Sedimentary Environment

Text Book :
Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems, 1996,
Galloway & Hobday
Ancient Sedimentary Environments,
1985, Selley

Process of Sediment Dispersal

a. Subaerial
- gravitational potential energy
- surface water flow
- wind

b. Marine or lacustrine reservoir

- wave energy flux
- tidal energy flux
- storm-generated currents
- gravitational potential enegy

Skema Lingkungan Sedimentasi

(Enviroment of Deposition)

Skema Lingkungan Sedimentasi

(Enviroment of Deposition)

External Factor controlling evolution of depositional equilibrium

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Tectonic subsidence or uplift

Subsidence due to sediment loading
Climate change
Change in sediment supply (volume & textural mix)
Eustatic sea level (or lake level) changes.

Alluvial Fans
a.AF is a sedimentary environment at
continental slope.
b.Usually this AF indicates a structural
control
c.Water as medium transportation is not
always flooding the surface of AF.

Process At AF
Debris flow triggered by by floods on step surfaces of

unconsolidated clay-rich sediment),

Non-cohesive flow involving mass movement of coarse
clastic
Channelised & Stream flow
Sheet flow (unconfined flow across the fan surface
follow intense rainfall events)
Eolian Processes on poorly vegetated fan surface
Ground Water Recharge (confined, unconfined &
artesian beneath the younger fan)

Which vary depending on :

topographycal relief
sedimentary textures
climate
vegetation