Rapid Processes in Source-to-Sink Systems - part II
In our blog post series, we previously mentioned how geological processes act in different time scales. These mechanisms can be long-lasting (e.g. tectonically driven orogenic uplift) or abrupt (climatic events). In our previous blog, post we introduced ‘fast’ processes shaping the source-to-sink systems. We also gave some examples, which had major impacts on human populations. In this post, we will explore the sedimentological record as a key to understanding past events, and predicting future ones. We will also explore some key events that have helped us understand past climates with the sedimentological records; some of which our ESRs will study to incorporate into models. This will help them to predict future climatic impacts in the rapid climatic change that we currently experience. The rock record as an answer for the future Environmental signals (originated from climatic or tectonic processes) can be preserved within the stratigraphy of depositional basins and in the physical fe