Geological and Environmental Sustainability

Sedimentology and Coastal Process

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Sedimentology is a branch of geoscience that deals with sedimentary process, sediments and sedimentary environments. Sedimentary structures are those structures formed during sediment deposition. Cross-Bedding is a feature that occurs at various scales, and is observed in conglomerates and sandstones.  It reflects the transport of gravel and sand by currents that flow over the sediment surface reservoir sedimentation is a complex process that varies with watershed sediment production, rate of transportation, and mode of deposition.

The seafloor locations reach from inshore shallow sites to offshore coastal, continental shelf and slope and ocean basin deep sea sites. The coastal zone is that part of the land surface influenced by marine processes. It extends from the landward limit of tides, waves, and wind-blown coastal dunes, and seaward to the point at which waves interact significantly with the seabed. The coastal zone is a dynamic part of the Earth's surface where both marine and atmospheric processes produce rocky coasts, as well as beaches and dunes, barriers and tidal inlets, and shape deltas.