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Focus on Sedimentary Environments

The study of depositional processes and environments at scales from the landscape to the microscope

This page serves as an an entrance to the short virtual field trips developed for the FILTER project. The field trips will be used individually or in combination as parts of learning resources for particular courses.

N.B. The large images are typically 200-300 kb in size, and may load slowly.

Location
 
Subject
Bolongo Beach, US Virgin Islands
Bolongo
Modern tropical carbonate beach
Sombrero Beach, Florida Keys
Sombrero
Modern subtropical carbonate beach
Miami Oolite, Florida Keys
Coral Gables
Pleistocene shallow marine carbonate sand shoals
Caswell Bay Oolite, South Wales
Caswell Bay
Carboniferous shallow marine carbonate sand shoals
Caswell Bay Oolite, South Wales
Caswell Bay
Carboniferous shallow marine storm deposits
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Salt Lake
Large saline lake
Windley Key Quarry, Florida Keys
Windley Key Quarry
Pleistocene coral reef
Grassy Key, Florida Keys
Grassy Key beach
Modern back-reef lagoon
Cala Pi, Mallorca
Roman Quarry
Pliocene shell beach
Mount Hood, Oregon
Mount Hood
Modern rivers on an active stratovolcano
Virtual field trip templates
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Generic templates available for your use. See below for hints

Using the templates

Workshops

Focus on Sedimentary Environments: Powerpoint slides (with links) from December 2003 workshops in Liverpool and Swansea


Page © Roger Suthren; last updated 4 June, 2013