Depositional enviorments Flashcards
Name the three main depositional enviorments
- Continental enviorments
- Transitional enviorments
- Marine enviorments
Which sub-categories are in the continental enviorment?
4 punkter
- Glacial
- Aeolian (dessert)
- Lacustrine (lake)
- Fluvial (rivers and floodplain)
All continental environments
What is the difference between cold and temperate glacier?
Glacial environment
- Cold (polar) glaciers => Plastic flow, internal shearing.
- Temperate (mountain) glaciers => basal slip, determined by climatic setting. relatively faster flow
How can we recognize dropstones in ancient sedimentary sequences?
Glacial environment
Floating ice might melt and deposit dropstones, deforming the clay when hitting ocean mud ground.
Sediments deposited on top => half circle
Why is the Sahara an arid place?
Aeolian environment
- Due to global wind patterns and water vapor (the monsoon).
- Rainshadow (Atlas mountains)
Name the 2 different types of dunes and how they form?
Aeolian environment
2D dunes
- Straight
- Planar cross-bedding
3D dunes - requieres higher velocity
- Sinuous
- Through cross-bedding
Figure on drive
Name the 2-4 different types of rivers
River/floodplain environment
braided
Meandering
Anabranching (a “mix” of braided and meandering)
Straight
What does channel amalgamation and non-amalgamation refer to?
River/floodplain environment
In a cross section:
Amalgamated => sandbodies are connected. Braided rivers.
Non-amalgamated => sand-bodies are not connected. Meandering rivers
Difficult to tell braided and meandering apart only on deposit
Amalgamation = sammenlægning
What type of sediment will you encounter i a glacial environment?
Continental
- Fine grained till (and Tillites)
- Moraine (poorly sorted)
What type of sediment will you encounter i an Aeolian environment?
Continental
Only sand and silt!
- Well sorted
- Mainly quarts
What type of sediment will you encounter i a lacustrine environment?
continental
Sandstone
Mudstone
Fine-grained limestone
Evaporites
What type of sediment will you encounter i a river/floodplain environment?
Continental
-
Conglomerate and sandstone
=> deposited by flowing water -
Mudstone (mostly clay)
=> deposited by still water in floodplain
What are calcretes nodules?
River/riverplains
Roots sucking out water > carbonate precipitation
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Which sub-categories are in the transitional environment?
3 punkter
- Deltaic
- Estuary (lagoon)
- Littoral (clastic coast)
All transitional environments
Name the 3 different types of dominated deltas
Deltaic environment
- River-dominated (birdfoot, Missisippi)
- Wave-dominated
- Tide-dominated
(Nilen er i midten: The original delta (trekant))
Different shapes