Walther's Law Of Sedimentary Facies

Walther's Law: The distribution of environments represented by rocks in a vertical stratigraphic column is related to the distribution of those environments laterally.

 

Time in Sedimentary Rocks…Estimated might be younger…Y??

 

In this video, instructor discuss the idea that older layers underlie younger layers. However, the age of individual grains can be significantly older than the age of the layer they were deposited in because the grains have to exist before they are deposited. In the special case of layers of volcanic ash, the ages of crystals in the ash might be only slightly older than the age of the layer they are in, which provides excellent opportunities for measuring the absolute ages of sediments.

 

Lecture on age of Sediments. Individual Sediments may be older than time of deoposition

Deltaic sedimentation experiment in Lab

This video is a portion of a deltaic sedimentation experiment done at UNLV. It was done as part of Dr. Andrew Hanson's Sed/Strat class and shows different phases of deltaic sedimentation, erosion, and sequence stratigraphy. The plans for this flume tank are at http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/sedimentary/models/desktop_delta.html The plans come from Dr. Thomas Hickson (University of St. Thomas) and Karen Campbell (National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics)

 

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Experiments in Stratification

This documentary video emphasizes on processes of sedimentary rocks formation.

Drama in the Rocks

Four Videos on Sedimentology and Stratification Understandings

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