Origin of extensive bedding planes in aeolian sandstones: a defence of Stokes' hypothesis.

Authors :: Loope, David B.
Source :: Sedimentology. Feb84, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p123-132. 10p.
Publication Year :: 1984
Abstract: Discusses the origin of extensive bedding planes in aeolian sandstones. Interpretation on the bedding planes that separate cross-bed sets and cosets; Origin of the first-order bounding surfaces in aeolian sandstones; Alternation between periods of deflation with periods of dune climbing.

Subjects :: *SANDSTONE
*SEDIMENTARY rocks
*SAND dunes
*LANDFORMS
*SURFACE of the earth

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