EP023
Submarine Fans: Turbidity Current Morphodynamics, their Deposits, and Impacts on Global Climate Change
Session ID#: 161325
Session Description:
Submarine fans form on continental slopes and abyssal plains in deepwater settings and are the ultimate sinks in sediment routing systems. They are crafted by turbidity currents, which arguably move more sediment on Earth than any other transport process and their deposits preserve the thickest accumulations of sediment on Earth. The surface dynamics that result in the formation of these fans influence the fidelity of climate change records housed in their strata, the frequency and severity of geohazards that threaten subsea infrastructures, voluminous geofluid reservoirs, management of marine litter such as microplastics, and burial of particulate organic carbon. We invite contributions that explore submarine fan morphodynamics through observations of the modern seafloor, preserved deposits imaged in outcrop or seismic, and/or that utilize numerical or geological models, and physical experiments.
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Index Terms:
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4863 Sedimentation [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Primary Convener: Abdul Wahab, Tulane University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States
Conveners: Mrugesh Shringarpure1, David C J D Hoyal1 and Andrew J Moodie2, (1)ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX, United States(2)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Abdul Wahab, Tulane University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States
Active faulting suppresses bedform development on a (supercritical) deep-water fan (1058748)
Vittorio Maselli, Dalhousie University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Halifax, NS, Canada, Aaron Micallef, University of Malta, Msida, Malta, Alexandre Normandeau, Davide Oppo, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, David Iacopini, The University of Naples Federico II, DISTAR, Naples, Italy, Andrew Green, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Geological Sciences, Durban, South Africa and Zhiyuan Ge, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China
Salt-influenced Morphodynamics: the Coevolution of Turbidity Currents, their Deposits and Mobile Substratum (1060113)
Xinggang Christopher Liu, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, David C Mohrig, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States and James L Buttles, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, United States
How Fast Do Submarine Fans Grow? Insights From The Quaternary Golo Fans, Offshore Corsica (Invited) (1062143)
Michael Sweet, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, Gwladys Gaillot, APA Corporation, Houston, United States, Tammy M Rittenour, Utah State University, Department of Geosciences, Logan, UT, United States and Michael D Blum, The University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
Inferring optimal input parameters for a process-based deep-water siliciclastic sedimentary system model of East Breaks, GOM (1126158)
Andrew J Moodie1, Abdul Wahab2, David C J D Hoyal3, Mrugesh Shringarpure3 and Kyle M Straub4, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (2)Tulane University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States, (3)ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States
Quantifying Turbidity Current Recirculation Cells in Ponded Minibasins: Influence of Turbidity Current Influx and Topographic Aspect Ratios (1131951)
Kevin Reece, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States, Robert Dorrell, University of Hull, Energy and Environmental Institute, Hull, United Kingdom and Kyle M Straub, Tulane University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States
Inverse Analysis of Turbidites from the Anno Formation, Chiba, Japan Using a DNN Model (1143416)
Zhirong Cai, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Hajime Naruse, Kyoto University, Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyoto, Japan and Yoshiro Ishihara, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
