continental shelves

Continental Shelves

Morphology of continental shelf

Types of continental

shelf

Shelf sediments on Washington shelf

Glaciated American continental margin

New Jersey Shelf, prograding wedge overlying exposed channel surface related to glaciation

Shallow seismic image of glacial era fluvial channel on New Jersey Shelf

Gulf of Lyons, France

Shallow structure of the Rhone continental shelf, France

Rhone Shelf prograding wedges

Shallow marine sands, Cretaceous, England

Large cross-bedded marine sands, Cretaceous, England

Bivalves in shallow marine sand

Shallow marine trace fossils, Paleocene, UK

Shallow marine dune bedded sandstone, Carboniferous, Scotland

Shallow marine cross bedded sandstone, Corinth, Greece

North Sea tidal ridges

Sand waves on Georges Bank

Large sand wave in shallow marine sands, Cretaceous, UK

Sand waves on the Alaskan Shelf

Shallow seismic images of sand waves on Georges Bank

Storm surge and shelf sedimentation

Hummocky cross bedding, storm deposit

Dissolution on sea bottom, Junction Bed, Jurassic, England