Brookfield Classification Sedimentary Depositional environment

Table 1-1. Simplified Classification of Depositional Sedimentary Environment _______________________________________________________________ Main Depositional Process

Major Environment

Mass Flow

Impact Volcanic

Subdivision

Basaltic Intermediate Acidic

Fluid Flow Subaerial

Ice-dominated

Water-dominated

Wind-dominated

Subaqueous

Clastic system Shoreline River-dominated Tide-dominated Wave-dominated

Continental shelf Continental slope Deep sea

Carbonate systems Shoreline Shelf

Ice-contact Braid plain Glacial lake Alluvial fan Braided stream Meandering stream Incised stream [Anabranching stream] Wadi fan Ephemeral stream Saline lake and playa Sand sea Loess

Delta Estuary Tidal flat Barrier bar / lagoon Beach

Deep-sea fan Abyssal plain

Ramp Rimmed shelf Reef

Slope Deep sea Epicontinental sea _________________________________________________________________ after Brookfield, M.E. (2004): Principles of Stratigraphy. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, 340p.