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lake alluvial
fans
braided
river
beach
forest meandering
swamp barriers
river shelf
sands
Point bars
Chute Oxbow
lake
Crevasse
splay
congl.
Gamma
med.
mud
fine
crs.
0 Ray 75 150
(API)
a
5
b 3
6
c 4
1
c
6
b
1
a 2 1b 1
c
1 7
6
b
1 6 b
5
c
5 1c
1b b
a 5
6 5c
3 a
1
a
1
Vert. scale: approx 1:200 Vert. scale: approx 1:200
Clay
plugs
Alluvial
New fan
meander breccias
belt
COASTAL
Barrier Sands
Shell EP Lea rning EP10 12/122
Niger Delta
Mississippi delta
(bird-foot delta)
Nile Delta
Shell EP Lea rning EP10 15/122
Tidal Delta
Cliff ~ 8 m
Hummocky Cross-Stratification
12m
Channel levee
Fan lobe
Shelf
Fan
Debris slump, slide Fan channel(s)
500 ms
2 km
Indus Fan
500 ms
2 km
Shell EP Lea rning EP10 29/122
Channel Heterogeneity
Stellar Draa
Interdune (flooded)
interdune
Grain
Cement
Pore
Matrix
(lime mud)
Mln Years
360 318 300 250 200 145 65 0
Miss Penn. Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic
Calcareous Algae
Bryozoa
Tubiphytes Foraminifera
Phylloid Algae Sponges
Stromatoporoids
Corals
Rudists