Dish structure
![Dish structure from Northern California](/Images/godic/202501/09/DishStructureCalifornia0237.jpg")
![Sketched dish structure from the Jack Fork Group. Nearly perfect dish in red, water escape indicated by yellow arrows. Upturned edge of a dish in blue.](/Images/godic/202501/09/Dish_structure0237.jpg")
![Giant dish structure near Talara, Peru](/Images/godic/202501/09/DishStructureTalara0237.jpg")
A dish structure is a type of sedimentary structure formed by liquefaction and fluidization of water-charged soft sediment either during or immediately following deposition. Dish structures are most commonly found in turbidites and other types of clastic deposits that result from subaqueous sediment gravity flows.