Lateral accretion is the depositional phase where transported sediment within a basin or river preferentially accumulates against the margin. Lateral accretion produces sigmoidal ("S" shaped) depositional units which are upward fining stratigraphic sequences.
Images
Basin filling by Lateral Accretion Galloway, W. E. and D. K. Hobday.
Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems.
Springer-Verlay New York, Inc., New York, 1983.
