Sedimentary Slide Show
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Ammonite fossil, Saltspring Island, B.C.. Interbedded mudstone and santstone, Vesuvius Bay, Saltspring Island, B.C.. Permian fusilinids, Cache Creek Terrane, Marble Canyon, B.C.. Devonian Southesk Formation near Canmore; an amphipora reef (algal mat), a type of stromatoporiod. Paleodunes, UT, by Dr. R.L. Armstrong.
Ribbon cherts, CA, by Dr. R.L. Armstrong. Ripples in laminated dolomite, by Dr. R.L. Armstrong. Dinosaur quarry at National Monument, UT. Conglomerate channel in sandstones of Saltspring Island, B.C.. Collecting ammonite fossils on Saltspring Island, B.C..
Graded bedding and turbidites, Saltspring Island, B.C.. Convolute laminations on Saltspring Island, B.C.. Innerbedded coal and volcanic siltstones, White Lake Basin, B.C.. A fossilized shrimp burrow, Saltspring Island, B.C.. Crossbedded conglomerate on Pender Island, B.C..
Chert pebble conglomerate, Miette Formation, B.C.. Cretaceous sedimentary rocks, Drumheller, Alberta. Fossil bivalve in Sooke Formation conglomerate, B.C.. Fossil bivalve in Sooke Formation conglomerate, B.C.. Sooke Formation conglomerate at Parkinson Creek, Vancouver Island, B.C.
Sooke Formation conglomerate, B.C.. Sooke Formation conglomerate, B.C.. Load casts in Creston Formation, B.C.. Fossil raindrop imprints, Lyon Sandstone, B.C.. Collecting a fossil leaf in Green River Formation, WY.
Fossil fish from Green River Formation, WY. View of fossil quarry in Green River Formation, WY. Shell hash, Sooke Formation, B.C.. Interbedded sandstone and conglomerate, Chuckanut Fm, Patos Island WA Ammonite in Cretaceous shale in South Dakota.
Flute casts, in the Jurassic Fernie Formation, B.C.. Fossil mosquito on Patos Island, WA. Intraformational slump, Saltspring Island, B.C.. Fossil roots, White Lake Formation, B.C.. Cretaceous cross beds near Garibaldi Lake, B.C..
Conglomerate, Pender Island, B.C.. Fossils in Sooke Formation, B.C.. Fossil pine cone, White Lake Formation, B.C.. Amphipora (algal mat; a type of stromatoporoid) reef, Devonian Southesk Fm., near Canmore, Alberta.<br> Fossil gastropods from Sooke Formation, B.C..
Inoceramus, fossil bivalve from Saltspring Island, B.C.. Inoceramus, Saltspring Island, B.C.. Lyon Creek Coal Mine, B.C.. Fossiliferous Sooke Formation conglomerate, B.C.. Innerbedded sandstone and conglomerate, Saltspring Island, B.C..
Miocene sedimentary rock preserved at Pinnacles Park, B.C..
All slides by Dr. ML.Bevier,
except as noted.
Copyright © 2002 Dept. Earth and Ocean Sciences,
The University of British Columbia.