The role of discharge variability in the formation and preservation of alluvial sediment bodies

CR Fielding, J Alexander, JP Allen - Sedimentary Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Extant, planform-based facies models for alluvial deposits are not fully fit for purpose,
because they over-emphasise plan form whereas there is little in the alluvial rock record that …

Morphodynamics of rivers strongly affected by monsoon precipitation: review of depositional style and forcing factors

P Plink-Björklund - Sedimentary Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Rivers that receive significant amounts of their surface water supply from monsoon
precipitation characteristically experience seasonal floods, and display seasonally highly …

Morphodynamics and sedimentary structures of bedforms under supercritical‐flow conditions: new insights from flume experiments

MJB Cartigny, D Ventra, G Postma… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Supercritical‐flow phenomena are fairly common in modern sedimentary environments, yet
their recognition and analysis remain difficult in the stratigraphic record. This fact is …

Fluvial response to abrupt global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary

BZ Foreman, PL Heller, MT Clementz - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Climate strongly affects the production of sediment from mountain catchments as well as its
transport and deposition within adjacent sedimentary basins,,. However, identifying climatic …

[HTML][HTML] Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: a geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

NS Davies, AG Liu, MR Gibling, RF Miller - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The rock record contains a rich variety of sedimentary surface textures on siliciclastic
sandstone, siltstone and mudstone bedding planes. In recent years, an increasing number …

Facies and architectural element analysis of a meandering fluvial succession: The Permian Warchha Sandstone, Salt Range, Pakistan

S Ghazi, NP Mountney - Sedimentary Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
The 30 to 155 m thick Early Permian (Artinskian) Warchha Sandstone of the Salt Range,
Pakistan is a conglomerate, sandstone and claystone succession within which seven …

Planform architecture, stratigraphic signature and morphodynamics of an exhumed Jurassic meander plain (Scalby Formation, Yorkshire, UK)

A Ielpi, M Ghinassi - Sedimentology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Modern fluvial meander plains exhibit complex planform transformations in response to
meander‐bend expansion, downstream migration and rotation. These transformations exert …

Lateral and vertical facies relationships of bedforms deposited by aggrading supercritical flows: from cyclic steps to humpback dunes

J Lang, J Winsemann - Sedimentary Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
The preservation of bedforms related to supercritical flows and hydraulic jumps is commonly
considered to be rare in the geologic record, although these bedforms are known from a …

The geomorphology and sedimentology of the Tista megafan, Darjeeling Himalaya: implications for megafan building processes

T Chakraborty, P Ghosh - Geomorphology, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper reports a study of the Tista megafan in the foothills of Darjeeling Himalaya.
Spread over parts of India and Bangladesh, the megafan is bounded by the Mahananda …

[PDF][PDF] Diagnostic sedimentary structures of the fluvial-tidal transition zone-Evidence from deposits of the Rhine and Meuse

JH Van den Berg, JR Boersma… - Netherlands Journal of …, 2007 - researchgate.net
In mesotidal settings the transition of a coastal plain estuary to the river is marked by the
change of a multiple ebb and flood channel configuration to a single channel system. At high …