Geology 103 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Tim Horner Geology Department, CSU Sacramento Lecture #5: Beds, Bedding and Bed Description Reading assignment: Boggs, 5 th ed., pp , SACRAMENTO STATE

Terms to describe bed thickness From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 4.1, p. 67

From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 4.3, p. 68 Influence of water depth on bedforms

From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 4.4, p. 68 Bedding varies with grain size!

From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 4.14, p. 75 Ripple names- based on plan view

From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 4.17, p. 77 Cross bedding (cross lamination)

From Reineck and Singh (1986) Depositional sedimentary environments, p. 38 (also see Boggs 5 th edition, Figure 4.20, p. 78) Planar (tabular) cross bedding

From Reineck and Singh (1986) Depositional sedimentary environments, p. 46 (also see Boggs 5 th edition, Figure 4.20, p. 78) Trough cross bedding

Figure 5-22 from Blatt, Middleton and Murray (1980), Origin of Sedimentary rocks, p. 172 Flaser, wavy and lenticular bedding