This is part of the How To…series  on describing sedimentary rocks shows examples of sedimentary structures in outcrop and modern analogues, from different environments.

There are additional guides to crossbed nomenclature and crossbed terminology. Most of these images have been cropped from originals featured in several Atlases.

Sedimentary structures: Shallow marine

Sedimentary structures: Turbidites

Sedimentary structures: Mass transport deposits

Sedimentary structures: Fine-grained fluvial

Sedimentary structures: coarse-grained fluvial

Sedimentary structures: Alluvial fans

Sedimentary structures: Stromatolites

A submarine channel complex

Stratigraphic surfaces in outcrop – baselevel fall

Stratigraphic surfaces in outcrop – baselevel rise