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The document discusses different types of sedimentary environments including continental, marine, and transitional. It provides details on features of fluvial environments like meandering streams, point bars, and crevasse splays. It also describes coastal landforms including deltas, barrier islands, and estuaries.

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Lesson 9 Geo

The document discusses different types of sedimentary environments including continental, marine, and transitional. It provides details on features of fluvial environments like meandering streams, point bars, and crevasse splays. It also describes coastal landforms including deltas, barrier islands, and estuaries.

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Lesson 9 Oxbow lake

• As the channel migrates, parts of it may


become abandoned and left behind as
SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS
oxbow lakes which made up of fine-
• A sedimentary environment is an area grained sand to silt (lake sediments).
of the earth's surface where sediment is
Levees
deposited.
• They are ridges found along the sides of
CONTINENTAL ENVIRONMENTS
the stream channel and composed of
• Continental environments are those silt and fine sand.
environments which are present on the
Crevasse splay
continents and include:
a. Fluvial (Rivers) • The crevasse splay will be formed when
b. Lacustrine (Lakes) an overloaded. stream breaks a natural
c. Paludal (Swamps) or artificial levee and deposits.
d. Glacial sediments on a flood plain. It made up
e. Desert of sands, fining upwards to a mud.
3 TYPES OF SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS Floodplain
1. Continental • It is a plain that subjected to periodic
2. Marine flooding and composed of fine-grained
3. Transitional materials which are very fertile.

Sand dunes
Meandering streams
• They are the most common aeolian
• Have a single channel with a sinuous landforms; their geometry and resulting
pattern and a broad floodplain. sedimentary structures depend
• The most common pattern on primarily on sediment supply and
floodplains. prevailing wind direction.
Fluvial (Rivers) sand dunes include:

• The river channel includes two main a) Barchan dunes


types: b) Transverse dunes.
a) Meandering stream. c) Linear (longitudinal) dunes
b) Braided stream. d) Star dunes.

Point bar Alluvial fans

• It develops where stream flow is locally • It is a fan shaped deposits generally


reduced because of friction and form at the margin of an uplift area,
reduced water depth. such as a mountain range front.
• Point bar composed of cross-bedded
sand.
MARINE ENVIRONMENTS delta plain

• Marine environments are those • comprises a flat area dominated by


environments in seas or oceans. alluvial deposition.

Reefs delta front

• They are mound-like, wave resistant • is located at the distal edge of the delta
structures made up of calcareous plain; sediments are deposited in
skeletons of organisms such as corals, mouth bars as the rivers emerge into
bryozoa, etc. the sea.

Continental Shelf (Continental Platform) Prodelta

• The continental shelf is the flooded • is most distal part of the delta whereas
edge of the continent and lies between. the finest grained sediments are
shoreline and continental slope. deposited

The continental slope and continental rise

• They are located seaward of the


continental shelf and may reach a depth
of 4000 m.
• The continental slope is the steep (5-
25°) part at the edge of the continent.
• The continental rise is the site of
deposition of thick accumulations of
sediment, much of which is in
submarine fans, deposited by turbidity
currents.

The abyssal plain

• It is flat or very gently sloping areas of


the deep ocean basin floor.

TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

• Transitional environments are those


environments at or near the transition
between the land and sea.

Delta

• A delta forms where a river transporting


significant quantities of sediment enters
a receiving basin such as ocean or other
body of water.

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