Ripples Change to Dunes with Increasing Flow Speed (sed strat) @sumnerd

Ripples Change to Dunes with Increasing Flow Speed (sed strat) @sumnerd

Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

At higher flow speeds, there is so much erosion on the upstream side of a ripple, that the crests get blasted away and larger dunes start forming. If the flow speed gets high enough, they get flattened out into planar lamination.

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Ripples Change to Dunes with Increasing Flow Speed (sed strat)