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Bedform Sedimentology Site: “Bedforms and Cross-Bedding in Animation”

Cross-Bedding, Bedforms, and Paleocurrents

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Figure 73. Structure formed by bedforms with sinuous, out-of-phase bedforms migrating alongslope.  This depositional situation resembles that shown in Figure 72, but here the superimposed bedforms are migrating alongslope rather than obliquely downslope.

Figure 73. Structure formed by bedforms with sinuous, out-of-phase bedforms migrating alongslope.  This depositional situation resembles that shown in Figure 72, but here the superimposed bedforms are migrating alongslope rather than obliquely downslope.

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