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Chapter 8. The Paleoenvironmental Significance of Clay in the Dacian Basin<br />

FIGURE 8.3. Types of clay and the associated sandy sedimentary units. A - Stratified clay in a littoral<br />

sequence with a coarsening upward bed and thin silty and sandy intercalations with wave<br />

ripples. Late Neogene, Bizdidel River, Pucioasa (Dâmboviţa County). B - Non-stratified clay in a<br />

fluvial sequence with fining upwards sandy units. Romanian, Dumitreşti (Vrancea County)<br />

■ fluvial crevasse splay environment; this is the interpretation applied to the<br />

coarsening upward sedimentary units intercalated in fluvial deposits (characteristically<br />

with fining upward trend).<br />

The homogeneous clay is associated with fluvial sequences. Taking into consideration<br />

that the homogeneous clay belongs to the fining upward sequence,<br />

we may conclude that some of this type of clay accumulate in the fluvial channel<br />

environments. Since this is an extremely fine sediment accumulation and without<br />

current structures, the homogeneous clay could represent the moment when flu-

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