Syndepositional tectonics and mass-transport deposits control channelized, bathymetrically complex deep-water systems (Aínsa depocenter, Spain)

Daniel E. Tek, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Marco Patacci, Adam D. McArthur, Luca Colombera, Timothy M. Cullen, William D. McCaffrey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... deposits and their effect on post-failure strata: Marine Geology, v. 271, p. 212– 224. Arbués, P., Mellere, D., Puig, M., and Marzo, M., 2007 a, Los...

Sour Fields Development: New Bulk Removal Technologies

Liberato Giampaolo Ciccarelli, Anna Chiara Fortuzzi, Marco Bertino, Umberto Cocca, Federica Rossi

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... across the selective layer to the other side. A higher temperature facilitates the migration and as a macroscopic effect this results in a higher...

Normal Fault Structures and Others

Bailey Willis

AAPG Bulletin

... of deformation which is often confused with folding. It presents a type of normal faulting as a mountain-making effect due to uplift against gravity...

Stratigraphy and Facies Relationships of the Upper Mississippian Mount Head Formation, Rocky Mountains and Foothills, Southwestern Alberta

R. W. Macqueen,, E. W. Bamber

CSPG Bulletin

...Stratigraphy and Facies Relationships of the Upper Mississippian Mount Head Formation, Rocky Mountains and Foothills, Southwestern Alberta R. W...

Can Dispersive Pressure Cause Inverse Grading in Grain Flows?

Francois Legros

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... grains. If we hypothesize that grains are segregated according to size only, and that density has no effect, the top level should be composed almost...

Depositional Environments and Sediments in the Coastal Zone of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Grant A. Bartlett

Atlantic Geology

... and Carter 1971). Due to the Coriolis effect, it is common for the flow of river water in the northern hemisphere to be more predominant on the right...

Unraveling the Channel–Lobe Transition Zone With High-Resolution AUV Bathymetry: Navy Fan, Offshore Baja California, Mexico

Cristian Carvajal, Charles K. Paull, David W. Caress, Andrea Fildani, Eve Lundsten, Krystle Anderson, Katherine L. Maier, Mary McGann, Roberto Gwiazda, Juan Carlos Herguera

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... merge with sediment waves. Probably these scours are genetically linked to sediment waves, and they may have been formed by cyclic-step-like processes...

Ubiquity of Wave-Dominated Deltas In Outer-Shelf Growth-Faulted Compartments

Mariana Iulia Olariu, Cornel Olariu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., as the waves move across a shallow wide shelf (Ainsworth et al. 2011). Hence, wide shelves (inner shelves at highstands) have a relatively high potential...

Heterogeneity of the Gulf Coast Aquifer, Brazos River to Rio Grande, Texas

Paul R. Knox, Steven C. Young, H. Scott Hamlin, Ernest T. Baker Jr., Robert A. Kalbouss, Trevor Budge

GCAGS Transactions

... to develop depositional facies maps for each layer. Freshwater-bearing layers are dominated by fluvial and lower coastal plain facies below the Goliad...

Sediment Gravity Flows: II Depositional Models with Special Reference to the Deposits of High-Density Turbidity Currents

Donald R. Lowe

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and 3. Consequently, deposition often occurs as a series of discrete sedimentation waves as flows decelerate and individual grain populations can...

Effect of Salt Domes on Accumulation of Petroleum

Donald C. Barton

AAPG Bulletin

...Effect of Salt Domes on Accumulation of Petroleum Donald C. Barton 1931 61 66 15 1. (January) The source of petroleum has not been shown to have any...

Submarine Canyons in the Bathtub

Francois Metivier, Eric Lajeunesse, Marie-Christine Cacas

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and turbidity currents. I. Motion of the head: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 3, p. 523–546. Middleton, G.V., 1966b, Experiments on density...

Facies, Architecture, and Origin of a Reservoir-Scale Sand-Rich Succession Within Submarine Canyon Fill: Insights from Wagon Caves Rock (Paleocene), Santa Lucia Range, California, U.S.A.

Kai S. Anderson, Stephan A. Graham, Stephen M. Hubbard

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...; large sand waves record the bypassing of sediment through the uppermost reaches of this channel system (Smith et al. 2005). Major submarine canyons...

Pleistocene shelf-margin delta: Intradeltaic deformation and sediment bypass, northern Gulf of Mexico

Grigoriy Perov, Janok P. Bhattacharya

AAPG Bulletin

..., Australia: Controlled by river output, not by waves and tides, in L. Giosan and J. P. Bhattacharya, eds., River deltas: Concepts, models, and examples...

Outcrop-constrained hydrogeological simulations of brine reflux and early dolomitization of the Permian San Andres Formation

Beatriz Garcia-Fresca, F. Jerry Lucia, John M. Sharp Jr., Charles Kerans

AAPG Bulletin

... and maximum flooding surfaces were preserved to maintain chronostratigraphic succession in the layering. The remaining layer boundaries were assumed to also...

Clay Mobility in Ridge Route Landslides, Castaic, California

Paul F. Kerr , Isabella M. Drew

AAPG Bulletin

... replaced by Interstate 5. FOOTNOTE 5. Slides examined in March 1970 with Arthur Keene, head geologist, Los Angeles County. End_Page 2171...

The Tectonics and Evolution of the Hudson Bay Region

Miodrag M. Roksandic

CSPG Special Publications

.... Earth Physics Branch Open File no. 79-6 (A). Hajnal, Z. 1969. A two-layer model for the earth’s crust under Hudson Bay. In: Hood, P. J. (Ed.), Earth...

Chapter 141: Fine-grained Permian Turbidites of Southwestern South Africa: Tanqua Karoo and Laingsburg Deep-water Basins

Arnold H. Bouma, Anne M. Delery

AAPG Special Volumes

... current influences the size of a layer. Second, the location of a turbidity current, especially the smaller ones, is influenced by surface shape...

Stratigraphic Organization of Late Pleistocene Deposits of the Western Part of the Golfe du Lion Shelf (Languedoc Shelf), Western Mediterranean Sea, Using High-Resolution Seismic and Core Data1

Michel Tesson, Henry W. Posamentier, and Bernard Gensous

AAPG Bulletin

... 119 ---------------- late Pleistocene similarly had only minor effect on delta morphology. High-frequency glacio-eustatic sea level cycles (Figure 1...

Deltaic Infill of a Deglaciated Arctic Fjord, East Greenland: Sedimentary Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy

Louise Hansen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... fall of relative sea level. A Gilbert-type delta with a short distributary plain formed at the head of the tributary fjord, which received a very...

Congo Submarine Canyon

B. C. Heezen , R. J. Menzies , E. D. Schneider , W. M. Ewing , N. C. L. Granelli

AAPG Bulletin

... a 1-kilometer-thick mantle of sediment. On the Angola Abyssal Plain south of the Congo Canyon a remarkably transoral layer of sediment blankets...

Cyclic Carbonate Sedimentation in the Mississippian at Moose Dome, Southwest Alberta

L. V. Illing

CSPG Special Publications

... during a late phase of diagenesis. Cryptocrystalline dolomites, brecciated by the solution of associated anhydrite, occur in the overlying Mount Head...

AAPG Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June 16-19, 2005; #90039 (2005)

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Uncovering Seismic HTI Anisotropy of the Cooper Basin

Stephanie Tyiasning, Dennis Cooke

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...) shows a good example of anisotropic stress and velocity where compressional waves travel fastest in the direction of applied stress. Sayers and Rickett...

Influence of Seabed Morphology and Substrate Composition On Mass-Transport Flow Processes and Pathways: Insights From the Magdalena Fan, Offshore Colombia

Andrea Ortiz-Karpf, David M. Hodgson, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, William. D. McCaffrey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of mass-transport complexes (MTCs) remain poorly constrained. This study investigates the effect of bathymetric variability and substrate heterogeneity...