Architecture analysis of a river flood-dominated delta during an overall sea-level rise (early Pliocene, SE Spain)
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Título: | Architecture analysis of a river flood-dominated delta during an overall sea-level rise (early Pliocene, SE Spain) |
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Autor/es: | García García, Fernando | Corbí, Hugo | Soria Mingorance, Jesús Miguel | Viseras Alarcón, César |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Cambios Paleoambientales |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente | Universidad de Jaén. Departamento de Geología | Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología |
Palabras clave: | Hyperpycnal turbidity flows | Climbing ripples | Shallow-water delta | River-flood deposits | Climate signature |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Estratigrafía |
Fecha de creación: | 2011 |
Fecha de publicación: | mar-2011 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | GARCÍA GARCÍA, Fernando, et al. "Architecture analysis of a river flood-dominated delta during an overall sea-level rise (early Pliocene, SE Spain)". Sedimentary Geology. Vol. 237, Issues 1-2 (15 May 2011). ISSN 0037-0738, pp. 102-113 |
Resumen: | The sedimentary record of delta-front to prodelta transition that developed during the early Pliocene (Bajo Segura Basin, peri-Mediterranean Betic Cordillera Basin) represents an unusual infilling of an incised valley cutting downwards into late Messinian pelagic marls. The complete delta succession, less than 65 m thick, consists of four upwardly fining and thinning sequences several metres thick. Each sequence consists of basal conglomeratic and coarse-grained sandstone beds (delta-front deposits) evolving upwards to alternating sandstones and silty-marl beds (prodelta deposits). The retrogradational stratal succession pattern is interpreted as having been deposited during an overall sea-level rise. Facies association is characterised by quasi- to planar-laminated sandstones and pebbly sandstones alternating with clast-supported boulders to pebbles, sheet-like climbing cross-laminated sandstones with abundant plant remains, and epsilon cross-stratified and channelized gravels and sandstones. These are interpreted as having been deposited by highly concentrated flows interpreted as hyperpycnal turbidity flows from high (cohesionless debris flows and sinuous submarine channels) to moderate (sheet-like climbing cross-laminated sandstones) discharge river-flood events. Slabs of sediment from unstable banks, outsized clasts which roll onto thin beds from channel mouths, slumps and intraformational breccias in delta front are other signatures (including a lack of bored clasts) which indicate high-energy and rapid deposition at the river mouth, encouraging the delta-front gravitational instability failures. Major changes in the discharge of the river-fed delta could have been caused by brief catastrophic, heavy-precipitation events coupled with quasi-stationary convective orographic rainfall typical of the modern Mediterranean. |
Patrocinador/es: | This research was supported by projects CGL2009-07830/BTE, CGL2009-05768-E/BTE, CGL2007-65832/BTE and CGL2005-06224/BTE and financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC), the European Found of Regional Development (FEDER), and Research Groups RNM-200 and RNM-369 of the Junta de Andalucía. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/17747 |
ISSN: | 0037-0738 (Print) | 1879-0968 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.02.010 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.02.010 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - CP - Artículos de Revistas |
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