Relevant bibliographies by topics / Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic

Contents

  1. Journal articles
  2. Dissertations / Theses
  3. Books
  4. Book chapters

Academic literature on the topic 'Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic'

Author: Grafiati
Published: 4 June 2021
Last updated: 16 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Journal articles on the topic "Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic"

1

Pratt, Brian R., and Juan J. Ponce. "Sedimentation, earthquakes, and tsunamis in a shallow, muddy epeiric sea: Grinnell Formation (Belt Supergroup, ca. 1.45 Ga), western North America." GSA Bulletin 131, no. 9-10 (February 15, 2019): 1411–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/b35012.1.

Full text
Abstract:
AbstractInterpreting the deposits of ancient epeiric seas presents unique challenges because of the lack of direct modern analogs. Whereas many such seas were tectonically relatively quiescent, and successions are comparatively thin and punctuated by numerous sedimentary breaks, the Mesoproterozoic Belt Basin of western North America was structurally active and experienced dramatic and continuous subsidence and sediment accumulation. The Grinnell Formation (ca. 1.45 Ga) in the lower part of the Belt Supergroup affords an opportunity to explore the interplay between sedimentation and syndepositional tectonics in a low-energy, lake-like setting. The formation is a thick, vivid, red- to maroon-colored mudstone-dominated unit that crops out in northwestern Montana and adjacent southwestern Alberta, Canada. The mudstone, or argillite, consists of laminated siltstone and claystone, with normal grading, local low-amplitude, short-wavelength symmetrical ripples, and intercalations of thin tabular intraclasts. These intraclasts suggest that the muds acquired a degree of stiffness on the seafloor. Halite crystal molds and casts are present sporadically on bedding surfaces. Beds are pervasively cut by mudcracks exhibiting a wide variety of patterns in plan view, ranging from polygonal to linear to spindle-shaped. These vertical to subvertical cracks are filled with upward-injected mud and small claystone intraclasts. Variably interbedded are individual, bundled, or amalgamated, thin to medium beds of white, cross-laminated, medium- to coarse-grained sandstone, or quartzite. These are composed of rounded quartz grains, typically with subangular to rounded mudstone intraclasts. Either or both the bottoms and tops of sandstone beds commonly show sandstone dikes indicative of downward and upward injection. Both the mudcracks and the sandstone dikes are seismites, the result of mud shrinkage and sediment injection during earthquakes. An origin via passive desiccation or syneresis is not supported, and there is no evidence that the sediments were deposited on alluvial plains, tidal flats, or playas, as has been universally assumed. Rather, deposition occurred in relatively low-energy conditions at the limit of ambient storm wave base. The halite is not from in situ evaporation but precipitated from hypersaline brines that were concentrated in nearshore areas and flowed into the basin causing temporary density stratification. Sandstone beds are not fluvial. Instead, they consist of allochthonous sediment and record a combination of unidirectional and oscillatory currents. The rounded nature of the sand and irregular stratigraphic distribution of the sandstone intervals are explained not by deltaic influx or as tempestites but as coastal sands delivered from the eastern side of the basin by off-surge from episodic tsunamis generated by normal faulting mainly in the basin center. The sands were commonly reworked by subsequent tsunami onrush, off-surge, seiching, and weak storm-induced wave action. Although the Grinnell Formation might appear superficially to have the typical hallmarks of a subaerial mudflat deposit, its attributes in detail reveal that sedimentation and deformation took place in an entirely submerged setting. This is relevant for the deposits of other ancient epeiric seas as well as continental shelves, and it should invite reconsideration of comparable successions.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Strogen, Dominic P., Karen E. Higgs, Angela G. Griffin, and Hugh E. G. Morgans. "Late Eocene – Early Miocene facies and stratigraphic development, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: the transition to plate boundary tectonics during regional transgression." Geological Magazine 156, no. 10 (March 11, 2019): 1751–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756818000997.

Full text
Abstract:
AbstractEight latest Eocene to earliest Miocene stratigraphic surfaces have been identified in petroleum well data from the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. These surfaces define seven regional sedimentary packages, of variable thickness and lithofacies, forming a mixed siliciclastic–carbonate system. The evolving tectonic setting, particularly the initial development of the Australian–Pacific convergent margin, controlled geographic, stratigraphic and facies variability. This tectonic signal overprinted a regional transgressive trend that culminated in latest Oligocene times. The earliest influence of active compressional tectonics is reflected in the preservation of latest Eocene – Early Oligocene deepwater sediments in the northern Taranaki Basin. Thickness patterns for all mid Oligocene units onwards show a shift in sedimentation to the eastern Taranaki Basin, controlled by reverse movement on the Taranaki Fault System. This resulted in the deposition of a thick sedimentary wedge, initially of coarse clastic sediments, later carbonate dominated, in the foredeep close to the fault. In contrast, Oligocene active normal faulting in a small sub-basin in the south may represent the most northerly evidence for rifting in southern Zealandia, related to Emerald Basin formation. The Early Miocene period saw a return to clastic-dominated deposition, the onset of regional regression and the southward propagation of compressional tectonics.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

Mel’nikov, N. V. "The Vendian–Cambrian Cyclometric Stratigraphic Scale for the Southern and Central Siberian Platform." Russian Geology and Geophysics 62, no. 08 (August 1, 2021): 904–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/rgg20214339.

Full text
Abstract:
Abstract —The general Vendian stratigraphic scale of Siberia, with the uncertain age of the Vendian base ranging from 600 to 630– 640 Ma in most of recent publications, remains worse constrained than the Cambrian scale, in which the boundaries of epochs and stages have been well defined. However, the imperfect classical stratigraphic division has been compensated by data on the cyclicity of the Vendian–Cambrian sedimentary section. The Vendian stratigraphy of the Siberian Platform and the related deposition history with cycles of sedimentation and gaps, as well as the hierarchy of sedimentation processes, can be inferred from the succession of alternating clastic, carbonate, and salt units. The cyclicity of geologic processes and their recurrence are attributed to periodic oscillatory motions of the crust. The ranks of these motions correlate with the cyclicity of sedimentary strata, including regocyclites, nexocyclites, and halcyclites separated by gaps. Each Vendian long-period oscillatory motion begins with a regocyclite and ends with a regional-scale gap. The Cambrian section includes one pre-Mayan regional gap at the end of the early Cambrian long-period cycle. Cambrian regocyclites are composed of carbonate subformations and formations in the lower part and alternating salt and carbonate beds in the upper part.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

Gannaway Dalton, C. Evelyn, Katherine A. Giles, Mark G. Rowan, Richard P. Langford, Thomas E. Hearon, and J. Carl Fiduk. "Sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and structural evolution of minibasins and a megaflap formed during passive salt diapirism: The Neoproterozoic Witchelina diapir, Willouran Ranges, South Australia." Journal of Sedimentary Research 90, no. 2 (February 20, 2020): 165–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.9.

Full text
Abstract:
ABSTRACT This study documents the growth of a megaflap along the flank of a passive salt diapir as a result of the long-lived interaction between sedimentation and halokinetic deformation. Megaflaps are nearly vertical to overturned, deep minibasin stratal panels that extend multiple kilometers up steep flanks of salt diapirs or equivalent welds. Recent interest has been sparked by well penetrations of unidentified megaflaps that typically result in economic failure, but their formation is also fundamental to understanding the early history of salt basins. This study represents one of the first systematic characterizations of an exposed megaflap with regards to sub-seismic sedimentologic, stratigraphic, and structural details. The Witchelina diapir is an exposed Neoproterozoic primary passive salt diapir in the eastern Willouran Ranges of South Australia. Flanking minibasin strata of the Top Mount Sandstone, Willawalpa Formation, and Witchelina Quartzite, exposed as an oblique cross section, record the early history of passive diapirism in the Willouran Trough, including a halokinetically drape-folded megaflap. Witchelina diapir offers a unique opportunity to investigate sedimentologic responses to the initiation and evolution of passive salt movement. Using field mapping, stratigraphic sections, petrographic analyses, correlation diagrams, and a quantitative restoration, we document depositional facies, thickness trends, and stratal geometries to interpret depositional environments, sequence stratigraphy, and halokinetic evolution of the Witchelina diapir and flanking minibasins. Top Mount, Willawalpa, and Witchelina strata were deposited in barrier-bar-complex to tidal-flat environments, but temporal and spatial variations in sedimentation and stratigraphic patterns were strongly influenced from the earliest stages by the passively rising Witchelina diapir on both regional (basinwide) and local minibasin scales. The salt-margin geometry was depositionally modified by an early erosional sequence boundary that exposed the Witchelina diapir and formed a salt shoulder, above which strata that eventually became the megaflap were subsequently deposited. This shift in the diapir margin and progressive migration of the depocenter began halokinetic rotation of flanking minibasin strata into a megaflap geometry, documenting a new concept in the understanding of deposition and deformation during passive diapirism in salt basins.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

Gong, Chenglin, Dongwei Li, Kun Qi, and Hongxiang Xu. "Flow processes and sedimentation in a straight submarine channel on the Qiongdongnan margin, northwestern South China Sea." Journal of Sedimentary Research 90, no. 10 (October 1, 2020): 1372–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.68.

Full text
Abstract:
ABSTRACT Straight channels are ubiquitous in deep-water settings, yet flow dynamics and sedimentation in them are far from being well understood. Stratigraphy and flow dynamics of a middle to late Miocene straight channel in Qiongdongnan Basin were quantified, in terms of angle of channel-complex-growth trajectories (Tc), stratigraphic mobility number (M), Froude number (Fr), layer-averaged flow velocity (U), flow thickness (h), and water entrainment coefficient (Ew). The documented channels are composed of three channel complexes (CC1 to CC3) all of which are all characterized by symmetrical channel cross sections without levees and by organized vertical channel-stacking patterns (represented by high mean value of Tc = 37.4° and low mean value of M = 0.038). Turbidity currents in them were estimated to have U of 1.6 to 2.0 m/s (averaging 1.8 m/s), h of 63 to 89 m (averaging 78), Fr of 0.849 to 0.999 (averaging 0.912), and Ew of 0.0003 to 0.0005. They were, in most case, subcritical over most of the channel length, and had a low degree of water entrainment and low flow height scaled to the channel depth (i.e., 0.786 to 0.81 of the channel depth), most likely inhibiting the gradual loss of sediment to form levees. With reference to modeling results of secondary flow velocity vectors of numerical straight channels with the same sinuosity, two parallel gullies seen on both sides of the interpreted channel beds are interpreted to be induced by high-velocity downward backflows produced by the negative buoyancy. Such symmetrical secondary flow structures most likely promoted symmetrical intrachannel deposition (i.e., less deposition along both channel margins but more deposition near the channel center), and thus forced individual channel complexes to progressively aggrade in a synchronous manner, forming straight-channel complexes with symmetrical channel cross sections and organized vertical channel-stacking patterns.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

John-Joe, Traynor. "Arenig sedimentation and basin tectonics in the Harlech Dome area (Dolgellau Basin), North Wales." Geological Magazine 127, no. 1 (January 1990): 13–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800014138.

Full text
Abstract:
AbstractArenig (Ordovician) clastic sediments crop out in the Harlech Dome region (North Wales), and are placed in a single stratigraphic unit: the Allt Lwyd Formation. This unit records a marine transgression onto an erosion surface produced during late Tremadoc arc volcanicity. Four discrete petrofacies are denned, and reflect differing proportions of detritus derived from Tremadoc-type basic-intermediate igneous rocks, and the local sedimentary basement. Initial shallow marine siliciclastic sandstones and conglomerates are overlain by extensive deep water mud-rich units. These generally shallow up into a complex arc-apron deposit, with sediments derived from the eroding Tremadoc arc, as well as from similar, synchronous volcanics. Predominantly epiclastic sandstones and conglomerates were deposited in deltaic and tidal environments in an arc-apron complex, and capped by condensed mudstones and an ironstone, deposited as sea level rose across these systems. Sediments were ponded in north–south orientated troughs and derived from uplifted blocks. Facies and petrofacies distribution were controlled by syn-sedimentary north-south and northeast–southwest faults. The Allt Lwyd Formation was ponded in a fault-controlled basin (the Dolgellau Basin), one of a series of interconnected sub-basins flooded by the Arenig transgression. The sediments preserved reflect deposition during the transgression of a volcanic arc, prior to the extrusion of marginal basin-type volcanics.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

Walley, C. D. "Depositional history of southern Tunisia and northwestern Libya in Mid and Late Jurassic time." Geological Magazine 122, no. 3 (May 1985): 233–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800031447.

Full text
Abstract:
AbstractThe good exposures of virtually undeformed Callovian and Oxfordian strata along the Djeffara escarpment of southern Tunisia and northwestern Libya have allowed analysis of regional depositional history during this time.A number of lithostratigraphic problems are considered. In Tunisia, the Foum Tatahouine Formation is subdivided into members and in Libya some of the stratigraphic issues are clarified. A correlation between the two sequences is proposed. The widely claimed aeolian origin for the Libyan Chameau Mort Sandstone is rejected.The depositional patterns of the Callovian and Oxfordian strata are described in the context of Mid and Late Jurassic sedimentation in the eastern Ghadames basin of the African craton. After a regressive Bathonian sequence, transgressive conditions commenced in Early Callovian time. In a series of continental–marine cycles, this transgressive sequence culminated in widespread shallow, restricted-marine micritic deposition. A regression in Late Callovian time resulted in emergence marked by a thin but widespread calcrete horizon. In Mid? Oxfordian time a renewed transgression brought in open marine, high-energy, shallow-water carbonates. Later, regressive conditions returned, leading to increasing restriction, and latest Jurassic time saw the first signs of the fluvio-deltaic deposition that was to dominate the region in Early Cretaceous time.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Corfu, Fernando, and Shoufa Lin. "Geology and U-Pb geochronology of the Island Lake greenstone belt, northwestern Superior Province, Manitoba." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37, no. 9 (September 1, 2000): 1275–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e00-043.

Full text
Abstract:
Mapping and U-Pb geochronology have been used to examine the tectonic and depositional history of the Archean Island Lake greenstone belt in the northwestern Superior Province. The Island Lake greenstone belt comprises two main supracrustal successions, the older Hayes River Group and the younger Island Lake Group. Zircon data for two volcanic units from the Hayes River Group provide identical ages of 2852 ± 1.5 Ma, whereas a turbidite of this group contains a detrital zircon population with ages between 2858 and 2847 Ma. Younger intrusive events include the emplacement of tonalite in the southern batholith at 2825 ± 2 Ma and the Whiteway Island gabbro at 2807 ± 1 Ma. A wacke at the base of the Island Lake Group is dominated by detrital zircon grains yielding ages between 2830 and 2821 Ma, the latter defining a maximum age of sedimentation. A relatively early time of deposition of the lower stratigraphic sections of the Island Lake Group is also supported by an age of 2744 ± 2 Ma obtained for a crosscutting tonalite. By contrast, two turbidite horizons from higher stratigraphic levels of the Island Lake Group contain detrital zircon populations with ages mostly younger than 2730 Ma, the youngest zircon grains providing maximum ages of sedimentation at 2722 and 2712 Ma, respectively. Our results confirm the protracted evolution of the greenstone belt and show in particular that major sedimentary processes were active throughout the main stages of volcanism of the belt. This pattern of protracted sedimentation is comparable to that observed in other greenstone belts of the northwestern Superior Province, all of which developed on pre-Kenoran crust.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Álvaro, J. Javier, and Marie-Madeleine Blanc-Valleron. "Stratigraphic and structural framework of the Neoproterozoic Paracuellos Group, Iberian Chains, NE Spain." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 173, no. 3 (May 1, 2002): 219–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/173.3.219.

Full text
Abstract:
Abstract The Neoproterozoic Paracuellos Group of the Iberian Chains constitutes the core of two disconnected faulted blocks, named the Paracuellos and Codos antiforms. Precise lithostratigraphic correlations between both areas are not possible due to the structural complexity and because marker beds do not persist laterally. This paper presents a crustal cross-section of the Neoproterozoic axial core (the Paracuellos antiform) based on surface geology, boreholes and seismic reflection profiles. Seismic reflection data reveal that the basement was directly involved by a major Hercynian structure, named here the Paracuellos fault, which splits longitudinally the Paracuellos axial core. In seismic profiles this fault occurs as a northeasterly-dipping reflector (60–70° steep), evidencing a bivergent geometry of the lateral crustal elements. The sedimentary evolution of the Neoproterozoic Iberian platform ranges from transgressive, non-cyclic, offshore to hemipelagic, black and green shales (Sestrica Formation) to progradational trends recording shoaling during episodes of rapid sediment influx (Saviñán Formation), presumably in response to a low standing sea-level. The siliciclastic succession is punctuated in the inner platform by deposition of phosphatic limestones (Codos Bed), representing a major shoaling event and demarcating a sharp regional change of sedimentation separating two similar siliciclastic tendencies. A diagenetically induced bedded chert (Frasno Bed) occurs in the outer platform, and is interpreted as being the product of at least two silicification episodes. Both the Codos and Frasno Beds are overlain by the Aluenda Formation, which exhibits nearshore to offshore features. An important sedimentary discontinuity appears across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition. The Cambrian(?) Bámbola Formation is paraconformable with the Paracuellos Group displaying a gradual transition in inner platform areas, whereas an erosive unconformity occurs in outer areas. The horizon of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian boundary is not identified in the Iberian Chains, where neither Cadomian deformation nor discordances are recognisable.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Mitchell, Ross N., Uwe Kirscher, Marcus Kunzmann, Yebo Liu, and Grant M. Cox. "Gulf of Nuna: Astrochronologic correlation of a Mesoproterozoic oceanic euxinic event." Geology 49, no. 1 (August 25, 2020): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g47587.1.

Full text
Abstract:
Abstract The ca. 1.4 Ga Velkerri and Xiamaling Formations, in Australia and the north China craton, respectively, are both carbonaceous shale deposits that record a prominent euxinic interval and were intruded by ca. 1.3 Ga dolerite sills. These similarities raise the possibility that these two units correlate, which would suggest the occurrence of widespread euxinia, organic carbon burial, and source rock deposition. Paleomagnetic data are consistent with Australia and the north China craton being neighbors in the supercontinent Nuna and thus permit deposition in a single large basin, and the putative stratigraphic correlation. However, lack of geochronological data has precluded definitive testing. The Xiamaling Formation has been shown to exhibit depositional control by orbital cycles. Here, we tested the putative correlation with the Velkerri Formation by cyclostratigraphic analysis. The Velkerri Formation exhibits sedimentological cycles that can be interpreted to represent the entire hierarchy of orbital cycles, according to a sedimentation rate that is consistent with Re-Os ages. Comparison of the inferred durations of the euxinic intervals preserved in both the Xiamaling and Velkerri Formations reveals a nearly identical ∼10-m.y.-long oceanic euxinic event. This permits the interpretation that the two hydrocarbon-rich units were deposited and matured in the same basin of Nuna, similar to the Gulf of Mexico during the breakup of Pangea.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
More sources

Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic"

1

Liu, Qunling. "Post mid-Cretaceous sequence stratigraphy and depositional history of northeastern Gulf of Mexico /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Smith, Jason J. "A reinterpretation of the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the upper Silurian-lower Devonian Manlius Formation in upstate New York." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

Stukins, Stephen. "Spatial and temporal palynological trends in marginal marine depositional system : Lajas Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=167073.

Full text
Abstract:
In order to better understand the relationship of tidally dominated depositional environments and their palynological assemblages, the Middle Jurassic sediments of the Lajas Formation, Neuquén Basin were examined. The ambition was to present models and trends which can be used for studies of other such deposits. In order to integrate the palynoassemblages with the environment of deposition, additional granulometric data and nutrient data from XRF analysis were used in combination with the palynology. A new method using correspondence analysis was used for understanding the palaeoecology and floral dynamics. An updated, dynamic model for the Middle Jurassic floral palaeoecology of the Neuquén Basin has been presented and the drivers of floral succession are interpreted as disturbance tolerance and substrate water content. Taphonomic expressions of seral groupings show that later seral stage community palynomorphs are preferentially deposited within or close to distributary systems, whereas earlier seral stage palynomorphs are preferentially deposited in environments of greater accommodation space, such as bayfills. Taphonomic signatures, using palaeoecological groupings provide trends in low (4th/5th) order cycles and lateral variations relating to tidal channels and surrounding bayfill mudstones. A model for 4th/5th order boundaries is also presented using new interpretations of the distribution of pinaceous pollen and microforaminiferal test linings. Using Canonical Correspondence Ananlysis (CCA), a model is presented of depositional environments incorporating palynological data and granulometric proxies for grain size and grain sorting. The relationship between sediment processes in a tidal flat dominated palaeoenvironment and the hydrodynamic properties of some palynomorphs is investigated and presented. The weathering and nutrient status of the substrates throughout the Lajas Formation is presented using XRF proxy data. The proxies are also used with CCA to create nutrient related floral groupings. When plotted stratigraphically, these show cycles of eutrophication and subsequent weathering of the substrates.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

Hamlin, Herbert Scott. "Syn-orogenic slope and basin depositional systems, Ozona sandstone, Val Verde Basin, southwest Texas /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

Alexander, Alan John. "Palynological, stratigraphic and chemical analyses of sediments in the Lothians with particular reference to the Lateglacial." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10626.

Full text
Abstract:
Palynological and stratigraphic investigations have been conducted on sediment cores for three sites in Lothian Region, Scotland: Balgone House, Broxmouth and Corstorphine. All phases of the Lateglacial period, as far as they are manifested in the Lothians at the sites studied, have been investigated with particular reference to the Younger Dryas, the main Interstadial, or Allerod, and also the evidence for the colder conditions that preceded it which are presumed to represent Older Dryas-type vegetation. Further light has been cast on the development of the Postglacial broad - leaved forests. The Cambridge computer program POLLDATA MKV was used to perform the necessary calculations and controlled a graph plotter to generate pollen diagrams. A series of subroutines is described that translated the calls to the Cambridge graphics subroutine library. This may serve as a model for other installations. Objective numerical zonation methods are applied to the pollen data. These methods are used not only to zone the pollen series but also to aid in the generation of hypotheses regarding vegetation changes. Chemical analyses of the sediments from Balgone House were undertaken. The results obtained are at variance with those from published work and it is proposed that the reason is that the chemical pre-treatment of samples employed locally may be less efficient in leaching the cations from the mineral fraction.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

Hill, Robert E. (Robert Einar). "Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Middle Proterozoic Waterton and Altyn Formations, Belt-Purcell Supergroup, southwest Alberta." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63330.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

Hines, Frederick Michael. "The sedimentation, tectonics and stratigraphy of the cretaceous/tertiary sequence of northwest Santander, northern Spain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1d1f8c32-9fd3-44a5-ba6a-d963fa9868c0.

Full text
Abstract:
The facies evolution of the Cretaceous/Tertiary sequence of NW Santander is considered in relation to the Cretaceous rifting and drifting, and Tertiary partial closure of the Bay of Biscay. Overlying the Palaeozoic basement are the fluvial Lower Triassic Buntersandstone and Upper Triassic Keuper evaporitic mudstone, deposited in a failed rift, extensional basin. Overlying Lower Jurassic carbonates are the syn-rift, continental elastics of the Vealden deposited in halfgrabens cut by transfer faults. The Vealden consists of two formations:- the lower, arenaceous-rich Barcena Mayor Fm. (braided stream environment) and the upper, argillaceous-rich Vega de Pas Fm. (meandering river). Overlying it is the Aptian Umbrera Fm. (calcarenite sheet), the Patrocinio Fm. (shoaling-up ward sandstone/marl alternation), the San Esteban Fm. (requienid/foraminiferal biomicrite of the internal platform) and the marls of the Rodezas Fm. The Upper Aptian Reocin Fm. is a requienid/foraminiferal biomicrite with thinned calcarenites deposited over active, diapiric palaeohighs. After initial marine and then equant calcite (meteoric phreatic) cementation, invasion of meteoric-derived groundwater over palaeohighs generated lenses of sucrosic dolomite in the Reocin Fm. Local mixing of further groundwater and Keuper-derived, sulphate-rich waters in karstic caverns precipitated sparry, baroque dolomite and Pb/Zn sulphides (by bacterial sulphate reduction). The clastic Lower Albian is a transgressive fluvial/estuarine/inner shelf sequence with tidal estuarine channels and sandwaves. The Middle/Upper Albian (syn-drift) has basal calcarenitic tidal sandwaves and is followed by storm/wave-reworked carbonates deposited on a homoclinal ramp. The clastic Lower Cenomanian is an estuarine/inner shelf deposit with tidal sandwaves and sandbars. The Middle/Upper Cenomanian is a storm/tide-dominated calcarenite. Outer shelf marls occur in the Turonian to Middle Campanian and the Upper Campanian to Middle Eocene is a sandy, foraminiferal inner shelf limestone. The Upper Eocene/Oligocene (syn-compression) is a carbonate slope-apron-reefal flysch deposit. It includes hemipelagic marl, neritic-derived calcarenitic turbidites and rudaceous mass flow deposits with highly polymict conglomerates. These were deposited coevally with Keuper piercement and thrust reactivation and date the Pyrenean compressional deformation here.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Sinclair, Hugh D. "The North Helvetic Flysch of eastern Switzerland : Foreland Basin architecture and modelling." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0e83a6d2-cf51-4dd3-b4bb-523a1d28fc90.

Full text
Abstract:
The North Alpine Foreland Basin (NAFB) comprises sediments of late Eocene to middle Miocene age. The earliest deposits are the North Helvetic Flysch which are exposed in the regions of Glarus and Graubunden, eastern Switzerland. The Taveyannaz sandstones are the first thrust wedge (southerly) derived sediments of the North Helvetic Flysch. The Taveyannaz basin was divided into two sub-basins by a thrust ramp palaeohigh running ENE/WSW (parallel to the thrust front). Palaeocurrent directions were trench parallel towards the ENE. Sedimentation in the Inner basin (140m thick) is characterised by very thick bedded turbidite sands generated by thrust induced seismic events confined within the thrust-top basin. The Outer basin (240m min. thickness) comprises 10-15 sand packages (5-100m thick) formed by turbidite sands which are commonly amalgamated. Sedimentation in the Outer basin is considered to have been controlled by thrust-induced relative sea-level variations. The Inner basin underwent intense deformation at the sediment/water interface prior to the emplacement of a mud sheet over the basin whilst the sediments were partially lithified. Later tectonic deformation involved fold and thrust structures detaching in the underlying Globigerina marls. The stratigraphy of the NAFB can be considered as two shallowing upward megasequences separated by the base Burdigalian unconformity. This stratigraphy can be simulated by computer by simplifying the foreland basin/thrust wedge system into 4 parameters: 1) the effective elastic thickness of the foreland plate, 2) a transport coefficient to describe the erosion, transport and deposition of sediment, 3) the surface slope angle of the thrust wedge, 4) the thrust wedge advance rate. The Alpine thrust wedge underwent thickening during the underplating of the External Massifs at about 24-18Ma. This event is simulated numerically by slowing the thrust wedge advance rate, and increasing the slope angle and keeping all other parameters constant. This event causes rejuvenation of the forebulge, and erosion of the underlying stratigraphy, so simulating the base Burdigalian unconformity without recourse to eustasy or anelastic rheologies to the foreland plate.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Painter, Clayton S. "The Shannon Sandstone new observations and constraints applied to depositional models /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1799711431&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Kerns, Jessica L. "Contrasting depositional environments of North American black shales illuminated through geochemical techniques and modern analogs /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1421149.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
More sources

Books on the topic "Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic"

1

Michael, Weber. Spätquartäre Sedimentation am Kontinentalrand des südöstlichen Weddellmeeres, Antarktis =: Late Quaternary sedimentation at the continental margin of the southeastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Bremerhaven: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 1992.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Droste, John Brown. Patterns of deposition during the early Pennsylvanian (Morrowan) in the Illinois Basin. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana Geological Survey, Indiana University, 2000.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

Pabian, Roger K. Late Paleozoic cyclic sedimentation in southeastern Nebraska: Field guide. Lincoln: Conservation and Survey Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 1991.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

Blumenstengel, Horst. Revidierte Stratigraphie tertiärer Ablagerungen im südlichen Sachsen-Anhalt =: Revised stratigraphy of tertiary deposits in the southern part of Sachsen-Anhalt. Halle (Salle): Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften und Geiseltalmuseum der Universität Halle, 1996.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

1941-, Thiede Jörn, ed. History of Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediment fluxes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 1985.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

Willemse, Nico W. Arctic natural archives. Utrecht: Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen Universiteit Utrecht, 2000.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

Dahlstrom, David J. Fluvial architecture of the Lower Cretaceous Lakota Formation, southwestern flank of the Black Hills uplift, South Dakota. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. G.P.O., 1995.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Meijer-Drees, N. C. Sedimentology and facies analysis of Devonian rocks, southern District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories, Canada. [Utrecht: Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen der Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 1989.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Boggs, Sam. Principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1995.

Find full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
More sources

Book chapters on the topic "Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic"

1

Collins, D. R., and J. H. Doveton. "Automated Correlation Based On Markov Analysis Of Vertical Successions And Walther's Law." In Computers in Geology - 25 Years of Progress. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195085938.003.0015.

Full text
Abstract:
Walther's Law of Facies (1894) states that facies overlying one another comformably were formed in geographically contiguous environments. This vertical-lateral linkage is the basis for our automated method of stratigraphic correlation. The probabilities of vertical adjacency of different lithologies are estimated by embedded Markov chain analysis of sequences to be correlated. These probabilities are transformed to dissimilarities and used as elements within a dynamic programming sequence comparison. Trajectory tracking of cumulative thicknesses between the two sequences provides an auxiliary criterion to incorporate factors of sedimentation rate and compaction. Stratigraphic correlation is simultaneously simple and complex. The operation is fundamentally one of pattern recognition, whose principles can be grasped easily by any geology student. One source of complexity is caused by the fact that most successions are composed of a relatively small number of distinctive rock types. Within each succession, they are ordered as a linear chain in which loosely repetitive sequences are often perceived as "cycles" or "rhythms." As a result, the correlation between two adjacent successions may be ambiguous, so that several competing alternatives may be equally valid candidates for the "true" correlation. The situation is made still more disma! by the knowledge that erosional events may have removed entire stratigraphic segments and that periods of non-deposition may have caused gaps. In the opinion of Ager (1973), the gap is more important than the record. Even if a "complete" lithology record were available, it is unlikely that the successions in two separate locations would be identical. Lateral facies changes result in differences of lithology within correlative intervals. Equivalence or "similarity" of rock type is not the only criterion used in correlation. Thicknesses are a secondary source of information for correlation decisions. Similarity in thickness of equivalent lithologies between successions often implies a greater likelihood of their correlation. However, exceptions to this rule commonly are observed in the lateral thinnings and thickenings caused by both lateral facies changes and differential compaction. The simpler aspects of correlation suggest that practical automated correlation procedures are both feasible and desirable. Even if programmed decisions cannot be characterized absolutely as "objective," they can at least be made consistent.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
You might also be interested in the extended bibliographies on the topic 'Tsunamis Sedimentation and deposition Geology Geology, Stratigraphic' for particular source types:
Journal articles Dissertations / Theses Books
We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!

To the bibliography