Paleovalley systems: insights from Quaternary analogs and experiments

M Blum, J Martin, K Milliken, M Garvin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Ancient fluvial valley systems are long recognized as important features in the stratigraphic
record, but emerged as a specific focus of attention with publication of first-generation …

Fluvial facies models: recent developments

JS Bridge - 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent development of fluvial facies models has been due to improved description of
natural river and floodplain processes and deposits using:(1) ground-penetrating radar …

Interpreting the dimensions of ancient fluvial channel bars, channels, and channel belts from wireline-logs and cores

JS Bridge, RS Tye - AAPG bulletin, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A primary objective in exploration for and development of fluvial reservoirs is determining
the thickness and width of sandstone-conglomerate bodies (mainly channel-belt deposits) …

A quantitative, three‐dimensional depositional model of gravelly braided rivers

IA Lunt, JS Bridge, RS Tye - Sedimentology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
A quantitative, three‐dimensional depositional model of gravelly, braided rivers has been
developed based largely on the deposits of the Sagavanirktok River in northern Alaska …

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 …

Downstream-migrating fluvial point bars in the rock record

M Ghinassi, A Ielpi, M Aldinucci, M Fustic - Sedimentary Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Classical models developed for ancient fluvial point bars are based on the assumption that
meander bends invariably increase their radius as meander-bend apices migrate in a …

Ground‐penetrating radar and coring used to study the large‐scale structure of point‐bar deposits in three dimensions

JS Bridge, JAN Alexander, REL Collier… - …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Detailed three‐dimensional (3‐D) observations of sandy point‐bar deposits
from the River South Esk in Scotland were made using very closely spaced (metres) …

Reconstructing fluvial macroform architecture from two-dimensional outcrops; examples from the Castlegate Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Utah

AD Miall - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1994 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Castlegate Sandstone is part of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-
Maastrichtian) Mesaverde Group, a clastic wedge that prograded eastward from the Sevier …

Geometry, lithofacies, and spatial distribution of Cretaceous fluvial sandstone bodies, San Jorge Basin, Argentina: outcrop analog for the hydrocarbon-bearing Chubut …

JS Bridge, GA Jalfin… - Journal of …, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fluvial deposits of the Cretaceous Chubut Group, San Jorge Basin, Argentina, were studied
in outcrop to provide analogs for adjacent subsurface hydrocarbon-bearing strata. Outcrops …

Three-dimensional connectivity of point-bar deposits

BJ Willis, H Tang - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The geometry of heterogeneities within fluvial channel-belt deposits is predicted using an
existing model of flow and sediment transport in river channel-meander bends. The thickest …