Within any given depositional environment, various physical and biological processes act to transport and deposit sediment. These processes result in various distributions of [[grain size]] and [[sedimentary structures]] that characterize the deposited sediment. Relating these features back to the processes that produced them is the basic method used by geologists to interpret the depositional environment of sedimentary sequences ([[:file:lithofacies-and-environmental-analysis-of-clastic-depositional-systems_fig1.png|Figure 1]]). | Within any given depositional environment, various physical and biological processes act to transport and deposit sediment. These processes result in various distributions of [[grain size]] and [[sedimentary structures]] that characterize the deposited sediment. Relating these features back to the processes that produced them is the basic method used by geologists to interpret the depositional environment of sedimentary sequences ([[:file:lithofacies-and-environmental-analysis-of-clastic-depositional-systems_fig1.png|Figure 1]]). |