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 …

[HTML][HTML] The negative relief of large river floodplains

J Lewin, PJ Ashworth - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Large floodplains have multiple and complex negative relief assemblages in which
depressions fall below local or general floodplain surfaces at a variety of scales. The …

Splitting rivers at their seams: bifurcations and avulsion

MG Kleinhans, RI Ferguson, SN Lane… - … surface processes and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
River bifurcations are critical but poorly understood elements of many geomorphological
systems. They are integral elements of alluvial fans, braided rivers, fluvial lowland plains …

Physics‐based modeling of large braided sand‐bed rivers: Bar pattern formation, dynamics, and sensitivity

F Schuurman, WA Marra… - Journal of geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Braided rivers have complicated and dynamic bar patterns, which are challenging to fully
understand and to predict both qualitatively and quantitatively. Linear theory ignores …

Bar dynamics and bifurcation evolution in a modelled braided sand‐bed river

F Schuurman, MG Kleinhans - Earth surface processes and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Morphodynamics in sand‐bed braided rivers are associated with simultaneous evolution of
mid‐channel bars and channels on the braidplain. Bifurcations around mid‐channel bars …

Numerical simulation of bar and island morphodynamics in anabranching megarivers

AP Nicholas, PJ Ashworth… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Bar and island morphodynamics in the world's largest anabranching rivers are investigated
using a new numerical model of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, bank erosion, and …

Along-strike diachroneity in deposition of the Kailas Formation in central southern Tibet: Implications for Indian slab dynamics

R Leary, DA Orme, AK Laskowski… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Oligocene–Miocene Kailas Formation is exposed along strike for∼ 1300 km
within the southernmost Lhasa terrane. In this study, we documented the sedimentology …

砂质辫状河储集层构型表征——以大港油区羊三木油田馆陶组为例

陈玉琨, 吴胜和, 毛平, 周福双, 董亚南, 任燕飞 - 新疆石油地质, 2012 - zgxjpg.com
随着对辫状河储集层构型的研究深入到心滩坝内部夹层级次, 对控制夹层形态的心滩坝的表征愈
发引起重视. 以露头和现代沉积为指导, 以羊三木油田的井网资料为例, 依据层次分析的思路 …

Evolution of river planforms downstream of dams: Effect of dam construction or earlier human‐induced changes?

M Słowik, J Dezső, A Marciniak, G Tóth… - Earth Surface …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
When studying the evolution of landscape, it is difficult to discriminate the influence of
anthropogenic from natural causes, or recognise changes caused by different sources of …

The lithofacies organization of fluvial channel deposits: a meta-analysis of modern rivers

L Colombera, NP Mountney - Sedimentary Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental interpretations of subsurface fluvial successions are commonly based on
facies observations from core and are often attempted by generalist geologists by reference …