Animations, Visualizations and Imagery for Teaching Sedimentary Geology
Selections from the Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations collection
The links below lead to sub-collections of animations and imagery grouped around various topics related to teaching sedimentary geology. You may also view the entire collection of geoscience visualizations, spanning many earth science topics.- Sedimentation Models - This section provides a diverse group of visualizations depicting sedimentation models. Visualizations range from photos and still image sequences to animations, and represent simple conceptual models, output from computer simulations, and physical experimental models.
- Sequence Stratigraphy Visualizations - Animations about sequence stratigraphy utilizing a combination of linked text, images (stills and animated), and short videos.
- Turbidite Development - This site focuses on sedimentary turbidity currents and their deposits. You'll find here useful animations, photos, static images, videos of experimental models, and visual output from numerical models that can be integrated into lectures or labs.
- River Systems: Process and Form - This section provides access to several visualizations and supporting material that can be used effectively to teach students about physical processes acting in rivers and their floodplains. Visualizations include simple animations, visual output from numerical models, as well as numerous static illustrations and photos.
- Processes of River Erosion, Transport, and Deposition (in Geomorphology) - Find animations showing processes of river erosion, transport and deposition.
- Deltas and Plumes Visualizations (in Geomorphology) - Images and animations showing geomorphological features resulting from the deposition of sediments into open water.
- Dunes: Process and Form (in Geomorphology) - Two sets of animations; one interactive figure about dune types and an animation showing how sand dunes form.
- Longshore Drift and Depositional Landforms (in Geomorphology) - Sets of animations and images showing a variety of depositional landforms resulting from longshore drift. There are also animations that detail what happens when humans interrupt sediment transport through river and coastal engineering projects.
- Mass Wasting/Landslide Animations (in Geomorphology) - Access animations showing different types of landslides like slumps, slides, and falls in a variety of environments.
- Physical Weathering (in Geomorphology) - animations and images dealing with physical weathering.
- Chemical Weathering (in Geomorphology) - animations showing weathering and mineral evolution.
- Carbon Cycle (in Biocomplexity) - Animations, images, graphs and photos that can be used to describe how carbon cycles through the biosphere and lithosphere.
See the entire collection of geoscience visualizations, spanning many earth science topics.
Other Visualizations
Visual Guide to Stratigraphic-Up Indicators
This module presents several ways of determining the upward, or younging direction within layers of rocks. Each page contains several images plus descriptions that explain how this indicator can be used.
Videos from the Experimental Earthscape Facility (also known as Jurassic Tank)
Experimental stratigraphy models that allow for changing various parameters and watching the results
USGS Bedform Sedimentology Site: Bedforms and Cross-Bedding in Animation This USGS site holds scores of animations, block diagrams and photographs of sedimentary structures. The site is easily navigated by selecting from a list of thumbnail images or my narrowing the choices by planform shape, orientation and behavior.
Sediment Transport Movies
This site provides access to many QuickTime movie clips of various sedimentary processes. Types of sedimentation are too numerous to list here, but include rockfall, debris flow, snow avalanche, delta processes, flash flood, oscillation ripples and more. This collection is hosted by sedimentary geologist Paul Heller at the University of Wyoming.
