Hummocky Cross‐Stratification

• 2 February 1993
• book chapter
• Published by Wiley
• p. 103-122
• https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444304534.ch7

Abstract

Keywords

• HUMMOCKY CROSS-STRATIFICATION (HCS) - PRIMARY SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE POPULAR IN 1970S AND 80S
• HUMMOCKY CROSS-STRATIFIED SANDSTONE BED - UPWARD-CURVING UPPER SURFACE AND EROSIONAL SCOUR AT BASE
• DISCRETE HCS SANDSTONE BED EXHIBITING DEEPLY-SCOURED UPPER HUMMOCKY SURFACE
• EXHUMED SECOND-ORDER SURFACES - DISPLAYING FORMS OF PARTING LINEATION
• AMALGAMATED HCS SANDSTONES
• SHALLOW-MARINE STORM BEDS
• RECURRENCE INTERVALS OF EMPLACEMENT EVENTS FOR HCS SANDSTONES
• FORMATION OF DISCRETE HCS STORM BEDS BY GEOSTROPHICALLY BALANCED FLOWS