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- the bed of a river. Bedforms are often preserved in the rock record as a result of being present in a depositional setting. Bedforms are often characteristic...
- of bedforms such as ripples or dunes in a flowing fluid. The fluid flow causes sand grains to saltate up the stoss (upstream) side of the bedform and...
- In geology, ripple marks are sedimentary structures (i.e., bedforms of the lower flow regime) and indicate agitation by water (current or waves) or directly...
- varying speeds and velocities produce different structures, are called bedforms. In the lower flow regime, the natural progression is from a flat bed,...
- regime bedforms. As a result, antidunes migrate in an upstream direction, counter to the current flow. Antidunes are called in-phase bedforms, meaning...
- such as ripples, dunes, or antidunes on the river or stream bed. These bedforms are often preserved in sedimentary rocks and can be used to estimate the...
- next blows in the dominant direction. Draas are very large-scale dune bedforms; they may be tens or a few hundreds of metres in height, kilometres wide...
- current ripples spread out and merge on the basin floor. These sedimentary bedforms are best seen in aerial images and at low sun angles. These giant current...
- Hall, Minard; Ramón, Patricio; Dingwell, Donald B. (2013-10-13). "Dune bedforms produced by dilute pyroclastic density currents from the August 2006 eruption...
- characteristic of turbidity currents. The surface of a particular bed, called the bedform, can also be indicative of a particular sedimentary environment. Examples...