Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-9-1-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-9-1-2026
GC Insights
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06 Jan 2026
GC Insights |  | 06 Jan 2026

GC Insights: “Sedimentary Rock!” – a web app that converts geological strata data into music

Toshiyuki Kitazawa, Kazuaki Aoki, Hiroaki Yasutomo, and Takuma Kato

Cited articles

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de Mora, L., Sellar, A. A., Yool, A., Palmieri, J., Smith, R. S., Kuhlbrodt, T., Parker, R. J., Walton, J., Blackford, J. C., and Jones, C. G.: Earth system music: music generated from the United Kingdom Earth System Model (UKESM1), Geosci. Commun., 3, 263–278, https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-3-263-2020, 2020. 
Harbisson, N.: I listen to color, https://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color/transcript, (last access: 9 September 2024), 2012. 
Kitazawa, T.: Pleistocene macrotidal tide-dominated estuary–delta succession, along the Dong Nai River, southern Vietnam, Sedimentary Geol., 194, 115–140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.05.016, 2007. 
Kitazawa, T.: Sedimentary Rock! GEOLOGY into MUSIC, YouTube [video], https://www.youtube.com/@SedimentaryRock-e7r/videos (last access: 13 September 2025), 2024. 
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Short summary
Sedimentary Rock! is a new tool that converts columnar sections into human hearing and rhythmic senses. It is easy to use, and learners understand that the strata consist of concepts of grain size and stratum thickness as they work to create a columnar section. Furthermore, the learners know that the stacks of strata represent the geological history, and the changes in grain size and thickness indicate the environmental changes.
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