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George Postma is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in Environmental Science and Engineering. The scientist has a particular interest in the subfields of Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, Mechanical Engineering, Soil Science, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their work covers several main topics including:

  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Geological Modeling and Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

George Postma has contributed to a number of publications across reputable journals. Their recent papers include:

  • Reconstruction of bedform dynamics controlled by supercritical flow in the channel-lobe transition zone of a deep-water delta (Sant Llorenç del Munt, north-east Spain, Eocene), 2020, Sedimentology
  • Decadal architecture and morphodynamics of modern, river-fed turbidite systems: Bute Inlet and Congo Fan, 2024, Journal of Sedimentary Research
  • Deepwater Geoscience: 1st Bouma Special Publication, 2025, Journal of Sedimentary Research

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Sedimentary Research
  • Sedimentology

They collaborate with several co-authors, including:

  • Jörg Lang
  • D. C. J. D. Hoyal
  • Juan J. Fedele
  • Timothy M. Demko
  • Vitor Abreu

Best Publications

  • Large floating clasts in turbidites: a mechanism for their emplacement

    George Postma;Wojciech Nemec;Karen L. Kleinspehn

  • Depositional Architecture and Facies of River and Fan Deltas: A Synthesis

    G. Postma

  • Quaternary Alluvial Fans in Southwestern Crete: Sedimentation Processes and Geomorphic Evolution

    W. Nemec;G. Postma

  • Classification for sediment gravity-flow deposits based on flow conditions during sedimentation

    George Postma

  • A 300-kyr record of aridity and wind strength in southwestern Africa: inferences from grain-size distributions of sediments on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic

    Jan-Berend W. Stuut;Maarten A. Prins;Ralph R. Schneider;Gert Jan Weltje

  • Morphodynamics and sedimentary structures of bedforms under supercritical-flow conditions: New insights from flume experiments

    Matthieu J.B. Cartigny;Dario Ventra;George Postma;Jan H. van Den Berg

  • A comparative study of sediment waves and cyclic steps based on geometries, internal structures and numerical modeling

    Matthieu J.B. Cartigny;George Postma;Jan H. van den Berg;Dick R. Mastbergen

  • Controls on terrigenous sediment supply to the Arabian Sea during the late Quaternary: the Makran continental slope

    M Prins;G Postma;Gert Jan Weltje

  • An analysis of the variation in delta architecture

    George Postma

  • Key Future Directions For Research On Turbidity Currents and Their Deposits

    Peter J. Talling;Joshua Allin;Dominic A. Armitage;Robert W.C. Arnott

  • Resedimented conglomerates in the bottomsets of Gilbert-type gravel deltas

    George Postma;Thomas B. Roep

  • Supercritical and subcritical turbidity currents and their deposits—A synthesis

    George Postma;Matthieu J.B. Cartigny

  • Mass-Flow Conglomerates in a Submarine Canyon: Abrioja Fan-Delta, Pliocene, Southeast Spain

    George Postma

  • Controls on terrigenous sediment supply to the Arabian Sea during the late Quaternary: the Indus Fan

    M.A. Prins;G. Postma;J. Cleveringa;A. Cramp

  • Water escape structures in the context of a depositional model of a mass flow dominated conglomeratic fan‐delta (Abrioja Formation, Pliocene, Almeria Basin, SE Spain)

    George Postma

  • Slumps and their deposits in fan delta front and slope

    George Postma

  • Fluvial response to sea‐level changes: a quantitative analogue, experimental approach

    M. W. I. M. Van Heijst;G. Postma

  • Structureless, coarse-tail graded Bouma Ta formed by internal hydraulic jump of the turbidity current?

    George Postma;Matthieu Cartigny;Kick Kleverlaan

  • Autocyclic behaviour of fan deltas: an analogue experimental study

    Maurits Van Dijk;George Postma;Maarten G. Kleinhans

  • Recognition of cyclic steps in sandy and gravelly turbidite sequences, and consequences for the Bouma facies model

    George Postma;Kick Kleverlaan;Matthieu J. B. Cartigny

  • The geology of fluvial deposits, sedimentary facies, basin analysis and petroleum geology

    George Postma

  • Book Review: Sedimentary petrology. Harvey Blatt. W.H. Freeman and Company, Oxford, 1992, 2nd ed., 514 pp., 309 illustrations, £38.95 (hardcover), ISBN 0-7167-2273-9

    George Postma

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthieu J.B. Cartigny
Matthieu J.B. Cartigny Durham University
Maarten G. Kleinhans
Maarten G. Kleinhans Utrecht University
Maarten A. Prins
Maarten A. Prins Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ernst Hauber
Ernst Hauber German Aerospace Center
Jan-Berend W Stuut
Jan-Berend W Stuut Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wojciech Nemec
Wojciech Nemec University of Bergen
Ralph R Schneider
Ralph R Schneider Kiel University
Jaco H. Baas
Jaco H. Baas Bangor University
G.J. van der Zwaan
G.J. van der Zwaan Utrecht University
Esther J. Sumner
Esther J. Sumner University of Southampton

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