Sedimentary Petrology Related Links
The following is a list of links.
If you have a website that you would like to propose be added to this list, please write! kitty@mail.utexas.edu
Photomicrograph of the Month
Featured here are petrographic images, mostly from the laboratories of the Jackson School. What qualifies as a 'photomicrograph'? Any image made using any of the techniques listed under "Petrography Tools". If you would like to submit a "POTM", just write and propose one! kittym@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.geo.utexas.edu/sscd/MonthImage.htm
Journals
Journal of Sedimentary Research ("JSR"). The top journal for sedimentary geology! Naturally, Kitty is biased here because she is currently Co-Editor, along with Colin
North (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~gmi196/DrylandRivers/) , University of Aberdeen. This journal was known for many years as the "Journal of Sedimentary Petrology"; if you catch Kitty saying "JSP", forgive her!
http://spot.colorado.edu/~jsedr/
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Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), sponsor of JSR. Originally known as "Society for Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists", it began as a subset within AAPG. After changing the name to something more generic (and, indeed representative), it was decided to keep the original initials (because we like them). All students who like sedimentary rocks should join this fine organization! Kitty joined in 1974, while still an undergraduate, because a professor told her to.
Sed Pet Labs
Listed below are websites with content or purposes devoted to sedimentary petrology.
Fractures are a normal part of diagenesis, just like compaction, cementation, etc. At least that what these folks think:
http://www.beg.utexas.edu/indassoc/fraccity/dgsFRACpage.htm
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Geomicrobiology is an area of sed pet that is currently very active; discoveries are piling up faster than a person can keep track of:
http://www.geo.utexas.edu/faculty/bennett/
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Geomicrobiological features may very well span a greater range of scales than conventional wisdom permits. Whatever ARE those tiny balls?:
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/geosciences/4site/lynch.htm
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Here are some folks who are making fantastic progress in the practical application of sedimentary petrology for reservoir quality prediction and risk analysis:
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Main website for the electron microbeam lab of the geology department at the University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.geo.utexas.edu/microbeam/