bedding plane

The long squeeze through the bedding plane had taxed his nerves.

It makes up the brunt of some bedding plane assemblages.

Fortunately, the Burgess fossils do not usually lie on a single bedding plane.

What is any bedding plane if it is not a mini-unconformity?

If we really had continuous sedimentation then there would surely be no bedding planes at all.

'Well, then there's a squeeze through a bedding plane.

'There is a bedding plane, a seam, running just below the capsule.

It is a complex maze of passageways, large and small, mostly developed along one or two major bedding planes.

A sill is a relatively thin intrusion, which makes a table along bedding planes.

I tapped the bedding plane with the hammer.

But what are all those bedding planes?

The most common example of this is bedding plane parallel stylolites developed in carbonates.

Many of these long leaves are preserved on the bedding planes of a siltstone.

But I still maintain that most bedding planes show evidence of a pause in sedimentation, if not actual erosion.

They are created by the wave driven erosion of cliffs along faults and bedding planes in the rock.

The fossils are located on the bedding planes, and are randomly oriented.

As easily observed, the bedding planes are all roughly level, although there is some inclination down to the north-east.

The bedding planes dip at roughly 30 , the angle of the western slopes.

The dragonfly is splendidly preserved on the flat bedding plane of a limestone.

This realignment, known as 'schistosity', bears no relationship to the original horizontal bedding planes.

The terminus of the cave is a low bedding plane which eventually becomes too low to progress.

It occurs when there are lines of weakness such as faults, joints, or bedding planes in the crust.

As they turned to go, Ford noticed a series of marks on the face of a huge boulder that had split down the bedding plane.

By contrast, caves formed along horizontal bedding planes tend to be wider with lower ceiling heights.

The dam cross section is rather squat in order to provide sufficient resistance against potential sliding along foundation bedding planes.