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GHL NoDescription
5Ripples, Loch Eil Division, LochEil, Northern Highlands of Scotland
7Flame structures, cross bedding & graded bedding, Gander Lake, Newfoundland
8Cross bedding in sandstone
9Flame structures, cross bedding & graded bedding, Gander Lake, Newfoundland
13Mudcracks in shale, Devonian, Wick
14De-watering structure. Torridonian, Diabiag, Skye
15Slumped sandstone between bedded shales, Ganda Bay, Newfoundland
16Ripple drift, Loch Eil Division, LochEil, Northern Highlands of Scotland
18Typical very thin graded unit, Grampian Div., Feshiebridge, Scotland
21Cross bedding,Devonian, Wick
25Sediment washout channel, Ardtoe, Ardnamurchan
27Ripple marks, Devil's Kitchen, Idwal, North Wales
30Current ripples in shale, Enard Bay, Ross & Cromarty
38Convoluted beds, Aberystwth Grits
43Interbedded sandstone and clay layers, Aberystwth Grits
115Ripples on sandy beach, Glenbrittle, Skye
192Convolute bedding, South Stack Gp, Anglesey
432Mudcracks in recent clay
441Cross bedding, Triassic, New Brighton, Wirral
444Distorted bedding, Triassic, Thurstaston Rd cutting , Wirral
448Hardegsen unconformity, Triassic, Thurstaston, Wirral
454Desiccation cracks and birdprints (forming on base of Orton Pit, Peterborough)
455Desiccation cracks (forming on base of Orton Pit, Peterborough)
456Desiccation cracks and rainpits (forming on base of Orton Pit, Peterborough)
457Load structures (pseudonodules), Lower Carboniferous, Ardross, Fife
458Climbing ripples, Lower Carboniferous, Ardross, Fife
459Planar bedding & cross bedding, Lower Carboniferous, Ardross, Fife
460Cross bedding, Triassic, Red Rocks, Wirral
461Ripple marks, Silurian, Marloes
462Flute casts at base of bed, Silurian, Aberystwyth
463Trough cross bedding and included fragments, Silurian, Aberystyth
489Crinan Grits with grading, Port Bealach nan Gall, Scotland
621Marloes - ripple marks (Silurian seds). Marloes, Pembrokeshire
628Marloes - ripple marks in Silurian , Marloes, pembrokeshire
631 Laminated sediments, Devonian, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire
634Cross bedding, Devonian, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire
636Trace fossil, Devonian, Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire
637Ripple marks, Silurian, Marloes, Pembrokeshire
638Graded bedding in greywacke. Non loc.
639Graded bedding, cross bedding and planar bedding. Non loc.
640Water escape structures in cross laminated sediments. Non loc.
641Flute casts
642Climbing ripples
643Cross bedding in medium to coarse sandstone.
644Climbing ripples
645Asymmetrical ripples
646Scour (filled with gravel showing graded bedding) cutting cross bedded sandstone.
648Cross bedding in medium to coarse sandstone.
649Salt pseudomorphs in silstone, Triassic. Thurstaston, Wirral
650Desiccation cracks on bedding planes. Show sand-filled mud cracks in mudstone beds.
651Flute casts
652Bored surface (hardground)
653Vertical burrows in siltstone.
654Vertical burrows in siltstone.
655Seat-earth: plant rootlets in white layer of sandstone (gannister). Carboniferous.
656Flame structures
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