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Monday, June 16, 2014

Graded Bedding


Why it form like this? 

It found a bit far from Chambok National Park

Graded Bedding means that the grain size within a bed decreases upwards, this bedding is commonly associated with turbidity currents that originate on the slope between continental shelves and deep sea basins. Depend on the density of grain sediment and acceleration in water, the coarset grains settle out first, then the next finer and finer ones. Finally a graded bed is formed. We called Normally Graded. 


Ilustration of Graded bed form

Download Location: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Yl5tuqH0GPMnVFUE90MjdNd0U/edit
Note: Open it with Google Earth

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