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Showing posts with label sediments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sediments. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2019

Factors Controlling the Shape of a River Delta

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What is a Delta? A delta is an accumulation of sediments at the mouth of a river that may consist of a network of distributary channel...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Siccar Point - the world's most important geological site and the birthplace of modern geology

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Siccar Point   is world-famous as the most important  unconformity  described by  J ames Hutton  (1726-1797) in support of his world-chan...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Rock layers

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Rock layers In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a sedimentary rock layer or soil with inside reliable qualit...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Flows, sediments and bedforms

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Bedform A bedform is a morphological feature formed by the interaction between a flow and cohesion less sediment on a bed. Ripples i...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Oceanic sediments

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Pelagic sediments The term pelagic refers to the open ocean, and in the context of sedimentology, pelagic sediments are made up of su...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Ocean basins

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Altogether 71% of the area of the globe is occupied by ocean basins that have formed by sea-floor spreading and are floored by basaltic...

Mixed carbonate-clastic environments

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The depositional environments described are made up of ‘pure’ carbonate and evaporite deposits that do not contain terrigenous clastic ...

Marine evaporites

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Evaporite deposits in modern marine environments are largely restricted to coastal regions, such as evaporite lagoons and sabkha mudfla...