Working in fluviatile and lacustrine systems: up to 300m thick successions of braided river deposits with pseudo 3-d outcrops. Mapping of a basin margin to basin center transect: well exposed cross sections through entire basin-fill successions; beaches, shelf, reefs, slope collapse and healing. Walking out the transition from environments such as fluvial to marshes and into delta topsets, and down the slope into the pro-delta. Both in wave and fluvial dominated deltas with up to 60m high clinoforms and some 25km of lateral development. Studying shallow marine onlap successions and the control of topography on marine systems. Recognition of a range of deep marine turbidite successions with high density turbidites and low density turbidites. Hiking from within the slope channel, along the slope into and through the fan delta into the incised valley in the coastal plain. Studying the effects of climate, paleo-topography and sea level on production and architecture of carbonates in platforms, fringing reefs and shallow seas. Climbing ancient volcanoes: assessing atolls along their flanks. Recognition of major strike slip faults and their effect on basin formation and sediment production. Surveying modern and ancient clastic shores and aeolian deposits.
