The Earth Through Time, 10th Edition
by Harold L. Levin
CHAPTER 5—THE SEDIMENTARY ARCHIVES
Web Links
Virtual Sand Collection
http://faculty.pasadena.edu/dndouglass/sand/VSCIndex.htm
Examine sands of the world and work through an exercise using images of sand
at different magnifications. From Pasadena City College in California.
The Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/folkready/index.html
The Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks by Robert L. Folk is an online version of a
classic sedimentary petrology textbook.
Sedimentary Rocks
http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/SedRx/
Sedimentary rock classification, depositional environments, and relationship
between tectonics and sedimentary rocks.
Sedimentary Rocks
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/geo102/sed102.htm
A discussion of the interpretation of the texture and composition of sedimentary
rocks in terms of energy levels in the depositional environment, source area
lithology, paleoclimate, tectonic activity in the source area and time in the
depositional basin from Pamela Gore at Georgia Perimeter College.
Images of Bedforms and Crossbedding
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/seds/
Animated images of bedforms and cross-bedding. From the U. S. Geological
Survey, Western Region Coastal & Marine Geology Program, Menlo Park
California.
Sedimentary Structures
http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_5/sedimentary_struc
tures.htm
Images and diagrams of many common sedimentary structures.
Sedimentary Structures
http://geology.about.com/od/geoprocesses/ig/sedstrucs/
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Images and diagrams of many common sedimentary structures.
An Online Guide to Sequence Stratigraphy
http://www.uga.edu/~strata/sequence/seqStrat.html
An online guide to sequence stratigraphy by Steven Holland at the University of
Georgia.
Stratigraphy and the Stratigraphic Column
http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/geology/stratigraphy.html and
http://www.priweb.org/ed/pgws/geology/stratigraphic_column.html
Discussion of what a stratigraphic column is and how to draw one. From "The
World of Oil" a lesson in Petroleum Education by the Paleontological Research
Institution.
Web resources for Sedimentary Geologists
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Erdorsey/SedResources.html
Web resources for Sedimentary Geologists by Becky Dorsey at the University of
Oregon. Links to professional societies, publications, software, research pages,
and more.
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