Sands geometries
by Silvia Inzoli, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
Outcrop (4.5 m x 3 m) in a disused quarry site in Senna Lodigiana (LO), located in the central portion of the Quaternary Po foreland basin, which formed during and after Plio-Pleistocene thrust-folding and uplift of Middle–Upper Pleistocene alluvial terraces sitting above Upper Pliocene–Middle Pleistocene marine sediments.
In this picture, from bottom to top: thin-bedded and rippled fine sands; laminated silts and clays with water expulsion structures; oblique laminated coarse sands; oblique laminated medium sands.
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- Europe (3707)
- Southern Europe (1617)
- Italy (405)
- Exact location (9.6015 E, 45.1440 N)
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- sediment (34)
- stratification (7)
- sand (63)
- alluvial (10)
- unconformity (7)
- po plain (1)
- quaternary (3)
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image/jpeg; 2.7 MB
Taken in
September
2011
Submitted on 16 February 2015
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Credit
Silvia Inzoli (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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