Despositional Sedimentary Environeme

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part of the earth’s surface
which is physically, chemically, and biologically
distinct from adjacent areas

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Depositional environment

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Types of depositional environment

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Terrestrial, marine and transitional

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Process of deposition through rivers and
streams (confined bodies of water moving
downhill in channels).

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Fluvial

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Types of fluvial

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Straight/braided and meandering

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Type of fluvial which is consist of small channels

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Straigh/Braided

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Type of fluvial that is sinuous wiver with bends, snaking pattern as streams back n forth

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Meandering river

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Place of erosion in meandering river

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Cutbanks / outer banks

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Place of deposition in meandering river

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Point bar/ innerpart

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Fan or coned shaped deposits of sediments built up by streams

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Alluvial fan

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Where the finer sand settles along the inner bends of the river

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Pointbars

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Dominated by wind currents rather than water

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Aeolian environment

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Formed by the accumulation of wind blown silts and lesser and variable ammount of sand and clay that are loosely cemented by carbonate materials

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Loess

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Prograding deposition bodies that form at the point where a RIVER debauches in a LAKE or SEA

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Deltas

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Dessert alluvial fan

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Bajada

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Sediments deposited within the lakes

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Lacustrine

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Land locked body of standing, non marine water

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Lake

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Paludal environment

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Swamps

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Lakes formed from crustal stretching

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Rift garden

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Form lacustrine deposit from seasonal overflood banking

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Oxbow lake

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Type of sedimentary environment that is controlled mostly by the weathering and erosion by glaciers and glacial meltwater

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Glacial

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Occurs by addition of snowfall, compaction and recrystallization

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Accumulation

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Loss of mass from melting

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Ablation

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Cracks in glacier

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Crevasses

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Glacier deposition making land features

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Moraines

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half-bowled-shaped valley formed by glacial erosion

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Cirques

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sharp long narrow ridges at mountain tops formed by glacial erosion.

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Arete

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areas that are close to shore, but always submerged

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Shallow marine

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areas have a significant amount of mature clastic sediment along with marine algae (like sea grass) as well as skeletal material from animals like coral, echinoderms (sea urchins and sand dollars), and mollusks (clams and snai

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Shallow marine

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areas have a significant amount of mature clastic sediment along with marine algae (like sea grass) as well as skeletal material from animals like coral, echinoderms (sea urchins and sand dollars), and mollusks (clams and snai

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Shallow marine

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formed through the growth of coral colonies building a large three-dimensional structure built from calcite skeletons

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Reef

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Found in warm tropical shallow water

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Reef depositional environment

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These areas are beyond the reach of most clastic sediment other than the dust carried by the wind.

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Deep marine

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beach depositional environments there are areas where rivers flow into the ocean

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Deltas

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Shorelines that are influenced by strong daily tidal current

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Tidal mudflat depositional environment

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Tides are currents that are the result of the gravitational forces exerted by the _________

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Moon and rotation of the earth

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Shorelines that are dominated by ocean currents

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Beach depositional environment