EP026
Linking Surface Dynamics to Stratigraphic Architecture in Sedimentary Systems

Session ID#: 79569

Session Description:
The stratigraphic record is often used to interpret past surface processes, however the degree to which morphodynamics of the surface are translated into the subsurface remains an active line of research. For example, the lateral and vertical connectivity of channel sand bodies in the subsurface may be constrained by understanding the morphology and kinematics of channels, yet defining metrics to predict one from the other remains challenging.

We welcome submissions from those interested in bridging the gap between surface dynamics and the stratigraphic record to better understand how to predict one from the other, or vice versa. Contributions are encouraged from both subaerial and subaqueous systems on a variety of scales using laboratory-, theoretical-, numerical-, or field-based datasets.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • SEPM: Society for Sedimentary Geology -
Index Terms:

1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1861 Sedimentation [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Elisabeth Steel, Queen's University, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada
Convener:  Sheila M Trampush, University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elisabeth Steel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
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Kate Potter Leary, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Vamsi Ganti, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Linking delta shoreline and foreset-bottomset transition trajectories: Experiment and theory (510787)
Wonsuck Kim, University of Texas, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Emily Reaves, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Shin Haein, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
 
Stratigraphic Configuration of Alluvial-shelf Systems after Experiencing a Large Number of Steady Base-level Cycles: An Autostratigraphic View with 2D Tank Experiments (512987)
Tetsuji Muto, Nagasaki University, Department of Environmental Science, Nagasaki, Japan and Junhui Wang, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), College of Geosciences, Beijing, China
 
Tectonostratigraphy of the Frontier Formation during Sevier and Laramide orogenesis in the greater Green River Basin, Wyoming (516556)
Makayla Jacobs, Houston, Texas, United States, Kurt Rudolph, Rice University, Houston, United States, Joel Saylor, University of British Columbia, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Julia Wellner, University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Thomas J Lapen, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
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Vamsi Ganti, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Kate Potter Leary, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Elizabeth A Hajek, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, Kyle M Straub, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States and Chris Paola, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
Fluvial Kinematics Predict Submarine-Channel Evolution in the Gulf of Mexico (Invited) (540650)
Jacob A Covault, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Zoltan Sylvester, The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, Paul Morris, The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States and Dallas Dunlap, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
 
Stratigraphic architecture of pre-vegetation low-slope rivers revealed by Silurian deposits in NE Brazil (543920)
Liliane Janikian1, Renato Paes Almeida2, Cristano Padalino Galeazzi3 and Larissa Natsumi Tamura3, (1)Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santos, Brazil, (2)USP University of Sao Paulo, Sedimentary and Environmental Geology, São Paulo, Brazil, (3)USP University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Earth Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil
 
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Stephen Michial Hubbard1, Maarten Sjaak Heijnen2, Matthieu Cartigny3, Michael Andrew Clare4, Joris T Eggenhuisen5, Brian Romans6, Benjamin Daniels7, Rebecca Gail Englert7, John E Hughes Clarke8, Cooper Stacey9, Gwyn Lintern10 and Paul Ryan Nesbit11, (1)University of Calgary, Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)National Oceanography Centre, Southampon, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)National Oceanography Centre,, Southampton, Hamps, United Kingdom, (4)University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (6)Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, United States, (7)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (8)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (9)Natural Resources Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, (10)Geological Survey of Canada, Institute of Ocean Science, Sidney, Canada, (11)Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
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Michael S Steckler, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Eric Hutton, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, CO, United States, David Ologan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Gregory E Tucker, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES and Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Céline Grall, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Savas Gurcay, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale, Turkey
 
Large rivers response to base level change and resulting stratigraphic architecture: examples from the Solimões and Amazonas rivers in Brazil (548449)
Renato Paes Almeida1, Larissa Natsumi Tamura2, Cristano Padalino Galeazzi2, Ianniruberto Marco3 and Liliane Janikian4, (1)Inst Geosciences - USP, São Paulo, Brazil, (2)USP University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Earth Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil, (3)UNB University of Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brazil, (4)Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santos, Brazil
 
Long-tailed Sediment Storage Time Distribution from the Meandering Powder River, Montana (549680)
Max Everett Huffman1, Sheila M Trampush2, John A Moody3, James Eugene Pizzuto1, Derek M Schook4 and Harrison J Gray5, (1)University of Delaware, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)USGS, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Dept. of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, United States
 
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Paul Durkin, The University of Manitoba, Department of Geological Sciences, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Zoltan Sylvester, The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States and Stephen Michial Hubbard, University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
A geomorphic enthalpy method to explore the evolution and stratigraphic architecture of fluvial fan deltas under sea-level changes (568953)
Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, Montclair State University, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair, NJ, United States, William Anderson, Montclair State University, Mathematical Sciences, Montclair, NJ, United States and Vaughan R Voller, University of Minnesota, Civil Environmental and Geo- Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States
 
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Xiaoping Yuan1, Jean Braun1, Michael Nirrengarten2, Dr. Sascha Brune1, Geoffroy Mohn3 and Laure Guerit4, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, (3)University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, (4)Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France
 
The Architecture of Alluvial Deposits Provides Key Parameters For Routing Suspended Sediments and Contaminants Through Large Watersheds (583649)
James Eugene Pizzuto, University of Delaware, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Newark, DE, United States
 
Linking surface dynamics to the subsurface record: the effectiveness of overhead imagery in quantifying depositional architecture (597818)
Elisabeth Steel, Queen's University, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada, Chris Paola, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, Jayaram Hariharan, University of Texas Austin, Austin, United States and Zhongyuan Xu, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
 
Lacustrine Geochemistry in the Pantanal Fluvial Megafans – Brazil. (600649)
Ana Soares1, Paulo Cesar Soares2, Leonardo Fadel Cury1, Anelize Bahniuk1, Gustavo Athayde1 and Camila Athayde1, (1)Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, (2)Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
 
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John M. Swartz1, John Goff2, Sean P S Gulick1, Patricia Standring3 and Chris Lowery4, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas Austin, Round Rock, TX, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
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Safiya Alpheus, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Elizabeth A Hajek, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, Ellen P. Chamberlin, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, United States, Evan Greenberg, University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography, Isla Vista, CA, United States, Tramond Baisden, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Koen van Toorenenburg, Shell International Exploration and Production B.V., The Hague, Netherlands and Marinus E Donselaar, Delft University of Technology, Department of Geoscience and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands
 
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Arnold Eatmon, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geoscience, University Park, PA, United States and Elizabeth A Hajek, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
 
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Zhongyuan Xu, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Jayaram Hariharan, University of Texas Austin, Austin, United States, Paola Passalacqua, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Chris Paola, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Elisabeth Steel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States
 
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Zoltan Sylvester, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Paul Durkin, The University of Manitoba, Department of Geological Sciences, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Stephen Michial Hubbard, University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada and David C Mohrig, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
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Eric Alexander Barefoot, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Jeffrey A Nittrouer, Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Gerald R Dickens, Rice Univ, Houston, TX, United States, Brady Foreman, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Elizabeth A Hajek, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States
 
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Cole M. Speed1, Zoltan Sylvester2, Peter P. Flaig2, Paul Durkin3 and Timothy A Goudge1, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (3)The University of Manitoba, Department of Geological Sciences, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
 
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Sheila M Trampush, University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States and James Eugene Pizzuto, Univ Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
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