Back to Epeiric Sedimentation...
Figure 36--Modified version of a platform depositional model after Wilson (1970) and Armstrong (1974). Seven basic contemporaneous depositional environments are shown, including subtidal marine deposition most distant from shore, through facies representing coastal and an emergent continental environment. Environments are numbered as described in Table 2.
Back to Epeiric Sedimentation...
Kansas Geological Survey, Cyclic Sedimentation
Comments to webadmin@kgs.ku.edu
Web version Oct. 2004. Original publication date Oct. 1980.
URL=http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/Bulletins/220/fig36.html