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Detrital zircon MDS analysis
To perform Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov method for detrital zircon data from an Excel file with detrital...
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Mar 30, 20241 min read
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Field trip in central Dobrogea, Romania
During this wonderful field trip in central Dobrogea, I visited multiple locations (such as Beidaud, Tariverde, Casimcea, etc.) where the...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Field trip in northeastern Moldova
During the field trip, I visited multiple villages where the Ediacaran sedimentary rocks outcrop. I sampled sandstones and argillites of...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Detrital zircon geochronology of the Volyn-Orsha sedimentary basin in western Ukraine
https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13050152 Abstract: We used LA-ICP-MS U-Pb data for detrital zircon to constrain the Maximum...
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Nov 11, 20231 min read
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Visit at the Instytut Nauk Geologicznych PAN
In April 2023, I visited the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, where I conducted a...
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Nov 11, 20231 min read
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U–Pb geochronology of detrital zircon from the Ediacaran and Cambrian sedimentary successions
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107087 Abstract: Trends in detrital zircon age distribution patterns are used to constrain the...
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Nov 10, 20231 min read
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WHEEL Seminar Field Trip photos
One of the best field trips I have ever participated in.
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Jun 9, 20231 min read
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WHEEL seminar. Precambrian World 2023
In early March, the team led by Associate Professor Andrey Bekker (University of California, Riverside), with whom I am collaborating,...
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May 3, 20231 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (10th stop)
The last stop of the field trip took place in the Cosăuți quarry (grey mark), where the Ediacaran Cosăuți sandstones transgressively lie...
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Nov 28, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (9th stop)
One of the thickest outcrops in the Moldova-Podillya basin can be found to the southeast of the Naslavcea village. The sedimentary...
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Nov 25, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (8th stop)
Most tourists visit the Dniester river in the Naslavcea location because they can admire the beautiful scenery. However, this is also the...
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Nov 23, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (7th stop)
Located in the northernmost point of Moldova, the Naslavcea quarry is probably my most visited outcrop. It is in proximity to Ukraine,...
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Nov 20, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (6th stop)
One of the hardest to find outcrops (for me at least) and, the only sediments from the Kanyliv Group that can be found on the territory...
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Nov 20, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (5th stop)
Probably one of the best places during the days spent on the field was the Valcinet quarries. Here outcrop the lower and middle parts of...
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Nov 20, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (4th stop)
The next stop was the abandoned quarry located in proximity to the Mereșeuca village. This is an excellent outcrop to see the almost...
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Nov 20, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya Basin (3rd stop)
Not too far away is the "La Izvor" canyon (grey mark on the map) which represents an excellent place to analyze the outcrops of the...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya basin (2nd stop)
Our second stop during the joint field trip was at the eastern entrance of the Otaci village, Ocnița district (yellow mark)....
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
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The Ediacaran from the Moldova-Podillya basin (1st stop)
The first stop during the field trip with my colleagues Andrey Bekker (University of Riverside, California) and Heda Agic (University of...
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Nov 17, 20221 min read
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Cumulative distribution function (CDF) plots of zircon ages with Python
In statistics, a cumulative distribution function (CDF) plot shows the empirical cumulative distribution function of the data. The...
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Nov 7, 20222 min read
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Kernel density estimation (KDE) plots of zircon ages with Python
In statistics, kernel density estimation (KDE) is a non-parametric way to estimate the probability density function (PDF) of a random...
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Aug 13, 20222 min read
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