Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Downloadable from:
http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~rcheel/teaching/sedimentology/SedNotes/
Topics to be covered:
Sediment transport
Modes of transport
Initiation of transport
4. Bed forms and stratification under unidirectional flows
Bed forms
Terminology
The sequence of bed forms
Bed form stability fields
= Earth History
Large scale cross-bedding in 240 = windblown sand dunes; the
million year old rocks in the Central US was a desert at that
Central US. time.
Environmental interpretation: