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Outcrop Sketch and Field Description

Method & references

Shandal Geological Field Survey System · geologicalfieldsurvey.com

Sketch

Bed descriptions

Beds are numbered from the bottom (oldest) upward. Describe each one; the log and the sketch update as you type.

1

Annotated outcrop sketch

The outcrop with the bed boundaries, bed numbers, faults, joints, veins, fossils, samples and notes, the scale bar and the viewing direction.
2

Measured section (log) derived from the sketch

Beds drawn to their thickness, with the width showing the grain size, the pattern the lithology and the fill the colour described in the field.