Sand ridge
Synonym
Tidal sand wave
Depth of water
Continental shelf
Circumstances
Large scale sand bars at sea floors where strong tidal currents and oceanic currents are passing through such as straits. The shallows at the top of the sand ridges are banks.
Sedimentary facies (Structures)
Foreset cross-stratification inclined in a direction.
Sedimentary systems
Components of shallow marine systems
- Beach ridge
- Interbarnal lowland (Ridge)
- Eolian dune
- Interdune lowland
- Salt marsh
- Backshore
- Foreshore
- Tidal flat
- Tidal channel
- Beach rock
- Lagoon
- Flood tidal delta
- Washover fan
- Upper shoreface
- Barrier island
- Sand spit, Longshore bar
- Ebb tidal delta
- Lower shoreface
- Inner shelf
- Outer shelf
- Sand wave
- Sand ridge
- Tsunami
- Transgressive lag