Fifty years ago, Tuzo Wilson published his paper asking ‘Did the Atlantic close and then re-open?’. This led to the ‘Wilson Cycle’ concept in which the repeated opening and closing of ocean basins along old orogenic belts is a key process in the assembly and breakup of supercontinents.

Processes
GORSLINE, D.S. A review of fine-grained sediment origins, characteristics, transport and deposition
MCCAVE, I.N. Erosion, transport and deposition of fine-grained marine sediments
EITTREIM, S.L. Methods and observations in the study of deep-sea suspended particulate matter
KRANCK, KATE Grain-size characteristics of turbidites
Terrigenous turbidites and associated facies

Thin continuous laminated bedding-parallel quartz veins (BPVs) with slip-striated and fibred vein walls occur within slates, or at their contact with sandstones, on the limbs of chevron folds in the Bendigc-Castlemaine goldfields, southeastern Australia. Two microstructural Types of BPV (I and II) have been previously recognized, and are confirmed in this study. Both types are concluded to have formed during and/or after crenulation cleavage (the first tectonic axial planar structure) in the wallrock slates, and during flexural-slip folding. Type I BPVs consist of syntaxial phyllosilicate inclusion trails, parallel to bedding, enclosing inclined inclusion bands, the latter formed by detachment of wallrock phyllosilicate particles from the walls of pressure solution-segmented discordant tension veins. Type I BPVs are formed by bedding-parallel shear, and grow in width by propagation of the discordant veins into the BPV walls. Type II veins are composed of quartz bands separated by wallrock slate seams which have split away from the vein wall during dilatant shear opening. They incorporate numerous torn-apart fragments of crenulated wallrock slate. Type I BPV inclusion band average spacing of 0.5 mm probably represents the magnitude of slip increments during stick-slip flexural-slip folding activity

NICHOLAS, A. R & MCLELLAND, S. J. Hydrodynamics of a floodplain recirculation zone investigated by field monitoring and numerical simulation

ALEXANDER, J., FIELDING, C. R. & POCOCK, G. D. Floodplain behaviour of the Burdekin River, tropical north Oueensland, Australia

WALLING, D. E. Using fallout radionuclides in investigations of contemporary overbank sedimentation on the floodplains of British rivers

VAN DER PERK, M., BURROUGH, P. A., CULLING, A. S. C., LAPTEV, G. V., PRISTER, B., SANSONE, U. VOITESKHOVITCH, O. V. Source and fate of Chernobyl-derived radiocaesium on floodplains in Ukraine

GOMEZ, B., EDEN, D. N., HICKS, D. M, TRUSTRAUM, N. A., PEACOCK, D. H. & WILMSHURST, J. Contribution of floodplain sequestration to the sediment budget of the Waipaoa River, New Zealand