Graded bedding
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title:
Graded bedding
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In geology, a graded bed is a bed characterized by a systematic change in grain or clast size from bottom to top of the bed. Most commonly this takes the form of normal grading, with coarser sediments at the base, which grade upward into progressively finer ones. Such a bed is also described as fining upward. Normally graded beds generally represent depositional environments which decrease in transport energy as time passes, but these beds can also form during rapid depositional events. They are
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Type of layering in sediment or sedimentary rock
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graded_bedding
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2024-03-01T14:56:16Z
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