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GEOL 320 - Sedimentology/Stratigraphy

             
     

Cambrian Conococheague Fm., Little River Dam, Radford. Exhibits peritidal cyclic facies: basal ooid & skeletal grainstones overlain by thin bedded limestone & dolomite (ribbon rx) with flat pebble conglomerates, overlain by cryptalgal laminated dolomite

         
     

Ben Weston

Ben Weston

Brandon Blevins

chert bed

chert bed

chert nodules after evaporites

Chris Henderson

Chris Roland with craydad

cross-bedded ribbon rock

cryptalgal laminates

Fred Read from VT explains the outcrop to his class

Fred Read

Fred Read

Group of GEOL 320 students - 2007

oolitic & skeletal grainstone

2007 students

2007 students

Cathe Minnehan

intraclastic grainstone

Jared Wilke

interbedded dolomite & limestone ribbon rock

2 crazy students walked thru the dam to the other side

       
               

  
       
 

           
                     
     

Mississippian Bluefield Fm. along US 460, WV. Cyclic sea-level produced marine carbonates overlain by tidal siliciclastics

             
   

Barbara Wolfe

Brian Summa & Tom

bryozoan bits

CJ Dunford

Colin Darden

Elizabeth Dimon

Eunice Gates

fenestrate bryozoan

Matt Grimsley & Spencer Young

Matt Grimsley

parting lineations on tidal flat

ripple marks

Runzelmarken on tidal flat

Sean Bates

Seth Shantz

Spencer Young

toolmark

toolmarks & flutecasts

       
   

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