Atlases
The Knowing.Earth atlases represent a major resource for explorationists based on over 30 years of experience and the very latest research and input datasets. Built in collaboration with leading international academics these atlases are designed to be compatible with all current service providers. They follow standard attribution and symbology protocols and are supported with metadata including data provenance and methodological information.
Our atlases bring together key databases and associated knowledge for different parts of our workflow. These atlases provide the commercial access to our data- and knowledge-bases, including our portfolios of analogs.
At the base of the workflow is Reclus, our atlases of global tectonics. Reclus brings together the structural framework, crustal architecture, igneous features, and geodynamics enabling users to better investigate the tectonics that generates the basin and hinterland form. It is the interaction of these components that then drives the landscape, which then interacts with climate, weathering, and erosion.
Osiris is another series of atlases that pull together key information required for source-to-sink analysis. This includes a drainage analysis of each major river, provenance analysis, paleo-drainage reconstructions and bedrock geology. The latter is used to investigate the potential composition of paleo-river systems eroding different petrologies and lithologies.
Reclus and Osiris will underpin our new generation of paleogeographic atlases. We have developed a new operational workflow for building paleogeographies which we are experimenting with currently and which will help us build a new suite of atlases in 2021-2022.
To learn more about our 2021-2022 build programme and how it could be useful for you, please contact us at contact@knowing.earth
Our atlases bring together key databases and associated knowledge for different parts of our workflow. These atlases provide the commercial access to our data- and knowledge-bases, including our portfolios of analogs.
At the base of the workflow is Reclus, our atlases of global tectonics. Reclus brings together the structural framework, crustal architecture, igneous features, and geodynamics enabling users to better investigate the tectonics that generates the basin and hinterland form. It is the interaction of these components that then drives the landscape, which then interacts with climate, weathering, and erosion.
Osiris is another series of atlases that pull together key information required for source-to-sink analysis. This includes a drainage analysis of each major river, provenance analysis, paleo-drainage reconstructions and bedrock geology. The latter is used to investigate the potential composition of paleo-river systems eroding different petrologies and lithologies.
Reclus and Osiris will underpin our new generation of paleogeographic atlases. We have developed a new operational workflow for building paleogeographies which we are experimenting with currently and which will help us build a new suite of atlases in 2021-2022.
To learn more about our 2021-2022 build programme and how it could be useful for you, please contact us at contact@knowing.earth
RECLUS - Atlases of Tectonics
The Reclus suite of databases brings together interpretations and data comprising the Earth’s structural framework, crustal architecture, igneous history and basin evolution.
Atlases are being built by region with the first atlases due to be completed later this spring (East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa). This work is underpinned by systematic workflows and our extensive experience of tectonics in Academia and Industry. These atlases have been built at a high resolution than previously in order to also provide analogues for exploration work, but to also meet the needs of mineral explorationists, especially those involved in battery minerals and other rare earths. These databases also provide the basis for geothermal, carbon sequestration and hazard investigations. Please download our update for 2020-2021 which includes examples from the databases. We also have several papers currently in peer review on the underlying concepts and methods. We will make these available once published. |
Atlases of Paleogeography
Paleogeography is central to much of what we do as the spatial context for understanding Earth processes and evolution.
These new atlases build on over 30 years of experience in generating paleogeographies at all scales and resolutions and make use of lessons learned and the very latest technological and scientific concepts. They are underpinned by our detailed Reclus and Osiris suites of databases together with our new, exhaustive data management system (Baker Street). Dr Markwick developed the methodologies used for CGG Robertson’s Merlin and Merlin+ products, and Getech's Globe product suite and multiclient reports. This includes the depositional mapping methodologies (based on the Chicago Method developed by Professor Fred Ziegler, Ziegler et al., 1985), drainage reconstruction methodologies and palaeolandscape methods (see Markwick & Valdes, 2004). Watch this space |
Atlases of Paleoclimatology
The Atlases of Paleoclimatology reconstruct paleoclimatology and paleoceanographic variables by region and through time based on climate proxy data from our extensive in-house databases, and the results of climate models in collaboration with Prof Paul Valdes and Prof Dan Lunt (U Bristol).
This builds on Dr Paul Markwick's research at the Universities of Chicago and Reading, and subsequent collaboration with researchers around the world. Climate modeling has the potential to be a powerful tool in understanding surface processes used in depositional modeling as well as in investigating future environmental change. But it requires expertise. Paul is currently a member of DeepMIP, a consortium of world experts investigating the Eocene climate and what it can tell us about current and future climate dynamics. We will be updating news on these atlases during 2021 |
OSIRIS - Atlases of Source-to-sink
The Osiris suite of databases comprises the components we use in our workflow for reconstructing past transport pathways, especially past river systems. This is a fundamental component of source-to-sink analysis used in exploration and play mapping.
These atlases will include maps and analyses of past landscapes including elevation, bathymetry, and palaeo-river systems from first principles: analyses of the Present Day drainage networks (drainage network analysis), palaeobiogeography, provenance analysis, sedimentology, and paleogeography. Osiris forms part of our larger-scale workflow for reconstructing and understanding the evolution of the Earth. They are based on methodologies presented over 25 years at leading conferences and workshops around the world |
Atlases of Lithofacies Retrodictions
“Retrodiction” describes the act of ‘predicting’ processes or events in the past. The aim here is not just to generate a set of atlases showing the results of a single process-based model but to use this and our experience of Earth processes to better understand the system.
The results can then be applied to retrodicting reservoir distribution and quality, source facies, and placer minerals. Much of our focus on this topic has been through Capability Building in organizations that already have access to other retrodiction results and helping them get more from these. Since we were instrumental in developing most of the methodologies on which these were based it means that we can offer insights unavailable to other groups. |
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Use the before and after widget above to see how the Early Eocene geodynamics of the central Pyrenees transforms into the paleolandscape. Both images have been palinspastically restored. This provides an idea of the multiple layers of data used to build up a paleogeography.
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