General Environmental Setting:

    Non marine: fluvial

Rock Description:
    Ripple cross-bedded sandstone (only lee side of ripple preserved)

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Channel

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Any moderate energy environment in which migrating ripples occur but most commonly preserved in tidal and non-marine facies.

General Environmental Setting:

    Nonmarine - overbank

Rock Description:
    Horizontal-wave bedded sandstone and mudstone. The lenses of sandstone are probably vestiges of ripples

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Overbank (splay or floodplain)

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Tidal flats and shallow offshore facies where fluctuating energy conditions are frequent.

General Environmental Setting:

    Non marine: fluvial

Rock Description:
    Conglomerate

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Braided channel

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Such coarse conglomerates are restricted to very high energy channels. In mass flow deposits the degree of rounding of clasts evident in this sample will not occur.

General Environmental Setting:

    Non marine: fluvial

Rock Description:
    Pebble-conglomerate (well sorted)

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Channel

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Any high energy environment such as channels, beach or bar facies where fine sediment is selectively removed.

General Environmental Setting:

    Non marine: fluvial

Rock Description:
    Pebble conglomerate (well sorted)

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Channel

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Any high energy environment such as channel, bar or beach facies.

General Environmental Setting:

    Non marine: fluvial

Rock Description:
    Clean, massive sandstone

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Channel

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Any high energy environment but most common in channel and beach and bar facies where fine sediment is removed.

General Environmental Setting:

    Non marine: fluvial

Rock Description:
    Granular sandstone

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Channel

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    Clean well sorted granular sandstones also common in high energy beach and bar facies.

General Environmental Setting:

    Non marine: fluvial

Rock Description:
    Cross-bedded sandstone

Depositional Environment Represented:

    Channel

Other environments where rock type is typically found:

    High energy environments where migrating dunes of megaripples occur (foreshore, aeolian, channel).
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