SOLUTION: EES 2021 Sedimentary Environments Fence Diagrams Paper

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NAME: ____________________________

Outcrop data for Beury Mountain, Temple University-Main Campus, Philadelphia, PA. 29th March 2021

Section A

Section B

Section C

Section D

Section E

Scale:
The vertical scale = 10 squares = 1 meter.
The horizontal scale is 10 squares = 100 km.

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Legend

Dark brownish gray shale layered in horizontal bedding planes with foraminifera
and radiolarians.

Gray, silty shale with ripple lamination

Yellowish white medium sandstone with high angle cross-beds

Yellowish white medium to coarse sandstone with small scale crossbedding

Yellowish white sandstone with hummocky cross stratification

Brownish mudstone, heavily bio-turbated, and contains root structures

Yellowish white medium sandstone with two large scale (30 cm) cross stratification sets

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Based on your data, answer the following questions:
1. Which direction is the land vs. the water? How do you know?
The land is towards A while water is towards E. The sedimentation rocks in E are made up of…