General Environmental Setting:

    Marine shoreface - beach

Rock Description:
    Parallel bedded-rippled sandstone. Note horizontal burrow near bottom (probably Paleophycus)

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Upper shoreface/beach

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Paleophycus burrows only found in marine environments. Marine shoals, washovers, tidal deltas.

General Environmental Setting:

    Marine shoreface - beach

Rock Description:
    sandstone with root structures (R)

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Backshore area of beach

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Sandy vegetated environments such as splays, washovers, dunes, point bars.

General Environmental Setting:

    Marine shoreface - beach

Rock Description:
    Bioturbated sandstone. Original rock-interbedded clean sandstone and mudstone.

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Foreshore to offshore

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Interbedded clean sandstone and shale typical of lower foreshore to offshore environments or tidal areas where periodic high current velocities occur. Vertical burrows typical of transitional marine environments where filter feeders are dominant.

General Environmental Setting:

    Marine shoreface - beach

Rock Description:
    Parallel and cross-bedded sandstone

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Upper shoreface/beach

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Areas with moderate to high velocity currents such as marine shoals, upper portion of tidal deltas, washovers, fluvial and tidal point bars, channel bottoms, distributary mouth bars.

General Environmental Setting:

    Marine shoreface - beach

Rock Description:
    Granular, well sorted conglomerate. Note the absence of any fine sandy matrix and good granular porosity. This rock would make an excellent petroleum reservoir.

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Gravel beach-shoreface

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Areas of moderate to high current velocity such as braided streams, offshore bars.

General Environmental Setting:

    Marine shoreface - beach

Rock Description:
    Clean sandstone with distinct parallel bedding. Burrows absent.

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Shoreface/beach

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Clean sand areas subject to high-velocity currents such as exposed embayment shoals, upper portions of tidal deltas, washovers, fluvial and tidal point bars, channel bottoms and distributary mouth bars.

General Environmental Setting:

    Marine shoreface - beach

Rock Description:
    Sandstone with abundant burrow structures destroying all primary physical sedimentary structures. Type of fossil is uncertain, possibly Chondrites or Macaronichnus segregatus

Depositional Environment Represented:

    In the Gates Formation this trace fossil was found only in sandstones deposited in very shallow marine (intertidal) settings such as beaches and bars in distributary channels.

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Not found in other environments
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