023

.@zzsylvester visiting @Tulane to meet w/ colleagues & present McWilliams Seminar (unsure of time of day): sse.tulane.edu/eens/seminars

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 21/02/2023

.@txgeosciences @Bureau3E Tim Lawton kicking off 'Integrated Basin Analysis...' short course for @ClasticsLab sponsors today & Thursday!

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 18/02/2023

Covault & @zzsylvester looking at ‘Wilcox’ core from Gulf Coast TX w/ @txgeosciences @Bureau3E @GulfCoastCarbon Uroza & @GeoscienceTexas Olariu.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 31/01/2023

Covault & @zzsylvester walk through long core from Midland Basin, TX, last week, incl ‘Wolfberry’ hybrid gravity flow deposits, debris flow deposits, and sandy turbidites. What a treat- some really beautiful rocks!

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 30/01/2023

QCL Covault & @zzsylvester in Midland last week for crash course in deep-water deposits w/ applications to Permian Basin. Grateful to @Bureau3E core repository & facilities management N. Ivicic & B. Williamson for help selecting & transporting core.

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 10/01/2023

Attending morning of first day @USGS Subduction Zone Science Workshop @UW organized by @KirstieHaynie, E Wirth, @JTWcoastal, @cairya, J Gomberg & A Grant. Lots to learn!

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 10/01/2023

Covault presented QCL collab on behalf of @zzsylvester, @USGS J Gomberg & @NorskiGeo at turbidite workshop led by @terraval1 yesterday:Lots of great interaction. sites.google.com/view/workshop-…

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Clastics Lab @clasticslab.bsky.social · 05/12/2022

Really knowledgeable Permian Basin workshop participants working to correlate facies in overlapping core sections of the Spraberry Formation, Midland Basin. Loving the @txgeosciences @Bureau3E core repository!

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