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4 unusual facts about Sedimentary depositional environment


Alquézar

The limestone is rich in nummulites (large foraminifera) from the shallow marine depositional environment.

Crocodilaemus

The depositional environment in Cerin at the time is thought to have been the bottom of a lagoon that was enclosed by an emergent reef complex, evidence of the shallow tropical sea that covered much of western Europe during the Jurassic period.

Eosuchus

The strata from which both species of Eosuchus have been found were though to have formed in a marginal marine depositional environment, and thus probably reflect the actual environments that these animals would have inhabited.

Lithofacies

The rock record of any particular sedimentary environment, including both physical and organic characteristics.



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