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These links and readings are provided to support the Sedimentology module at the University of Derby, and are in addition to the classes, and the course and practical notes available from the University of Derby web site. Topics are not necessarily given in exactly the same order as in the course.
Textbook references are to:
TUCKER, M.E. 2001. Sedimentary Petrology: an introduction to the origin of sedimentary rocks. 3rd edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications.
Sediment transport and sedimentary structures
Topic
Bedforms and sedimentary structures
Reading
- Tucker, chapter 2, section 2.3; chapter 3, section 3.2
Online lectures, tutorials & reading
- Sedimentary structures (MIT) (pdf file)
- Mud cracks
- Cone-in-cone structure
Images
- Gallery of sedimentary structures
- Sedimentary structures: 3-D models
- Sedimentographica: A Photographic Atlas of Sedimentary Structures
- Erosional structures
Depositional structures - currents
- Modern ripple migration
- Current ripples
- Current ripple cross-lamination
- Aqueous dunes - modern
- Aqueous dunes - ancient
- Cross-bedded shells
- Upper flow regime
- Graded bedding
- Primary current lineation (PCL)
Depositional structures - wind
Depositional structures - waves
Post-depositional structures
- Loads
- Loaded flute
- Flame structures
- Slumping
- Slumping in aeolian sands and sandstones
- Desiccation cracks - modern
- Desiccation cracks - ancient
[Image credits: BSRG - British Sedimentological Research Group photo archive ]
Video, audio
Watch all of these movies, and make notes on how the various bedform types develop.
- From initiation of motion to antidunes: videos of the unidirectional flow bedform progression (St Antony Falls Lab, University of Minnesota) (19 minutes)
- Current ripples and dunes: watch the movies (large files)
- Current ripples (including climbing ripples):watch the movie
- Climbing ripples or dunes: movie
- Climbing ripples and graded bedding: movie
- Upper flow regime plane beds with sediment movement: movie [starts at 0m:38s]
- Antidunes: movie
- Wave ripples: movie
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