Atlas #2
DVD E-Book

Bedforms and Cross-Bedding in Animation
By: David M. Rubin and Carissa L. Carter

The key to interpreting cross-stratified deposits is reconstructing the shape and motion of bedforms that deposited the bedding (a problem of pure geometry). This reconstructed history of bedform shape and motion can then be used to interpret the history of flow, sediment transport, and depositional processes (problems of physics, fluids, and sedimentology). Computer visualization is ideal for the geometrical aspects of this work, because visualizing the geometry of layers deposited by complicated bedforms that change shape and change motion can be difficult--if not impossible.

Included on DVD:

• Interactive interface for dynamically sub-setting examples of bedforms and cross-bedding
• Computer animations showing the construction of cross-bedding
• Rose diagrams of the constructions and surfaces
• High resolution outcrop photos
• Morp movies matching outcrops to computer models
• Complete PDF file of SEPM CSP No. 1, 2nd Edition
• Special Features
  • MATLAB® computer code (PDF)
  • Ripples to Rocks on Mars (movie)
  • Sonar movies (Colorado River and Flume)
  • Ripples in a Flume (movie)
  • Migrating Linear Dunes (animation)

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