Bed (geology)
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bed-geology-209-2870866
title:
Bed (geology)
text:
In geology, a bed is a layer of sediment, sedimentary rock, or volcanic rock "bounded above and below by more or less well-defined bedding surfaces". Specifically in sedimentology, a bed can be defined in one of two major ways. First, Campbell and Reineck and Singh use the term bed to refer to a thickness-independent layer comprising a coherent layer of sedimentary rock, sediment, or pyroclastic material bounded above and below by surfaces known as bedding planes. By this definition of bed, lami
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Layer of sediment, sedimentary rock, or pyroclastic material
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_(geology)
date created:
2006-08-06T09:44:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T14:00:01Z
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