Updated: 9/20/04; 7:41:26 PM.
Fluid Flow: Antidunes
Antidunes are bedforms that form in fast, shallow flows. I have been fascinated by them since I was 5. They were even the topic of my dissertation, but that was mainly so I could continue playing in the sand.
        

Saturday, January 26, 2002

I received a reprint of the antidune paper in Sedimentology that I mentioned last week. The paper describes sedimentary structures produced by antidunes in a laboratory flume. The study shows many of the features that I described in my dissertation.

The one thing that is missing from the study is an explanation of how the internal sedimentary structures that they observe are produced by antidunes. There is not a clear explanation of what is happening on the bed to produce the structures.

I will see if I can explain this clearly.
12:13:55 AM    
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