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Soil Processes. Includes links to "Soil Creation Processes: A Chemical Weathering Primer"; "Soil Creation and Erosion: A Dynamic Process"; and "A Tour through a Typical Soil Profile."
Clastic Depositional Environments. A reconstruction of the Cretaceous Gates Formation, a wave-dominated shoreline in northeastern British Columbia. Clickable links to examples of rocks typical of various depositional environments, including beach, offshore, braided river, tidal flat, alluvial fan, lake, and more.
Physical Geology Sedimentary Rock Lab gives a good overview of sediments and sedimentary rocks, including a table of sedimentary environments, the type of sediments formed in each, and the resultant rocks, with an accompanying diagram.
Gallery of Sedimentary Structures includes images of grain orientation and bedding, bedforms and cross-stratification produced by currents, other structures produced by currents, structures produced by waves and tides, structures associated with desiccation, and structures built by organisms.
A searchable image gallery at the University of British Columbia. Images and/or diagrams of turbidites, alluvial fans, barrier reefs, deltas, etc.
Radar image of the Mississippi Delta taken from the Space Shuttle Endeavor on Oct. 2, 1995.
Carbonate Environments. Description and illustrations of ramp margins, rimmed margins, and isolated platforms.
Indiana University's reef resource page includes a well-illustrated article on reef geology.
"Sediment Mobilization in the Surf Zone." A study of how sand and other sediment is transported at the shore. Includes an animation of a wave tank turbidity current model used to predict how the mud and sand deposited on the beach at Woodway, Washington, by a landslide will be dispersed by the waves.
