Making sedimentological collection of lacquer peels
Channel: Michal Šujan
Date: 2023-04-08

This video provides a description of how the sedimentological lacquer peels were made in the field. The collection of lacquer peels serves for educational purposes at the Department of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava (Slovakia). The lacquer peels are used as examples of beds formed in a river channel, and by tide- and storm wave-induced currents in a coastal or deltaic environment.

Department page: https://geopaleo.sk/
Faculty page: https://fns.uniba.sk/en

The methodology is based on the paper by Stoof et al. (2019): https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-5-159-2019

The lacquer peels were made using the Bison Kit glue: https://www.bison.net/en/product.6300577

Detailed description of the sampled sites, located in Slovakia, could be found in these papers:
Nová Vieska sandpit (Early Pleistocene): https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3482
Príbelce quarry (Middle Miocene): https://doi.org/10.26879/1067
Malý Krtíš sandpit (Middle Miocene): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-020-00609-6

The sampled textures include subaquatic dunes and unit-bars deposited in a river channel, tidal ripples, tidal dunes, tidal bar foresets, hummocky cross-stratification formed by storm waves, symmetrical ripples and convolute bedding induced by a subaquatic slide.

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