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occurrence on cays
- In coral reef: Winds, currents, temperature, and salinity
…slopes of the reef, forming shingle banks; successive superposed banks may thus be formed. The shingle on the banks may become cemented and thus add considerable stability to the cay, as does the growth of vegetation. Hurricanes, however, may carve back the shorelines of even stabilized cays. Huge, isolated boulders…
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structure of imbricate bedding
- In sedimentary rock: Types
Imbricate bedding is a shingle structure in a deposit of flattened or disk-shaped pebbles or cobbles (Figure 3). That is to say, elongated and commonly flattened pebbles and cobbles in gravelly sediment are deposited so that they overlap one another like roofing shingles. Imbricate bedding forms where high-velocity currents…
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