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Figure 12.14
Terrestrial sedimentary environments.
Figure 12.15
Tectonic control of major sedimentary basins
and the character of their siliciclastic sediments (stippled).
More mature, quartz-rich sediments are associated with
older, lower-energy basins, and raw, lithic and immature
feldspathic sediments with younger, higher-energy basins.
