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- Description: A diagrammatic depositional model of a beach/eolian dune system modified from Loucks and Ward, 2001. Diagnostic sedimentary structures and rock types include large-scale, crossbedded, well-sorted, fine-grained grainstones with rare fossils. Crossbedding will be strongly oriented landward and can be tens of meters thick. Caliche and large clasts may be associated features.
- Words in this image: Active eolian dune, windward, upper shoreface, Fore beach, Back beach, Dune-front conglomerate, semilithified, strata, leeward, vegetated stable dunes, eroded beach rock, storm cut, wind shadow, wind ripples, grainfall, grainflow, storm truncation, intradune marine storm, clasts, mollusks, corals, sandflow cross-stratication, relict bioturbated zone, thin caliche surface bounding surface
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