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9.1: Introduction
- 9.1.1: Importance of Sediment
9.3: Sediments and Strata
Basic principles for sedimentology and stratigraphy, including uniformitarianism, original horizontality, and Walther's Law (2019)
9.4: Fluid Flow
Reynolds number, laminar versus turbulent flow, boundary layer, laminar sublayer, bed shear stress, review of Walther's Law (2017)
9.5: Sediment Transport
Bed shear stress, Bernouli Effect, bedload and suspended sediment, Hjulstrom diagram (2019)
9.6: Bedforms
Stratification, lamination, bedding, bedforms, ripples, dunes, upper planar lamination (2019)
- 9.6.2: Exploring Cross Stratification
  Explore cross stratification using online movies. Useful for homework questions and labs related to cross stratification.
9.7: Sedimentary Facies
An introduction to the concept of sedimentary facies
9.8: Introduction to Stratigraphy
9.10: Glacial Environments
Glacial environments are defined as those where ice is a major transport process. The high viscosity of ice makes all ice transport of sediment laminar. Thus, grain sizes are not sorted. All of the sediment is transported together, with the ice, and it is deposited when the ice melts. However, liquid water and wind can also transport sediment in these environments. Wind transport is common when there is little vegetation. Liquid water transport occurs when the ice melts.
9.11: Rivers
Sediment transport by rivers, associated depositional environments, and fluvial deposits. Rivers are responsible for most sediment transport from mountains to lowlands and the oceans. They do the most to even out the topography that tectonic processes create. Rivers consist of channel, bank and overbank or floodplain deposits. Most of the sediment and many river characteristics are controlled by the highest common flow speeds.
9.12: Marine Deposition
Sediment transport and sedimentary structures due to waves, storms, and tides.
- 9.12.1: Tidal Flows and Facies
  Tidal flows, how they affect sedimentary structures and sediment accumulation, plus tidal facies.
- 9.12.2: Waves and Beaches
- 9.12.3: Storms
  Storms create distinctive deposits due to their combination of waves and currents.
- 9.12.4: Deltas and Estuaries
  Deltas and Estuaries form where rivers meet standing bodies of water such as lakes, seas, and oceans.
- 9.12.5: Estuaries
9.14: Interpreting Stratigraphic Columns
Five steps to analyzing stratigraphic columns
9.9: Weathering and Erosion
The formation of sediment through weathering. Mass transport of sediment.
- 9.9.1: Weathering
  The formation of sediment through weathering. Mass transport of sediment.
- 9.9.2 Erosion
  Erosion in general
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