This conversation with  Shahin Dashtgard, earth science professor at Simon Fraser University, is about tropical cyclones and how they are recorded in the rock record.  It is based on 7 years of research and knowledge published in 5 papers - including Shahin E. Dashtgard, Ludvig Löwemark, Romain Vaucher, Yu-Yen Pan, Jessica E. Pilarczyk, and Sébastien Castelltort's recent publication “Tropical cyclone deposits in the Pliocene Taiwan Strait: Processes, examples, and conceptual model”.  Some highlights include discussing how the stages of a tropical cyclone are preserved in the sediments. 

What are tropical cyclones and how are they different than hurricanes, typhoons, tropical depressions, and tropical storms? What are the depositional characteristics of a tropical cyclone?  What do tropical cyclones look like in a strait?

May this exchange serve to expand your geological knowledge on the go.

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Citation: Shahin E. Dashtgard, Ludvig Löwemark, Romain Vaucher, Yu-Yen Pan, Jessica E. Pilarczyk, Sébastien Castelltort. (2020). Tropical cyclone deposits in the Pliocene Taiwan Strait: Processes, examples, and conceptual model. Sedimentary Geology (405) 105687, ISSN 0037-0738, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105687.