Unlike deep water turbidites, this example at Elizabeth Beach has formed in relatively shallow water. The depth would be below wave base, but the sequence contains bioturbated siltstones, precluding a deeper waters. Each layer begins with a medium grained sandstone displaying mildly eroded bases, and fine upward into siltstone. Layers average ~15-20 centimetres in thickness.
Lens cap is 64 mm in diameter.
The turbidites are part of a Carboniferous transgressive sequence that begins with fluvial parts of the Booti-Booti Sandstone, through a shoreline facies, and ends up with this base-of-slope deposit that belongs to the Bluey’s Beach Member of the Yagon Silstone. All rocks were deposited in the forearc basin of the southern New England Orogen.
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