“The Source-to-Sink Vade Mecum: History, Concepts and Tools” is the latest Open-Access addition to the SEPM series Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology. In the form of a carry-along vade-mecum, in English and French, this volume offers a comprehensive history of the source-to-sink approach, tracing its origins from early geomorphological thinkers to its current applications in exploration, quantitative geomorphology and paleoclimate research. The reader will gain a deeper understanding of the major controls of erosion, transfer, and deposition, and how they shape landscapes and the sedimentary record. The book also describes the latest developments on the propagation of environmental signals from source to sink. The book contains all the basic science concepts needed to understand the complex interactions between the Earth's surface and its sedimentary systems. Also designed as a text-book for teaching the subject in academia or industry, each concept is carefully explained with dedicated figures, making it easy to understand for both students and professionals. The “S2S Vade-Mecum” also includes a toolbox of methods currently in use for the source-to-sink approach. This toolbox provides a quick overview of the many methods available for reconstructing ancient sedimentary systems from source to sink, making it an ideal reference for students, researchers and practitioners alike. With contributions from leading experts from academia and industry, this volume is an essential resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of sedimentology and sedimentary basin evolution. Whether you are a student, researcher, academic or industry professional, the “S2S Vade-Mecum” is a must-have reference that will undoubtedly enhance your knowledge and skills in this dynamic field.

This summary includes the results of all of the questions in the survey with some introductory and concluding comments. These results are a snapshot of the diversity of SEPM’s responding members and a small number of the non-member sedimentary geology community.

The Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation deposits near Drumheller, Alberta, Canada form world-class exposures of tidally-influenced, marginal marine to shoreline depositional environments. These outcrops have represented a fundamental training ground for generations of Canadian and international geoscientists. The compilation of work in this publication is the product of seven years of study by WAVE Consortium geoscientists. The WAVE Consortium was an industry-funded research collective run by the Australian School of Petroleum & Energy Resources, University of Adelaide between 2008 and 2014. The work integrates interpretations of outcrop observations with core descriptions and wireline log data to generate depositional models. These models were then convolved into 3D reservoir models from which synthetic seismic volumes were generated. This digital resource is provided in three parts: A) A Field and Core Guide: Volume 1, B) A Core and Outcrop Facies and Ichnology Guide: Volume 2, C) Posters - which can be downloaded from the SEPM Supplemental Materials Website.

This field trip guidebook uses the Miocene Monterey Formation as a natural laboratory to understand the origin, distribution, and physical properties of biogenic, siliceous, and organic-rich mudrocks deposited from clastic-starved, upwelling systems above marginal marine basins. Based on a successful week-long, professional short-course led for many years by the authors, the guidebook teaches how to distinguish types of siliceous, calcareous/dolomitic, phosphatic and organic-rich rocks and to understand relationships between depositional environment, sediment and rock composition, diagenetic evolution, and bedding style or stacking patterns. Knowledge of the chemical and mineralogic character and the physical properties of these rocks is then applied to understand variations in mechanical stratigraphy and fracture architecture that can enhance prediction of petroleum reservoir properties. The field guide takes the user to spectacular, classic outcrops of different facies of the Miocene Monterey Formation exposed along the coast of southern and central California. The great heterogeneity of the Monterey Formation permits investigation of siliceous, calcareous, phosphatic and carbonaceous mudrocks and their different properties and deformational behavior that can be applied to other mudstones around the world. Their occurrence within a complex and varied tectonically active setting provides exposures that presenting different aspects, perspectives, and styles of deformation from extension to compression to strike-slip faulting, with bedding-scale to formational-scale expressions.

The Devonian stratigraphic record contains a wealth of information that highlights the response of carbonate platforms to both global-scale and local phenomena that drive carbonate architecture and productivity. Signals embedded particularly in the Middle-Upper Devonian carbonate record related to biotic crises and stressed oceanic conditions, long-term accommodation trends, and peak greenhouse to transitional climatic changes are observed in multiple localities around the world and temporally constrained by biostratigraphy, highlighting distinct and impactful global controls. Devonian datasets also stress the importance of local or regional phenomena, such as bolide impacts, the effects of terrestrial input and paleogeography, syn-depositional tectonics, and high-frequency accommodation drivers, which add complexity to the carbonate stratigraphic record when superimposed on global trends. The unique occurrence of well-studied and pristinely preserved reefal carbonate outcrop and subsurface datasets, ranging across the globe from Australia to Canada, allows for a detailed examination of Devonian carbonate systems from a global perspective and the opportunity to develop well-constrained predictive relationships and conceptual models. Advances in the understanding of the Devonian carbonate system is advantageous considering, not only the classic conventional reservoirs such as the pinnacle reefs of the Alberta Basin, but also emerging conventional reservoirs in Eurasia, and many unconventional plays in North America. The papers in this volume provide updated stratigraphic frameworks for classic Devonian datasets using integrated correlation approaches; new or synthesized frameworks for less studied basins, reservoirs, or areas; and discussions on the complex interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic controls that drive carbonate architectures, productivity, and distribution. The 13 papers in this special publication include outcrop and subsurface studies of Middle to Upper Devonian carbonates of western Canada, the Lennard Shelf of the Canning Basin, Western Australia, and the western USA.