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CROSS-BEDDED [6 records]

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Record 1 2011-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
DEF

A crossbedding in which the cross-bedded units are bounded by a flat base and flat top forming a tabular body.

OBS

tabular cross-bedding: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
CONT

Stratification entrecroisée tabulaire. [...] La forme la plus répandue de stratification entrecroisée est la forme tabulaire; le banc présentant des lits obliques est limité dessus et dessous par un litage horizontal.

OBS

stratification oblique de type tabulaire : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
CONT

The core is comprised of two coarsening-upwards sequences separated by a conglomeratic lag. Each coarsening-upward cycle begins with interbedded sandstones and shales and is sharply overlain by low angle to trough cross-bedded sandstones.... The basal portion of each coarsening-upwards cycle is typified by a "laminated-scrambled" texture with interbedded laminated hummocky cross-stratified sandstone beds and burrowed(scrambled) silty shales.

CONT

The coarsening-upward cycle is overlain by a minor fining-upward cycle that includes paleosols.

OBS

coarsening-upward cycle: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

PHR

Coarsening and thickening upward cycle.

PHR

Coarsening-upward clastic cycle.

Key term(s)
  • upward coarsening cycle

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
OBS

Il y a eu trois cycles de sédimentation principaux, chaque cycle étant caractérisé par une granocroissance ascendante et un exhaussement progressif.

OBS

Les cycles à échelle métrique sont typiquement caractérisés par une granocroissance vers le haut et des dépôts d'encrinites à stratification croisée se terminant par une surface d'érosion très nette.

OBS

Un caractère important (et facile à observer) des sédiments est la présence éventuelle de granoclassement («graded bedding»). On distingue le granoclassement normal («fining upward») où les sédiments deviennent de plus en plus fins vers le haut et le granoclassement inverse («coarsening upward») où les sédiments sont de plus en plus grossiers vers le haut.

OBS

Séquence à granulométrie croissante vers le haut de grès à grains fins et de mudstone principalement rouges et gris dans la partie inférieure et de grès lithique et feldspathique à gros grains, gris verdâtre par endroits, ainsi que de conglomérat polymictique à galets vers le sommet.

OBS

cyclothème : Alternance répétée, retour de couches alternantes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
DEF

Glacial sediment of stratified sand and gravel formed by glacial meltwater streams.

CONT

Outwash sediments are commonly characterized by poorly bedded gravels interlayered with well-bedded(and commonly cross-bedded) sands.

OBS

outwash sediment: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
CONT

La plage s'étend sur une large plaine sableuse, au pied d'un vaste delta glaciaire composé de sédiments d'épandage fluvioglaciaire.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Petrography
DEF

Having minor beds or laminae inclined to the main planes of stratification.

CONT

Major portions of these ... quartzite units ... are crossbedded with channel-type crossbeds showing unimodal dip directions.

PHR

Cross-bedded sandstone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Pétrographie
PHR

Sable à stratification entrecroisée.

PHR

Grès à stratification oblique.

Spanish

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Record 5 2003-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

Area of obliquely truncated outcrop, as in cross-bedded strata exposed transverse to their depositional plan.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
OBS

(de tranche)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Geología
DEF

Afloramiento rocoso que sobresale en el suelo.

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Record 6 2002-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

In the Foothills, the boundary is placed at the base of a rudist-rich interval(biostrome to erosional cross-bedded grainstones), which is characterized by the occurrence of the large recumbent rudist Ichtyosarcolites. This rudist unit was not identified in Jabal Madar...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
DEF

Mollusque bivalve, de la famille des caprinidés, du groupe des rudistes, du Crétacé supérieur.

OBS

La valve fixée [de ce mollusque] est longue et conique; la valve libre est spiralée.

Spanish

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