Meltwater deposits
Finely laminated, fine-grained sediments, probably deposited in a small lake, exposed in a cut bank. The rhythmic layering represents seasonal inputs of coarser detritus (lighter colored layers) against a background of continual deposition of finer detritus (darker colored layers), These deposits ar...
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Oberlin College Library
1998
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