Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks What do Sedimentary Structures Tell Us About? How Does Sediment Change Into a What Are the Main Types of Sedimentary Rocks? Sedimentary Rock? Depositional Conditions? What is Sediment? What Happens When Sediment is Moved?
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Sediment Particles and Clastic Sedimentary Rocks Table 9.1
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Sorting of Sediment by a River Figure 9.2
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Lithification of Sand Grains to Become Sandstone Figure 9.6
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Accumulation of Feldspar-Rich Sand Figure 9.11
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Poorly Sorted Sediment of Sand Grains Surrounded by a Matrix of Silt and Clay Figure 9.12
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Turbidity Current Flow Downslope Along the Sea Floor Figure 9.13
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Outcrop of Queenston Formation Shale Figure 9.14 Photo by N. Eyles
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Lithification of Shale from Compaction and Cementation of Wet Mud Figure 9.15
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Living Coral-Algal Reef Sheds Bioclastic Sediment into the Fore-reef and Back-reef Environments Figure 9.17
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Chemical Sedimentary Rocks Table 9.2
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Bedding and Cross-Bedding Figure 9.26 Photo by N. Eyles
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Bedform Stability Diagram for Flows Approximately 1 m Deep Box 9.2 – Figure 1
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Ripples Formed in Fine Sand Box 9.2 – Figure 2 Photo by N. Eyles
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Ripples Formed in Coarse-Grained Sands Box 9.2 – Figure 3 Photo by N. Eyles
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Horizontally Laminated Course-Grained Sands Box 9.2 – Figure 4 Photo by N. Eyles
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Development of Cross-Bedding in Wind-Blown Sand (A, B) and Current-Deposited Sand (C, D) Figure 9.28
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Development of Ripple Marks in Loose Sediment Figure 9.28
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Development of a Graded Bed of Sediment Deposited by a Turbidity Current Figure 9.31
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Geological Formations of Upper Ordovician to Silurian Age Exposed in Niagara Gorge, Ontario Figure 9.31 Photo by N. Eyles
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Geological Formations of Upper Ordovician to Silurian Age Exposed in Niagara Gorge, Ontario Figure 9.35 Photo by N. Eyles
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Sediment Deposits Transported Away from Source Area Figure 9.36
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Characteristics of the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation that Help Locate Its Source Area Figure 9.37
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at The Common Sedimentary Environments of Deposition Figure 9.38
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Sedimentary Basics Associated with Convergent Plate Boundary Figure 9.41
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Divergent Plate Boundary Showing Thick Wedges of Gravel and Course Sand Figure 9.41
Chapter 9: Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks Visit the Online Learning Centre at Answers to Selected Testing Your Knowledge Questions B B D B B D B B A A B B C A
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