Braided Stream on Plains

Thumbnail 2 shows braided stream deposits like those for the mountain example. While this particular sandy deposit is found at a greater distance from the source, its method of formation is the same as that for the mountain example. Thumbnail 1 shows eroded clay-shales, whose weathering products are deposited as fans in the braided stream valley. The idealized cross section shows the interlaced lenticular nature of the deposit (Sowers, 1976).

Base photo in low resolution with LINKED locations of high resolution 3D images (10s of kb)
Base photo in medium resolution to allow exploration of gray tone detail (100s of kb)
Three dimensional anaglyph photo at 1200 dpi ( MBs JPEG file that will expand to 10s of MB)

Left anaglyph
Right anaglyph

Three dimensional illustration of the deposit
Photo of typical cross section
Example of typical quantitative characterization data

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