LAB 4: SEDIMENTARY ROCKS, PROCESSES, & ENVIRONMENTS

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS (Textures, Compositions, Classifications)

Petrology Basicsis a University of British Columbia site that has information on the petrology of sedimentary rocks.

SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES, STRUCTURES, ENVIRONMENTS

Sediment Sequence & Composition as a "geoindicator" of environmental change.

Mohawk Valley Fossils is the Union College Geology Department's page that describes what New York State was like during the Ordovician Period, some 450 million years ago. Sediments, paleocurrents, paleoenvironments, paleogeography, and paleoecology are described.

Cross-bedding, bedforms, and paleocurrents are studied, modeled, and pictured at this U.S. Geological Survey bedform sedimentology site.

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