In geology, depositional environment or sedimentary environment describes the combination of physical, chemical, and biological processes associated with...

of events during deposition of the forty-one layers of the formation. The kind of rock formed in a particular depositional environment is called its sedimentary...

bedding planes and represent a change in depositional environment, but with only a minor hiatus in deposition with no significant erosion. A brief hiatus...

shoreface refers to the portion of the seafloor, and the sedimentary depositional environment, that lies below the everyday wave base. The wave base is the maximum...

Dulam, T.; Sweeney, M. R. (2005). "New Stratigraphic Subdivision, Depositional Environment, and Age Estimate for the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation...

lacustrine, swamp, estuarine and coastal plain environments. Hell Creek is the best studied of these ancient environments. At the time, this region had a warm temperate...

changes in environment. Conversely, it states that when a depositional environment "migrates" laterally, sediments of one depositional environment come to...

mixtures Deposition (geology) – Geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass Depositional environment – Processes...

member, called the Lost Run Member, exists in some locations. The depositional environment of the Bald Eagle has always been interpreted as mostly terrestrial...

kilometers from the sea. Caster and Brooks differently interprets the environment of deposition at Douglas Dam as being a marine submarine spring fed by an underground...

The environment of deposition is suggested to be fluvial, originating in sandy braided river, floodplain and ephemeral lake depositional environments, as...

The Thanet Formation is a geological formation found in the London Basin of southeastern England. It is of early to mid-Thanetian (late Paleocene) age...

Kentucky, southwest Ohio, and southeast Indiana, United States. The depositional environment of the Kope was shallow marine. The central North American continent...

Tendaguru is divided into 6 members, which represent different depositional environments, with the 'Dinosaur Beds' representing terrestrial facies while...

circulation. Later re-evaluations of the Dresser Formation's depositional environments proposed that it accumulated in shallow-water, low-eruptive, caldera...

and Virginia in the United States, and in Ontario, Canada. The depositional environment was most likely shallow marine. The Columbus conformably overlies...

west to east. The Ashfield Shale was deposited in a low energy marine environment and preserves laminated silty sediments. The Minchinbury Sandstone comprises...

The benthic fossils present indicate a calm and not very deep depositional environment; they comprise lamellibranchs, acteonellidae, nerineoidea, chaetetids...

beach environment. The siltstones of the time-equivalent Mutuera Member are thought to have been deposited in a mid to outer shelf environment. The Houpapa...

Survey, Reston, Virginia. Ewing, T.E. (2001) Review of Late Jurassic depositional systems and potential hydrocarbon plays, northern Gulf of Mexico Basin...

a high-energy depositional environment that removed carbonate mud. Recrystallized sparite is not diagnostic of depositional environment. Limestone outcrops...

The Passaic Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. It was previously known as the Brunswick Formation since it was...

Biostratigraphic and geochemical constraints on the stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Eagle Ford and Woodbine Groups of Texas: "in" Breyer, J...

lithofacies characteristics of the unit suggest an outer continental shelf environment, below the normal wave base. The micropaleontological content of the...

the pelagic forams and the occasional ammonites all indicate a depositional environment bordering onto open marine conditions. The Ligérian can be correlated...

and smectite). Due to that, the main depositional layers of the formation are believed to come from an environment intermediate between pelagic and nearshore...

microfacies that also indicate a depositional environment composed mainly of lagoons, shoals and open marine environments. (?)Bichordites sp. – "Ichnofossils"...

and deposited in fluvial channel and floodplain environments. The caliche and red beds reflect deposition under arid to semi-arid climate conditions. This...

The Llewellyn Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in eastern Pennsylvania. It was previously known as the "coal measures" and the post-Pottsville rocks...

of environments all over the world, including gravelly mountain streams, sand bed rivers, on alluvial fans, on river deltas, and across depositional plains...