Dish structure
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A dish structure is a type of sedimentary structure formed by liquefaction and fluidization of water-charged soft sediment either during or immediately following deposition.
Sketched dish structure from the Jack Fork Group. Nearly perfect dish in red, water escape indicated by yellow arrows. Upturned edge of a dish in blue.
Giant dish structure near Talara, Peru
Sedimentary structures
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Sedimentary structures include all kinds of features in sediments and sedimentary rocks, formed at the time of deposition.
Dish structure
…A dish structure is a type of sedimentary structure formed by liquefaction and fluidization of water-charged soft sediment either during or immediately following deposition. Due to the similarity in its…
Megaripple/dune, formed in the upper flow regime, from Utah
Wave ripple or symmetric ripple, from Permian rocks in Nomgon, Mongolia with "decapitation" of ripple crests due to change in current
Skolithos trace fossil (scale bar is 10 mm)
Soft sediment deformation (possibly a seismite) in Dead Sea sediments, Israel