DYNAMIC STRATIGRAPHY WORKGROUP

People:

Anjali Fernandes, David Mohrig, Andrew Petter, Ron Steel

Research question(s):

Do the thick channel deposits represent turbidites filling an erosional container or do they represent deposits accumulating within aggrading levees?

What can the distribution of channel margin facies and channel plugging facies tell us about the temporal and spatial evolution of the channel system?

What styles of sedimentation characterize “bypass surfaces”?

 

 

Paleo-hydraulics of the upper slope turbidite channels of the Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas

Summary of work:

LiDAR data, available through the JSG, will be used to assess large-scale stratigraphic geometries and will be combined with both detailed sedimentary logs defining the internal stratigraphy of channels and selective grain-size sampling to build a model describing the sediment bypass and filling phases for the upper-slope channels of the Brushy Canyon Formation exposed along the western face of the Guadalupe Mountains.

Upper slope turbidite channels of the Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas. (dip direction is into the photograph)

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