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Sedimentology

The increase in land elevation due of the deposition of sediment

Loose soil or sediment that is eroded and redeposited in a non-marine setting

Stratigraphic subdivison

Particles in a flowing fluid that are transported along the bed

Result of bed material being moved by fluid flow

Reworking of soils and sediments by organisms.

Natural rock fragment larger than 25.6 centimetres in diameter

Cementation (geology)

Process of chemical precipitation bonding sedimentary grains

A finely-grained natural rock or soil containing mainly clay minerals

Cobble (geology)

A rock larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder

Sedimentary rock strata at differing angles.

Degradation (geology)

Lowering of a fluvial surface, such as a stream bed or floodplain, through erosional processes

Deposition (geology)

Geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass

Physico-chemical changes in sediments occurring after their deposition

Type of layering in sediment or sedimentary rock

Diameter of individual grains of sediment, or of lithified particles in clastic rocks

Mix of crumbled stones: grain size range between 2 – 63 mm according to ISO 14688

Hummocky cross-stratification

Sedimentary structure found in sandstones

Lamination (geology)

Layering structure in sedimentary rocks usually less than 1 cm in thickness

Local regression

Moving average and polynomial regression method for smoothing data

Mixture of water and any combination of soil, silt, and clay

Sedimentary feature resulting from the drying of a clay-rich sediment

Pebble (disambiguation)

Topics referred to by the same term

Pelagic red clay

Slow accumulating oceanic sediment with low biogenic constituents

Pelagic sediment

Fine-grained sediment that accumulates on the floor of the open ocean

A layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock

Wave structures created in sediments by bottom current

Roundness (geology)

The smoothness of clastic particles

Granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles

Particulate solid matter that is deposited on the surface of land

Sediment gravity flow

Sediment transport mechanism

Sediment transport

The movement of solid particles, typically by gravity and fluid entrainment

Sedimentary basin

Regions of long-term subsidence creating space for infilling by sediments

Sedimentary basin analysis

Sedimentary structures

Geologic structures formed during sediment deposition

Biogenic pelagic sediment located on the deep ocean floor

Classification of soil or sediment

Soft-sediment deformation structures

Geologic formation

Portion of sediment uplifted by a fluid's flow in the process of sediment transportation

Unsorted glacial sediment