Ph.D. candidate and Sedimentary Systems Research group member Sebastian Kaempfe created these two jaw-dropping drone videos of outcrops of the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin in southern Chile. (I recommend watching on a laptop or big monitor in ‘full screen’ view.)

The first video is from a locale known locally as El Chingue Bluff (the word ‘chingue’ means skunk in this part of Chile and is the name of the estancia). This turbiditic sandstone package forming the top of the bluff is interpreted as a partially ponded intra-slope system marking the transition from underlying Cerro Toro Formation to overlying Tres Pasos Formation.

This second video (below) is from the eastern end of a mountain range called Sierra del Toro and shows off strata that are interpreted as overbank (levee) deposits of the Cerro Toro Formation deep-marine channel system.

To see more of Sebastian’s photos and videos, please visit his Instagram page.