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Fig. 8.39. Outcrop photograph of the floodplain deposits illustrated in Fig. 8.38, showing small crevasse channel
Fig. 8.40. Architectural model of ephemeral, sand-bed meandering river
Fig. 8.41. Outcrop of ribbon and sheet sandstone bodies
interbedded with floodplain fines, Beaufort Group. Karoo
Basin, South Africa. Many of the sheets sandstones contain
evidence oflateral accretion, indicating deposition within
high-sinuosity channels (Fig. 8.42)