This image above is from the Xigaze forearc basin in Tibet and shows a textbook example of filling an ocean basin (the rocks are tilted about 45 degrees). On the far right is a dark greenish rock called an ophiolite (ocean crust), which is overlain by a short section of red radiolarian chert, which is then overlain by a very thick section of brown-yellow turbidites.

Some recent field and lab photos

Summer of Seds (2019)

Photos from the lab and field trips with Stanford Sed Group summer undergraduate researchers in the SURGE and SESUR programs

Alaska: Bering Sea and Yukon River Basin (Spring and Summer 2019)

Geologic evolution of the Bering Sea and it's margins; Source-to-sink routing of the Yukon River; Uplift of the Alaska Range; with PhD student Colin White

Tibet: Xigaze Forearc Basin (Summer 2019)

Sedimentology and stratigraphic architecture of the deep-water Xigaze forearc basin, Tibet; with PhD student Mingang Hao

Patagonia: Rocas Verdes Basin (Winter 2019)

Tectonic, stratigraphic, and paleoenvironmental evolution of the Rocas Verdes backarc basin, southern Patagonia; with PhD students Steve Dobbs and Tom Boag, and Dr. Theresa Schwartz (USGS)