29 January 2015 4 167 Report

It should look like a spiral circles if it will be formed by rotation during the collapse of the delta front (it's low viscosity). But actually it is concentric circles. It's not oncoid or concretion. What's the process to form a structure like this?

The picture was taken from a piece of drill core of the upper Triassic Yanchang formation in the Ordos basin, central China. The sedimentary settings were deltas-deep lake. And there are a lot of soft sediment deformation structures both in drill cores and outcrops in the Ordos basin.

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