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Kathryn J. Amos Jeff Peakall P. William Bradbury Mat Roberts Gareth Keevil Sanjeev Gupta 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2010
We present a series of experiments that investigate the morphology of sediment deposits within sinuous submarine channels of different sinuosity (S = 1.14–1.94) and planform (symmetric and asymmetric bends), generated by bedload-dominated turbidity current flows. Flows were generated by releasing dense saline gravity currents over a mobile sediment bed through pre-formed sinuous channels. Flows had a basal-outwards helicity and produced a characteristic bed morphology with point bars downstream of the bend apex at the inside of bends and scour at the outside of bends. An increasing loss of fluid through overspill with increasing channel sinuosity results in a decreasing magnitude of cross-stream velocity downstream, a decreasing amount of erosion and deposition, and decreasing transverse slopes of in-channel deposits. Basal fluid from within the channel is transported over the outer-levee at bends, implying that proximal outer-bend levee deposits will have similar sediment composition to that within the channel. More deposition of coarse material might be expected on levees and in overbank regions close to higher amplitude bends. No simple relationship was observed between superelevation and sinuosity, probably due to changes in the relative influences of downstream velocity and bend curvature on centrifugal force and inertial run-up. In the channel with the tightest initial bend curvature, overspill fluid from Bend 1 re-entered the channel at Bend 2, dominating flow characteristics and disrupting the basal-outwards helicity observed in the other channels. Higher sinuosity channels and those with shallow regional and levee slopes are thus more likely to have a higher proportion of anomalous flow and sedimentation patterns due to the influence of overspill fluid re-entry into the channel. The results of this investigation are combined with published observations to enable the synthesis of a new model for sedimentation in sinuous submarine channels. 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2007,24(6-9):487-503
Submarine channels are major morphological features of the sea floor and are important in the transport of sediment to the deep ocean. Although much is known concerning the large-scale distribution of sediment within and surrounding submarine channels, there is little understanding of the fluid dynamic processes that control this sedimentation. Direct measurement of flow velocities and concentrations has proved to be extremely difficult within submarine channels, with the resultant paucity of direct observations making physical laboratory modelling a critical technique for examining the processes that operate in, and control, submarine channel development.Recent experimental and numerical studies have proposed a new model of secondary circulation within submarine channel bends, characterised by a reversal in the orientation of the secondary circulation cell relative to that found in meandering rivers. This new paradigm for submarine channels thus predicts basal flow from the inside to the outside of the bend at a bend apex, with an upper return flow directed towards the inner bend. The reversal in orientation of the secondary flow cell has been linked to the vertical distribution of downstream velocity and associated changes in centrifugal and pressure gradient forces. However, previous work has additionally proposed that shearing of the within-channel flow by overbank flow may also generate secondary flow reversal.This study assesses the applicability of the proposed submarine bend flow model against a range of key channel parameters. We demonstrate that the sense of secondary circulation is the same for all experimental conditions, strongly supporting the new model of secondary flow in submarine channels. Furthermore, investigation of overbank shear induced secondary circulation confirms for the first time that this mechanism can occur, and identifies the channel styles most likely to exhibit this effect. Such shear-induced circulation is, however, shown to be a secondary mechanism, with the vertical distribution of downstream velocity the principal mechanism. In certain channel configurations, the two mechanisms may act to augment one another. 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2007,24(6-9):341-387
Sinuous deep-water channels display a wide range of geometries and internal architectures. Most modern examples have been documented from large passive-margin fans, supplied by major rivers carrying huge volumes of dominantly fine-grained sediments, e.g. Amazon, Mississippi, Zaire, Bengal, Indus, Rhône and Nile Fans. However, similar examples have also been documented from tectonically active margins, e.g. Magdalena Fan. In most cases, modern sinuous channels comprise the core element of laterally extensive channel–levee systems that often aggrade significantly above a low-gradient (0.1–0.5°) fan surface; individual channels may extend downslope for 100s of kilometres. Typically, channels are subject to frequent avulsions, with only one channel active at any given time. Present highstand conditions have ensured that activity in many modern sinuous channels is much reduced due to the disconnect between fluvial feeder system and canyon head, and some have even been heavily modified or destroyed by major mass-transport deposits. Exceptions include Zaire Fan, where recent activity has provided useful insights into flow processes.The majority of detailed studies relating to sinuous channels in the subsurface originate from offshore west Africa, where channels typically occur within incisional (confined) slope–channel complexes and often represent the latter stages of channel complex fill. Both dominantly aggradational and laterally migrating styles are recognised, while modern seafloor channels in this region display a similar incisional character, e.g. Cap Timiris Canyon. Morphologic expression of sinuosity is harder to recognise at outcrop, but there are an increasing number of documented examples of lateral accretion deposits, representing point-bar growth, that are currently thought to be diagnostic of sinuous channel forms. Sinuous channel lateral migration, and point-bar growth, appears to be driven by sustained flow of fluvial-sourced (probably hyperpycnal) low-density turbidity currents, although there does appear to be variation in energy conditions, with some outcrop examples showing switches in erosive and depositional phases of activity.Previous studies have frequently focussed on the obvious gross planform morphologic similarities between fluvial and deep-water sinuous channels, e.g. nature of sinuosity, presence of point bars and cut-off loops. However, we suggest here that the differences between submarine and river channels are of greater significance, in terms of geometry, flow processes, migration style and deposit character. Sinuous deep-water channels typically form initially by a moderate amount of incision followed by rapid initial bend growth (associated with bypass of sediment). Channels that show significant aggradation then reach a point where there is a near cessation of planform movement (ossification), and growth is dominated by vertical aggradation. A new process model is proposed for this developmental sequence that synthesises observations and experiments that were previously paradoxical. 相似文献
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Kyle M. Straub David MohrigJames Buttles Brandon McElroyCarlos Pirmez 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2011,28(3):744-760
Here we present results from a suite of laboratory experiments that highlight the influence of channel sinuosity on the depositional mechanics of channelized turbidity currents. We released turbidity currents into three channels in an experimental basin filled with water and monitored current properties and the evolution of topography via sedimentation. The three channels were similar in cross-sectional geometry but varied in sinuosity. Results from these experiments are used to constrain the run-up of channelized turbidity currents on the outer banks of moderate to high curvature channel bends. We find that a current is unlikely to remain contained within a channel when the kinetic energy of a flow exceeds the potential energy associated with an elevation gain equal to the channel relief; setting an effective upper limit for current velocity. Next we show that flow through bends induces a vertical mixing that redistributes suspended sediment back into the interiors of depositional turbidity currents. This mixing counteracts the natural tendency for suspended sediment concentration and grain size to stratify vertically, thereby reducing the rate at which sediment is lost from a current via deposition. Finally, the laboratory experiments suggest that turbidity currents might commonly separate from channel sidewalls along the inner banks of bends. In some cases, sedimentation rates and patterns within the resulting separation zones are sufficient to construct bar forms that are attached to the channel sidewalls and represent an important mechanism of submarine channel filling. These bar forms have inclined strata that might be mistaken for the deposits of point bars and internal levees, even though the formation mechanism and its implications to channel history are different. 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2003,20(6-8):823-849
Quantifying the characteristics of the turbidity currents that are responsible for the erosion, lateral migration and filling of submarine channels maybe useful for predicting the distribution of lithofacies in channel fill and levee reservoirs. This paper uses data from a well-studied submarine channel in Amazon Fan in an attempt to reconstruct the velocity, thickness, concentration, duration, recurrence rates and vertical structure of turbidity currents in this long sinuous channel. Estimates of flow conditions are derived from the morphology of the channels and the characteristics of the deposits within them. In particular, the availability of information on the sediment distribution with respect to the channel topography at the time of deposition allows for insights into the vertical structure of the flow, a key property that has been so far poorly understood. Integration of flow constraints from well and seismic data or from detailed analysis of outcrop with numerical flow models is a critical step toward a complete understanding of the flow and associated deposits. Turbidity currents in sinuous submarine channels, exemplified by Amazon Channel, are found to last for tens of hours and occur on a regular, quasi-annual basis. Model results suggest that these flows had, on average, velocities ranging from 2 to 4 m/s in the canyon/upper fan which decreased to 0.5–1 m/s in the lower fan, travelling in excess of 800 km. The model turbidity currents were subcritical over most of the channel length, indicating a low degree of water entrainment and low rate of deceleration down the channel. The formation of such long, sinuous channels is intrinsically associated with frequent, long-duration, subcritical turbidity currents carrying a silt-dominated sediment load. 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2007,24(6-9):406-433
Several laterally offset and aggradational sinuous submarine channels are contained within a 54 km long segment of the Benin-major Canyon. Axial channel deposits produce high amplitude reflections on three-dimensional (3-D) seismic profiles. Some seismic reflections have U- or V-shaped cross-sectional motifs that were correlated with confidence along linear to meandering paths for distances up to 70 km. They are referred to here as channel-forms (CFs), and are believed to be the axial parts of submarine channels preserved during overall channel floor aggradation. A total of 15 separate CFs were mapped allowing thalweg-gradients, dimensions, and morphology to be studied spatially and through time, providing insight into how submarine canyons fill. Their planform geometry evolved predominantly in a stepwise fashion through alternating periods of cut-and-fill, but more gradual channel migrations are also observed. The largest offsets in successive channel floor position occur after periods of significant vertical CF fill (‘thalweg plugging’—with deposits commonly consisting of lower amplitude, transparent to chaotic seismic reflections). The passage of erosive flows after such periods of fill caused abrupt shifts in channel position, particularly at meander bends, with increased potential for the formation of pseudo meander loop cut-offs. Significant spatial differences in the stacking architecture of CFs are attributed to local slope deformation and perhaps also to a recent channel avulsion just west of the study area. Abrupt channel straightening in the western study area coincides with a period of increased valley-gradient associated with amplification of an underlying anticlinal fold. The youngest CFs in this area show limited aggradation and are characterized by repeated episodes of headward erosion causing knickpoint migration as the recent channel floor tried, unsuccessfully, to establish a smooth graded depth profile. This is in stark contrast to the time-equivalent predominantly aggradational CFs in the eastern study area that show a progressive increase in sinuosity through time. 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2007,24(6-9):388-405
High-resolution 3D seismic data of several subsurface examples reveal significant differences in internal architecture and evolution of fluvial and deep-water sinuous channel systems, although there are many similarities in external morphologies of both systems. Channel migrations or shifts in fluvial systems, with point-bar scrolls, are relatively continuous laterally and show a downstream component; they are commonly a single seismic phase thick, with flat tops. In deep-water systems, channel migrations or shifts, with or without point-bar scroll-like features, may be lateral, either continuous or discrete, and laterally to vertically aggrading, again either continuous or discrete; they are single to multiple seismic phases thick, with or without a downstream component. Even the most laterally migrated channel complex commonly aggrades, to varying degrees, from the inside to the outside of sinuous loops. Similarities between fluvial and deep-water sinuous channel systems discussed here imply that sinuosity enhancements in both cases are the result of gradual processes, involving interaction of flows, sediments and alluvial plain or seafloor in attempts to build equilibrium profiles. Flat gradients, high width to depth ratios of valleys/channel belts, fine sediment grain sizes, a certain degree of bank cohesiveness, and presence of secondary circulations in flows were pre-requisites in both systems. However, a number of factors appear to have caused major differences in the internal architecture and modes of evolution of fluvial and deep-water channels. These include differences in (1) density contrasts of flows relative to ambient fluids, (2) entrainments of ambient fluids into flows, (3) effects of centrifugal and Coriolis forces on flows, (4) frequency, volume and duration of steady vs. catastrophic flows, (5) modes of sediment transport, and (6) effects of sea level changes on deposition. Furthermore, within deep-water systems, changes in flow parameters and sediment grain size can cause erosion, bypassing or deposition in space and time and result, through cuts and fills, in sinuous channels with lateral migrations, vertical aggradations and combinations thereof. 相似文献
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利用岩心、测井、地震、岩石薄片、分析化验等资料,对鄂尔多斯盆地苏里格气田苏东区块山西组山1、山2段沉积微相进行了研究。研究结果表明,苏东气田东北地区山西组山1、山2段发育了洪泛曲流河沉积体系,主要沉积微相有曲流河道、边滩、河漫滩、河道间等微相类型。在沉积环境分析的基础上,进一步研究了区内沉积微相的平面展布特征及其演化规律,认为区内山2沉积期:发育曲流流河道砂体,储层以褐色含砾中粗粒岩屑石英砂岩-细砾岩为主,并且沉积期为近物源区的冲积平原河流相沉积,受潮湿气候及弱水动力沉积环境的影响,大面积发育河漫沼泽沉积,为煤层提供了温床,纵向上形成了3～5套煤层,物源供给相对充沛,形成了一定厚度的曲流河道块状砂体沉积;山西组山1沉积期:受潮湿气候的影响,广泛发育湿地河漫湖泊、河漫滩沉积。 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2003,20(6-8):901-910
Turbidite slope channels are analogous to fluvial channels in that they tend towards graded equilibrium profiles. The gap between the equilibrium profile and the actual sediment surface defines the accommodation, and it is the creation or removal of accommodation that governs the architectural style of turbidite channels on the slope. The factors that determine the tangent to the profile at a given point are the flow density, the flow thickness and the maximum settling velocity (a proxy for grain-size) of suspended sediment. These factors combine in a simple hydraulic relationship that illustrates how changes in these parameters affect the equilibrium gradient. In concept, graded channels behave like many sinuous fluvial systems in that the channels migrate laterally with little or no aggradation. Decrease in flow density or thickness, or increase in grain-size steepens the gradient and creates accommodation, allowing channels to aggrade. In fact without changes in other factors such as base level, channel aggradation should only occur when flow properties change. Increase in flow density or thickness, or decrease in grain-size reduce the gradient and remove accommodation, leading to erosional channels. Both long and short term changes tend from erosional to aggradational, with a tendency towards smaller and perhaps muddier flows with time. 相似文献
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The Arcachon Lagoon has an important network of tidal channels and well developed tidal flats covered by the marine grass Zostera marina. Based on 66 piston cores taken from the Graveyron tidal channel, and observations on the neighbouring channels, this paper documents the facies and geometry of the channel-fill deposits. In the inner lagoon (studied area) the tidal channels are 80 to 150 m wide and have a meandering morphology with sandy point bars 2 to 5 m thick. The channel-fill does not consist of the classic inclined heterolithic bedding typical of many channel-fills (Reineck, 1958), but of cross-stratified sandy deposits characterized by the absence of slack-water clay-drapes. These unusual facies characteristics are due to the low turbidity of the lagoonal waters which is caused by the lack of significant river inflow and the dense coverage of Zostera marina on the tidal flats. The overall geometry of the channel-fill deposits is characterized by a narrow sand-ribbon shape, a few kilometres long, 80 to 150 m wide and 1 to 5 m thick. This sand ribbon is made of elliptical sand bodies, deposited as point bars, that coalesce longitudinally along the channel axis. This narrow shape is due to the fact that the lateral migration of the channel is virtually nil (reduced to a few metres). In spite of their characteristic meandering morphology, these channels do not deposit extensive tabular sand sheets of amalgamated point bars like the tidal creeks on the North Sea tidal flats. Two factors are thought to control this lack of channel migration. (1) The tidal flats adjacent to the tidal channels are made of 3- to 5-m-thick cohesive muddy sediments covered by Zostera marina that prevents the erosion of the channel banks. This first mechanism is supported by the observation that the tidal creeks that drain the muddy tidal flats covered by Zostera marina do not migrate laterally, whereas those that drain the sandy tidal flats devoid of a dense coverage of marine grass do have active lateral migration. (2) The tidal channels are not fed by any river and therefore do not receive any fluvial sand influx during the winter floods. Their morphology is in equilibrium with the tidal discharge and represents a stable stage in the development of the channel. This second mechanism is supported by the fact that the only tidal channels that actively migrate laterally in the lagoon receive sandy fluvial influx from the River Leyre located in the southeastern corner of the lagoon. 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2007,24(6-9):434-449
Several knickpoints have been identified along the present-day thalweg of a sinuous submarine channel–levee system (CLS) on the slope of the western Niger Delta using 3D seismic data. The knickpoints form as a result of gradient changes caused by the uplift of a thrust and fold belt orthogonal to the CLS. The channel gradient is lower locally upstream of folds causing turbidity currents within the channel to decelerate and deposit the coarsest sediment load. The basinward dipping fold limb causes local steepening of the gradient, which leads to increased flow velocity and turbulence within the turbidity currents. This enhances erosion at the base of the channel and leads to the formation of a knickpoint. If preserved, e.g., as a result of channel avulsion or abandonment, the deposits upstream of the knickpoints could constitute an important hydrocarbon reservoir element. They can, however, also be partially eroded by headward-migrating knickpoints, as the channel strives to regain its equilibrium profile, leaving remnant sand pockets preserved on channel margins. Although knickpoints are difficult to recognise from subsurface seismic or outcrop data, it is anticipated that they can form at any stage of the evolution of a channel–levee system and may be particularly important in controlling 3D channel architecture where channels intersect dynamically changing seabed bathymetry. 相似文献
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Using seismic and Chirp sonar profiles, this paper tests the hypothesis that hyperpycnal flows are the main factor controlling
the formation and maintenance of the meandering Kaoping submarine canyon off SW Taiwan. Cross-section geometries, and erosional
as well as depositional features vary along the canyon course. In the proximal, sinuous part of the canyon, down-cutting into
the shelf strata has created a relief of 340 m. The cause of this intense erosion of the seafloor is suggested to be the frequent
development of hyperpycnal flows. A seismic section across a meander in the distal part of the canyon shows levees formed
by overspilled sediments at the outer bend, and a terrace characterized by relatively flat stratified facies at the inner
bend. The geological setting and climatic conditions in SW Taiwan (e.g. earthquakes, typhoons, floods), as well as major river–canyon
connections (for example, direct input of highly concentrated suspended sediment) would all promote hyperpycnal flow generation.
This causes axial incision, canyon wall slumping, and the formation of levees by spill-over deposition in the upper reach
of the Kaoping Canyon. 相似文献
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等深流影响的水道沉积体系的沉积特征及其沉积过程是当前深水沉积学研究的热点、难点和前沿科学问题,但研究程度较为薄弱。该文以北礁凹陷上新统（地震反射T20?T30）为研究对象,利用覆盖北礁凹陷局部的三维地震资料,采用均方根属性、相干属性、时间域构造,再结合地震切片等方法,研究北礁凹陷深水区上新统斜交斜坡（走向）的特殊水道沉积体系特征及其沉积过程。研究发现,该水道沉积体系分为早、晚两期,早期发育水道和片状、扇状溢堤沉积,晚期仅发育水道和片状溢堤沉积,其中扇状溢堤沉积仅发育在水道右侧弯曲处,片状溢堤沉积仅分布在水道左侧,水道始终与区域斜坡斜交,水道对称分布且无明显迁移现象。结合该时期北礁凸起发育等深流相关的丘状漂积体和环槽,认为该水道沉积体系特殊的形态主要受控于等深流与浊流交互作用的沉积结果:浊流流经水道,其上覆浊流溢出水道,形成溢岸浊流,在水道左侧,该溢岸浊流与等深流发生相向运动,被等深流“吹拂”到单侧,大面积分布,延伸千米,形成片状溢堤沉积;而在水道弯曲处（右侧）,溢岸浊流与等深流发生相对运动,抑制溢岸浊流进一步扩展,形成相对小范围扇状溢堤沉积,该沉积结果与前人水槽实验结果相一致。 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2007,24(6-9):515-528
In the Castle Creek study area, a vertically dipping, 2.5 km-thick succession of basin-floor to base-of-slope Neoproterozoic rocks are superbly exposed. In part of that outcrop, inner-bend (point-bar) deposits of sharp-based, laterally accreting sinuous channels are exposed, of which one is described in detail (Isaac Channel unit 2.2—IC2.2). IC2.2 is up to 13 m thick and extends laterally for at least 400 m. Lateral-accretion deposits, or simply lateral accretion deposits (LADs), are inclined at 7–12° toward the channel base and are about 120–140 m long. Grain size changes little obliquely upward along an individual LAD, or vertically upward through the channel-fill. LADs consist of two repeating and interstratified kinds: coarse-grained LADs consisting of strata up to granule conglomerate, and fine-grained LADs composed of thin- to medium-bedded finer-grained turbidites. In the lower part of the channel-fill, strata consist only of amalgamated coarse-grained LADs composed of decimetre-thick beds composed of very coarse sandstone/granule conglomerate that grade upward to medium sandstone. Tractional sedimentary structures are absent and fine-grained strata, specifically mudstone, occur only as isolated patches of intraclast breccia. In the upper part of the channel-fill, however, LADs consist of a rhythmic interfingering of coarse- and fine-grained LADs. Coarse-grained LADs consist of 2–3 bed-thick packages that are separated and then pinch-out rapidly into fine-grained LADs. Close to their up-dip pinch-out these coarse strata consist commonly of poorly sorted, ungraded very coarse sandstone/granule conglomerate overlain abruptly by planar-laminated or medium-scale (dune) cross-stratified, medium-grained sandstone. Fine-grained LADs are composed of mudstone interbedded with thin- and medium-bedded Tbcd and Tcd turbidites that obliquely downward and become truncated as the super- and subjacent coarse-grained LADs amalgamate.The rhythmic intercalation of coarse- and fine-grained LADs is interpreted to be related to temporal changes in the nature of sediment deposition along the point-bar of a deep-marine sinuous channel. Following failure along the cut-bank margin (outer bend), deposition of coarse-grained sediment on the point-bar (inner bend) occurred in order to re-establish an equilibrium channel geometry, and thereby equilibrium sediment transport conditions (i.e. sediment bypass). Once equilibrium was re-established deposition of finer, thinner-bedded strata of the succeeding fine LAD resumed. These strata represent deposition from the dilute tail region of flows that for the most part had already transited that particular channel bend and transported the bulk of its coarse sediment further down-dip. This history of alternating coarse and fine-grained sedimentation was repeated several times in the channel bend as it migrated laterally. Moreover, in coarse LADs, the restricted occurrence of tractional sedimentary structures close to their up-dip pinch-out suggests that although suspension deposition may have dominated over much of the lateral accretion surface, it was succeeded, at least on the upper part of the lateral accretion surface, by sediment reworking and bed-load transport, possibly related to elevated turbulent stresses caused by mixing along the sharp density interface in a strongly stratified turbulent flow.Although seemingly similar to LADs reported from fluvial point-bars, deep-marine LADs of the Windermere exhibit many important differences. Some of these differences are likely related to the differences in the mode of sand (and coarser) sediment transport in deep-marine versus non-marine environments, specifically, suspension versus bed load, respectively. In addition, fundamental differences in the flow structure between subaqueous suspension currents and open-channel flows most probably exert an additional first-order control contributing to these differences. 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2003,20(6-8):649-676
High-resolution multichannel 2-D and 3-D seismic data, primarily from upper fan reaches of near-seafloor channel-levee systems on the Niger Delta slope and in the Arabian Sea, reveal a high level of detail and architectural complexity. Several architectural elements are common to each system examined in this study. They include inner levees, outer levees, erosional fairways, channel-axis deposits, rotational slumps blocks, and mass transport deposits. Although the scale of individual systems varies significantly, similarities in first-order architectural elements and their configurations suggest that common depositional processes are involved regardless of scale differences.Most of the channel-levee systems examined in this study are characterized by a basal erosional fairway that is bordered by outer levees of varying thickness. Together these elements define the base and margins of the channel-belt, where channel-axis deposits and inner levees are the dominant architectural elements. Vertical, sub-vertical, and lateral stacking patterns of sinuous and/or meandering channels create seismic facies that range from narrow to wide zones of high amplitude reflections (HARs) with chaotic to continuous and shingled to horizontal reflections. Some HARs appear as isolated or stacked asymmetric to symmetric u- and v-shaped reflections, referred to here as channel-forms. Channel-belts evolve within the confines of the scalloped erosional fairway walls (flanked by outer levee), and are similar in morphology to meander-belts in fluvial systems, but commonly have a greater component of vertical aggradation. Detailed study of one particular channel-levee system on the Niger Delta slope shows a period of incision followed by three distinct phases of channel development during its aggradational history. Each fill phase corresponds to a different channel stacking architecture, planform geometry, and nature of terrace development, with important implications for reservoir architecture. In some cases, multiple phases of inner levee growth are observed, each intimately linked to the channel migration and aggradation history. Channel sinuosity evolves dynamically, with some meander loops undergoing periods of accelerated meander growth at the same time that others show little lateral migration. 相似文献
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Tidal sand bars and tidal sand ridges are extensively developed in the macrotidal Gulf of Khambhat, offshore western India. The inner and outer regions of the gulf are characterised by the development distinct tidal sand bodies with discrete geometries and dimensions. The outer gulf ridges are long, narrow, curvilinear and several metres high (∼20 m). They are asymmetric in cross-section and migratory in nature, forming ‘ribbon’ like sand bodies separated by tidal channels. Active dunes on these ridges indicate the presence of sand and their orientation parallel to palaeo-shorelines supports a tidal origin. In contrast to the outer gulf tidal sand ridges, sand bars associated with macrotidal estuaries flanking the Gulf of Khambhat typically have an elongate to diamond shape and are only hundreds of metres in width and a few kilometres length. These tidal sand bars occur in the estuary mouths and within the tidally influenced fluvial reaches of the rivers flowing into the gulf. The height of these sand bars is in the range ∼1–3 m. Due to high tidal ranges and bi-directional flow the sand bars do not develop significant height and are formed between the mutually evasive ebb and flow channels. Their bi-directional foresets and the presence of abundant mud drapes associated with the dunes within in-channel sand bars indicate a tidal origin.The Gulf of Khambhat acquired the present configuration in the last few thousand years since the Pleistocene sea-level lowstand (last glacial maximum, ∼18 ka) when the entire continental shelf was subaerially exposed and rivers down-cut into the coastal plain. With increasing sea-level rise, the exposed shelf was drowned, flooding parts of the Modern western Indian peninsula, and large tidal sand ridges formed in the outer gulf. After the fall of sea-level at 2 ka the gulf acquired the Modern configuration with multiple estuaries on both coastlines, rivers supplied the embayment with sandy sediment, and tidal sand bars formed in the Modern estuaries.Quantitative data gathered from the Modern Gulf of Khambhat indicates that for the P50 case, a vertical drill hole will encounter tidal sand bodies (ridges and bars combined) of approximate dimensions 1700 m long, 470 m wide and 1.5 m high, with a spacing of 400 m. In subsurface hydrocarbon reservoirs, where data is sparse and only limited amount of core is available, this quantitative dataset can be useful to constrain subsurface geocellular models. Also, the overall geometry, distribution and aspect ratio of the tidal sand ridges and tidal sand bars can be used to identify ancient counterparts through seismic geomorphology or in core. 相似文献
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象山港流域河流形态特征定量分析 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
象山港流域发育有自低山流向海洋的众多山溪型河流,形成相对独立的小流域。本文采用流域地貌数学模型与地理信息系统技术相结合的方法,对港湾内小尺度河流特征进行了定量分析。结果表明:(1)象山港流域河流的河长分维值普遍较小,大嵩江的河长最长且主河道最为蜿蜒曲折;(2)凫溪和大嵩江的水系结构较象山港流域其它河流的结构更为复杂且发育更加充分;(3)除了颜公河和钱仓河外,流域内大部分河流纵剖面线呈现下凹型且主河道有多次阶梯状起伏;(4) 基岩性S-A模型的应用具有一定的局限性,凫溪和大嵩江的基岩河床处于均衡状态。 相似文献
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按河道形态,河流分为４类：（１）顺直河;（２）曲流河;（３）辫状河;（４）网状河。根据河道砂岩体主体的宽（ｗ）与（ｈ）高之比,河道砂岩体分为带状砂岩体（ｗ∶ｈ小于１５）和席状砂岩体（ｗ∶ｈ大于１５）。在参考前人资料的基础上,总结了在横切河道的地震剖面上河道砂岩体的反射形态、结构及振幅变化。重点介绍了曲流河内侧沙洲地震勘探,以及三维地震勘探技术在寻找河道砂岩体方面的应用。并强调指出,在河道砂岩体地震勘探中,应当加强地震资料与钻井资料、测井资料的结合。 相似文献
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曲流河储层是我国石油资源的重要载体，但是目前研究主要还停留在微相级别，叠置点坝的划分对比研究还稍显薄弱。研究利用“层次分析”方法，通过分析河道砂体顶面高程差、出现不连续河间砂体、过井地震剖面的波形差异、平面上的砂体厚度差异等四个方面，有效地在复合河道中划分出单一河道。通过对砂体垂向沉积层序、砂体厚度分布及废弃河道位置的分析可以识别出点坝沉积；利用“砂顶泥岩厚度法”可以快速识别地下废弃河道，确定点坝沉积的边界；根据Leeder计算河流满岸宽度经验公式及点坝长度与河流满岸宽度的相关公式可以确定点坝沉积的规模。 相似文献