Sedimentology of a wet,pre‐vegetation floodplain assemblage     

PHILIP FRALICK  KAMIL ZANIEWSKI 《Sedimentology》2012,59(3):1030-1049

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Controls on large‐scale patterns of fluvial sandbody distribution in alluvial to coastal plain strata: Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation,Wasatch Plateau,Central Utah,USA     

GARY J. HAMPSON  M. ROYHAN GANI  HIRANYA SAHOO  ANDREAS RITTERSBACHER  ANDREW RANSON  JOHN A. HOWELL  SIMON J. BUCKLEY  BRYAN BRACKEN 《Sedimentology》2012,59(7):2226-2258

Current models of alluvial to coastal plain stratigraphy are concept‐driven and focus on relative sea‐level as an allogenic control. These models are tested herein using data from a large (ca 100 km long and 300 m thick), continuous outcrop belt (Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, central Utah, USA). Many channelized fluvial sandbodies in the Blackhawk Formation have a multilateral and multistorey internal character, and they generally increase in size and abundance (from ca 10% to ca 30% of the strata) from base to top of the formation. These regional, low‐resolution trends exhibit much local variation, but are interpreted to reflect progressively decreasing tectonic subsidence in the upper Blackhawk Formation and overlying Castlegate Sandstone. The trend may also incorporate progressively more frequent channel avulsion during deposition of the lower Blackhawk Formation. Laterally extensive coal zones formed on the coastal plain during shallow‐marine transgressions, and define the high‐resolution stratigraphic framework of the lower Blackhawk Formation. Large (up to 25 m thick and 1 to 6 km wide), multistorey, multilateral, fluvial channel‐complex sandbodies that overlie composite erosion surfaces occur at distinct stratigraphic levels, and are interpreted as fluvial incised valley fills. Low amplitude (<30 m) relative sea‐level variations are interpreted as the dominant control on stratigraphic architecture in the lower Blackhawk Formation, which was deposited up to 50 km inland from the coeval shoreline. In contrast, the high‐resolution stratigraphy of the upper Blackhawk Formation is poorly defined, and channelized fluvial sandbodies are poorly organized. Vertical and laterally offset stacking of a small proportion (<10%) of sandbodies produced ‘clusters’ that are not confined by ‘master’ erosion surfaces. Avulsion is interpreted to dominate the stratigraphic architecture of the upper Blackhawk Formation. This data‐driven analysis indicates that alluvial to coastal plain stratigraphic architecture reflects a combination of various allogenic controls and autogenic behaviours. The relative sea‐level control emphasized in sequence stratigraphic models is only rarely dominant.  相似文献   

Trace fossils and palaeoenvironments of the Middle Devonian Caherbla Group,Dingle Peninsula,southwest Ireland     

Lance B. Morrissey  Simon Braddy  Chris Dodd  Kenneth T. Higgs  Brian P. J. Williams 《Geological Journal》2012,47(1):1-29

Trace fossils from the Middle Devonian Caherbla Group of the Dingle Peninsula, southwest Ireland, record a diverse arthropod fauna inhabiting a hot‐arid intracontinental rift setting. Aeolian dunefield and coeval fluvial interdune deposits interfinger spatially and temporally with alluvial fan sedimentary rocks. Three distinct trace fossil assemblages are recognized. The Taenidium‐Scoyenia ichnocoenosis occurs in alluvial fan and fluvial channel deposits, and includes the large backfilled burrow Taenidium, interpreted as eoarthropleurid aestivation chambers. The Rusophycus‐Protichnites ichnocoenosis, composed of arthropod trackways and surface pits, occurs in an interdune ponded area that was susceptible to ephemeral fluvial flow, with Rusophycus showing preferred orientation into the oncoming palaeocurrent. Both the Taenidium‐Scoyenia and Rusophycus‐Protichnites ichnocoenoses are assignable to the globally recurring continental Scoyenia ichnofacies. They are clearly substrate‐controlled and moisture‐related due to the ephemeral nature of the fluvial system. The Palmichnium‐Entradichnus ichnocoenosis occurs in aeolian dune deposits, and includes Palmichnium, attributed to large stylonurid eurypterids, and Diplichnites, attributed to eoarthropleurids. These trackways represent the activities of dune pioneers that left their fluvial habitat to forage for detritus. Interface burrows (Entradichnus, Palaeophycus) were also constructed by arthropods moving just under the sand surface and vertical burrows (Cylindricum, Pustulichnus) were made by arthropods digging downward. Trace preservation in the aeolian environment was probably enhanced by heavy nocturnal dew‐fall or light rain. The Palmichnium‐Entradichnus ichnocoenosis is assigned to the globally recurring aeolian Octopodichnus‐Entradichnus ichnofacies. This aeolian facies, and associated ichnofauna described herein, represents the oldest development of a unique erg system in the Old Red Sandstone (Devonian) of the southern British Isles, and one of the oldest and most diverse aeolian ichnofaunas to be reported worldwide. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

冲积平原古土壤类型的识别及其层序地层意义——以大庆长垣扶余油层为例     

郑文波  邓宏文 《吉林大学学报(地球科学版)》2012,(Z1):135-144

基准面旋回控制下的河道沉积速率、河道侧向迁移频率、溢岸沉积速率、溢岸暴露时间等是影响冲积平原古土壤发育特征与成熟度的主控因素。通过分析不同级别基准面旋回变化过程中冲积平原古土壤的地层学与沉积学响应,建立基准面旋回下的冲积平原古土壤演化模式,可以为层序界面的识别和A/S变化分析提供依据。松辽盆地大庆长垣区泉头组扶余油层以河流-冲积平原沉积体系为主,可识别出5种类型的古土壤:红色暴露型、红色加积型、红绿互层加积型、绿色加积型和灰色加积型,其成熟度依次降低。研究认为,在长期(三级)、中期(四级)基准面旋回内,随着A/S增大,古土壤成熟度逐渐降低。古土壤垂向序列和分布范围可以提供河流相基准面旋回的变化信息:广泛发育、可区域对比、高成熟度的红色暴露型古土壤可以作为层序界面或基准面旋回下降到上升的转换面;而厚层分布、可区域对比、低成熟度的灰色古土壤可以作为高级次层序基准面上升到下降的转换面。  相似文献   

A simple method to classify diamicts by scanning electron microscope from surface microtextures     

Mats O. Molén 《Sedimentology》2014,61(7):2020-2041

Interpretation of quartz sand grain surface microtextures with scanning electron microscopy has been riddled with inconsistencies, invalid assumptions and much subjectivity. Therefore, a novel classification for analysing grain surface microtextures is presented based on the origin of complete grain surfaces. This novel method has solved most of the earlier problems of interpretation of surface microtextures, and it is easy to use and to quickly find evident genetic interpretations of diamicts. The data are plotted graphically in ‘2‐History Diagrams’ or ‘3‐History Diagrams’ for quick visual inspection and statistical evaluation. Source rocks and Quaternary glacial deposits from Scandinavia and Southern Ontario, representing different ice‐substrate dynamics, are analysed to define surface microtextures from typical glacigenic grains, bedrock and fluvially transported grains. Typical glacially crushed grains display large‐scale fractures and abrasion. Shield bedrock grains display large or small‐scale fractures and solution/precipitation microtextures. Fluvially transported grains exhibit abrasion and solution/precipitation microtextures.  相似文献   

Role of vegetation in shaping Early Pennsylvanian braided rivers: Architecture of the Boss Point Formation,Atlantic Canada     

Alessandro Ielpi  Martin R. Gibling  Arden R. Bashforth  Corinne Lally  Michael C. Rygel  Saif Al‐Silwadi 《Sedimentology》2014,61(6):1659-1700

Vegetation is a major driver of fluvial dynamics in modern rivers, but few facies models incorporate its influence. This article partially fills that gap by documenting the stratigraphy, architecture and palaeobotany of the Lower Pennsylvanian Boss Point Formation of Atlantic Canada, which contains some of the Earth's earliest accumulations of large woody debris. Braided‐fluvial systems occupied channel belts of varied scale within valleys several tens of metres deep and more than 12 km wide, and their deposits predominantly consist of sandy and gravelly bedforms with subordinate accretionary macroforms, high flow‐strength sand sheets and rippled abandonment facies. Discrete accumulations of clastic detritus and woody debris are up to 6 m thick and constitute at least 18% of the in‐channel deposits; they represent lags at the base of large and small channels, fills of minor channels and sandy macroforms that developed in central positions in the upper parts of channel fills. Sandstones with roots and other remnants of in situ vegetation demonstrate that vegetated islands were present, and the abundance of discrete channel fills suggests that the formation represents an anabranching, island‐braided sandbed river, the earliest example documented to date. Although some sphenopsid and lycopsid remains are present, most woody fragments are derived from cordaitalean trees, and the evolution of this group late in the Mississippian is inferred to have exerted a significant influence on fluvial morphodynamic patterns. The formation records a landscape in which active channel belts alternated with well‐drained floodplains colonized by dense, mature forests and local patches of pioneering, disturbance‐tolerant vegetation. Lakes and poorly drained floodplains dominated by carbonate and organic deposition, respectively, were also present. A large supply of woody debris triggered channel blockage and avulsion, and active channel margins and islands within the channel belts were initially colonized by pioneer vegetation and subsequently stabilized by large trees. A similar alternation of stable and unstable conditions is observed in modern braided rivers actively influenced by vegetation.  相似文献   

Climatic versus halokinetic control on sedimentation in a dryland fluvial succession   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Steven G. Banham  Nigel P. Mountney 《Sedimentology》2014,61(2):570-608

Fluvial systems and their preserved stratigraphic expression as the fill of evolving basins are controlled by multiple factors, which can vary both spatially and temporally, including prevailing climate, sediment provenance, localized changes in the rates of creation and infill of accommodation in response to subsidence, and diversion by surface topographic features. In basins that develop in response to halokinesis, mobilized salt tends to be displaced by sediment loading to create a series of rapidly subsiding mini‐basins, each separated by growing salt walls. The style and pattern of fluvial sedimentation governs the rate at which accommodation becomes filled, whereas the rate of growth of basin‐bounding salt walls governs whether an emergent surface topography will develop that has the potential to divert and modify fluvial drainage pathways and thereby dictate the resultant fluvial stratigraphic architecture. Discerning the relative roles played by halokinesis and other factors, such as climate‐driven variations in the rate and style of sediment supply, is far from straightforward. Diverse stratigraphic architectures present in temporally equivalent, neighbouring salt‐walled mini‐basins demonstrate the effectiveness of topographically elevated salt walls as agents that partition and guide fluvial pathways, and thereby control the loci of accumulation of fluvial successions in evolving mini‐basins: drainage pathways can be focused into a single mini‐basin to preserve a sand‐prone fill style, whilst leaving adjoining basins relatively sand‐starved. By contrast, over the evolutionary history of a suite of salt‐walled mini‐basins, region‐wide changes in fluvial style can be shown to have been driven by changes in palaeoclimate and sediment‐delivery style. The Triassic Moenkopi Formation of the south‐western USA represents the preserved expression of a dryland fluvial system that accumulated across a broad, low‐relief alluvial plain, in a regressive continental to paralic setting. Within south‐eastern Utah, the Moenkopi Formation accumulated in a series of actively subsiding salt‐walled mini‐basins, ongoing evolution of which exerted a significant control on the style of drainage and resultant pattern of stratigraphic accumulation. Drainage pathways developed axial (parallel) to salt walls, resulting in compartmentalized accumulation of strata whereby neighbouring mini‐basins record significant variations in sedimentary style at the same stratigraphic level. Despite the complexities created by halokinetic controls, the signature of climate‐driven sediment delivery can be deciphered from the preserved succession by comparison with the stratigraphic expression of part of the system that accumulated beyond the influence of halokinesis, and this approach can be used to demonstrate regional variations in climate‐controlled styles of sediment delivery.  相似文献   

3.45 Ma以来滦河冲积扇中部唐山TD1孔记录的区域构造和气候演化          下载免费PDF全文

胡云壮  张金起  白耀楠  夏雨波  王强 《古地理学报》2014,16(2):249-262

对位于渤海湾西北岸晚更新世早期滦河冲积扇中部的TD1孔进行了磁性地层学、¹⁴C测年、沉积旋回、测井沉积学、孢粉地层学和介形类研究,结果表明:(1)220m 深的钻孔地层记录了古地磁学布容(Brunhes)、松山(Matuyama)和高斯(Gauss)极性时,钻孔底部层位年龄接近3.45 Ma。(2)钻孔揭示了滦河冲积扇中部地层结构,最厚的湖相沉积地层出现在上新世,第四纪以来主要由辫状河流体系分支河道相与相关沉积构成。(3)测井相与岩心沉积相分析结合显示,约3.45Ma以来出现6个大沉积旋回,与冲积扇顶端钻孔所见沉积旋回在深度上基本可以对比,其中3.2、3.0、2.0和0.78Ma的沉积旋回分别覆于全孔4期浅水湖泊—湖沼沉积物之上;末次盛冰期与渤海湾西岸钻孔一样出现浊黄橙色沉积,显示低水位域的沉积特征。(4)尽管古季风可以导致降水增多并出现湖沼沉积,但是该钻孔有机质含量最高的是在6 ka BP层位,中全新世大暖期气候对该地水热状况影响最大。  相似文献   

川西地区上三叠统须家河组前陆盆地可容空间变化特征与油气成藏研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

刘金华  杨少春  张世奇  毕建福  葛政俊 《地质论评》2010,56(2):275-282

本文利用川西盆地"安县"运动产生的不整合面,对存在多个地层划分分区的川西盆地上三叠统须家河组地层进行了岩性地层和层序地层的对比和划分。在具体分析了前陆盆地逆冲断层的幕式活动基础上,提出了前陆盆地中可容空间变化的不统一性,并且进一步在总结Posamentier(1992)利用盆地中构造沉降速度的分带现象将前陆盆地二分理论的基础上,提出了前陆盆地可容空间变化带分为四带:消失带、减小带、增加带、产生带。进而从构造运动、气候变化、物源供给和河流平衡剖面迁移四个方面对影响前陆盆地可容空间变化特征的因素进行了分析,认为河流平衡剖面迁移在前陆盆地中起到比断陷湖盆中更为重要的作用。  相似文献   

三峡工程运用初期石首河弯河势演变三维数值模拟   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

假冬冬  邵学军  王虹  肖毅  周刚 《水科学进展》2010,21(1):43-49

采用考虑河岸坍塌的三维水沙数值模型,对三峡工程运用初期石首河弯的河势演变进行了模拟分析.数值模型中采用基于非正交网格的局部网格可动技术,将传统水沙模型与二元结构河岸坍塌力学模型相结合.利用三峡水库蓄水前后2002~2004年石首河段冲淤演变资料对模型进行了验证,模拟结果与实测结果吻合较好;模型不仅能模拟出河道的垂向冲淤过程,而且还可模拟出由河岸坍塌所引起的河道横向摆动过程.计算分析了三峡工程运行至2016年末河段的河势演变情况,结果可为河段的河道整治提供参考.  相似文献