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János Mátyás 《地学学报》1996,8(5):425-429
Detrital micas are moderately abundant components in lithic sandstones. Examples from the Törtel and Szolnok Formations (Pannonian basin) and from the Lower Freshwater Molasse and Upper Marine Molasse (Swiss Molasse basin) show that the response of micas to increasing effective stress due to burial is substantially different from that of true ductile particles: the mica plates bend, but their thickness remains essentially constant. Based on this observation, a new model is proposed to describe the relationship between porosity loss and the ratio of mica-thickness and grain size. The results of calculations emphasize the importance of this latter parameter, as opposed to porosity loss from deformation of true ductile grains which is independent of the relationship between the grain sizes of deforming and rigid components. 相似文献
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Jean-Pierre Berger Bettina Reichenbacher Damien Becker Matthias Grimm Kirsten Grimm Laurent Picot Andrea Storni Claudius Pirkenseer Andreas Schaefer 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2005,94(4):711-731
We present a general stratigraphic synthesis for the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) and the Swiss Molasse Basin (SMB) from Eocene to Pliocene times. The stratigraphic data were compiled both from literature and from research carried out by the authors during the past 6 years ; an index of the stratigraphically most important localitites is provided. We distinguish 14 geographical areas from the Helvetic domain in the South to the Hanau Basin in the North. For each geographical area, we give a synthesis of the biostratigraphy, lithofacies, and chronostratigraphic ranges. The relationships between this stratigraphic record and the global sea-level changes are generally disturbed by the geodynamic (e.g., subsidence) evolution of the basins. However, global sea-level changes probably affected the dynamic of transgression–regression in the URG (e.g., Middle Pechelbronn Beds and Serie Grise corresponding with sea-level rise between Ru1/Ru2 and Ru2/Ru3 sequences, respectively) as well as in the Molasse basin (regression of the UMM corresponding with the sea-level drop at the Ch1 sequence). The URGENT-project (Upper Rhine Graben evolution and neotectonics) provided an unique opportunity to carry out and present this synthesis. Discussions with scientists addressing sedimentology, tectonics, geophysics and geochemistry permitted the comparison of the sedimentary history and stratigraphy of the basin with processes controlling its geodynamic evolution. Data presented here back up the palaeogeographic reconstructions presented in a companion paper by the same authors (see Berger et al. in Int J Earth Sci 2005). 相似文献
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The Wilhelmine Alpe section near Immenstadt (Allgäu, south Germany), which represents one of the best continuously exposed outcrops within the northern Alpine foreland basin, has been analyzed for magnetostratigraphic and palynostratigraphic signals. The section comprises the marine-to-terrestrial transition from Lower Marine (UMM) to Lower Freshwater Molasse (USM) sediments. Based on the correlation of the local magnetic pattern with the geomagnetic polarity timescale (GPTS) and palynostratigraphic data, an age of about 31 Ma is suggested for the UMM–USM transition in the Wilhelmine Alpe section. A comparison with coeval magnetostratigraphic sections from central and eastern Switzerland indicates that the regression of the UMM sea along the southern margin of the Molasse basin occurred strongly heterochronously between 31.5 and 30 Ma. The heterochroneity is attributed to the deposition of fan-delta and alluvial fan sediments which document that the overall marine conditions during the UMM were accompanied by strong clastic input derived from the rising Alps. This clastic contribution had a much stronger influence on the depositional pattern than previously thought. 相似文献
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Soumen Sarkar 《Sedimentary Geology》1981,29(4):241-282
The late Proterozoic, intertidal Lower Bhander Sandstone (Bhander Group, Vindhyan Supergroup) developed around Maihar, central India, is characterized by alternations of sandstone and shale in different scales and shows profuse ripple marks of widely varying morphology. Visual examination of their external morphology led to the identification of wave ripple, current ripple and others of intermediate character.Standard deviation and average of ripple spacing and height of symmetrical and assymmetrical ripples show genetically significant differences analogous to those obtained by Harms (1969) for wave- and current-generated ripples. Different dimensionless parameters, e.g., R.I., R.S.I., S.I., etc., processed separately for the two types of ripples, show a wide variation in their range which encompasses the total spectrum of values stipulated for wave and current ripples. However, the frequency of any particular genetic type of ripple differs widely when analysed in terms of different dimensionless parameters. Several scatter plots, prepared after Tanner (1967) also indicate the presence of various genetic types of ripples, but there are ripples for which results remain inconclusive. Furthermore, scatter plots involving the vertical form index (ripple length/ripple height) and median grain size of a few asymmetrical ripples, following Reineck and Wunderlich (1968a), led to the discrimination between current ripple and wave ripple and the distinction is grossly consistent with the results obtained by other means.Ripple spacing, ripple index and grain-size data of a few representative samples of ripples of possible wave origin, analysed after Tanner (1971) and Allen (1979) indicate that they were generated in a shallow basin with restricted fetch.Internally, the ripples, irrespective of their symmetry, are often characterized by unidirectional bundles of foresets consisting of rhythmically alternating sand and mud laminae. The sets of cross-laminae may be complexly organized with planar or curved erosional boundaries separating them. In many instances internal structures typical of wave ripples are also noted.Inconsistencies, however, exist between the results obtained by application of different criteria in interpretation of these ripple marks. The limitations in applicability of 相似文献
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The Lower Freshwater Molasse (Untere Susswasser Molasse) crops out over a wide area of the Swiss Molasse Basin. Coarse grained alluvial fan conglomerates dominate in proximal basin areas along the Alpine front. These conglomerates pass northwards into sandstones and mudstones of an extensive northeastward draining meandering river system which ran parallel to the basin axis. Sedimentological study of outcrops, quarry exposures and boreholes in the basal Miocene (‘Aquitanian‘) has permitted detailed facies analysis of this distal alluvial sequence. The distal Aquitanian is made up of distinct ‘architectural elements’characterized by their geometries and sedimentary structures. Each may be assigned to a particular depositional setting: meander belt, levees, crevasse channels and splays, overbank fines and palaeosols, and lacustrine. Meander belt sandstones were deposited in mixed load channels with a dominant bedload component. Sandstones commonly comprise amalgamated and locally stacked ribbon bodies 2–15 m thick and 150–1500 m wide. Interbedded rippled, laminated and mottled fine grained levee sandstones and siltstones form lenticular packages up to 3 m thick and 30–100 m across. Small scale crevasse channel sandstones 2–4 m thick and 5–10 m across pass laterally into metre scale, medium to fine grained crevasse sandstone sheets. Rare laminated lacustrine siltstones occur only in the north-east part of the basin. Floodplain mudstones and marls make up the remainder of the succession. These display a variety of pedogenic features recording cyclical palaeosol development. Palaeosols show strong variations in morphology and maturity both laterally across the floodplain and downstream along the basin axis, reflecting local variation in aggradation rate associated with proximity to alluvial channel courses as well as regional variation in subsidence and floodplain drainage. Analysis of the organization and distribution of the various sediment bodies permits reconstruction of the fluvial system and allows development of a model for the sedimentary architecture of the Lower Freshwater Molasse in the study area. Integration of palaeosol studies into a well defined architectural framework assists recognition of areal facies belts and may aid location of sand-prone sequences in the subsurface. 相似文献
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通过对南海西北次海盆新获得的地震资料进行综合解释和层序地层分析,揭示了海盆中的沉积对构造演化阶段的响应。始新世-早渐新世陆缘裂陷期,盆地以对称裂谷形式,发育地堑裂谷层序,沉积以近物源为特征,相变大,发育了冲积扇-扇三角洲-湖相沉积,沉积体系的配置受同沉积断裂控制明显,快速沉降和充分的物源供给决定了沉积体系的构成特征。晚渐新世海底扩张期,岩石圈破裂,陆缘进一步拉开并开始海底扩张,出现海相沉积,来自陆坡的陆架边缘三角洲越过陆坡进入海盆,在海盆内沉积了一套向海盆中部逐渐减薄的楔状地层,并伴有大量的火山碎屑沉积物。早-中新世以来热沉降期,随着构造沉降增大,相对海平面总体不断上升,进入深水盆地,形成陆架陆坡体系,大量的碎屑物质以重力流、深水底流等深水作用方式进入海盆;沉降晚期陆架-陆坡物源供应减弱,琼东南中央峡谷成为其主要的物质供应来源通道,在此期间二次海平面下降、回升的综合作用下,海盆内发育了多期以下切水道为特征的低水位域沉积体系。 相似文献
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Sarbani Patranabis Deb 《Journal of Earth System Science》2005,114(3):211-226
The Neoproterozoic Kansapathar Sandstone of the Chattisgarh basin, a shallow marine shelf bar sequence, consists of mineralogically
and texturally mature sandstones with subordinate siltstones, mudstones and conglomerates. The sediments were transported,
reworked and deposited in subtidal environments by strong tidal currents of macrotidal regime as well as storms, and accumulated
as discrete shoaling-upward features, separated from each other by muddy to low-energy sandy deposits. The sandbodies developed
into shoaling up linear bars, often more than a kilometre in length, through accretion of thick cross-stratified units in
transverse directions under the influence of ebb and flood tidal currents, as well as in longitudinal direction affected by
southeasterly flowing along-shore currents. The aggrading upper surfaces of the bars experienced protracted reworking by strong
oscillatory wave currents leading to extensive development of subaqueous 2D or 3D dunes mantled with lag pebble deposits at
different points. With continued shoaling and progradation, the bars amalgamated into large sandstone sheets with the development
of high energy beach deposits and coastal sand flats in the uppermost part of the sequence. The presence of rill marks, flat-topped
ripples, wrinkle marks, desiccation cracks and adhesion warts point to intertidal conditions with intermittent exposure. The
high energy sandstone bars overlie a thick mudstone-dominated shelf sequence across a sharp interface indicating rapid change
in the sea-level, provenance, rate of sediment generation and sediment input, and circulation condition in the shelf. A quiet
muddy shelf was replaced by a major sand-depositing environment with strong, open marine circulation. An interplay of tidal
currents, oscillatory wave currents and storm currents generated a complex flow pattern that varied in time and space from
bimodal-bipolar to strongly unimodal flows.
Close parallelism of wave ripple crests, trend of linear bars and unidirectional flows suggest that the elongate bars were
parallel to sub-parallel to the coastline, and were strongly influenced by along shore drift. The inferred coastline was broadly
N-S. The large-scale structures in the bar sandstones, emplacement of vast amount of sand and migration of large bedforms
under strong macrotidal currents collectively indicate that the Kansapathar shelf was intimately connected with an open ocean
basin towards north-northwest. 相似文献
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Marine sediments of Early Cretaceous age (Berriasian–Albian) have a widespread distribution in the Lower Saxony Basin of northern Germany. This basin, which is about 400 km long and 100 km wide, formed the southernmost extension of the North Sea Basin. Sediments attaining a maximum thickness of up to several hundred metres are represented by shallow marine siliciclastics in the west, south and easternmost part of the basin. These interfinger with the basin facies represented by dark mudstones up to 2000 m thick. The distribution and facies patterns of the sediments as well as thicknesses are related to three factors: differential subsidence, local tectonics and sea-level changes. For various parts of the basin and certain stratigraphic intervals it is possible to distinguish between these causes. Sedimentary thicknesses are clearly a result of differential subsidence from Kimmeridgian to Albian times onwards, being controlled by tectonic movements along northwest–southeast trending faults. These result in an asymmetric trough, bound to the north and south by synsedimentary faults with sedimentation rates highest in the north. Local tectonics are clearly caused by salt diapirs mainly in the eastern part of the basin and along the western, southern and eastern margins. These areas in particular include parts of the western Emsland and the Salzgitter area. Sedimentary patterns vary considerably over less than a kilometre, showing an extreme range of different lithologies. This is ideally observed in the Salzgitter area. Sea-level changes finally are reflected by widespread facies patterns and particularly by fossils of different provenance. The following sea-level-related events can be followed throughout the basin: the Wealden regressive phase, the Early Valanginian transgression, the early Late Valanginian transgression, the mid Hauterivian transgression, the Barremian regression, deposition of the Early Aptian anoxic sediments, and accumulation of the mid Albian hemipelagic marls. 相似文献
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河南泌阳凹陷含碱段的浅水蒸发环境 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2
本文通过对泌阳凹陷含碱段岩心的研究,描述了含碱段地层的细-粉砂岩、油页岩、白云岩和重碳钠盐岩四种岩石类型,详细描述了发育在含碱地层中的波状层理、冲刷构造、层面波痕和干裂等沉积构造以及白云岩的内碎屑结构。对这些岩石类型、沉积构造、沉积韵律和岩相分布进行了分析,得出了与前人不同的结论:核二段底部含碱段沉积时是蒸发的浅水环境,碱矿层是在极浅水的盆地中心湖区--干盐湖环境中沉积的。 相似文献
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中国中新生代地洼构造与油气矿藏 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1
中新生代以来的地洼构造在中国陆壳上表现得特别活跃。这些地洼型的沉积盆地都蕴藏着大量的油气资源。作者认为,中国大陆夹持在太平洋和印度板块之间,这几个地质块体相互作用,使大陆抬升解体,形成滨太平洋外侧的近海大陆裂谷盆地;内侧的稳定沉降坳陷盆地;西北发育内陆山前坳陷盆地和山间盆地;青藏地区中生代为古特提斯海相沉积盆地和新生代发育陆相山间盆地。由于地质发展史不同,作者又进一步划分了东北、华北—中下扬子、华南、鄂尔多斯、四川、准噶尔、塔里木—柴达木和青藏等九个含油气盆地区。 相似文献
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The tectonically active South Evvoikos Gulf forms the submerged part of a young basin produced by Neogene fragmentation of the Hellenides, so furnishing an opportunity to study the earliest stages of an extensional rift. Reflection profiles show three seismo-stratigraphic units: a thin Holocene unit A, a thick Late and Middle Pleistocene unit B, and a deformed Mesozoic-Cenozoic basal unit C. In the eastern Gulf, at least seven alternatingly stratified and acoustically transparent subunits are related to Pleistocene sea-level changes that episodically isolated the Gulf. Correlation with the global eustatic sea-level curve indicates that deposition in the Gulf, formed by southeastward divergence of its northern and southern boundary faults, began during the last million years. Subsequent glacio-eustatic sea-level changes superimposed major variations in depositional conditions on long-term subsidence. Lack of Pleistocene marine beds on the adjacent land implies that a high rate of subsidence confined lacustrine and marine deposition to the basin itself. 相似文献
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沧州地区位于海陆交互的渤海湾西岸,易受到海平面变化和极端气候事件的影响,对于全球气候变化的响应十分敏感。应用非参数化端元分析模型将沧州地区CZ01钻孔中更新世晚期以来的沉积物粒度划分出6个端元并分析其物源,结合已有地质记录,揭示不同时间尺度下各端元对气候—海平面变化的响应。结果表明: (1)EM1(5.01 μm)主要为远源的风尘输入,EM2(13.18 μm)和EM3(39.81 μm)为古黄河所携带的沉积物,EM4(69.18 μm)和EM5(138.04 μm)为海相沉积物,EM6(275.42 μm)可能指示古洪水等极端气候事件。(2)深海氧同位素(MIS)Ⅰ 阶段,气候温暖湿润,EM4+5含量指示渤海海平面整体呈波动上升的趋势并逐渐接近现代海平面。该阶段内由于11.5 ka BP左右的新仙女木事件以及5.1 ka BP左右冷干事件的发生,渤海海平面在稳定上升状态后出现停滞或小幅下降的现象; 而在9.5 ka BP、7.5 ka BP、5.8 ka BP和1.7 ka BP左右,东亚夏季风增强导致降水增加,渤海海平面升高。(3)MIS Ⅵ 阶段北半球气候冷干,150~132 ka BP左右因喜马拉雅运动减弱造成的区域沉降中心转移致使渤海海面升高。MIS Ⅴ 阶段气候波动剧烈: 在间冰期暖期(5a、5c和5e)气候暖湿,渤海海平面上升; 而MIS5b和5d时期渤海海面高度较低。MIS Ⅳ 阶段较MIS5a末期海平面突然下降后趋于稳定,期间出现若干次小规模海侵事件,可能与东亚夏季风频繁变化有关。MIS Ⅲ 阶段至末次冰盛期海平面大幅度下降且存在周期性升降变化,并在46 ka BP左右出现大规模海侵事件。MIS Ⅱ 阶段较MIS Ⅲ 阶段海平面出现小幅度下降,为低海平面时期; 伴随15 ka BP左右冰盛期的结束,东亚夏季风增强,海平面开始上升。渤海海平面180 ka BP以来的变化记录与北半球乃至全球范围内的地质记录存在一致性,与太阳辐射波动引起的冰川消融及东亚夏季风变化密切相关。 相似文献
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一、地质概况福建下三叠统溪口组主要出露于闽西南地区,北起将乐,南至永定,西部见于清流,东部延至长泰、德化一带,以龙岩、永定、漳平、永安、大田等地最为发育。溪口组主要是一套细碎屑沉积组合,局部地区出现碳酸盐岩夹层。最大厚度可达到1484m,可分为三个岩性段:下段以泥岩、含粉砂泥岩和粉砂质泥岩为主,局部夹薄层粉砂岩。东南部的安溪、长泰尚见有钙硅质胶结的细粒石英杂砂岩夹层。大部分地区岩石具不同程度的角岩化。具有 相似文献
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作为全球地质环境的重要转折期,震旦纪早期发生的全球气候巨变和海平面显著上升等事件在世界范围内留下了大量记录。报道了震旦纪早期气候剧变阶段在我国南方陡山沱组底部形成的风暴沉积。岩芯剖面的精细观察和测量分析表明,峡东地区陡山沱组底部风暴岩沉积主要集中在陡一段白云岩与陡二段底部泥页岩中,发育的沉积构造主要有冲刷侵蚀底面、搅动层、粗粒滞留沉积、粒序层理、洼状交错层理、波状层理、波痕以及水平层理等。根据风暴岩垂向上的组合特征和沉积构造差异,共识别出五种风暴沉积序列,分别指示了不同的沉积背景:潮坪浅水沉积和陆棚深水沉积。其中,陡一段主要发育浅水风暴沉积,陡二段底部主要为深水风暴沉积,随着海平面的上升,自下而上风暴作用呈现加强的趋势。另外,在陡二段还发现了风暴浪基面以下形成的具粒序层理的泥砾岩。峡东地区陡山沱组底部的风暴沉积蕴含了强烈的古地理、古气候、古地貌以及地层信息,对于恢复震旦纪早期华南地质环境及其变化具有重要意义。 相似文献
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盆地构造运动、气候变化对后裂谷盆地源汇系统、沉积体系和层序建造影响的研究尚待深入.松辽盆地是一个富含油气的晚白垩世大型后裂谷盆地.应用构造层序分析方法,利用测井曲线、岩心观察成果、三维地震和录井资料,在泉四段（K1-2q4）至嫩江组（K2n）划分出两个二级层序和7个三级层序.这7个三级层序根据其发育的古地貌背景和气候条件,可识别出发育在二级层序底部、干旱气候环境的低可容纳空间层序建造和发育在二级层序中上部、湿润-半湿润气候条件下的高可容纳空间层序建造.高可容纳空间层序建造又可根据古地貌背景划分为缓坡和受挠曲坡折控制的高可容纳层序建造.研究区这两个二级层序及其三级层序建造特征是对盆地幕式构造运动和气候变化的响应.一个热沉降幕开始于盆地基底抬升后的沉降.基底抬升造成气候干旱、剥蚀,形成不整合,随后的沉积沉降发育低可容纳空间层序.当盆地基底沉降较快,且沉降速率大于沉积物供给速率、气候湿润、湖平面上升导致盆地可容纳空间快速增长时,发育以水进域和高位域为主的高可容纳空间层序建造.二级层序界面两侧发育的地层圈闭,沉积在高可容纳空间背景的层序其水进和高位域早期的重力流砂体为岩性油藏的主要圈闭,该类砂体在Sqqn1和Sqn1层序最为发育,在坡折带及其之下集中分布. 相似文献
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宁夏香山群为一套遭受轻微区域变质的砂岩、页岩、石灰岩和硅岩,可分为徐家圈组、狼嘴子组和磨盘井组。徐家圈组为深海斜坡沉积,狼嘴子组和磨盘井组为深海平原沉积。在宁夏中卫大柳树沟和下石棚的徐家圈组下部发现波痕,波长分别为13～15 cm和8～12.5 cm,波高分别为约2 cm和1.1～2 cm。波痕所在岩层底部和下伏岩层见槽模,波痕上覆岩层中见交错层理。通过对波痕、槽模、交错层理进行野外资料的采集,对古流向进行了分析。大柳树沟的波痕、槽模、交错层理反映古流向分别为SSE向、SSE向和NE向;而在下石棚地区分别为NW向、SSW向和SWW向。本文用复合流模式分析了波痕的成因,并对槽模、波痕、交错层理组成的沉积构造组合的形成过程进行了阐述。 相似文献
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V. PAUL WRIGHT 《Sedimentology》1986,33(2):221-241
During early Carboniferous times a major sea-level rise led to the development of an extensive carbonate ramp over what is now South Wales. Differential subsidence and sea-level changes resulted in distinctive facies sequences in the ramp succession and a model is offered which recognizes three distinct geomorpho-tectonic settings; inner, mid- and outer ramp. The inner ramp zone occurs in the more landward part of the province and was an area undergoing little or no subsidence. The sequence is dominated by oolitic grainstones and peritidal limestones representing shoal and back shoal environments. The peritidal units are transgressive deposits consisting of stacked asymmetrical shallowing-up cycles. The sequence contains many subaerial breaks and tectonic uplift resulted in base-level changes and fluvial incision. The mid-ramp zone sequence is intermediate in thickness between the inner and outer ramp successions and consists mainly of bioclastic limestones deposited below fairweather wave base. Sedimentation periodically exceeded sea-level rise and subsidence, and regressive (progradational) oolitic sand bodies developed, the thickest of which are stacked units with up to four individual sand bodies. Storm processes were of major importance in this setting. The outer ramp zone is represented by a thick sequence of muddy bioclastic limestones deposited below storm wave base and major Waulsortian reef-mounds also developed. None of the shallowing phases seen in the other ramp zones can be detected in this sequence. Subsidence and eustatic sea-level rise seem to have been the major controls on deposition but the recognition of eustatic sea-level falls is difficult. The detailed facies model for ramp carbonates presented here may be applicable elsewhere in the geological record. 相似文献
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ALFONSO BOSELLINI 《Sedimentology》1984,31(1):1-24
Various types of progradation of Triassic carbonate platforms are described from the Dolomites of the Southern Alps. The internal and external geometric relationships are exposed in spectacular natural sections and, moreover, their scale (500–1000 m of thickness) is such that they can be compared with features found in seismic profiles. The different types of progradation are controlled by a number of factors which, normally, interact with each other. These factors include: rate of basinal sedimentation, rate of subsidence, width of the platform, depth of the surrounding basin and eustatic variations of sea-level. Progradation is not a continuous process but episodic. Moments of massive debris input, during which the platform advances, alternate with long periods of negligible progradation, during which basinal sediments accrete and onlap the toe of slope. Upper boundary relationships of the prograding platforms include offlap, toplap and erosional truncation. Lower boundary relationships are horizontal, climbing and descending progradations. A variety of phenomena and circumstances have caused the cessation of progradation of the Triassic platforms. They include volcanism, collapse of margins, drowning (rapid relative rise of sea-level), subaerial exposure (relative fall of sea-level) and, probably, a natural decay of the system. In the Triassic of the Dolomites, two main progradation models can be put forward: in the Ladinian model, progradation took place simultaneously with aggradation (relative rise of sea-level), whereas the characteristic feature of the Carnian model is toplap (relative stillstand of sea-level). 相似文献
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WILLIAM F. TANNER 《Sedimentology》1967,9(2):89-104
The following dimensionless parameters (two of them well-known and five of them new) are defined for determination of ripple mark geometry: ripple index (RI), ripple symmetry index (RSI), continuity index (CI), bifurcation index (BI), straightness index (SI), and two different parallelism indices (PI1 and PI2). In general, RI = 15 or less indicates wave or water current origin; RI = 17 or more indicates wind or swash origin. RSI = 1.5 or less indicates wave or swash types; RSI = 3 or more indicates wind or water current types. CI = 15 or more suggests wind or wave origin; CI = 10 or less suggests water current origin. BI = 10 or more suggests wave varieties; BI = 1 or less suggests wind varieties. SI = 102 or more indicates wind or deep-water wave types; SI = 15 to 102 indicates wind or wave types; SI =4 or less indicates current types. PI1 = 7 or more suggests wave origin; PI1 = 1 or less suggests water current origin. PI2 = 0.4 or more is probably the result of swash or water current action. PI2 = 0.2 or less is probably the result of wind or wave action. Longitudinal ripple marks (such as rib-and-furrow) and deformed or modified varieties (such as flat-topped tidal-flat ripple marks and nearly- flat-topped intermittent creek ripple marks) have been excluded, inasmuch as (1)they are commonly easy to identify from their appearance, and (2)they are difficult to measure with ordinary methods. Plots of two indices against each other on coordinate paper can be particularly useful; the best combinations are RI vs. RSI, and RI vs. PI1, although several other pairs are almost as good. Where all seven parameters can be obtained, the confidence one can have in the interpretation is close to 98%. The effects of current bias, or depth bias, on wave-type ripple marks, extend to both the symmetry (RSI) and to sediment-transport interpretations. Unless the investigator is reasonably sure that no such bias is present (i.e., RSI = 1.0 instead of some significantly higher value such as 1.5), wave-type ripple marks cannot be used to determine direction of either wave approach or sediment transport. If no such bias is present, wave-type ripple marks still cannot be used to determine precise sediment transport direction. If RSI = 1.0 precisely, it is not even necessary that the ripple crests parallel the waves that formed them. The same restrictions apply to the interpretation of micro-crossbedding (that is, ripple mark internal structure). Despite these seemingly severe limitations, general geometry commonly permits a reliable interpretation, and hence ripple marks can provide a great deal of useful data for paleogeographic interpretations. The swash-zone variety of ripple marks includes two sub-types: those modified by a small but unmistakeable hydraulic jump, and those not so modified. The RI can be used to distinguish between these two, even when they were not observed to form. 相似文献