🚨 New Research Article 🚨 Baird et al. introduce a revised depositional model for the Mazon Creek lagerstätten, Illinois (USA), offering new insights into its paleoecological context and the exceptional preservation of its biota. 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Opinion Piece 🚨 Chiarella & Longhitano discuss the potential ecological and environmental impact of geopolitical conflicts on straits, emphasising the need for further research to better understand their sediment dynamics and long-term evolution. 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research Article 🚨 Lesourd-Laux et al. present a comprehensive spatiotemporal characterisation of water masses interaction along a headwall scarp on the Demerara Plateau, offshore French Guiana, and their potential role on submarine landslides triggering. 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research Article 🚨 Peploe et al. present a novel method to produce corrected and geometrically accurate outcrop panels using field data calibration, with a direct example from Cretaceous marginal shelf deposits of the Magallanes Basin, Patagonia, Chile. 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research Article 🚨 Sato & Naruse investigate the morphological response of an ancient estuarine system to tectonically-driven relative sea-level change through sedimentary facies and architectural analysis of the Eocene Urahoro Group, Hokkaido, northern Japan. 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research Article 🚨 Dietrich & Nutz explore the sedimentary architecture of cyclic Pleistocene diamicton clinoforms in lee-side subgalcial cavity fills from the Southern French Alps, providing new insights on sedimentary processes and mechanisms under ice caps. 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

📖 Open-access publishing doesn’t happen without a team. Today, we’re introducing two volunteer copyeditors and typesetters: Dr. Liz Mahon – Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Seyedeh Mortazavi – Predoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Grenada, Spain.

📖 Open-access publishing doesn’t happen without a team. Today, we’re introducing two volunteer copyeditors and typesetters: Dr. Kyungdoe H. “Doe" Han – Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Dr. Brette Harris, Postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University, Canada

📢 New Steering Committee member! 🎉 We’re thrilled to introduce Dr. Sara Biddle from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, who completes our Copyeditorial Management Panel!

📖 Time to put the spotlight on the team of volunteer copyeditors and typesetters who make open-access scientific publishing possible! Meet Dr. Francyne Amarante (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Dr. Sophie Hage (University of Brest, France).

📢 New AI-usage guidelines! 🧠 Authors are responsible and accountable for the contents of their work, and so are reviewers for the content of their review. 🔗 More information about Sedimentologika's AI usage guidelines can be found here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

📣 It’s a wrap! We are thrilled to announce the release of Sedimentologika Vol. 4 No. 1! Explore the latest Diamond Open Access articles in sedimentology and stratigraphy: 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... 📷 Cover image: Hattori et al., 2026 (oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...) Stay tuned for more updates!

🚨 New Research Article 🚨 Beloume et al. present a novel sequence stratigraphical framework for Middle to Late Jurassic Tethyan carbonate systems, based on extensive sedimentological and palaeontological datasets from the northern Aquitaine Basin, France. 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research article 🚨 Trombetta et al. assess the diagenetic controls on reservoir quality of resedimented lacustrine carbonates in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, through petrographical analysis. 🔗 Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research article 🚨 Tahiru et al. explore the relative influence of extrinsic factors on submarine fan depositional architectures variability using stratigraphic forward modelling. 🔗 Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research article 🚨 How did Early Triassic basins evolve across western and southern Spitsbergen, Svalbard? Zuchuat et al. reveal new palaeogeographical and tectonostratigraphical insights using sedimentology, ichnology, chemostratigraphy, and provenance analysis. oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research article 🚨 Hattori et al. document the evolution of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic system deposited in the Pennsylvanian Strawn Group, Permian Basin, Texas, through core and well data analysis. 🔗 Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research article 🚨 Slootman et al. (Part 2) propose a novel model for particle settling velocity prediction based on realistic grain dimensional analysis through high-resolution micro-computed tomography. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Research article 🚨 Slootman et al. (Part 1) test the validity of the ellipsoidal model in predicting the settling velocities of carbonate and siliciclastic particles, demonstrating that this model is unsuitable for natural sediment grains. Full publication : oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Opinion Piece 🚨 Vaucher & Thomas discuss the sustainability and equity of different Open Access publishing paths and promote a shift towards Diamond OA. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... @romainvaucher.bsky.social, @camthomas.bsky.social

🔔 Introducing our new journal layout! We invite you to explore it in our website at sedimentologika.org 💻 #sedk #layout #openaccess #journal

Thanks for one more year of supporting Sedimentologika Journal and the Diamond Open Access movement. Here’s to another year of open science, shared knowledge, and collaboration🥂. Happy New Year! 🎊

📣 It’s a wrap! 📣 Sedimentologika Vol. 3 No. 1 is now completed! Thank you to all the authors, editors, reviewers and other people who contributed to this issue! More information about our latest Open Access articles here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... 📷 Cover image: Tournier et al., 2025

🌟 Volunteer Opportunity! 🌟 Sedimentologika is currently undergoing a transition to an open-source LaTeX based proofing and production workflow. We are advertising a volunteering position for one (or more) assistant production editor. Send your application at contact@sedimentologika.org

🚨 New Method Paper 🚨 Schaller et al. present a novel workflow development in facies prediction of flush drilling data through unsupervised machine learning techniques. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Sabatier et al. investigate the Holocene record of snow avalanches in modern lakes sediments (Corsica) through sedimentological and geochemical analysis. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 LaGrange et al. utilise a combinaison of geochemical, mineralogical and sedimentological data sets to examine the sequence stratigraphic framework of the marine Horn River Group succession (Middle to Late Devonian), Canada. Full publication: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Nworie & Jobe investigate measurement techniques of biogenic carbonate grains morphologies and evaluate their advantages and limitations when compared to micro-computed tomography analysis. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 MacDonald et al. investigate passive CO2 mineralisation in anthropogenic carbonate deposits through isotopic geochemical analysis of different samples collected across Scotland and Northern England. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Tournier et al. assess the potential seismicity hazard of the Poso depression, Sulawesi island, through a paleoseismological analysis of mass transport deposits preserved in lake sediments archive. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...