Coarse-Grained Deltas

Copyright © 1990 The International Association of Sedimentologists

Coarse-Grained Deltas

Editor(s): Albina Colella, David B. Prior

Published Online: 2 APR 2009

Print ISBN: 9780632028948

Online ISBN: 9781444303858

DOI: 10.1002/9781444303858

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This Special Publication contains most of the contributions presented at the 1st International Workshop on Fan Deltas (1988) but also contains additional papers which make this particular volume a very well-rounded reference source for the advanced undergraduate/graduate student and the professional earth scientist concerned with sedimentology and petroleum geology. The papers describe the sedimentology and tectonic setting of this important depositional environment. Course-grained deltas, ranging from sand to gravelly, are fully covered and the main focus is on steep-face systems whose steep subaqueous slopes are dominated by high-energy processes. The volume includes case histories from around the world and throughout the book there is emphasis on the subaqueous realm of the delta face, its sedimentary processes and facies associations

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–x)

  2. General Considerations

    1. Deltas — Remarks on Terminology and Classification (pages 1–12)

      W. Nemec

    2. Depositional Architecture and Facies of River and Fan Deltas: A Synthesis (pages 13–27)

      G. Postma

    3. Aspects of Sediment Movement on Steep Delta Slopes (pages 29–73)

      W. Nemec

    4. The Underwater Development of Holocene Fan Deltas (pages 75–90)

      D. B. Prior and B. D. Bornhold

    5. Fan-Delta Facies Associations in Late Neogene and Quaternary Basins of Southeastern Spain (pages 91–111)

      C. J. Dabrio

    6. Tectonic Controls on Coarse-Grained Delta Depositional Systems in Rift Basins (pages 113–127)

      R. L. Gawthorpe and A. Colella

    7. Pleistocene Fan Deltas in Southeastern Iberian Peninsula: Sedimentary Controls and Sea-Level Changes (pages 129–151)

      T. Bardaji, C. J. Dabrio, J. L. Goy, L. Somoza and C. Zazo

  3. Modern Alluvial Deltas

    1. Morphology and Sedimentology of an Emergent Fjord-Head Gilbert-Type Delta: Alta Delta, Norway (pages 153–168)

      G. D. Corner, E. Nordahl, K. Munch-Ellingsen and K. R. Robertsen

    2. Morphology and Sedimentary Processes on the Subaqueous Noeick River Delta, British Columbia, Canada (pages 169–181)

      B. D. Bornhold and D. B. Prior

  4. Ancient Alluvial Deltas — Effects of Tectonics

    1. Fan-Delta Sequences in the Pleistocene and Holocene Burdur Basin, Turkey: The Role of Basin-Margin Configuration in Sediment Entrapment and Differential Facies Development (pages 183–198)

      N. Kazanci

    2. Stacked Gilbert-Type Deltas in the Marine Pull-Apart Basin of Abarán, Late Serravallian—Early Tortonian, Southeastern Spain (pages 199–222)

      H. C. van der Straaten

    3. Transverse and Longitudinal Gilbert-Type Deltas, Tertiary Coalmont Formation, North Park Basin, Colorado, USA (pages 223–233)

      R. M. Flores

    4. The Miocene Chunbuk Formation, Southeastern Korea: Marine Gilbert-Type Fan-Delta System (pages 235–254)

      I. G. Hwang and S. K. Chough

    5. Sequence Analysis of a Marine Gilbert-Type Delta, La Miel, Albian Lunada Formation of Northern Spain (pages 255–269)

      J. García-Mondéjar

  5. Ancient Alluvial Deltas — Effects of Varying Climate and Water Level

    1. Climatically Triggered Gilbert-Type Lacustrine Fan Deltas, the Dead Sea Area, Israel (pages 271–280)

      D. Bowman

    2. Pleistocene Glacial Fan Deltas in Southern Ontario, Canada (pages 281–295)

      I. P. Martini

    3. Diurnally and Seasonally Controlled Sedimentation on a Glaciolacustrine Foreset Slope: An Example from the Pleistocene of Eastern Poland (pages 297–309)

      K. Mastalerz

    4. Wave-Dominated Gilbert-Type Gravel Deltas in the Hinterland of the Gulf of Taranto (Pleistocene, Southern Italy) (pages 311–331)

      F. Massari and G. C. Parea

  6. Non-Alluvial Deltas

    1. Lava-Fed Gilbert-Type Delta in the Polonez Cove Formation (Lower Oligocene), King George Island, West Antarctica (pages 333–351)

      S. J. Porȩbski and R. Gradziński

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      Index (pages 353–357)

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