Penn State Physical Sedimentology Lab

for more info email:  Rudy Slingerland

Presently we offer three software packages: SSM, GOLEM, and MIDAS. SSM is a set of 25 FORTRAN programs accompanying the book by Slingerland, Harbaugh, and Furlong (1994) entitled, "Simulating Clastic Sedimentary Basins", and published by Prentice Hall. Because the derivations and examples are presented in the book, we offer here only the codes and sample input files. GOLEM is a geophysical landscape evolution model written by Greg Tucker. An early version in FORTRAN is contained in Chapter 5 of SSM; the GOLEM link points to a more sophisticated version in C. MIDAS is a coupled flow- heterogeneous sediment routing model as described in van Niekerk et al., (1992), & "Routing of Heterogeneous Size-Density Sediments Over a Movable Stream Bed: Model Development" Although we offer these at no charge to the research community, we do ask that you cite the appropriate authors. If in the unlikely chance someone would like to make money on these codes, we'll talk.

• Simulating Clastic Sedimentary Basins: SSM
• Geophysical Landscape Evolution Model: GOLEM
• Model Investigating Density and Size Sorting: MIDAS

Photo Gallery of Field Sites

• Columbia Valley, Southeastern British Columbia- view from the fire tower of Mt. Jubilee
• Flood basin near BeaverTail Lodge, Columbia Valley- coring the hard way
• Flooded Levee on in McMurdo Basin, B. C. - just the treetops above the water surface
• Morning View from Beaver Tail Lodge, B. C. - our Zodiac and fog over the Purcell Mountains
• Alluvial Fans of Death Valley, CA
• Top lower and Middle Castlegate - type locality - southern wall
• Debris flows (?) on the flanks of Tongariro volcanic center, New Zealand
• Another gravel-bed river from South Island, New Zealand
• Castlegate equivalent (Six Mile Canyon FM) in Mellor Canyon

last modified:/January 2002/Rudy Slingerland