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  • ...hofacies and environmental analysis of clastic depositional systems#Deltas|deltas]], [[Lithofacies and environmental analysis of clastic depositional systems
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  • ...[evaporite]] [[Sabkha|flats]].<ref name=Coleman_1976>Coleman, J. M., 1976, Deltas: Processes of deposition and models for exploration: Continuing Education P ...ctively [[Depocenter#Sediment_supply_rate_and_facies_patterns|prograding]] deltas have at least one common feature--a river supplies clastic sediment to the
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  • Deltas are major sites of sand and mud deposition. They contain significant volume ...particularly the larger ones, dump very large quantities of sediment into deltas on top of an unstable substrate containing mobile salt and/or shale. Salt [
    34 KB (4,776 words) - 18:18, 5 January 2024
  • ...e [[Lithofacies_and_environmental_analysis_of_clastic_depositional_systems#Deltas|deltaic fan]] formed during a relative [[Sea_level_cycle_phase_and_systems_
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  • ...bay]]s, [[bay fill]]s ([[crevasse splay]]s), [[marsh]]es, and [[swamp]]s. Deltas having an extremely high tidal range and an arid climate are often characte One of the major facies associated with many deltas is the large areal extent of bay fills or crevasses that break off of main
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  • ** Fan deltas ** Lake deltas
    38 KB (5,198 words) - 22:11, 15 January 2024
  • ...of underlying units. A downlap surface is common at the base of prograding deltas and the top of submarine fans.
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  • | Lagoonal sandstone bodies (washover fans and flood-tidal deltas) can be wholly or partially enclosed in [[mudstone]] || || Can form discre ...storms pitch sand over the barrier bar into the lagoonal area. Flood-tidal deltas develop as a result of the tidal movement of sand through an inlet into the
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  • ..., [[Well_log_sequence_analysis#Parasequence_stacking_patterns|prograding]] deltas, carbonate platform deposits, or evaporites. In ''shallow-water or nonmarin
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  • ...y drained system. Vertically drained systems are generally found in rifts, deltas, wrenches, and [[overthrust]] provinces where migration is controlled by fa
    7 KB (1,083 words) - 21:59, 25 January 2022
  • ** Slope-perched deltas and submarine fans are deposited.
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  • ...nd sea water in the absence of tides: in Problems of the humid tropic zone deltas and their implications: UNESCO, Proc. Dacca Symp., p. 175-180.</ref> Wright ...the most common type of vertical sequence within many deltaic deposits. In deltas debouching into macro- or high-tidal ranges and into narrow, elongate basin
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  • ...letns/1984-85/data/pg/0069/0001/0050/0077.htm Late Quaternary shelf-margin deltas, northwest Gulf of Mexico]: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 69, p. 77–91.</ref> They
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  • ...coastal and desert environments); Shoreline ( beaches, barrier bars, tidal deltas and similar deposits formed in coastal areas);Glacial(sandy materials in ti ...coastal and desert environments); Shoreline ( beaches, barrier bars, tidal deltas and similar deposits formed in coastal areas);Glacial(sandy materials in ti
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  • ...may consist of basinal sand-prone mounds (basin-floor fans) and shelf-edge deltas. The transgressive phase is usually dominated by regional [[mudstones]]. Th
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  • 24 KB (3,528 words) - 22:50, 8 January 2019
  • ...n of bedding correlation, inL. Giosan, and J. P. Bhattacharya, eds., River deltas—Concepts, models and examples: SEPM Special Publication 83, p. 31–47.</ ...of depositional events, and temporal relationship with adjacent shelf-edge deltas, in J. B. Anderson, and R. H. Fillon, eds., Late Quaternary stratigraphic e
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  • ...r [[Lithofacies and environmental analysis of clastic depositional systems#Deltas|fluviodeltaic sequences]] ([[:file:geological-heterogeneities_fig3.png|Figu
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  • ...figure number|5|}}Diagrammatic cross sections of depositional units within deltas. (A) Delta Concept of Gilbert<ref>Gilbert, G. K., 1885, The topographic fea
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  • | Passive boundaries (deltas)
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