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Depositional Environments
Depositional Environments
There are various depositional environments which have been divided into two
main categories namely Marine Environments and Terrestrial Environments.
Terrestrial Environments:
The list of environments and the lithology deposited in the specific environments
are given below:
Important
Depositional
Environment Transport Typical Sediment Types
Environments
Processes
Terrestrial Environments
gravity, moving ice, valleys, plains, glacial till, gravel, sand, silt,
Glacial
moving water streams, lakes and clay
Marine Environments