Today’s topic in Features of the Field is the well-known soft-sediment deformation; one of the most common phenomena which develop during, or shortly after deposition. The sediments; for this reason, need to be “liquid-like” or unsolidified for the deformation to occur. The most common places for soft-sediment deformations to form are deep water basins with turbidity currents, rivers, ...[Read More]
Features from the field: Soft Sediment Structures
Figure 1. Soft sediment deformation (Slump) in Dead Sea sediments, Israel. Possibly a seismite.