Forced regressions and lowstand deltas: Holocene Canadian examples

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 820-829

  Hart, B S ^a   Long, B F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; EROSION; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES;

BASIN PHYSIOGRAPHY; CHANNEL MIGRATION; FORCED REGRESSION; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL PROCESS; SUBMARINE CHANNEL;

SEA LEVEL;

DELTA; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0030469639     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. AINSWORTH, R.B., AND PATTISON, S.A.J., 1994, Where have all the lowstands gone? Evidence for attached lowstand systems tracts in the Western Interior of North America: Geology, v. 22, p. 415-118.
2. CATALIOTTI-VALDINA, D., AND LONG, B.F., 1984, Evolution estuairienne d'une rivière régularisée en climat sub-boréal: la rivière aux Outardes (Côte Nord du golfe du St-Laurent, Québec): Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 21, p. 25-34.
3. CLAGUE, J.J., LUTERNAUER, J.L., PULLAN, S.E., AND HUNTER, J.A., 1991, Postglacial deltaic sediments, southern Fraser River delta, British Columbia: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 28, p. 1385-1393.
4. DREDGE, L.A., AND COWAN, W.R., 1989, Quaternary geology of the southwestern Canadian Shield. Lithostatic record on the Ontario Shield, in Fulton, R.J., ed., Quaternary Geology of Canada and Greenland: Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada, no. 1, Chapter 3, p. 235-249.
5. DUBOIS, J.M.-M, 1980, Géomorphologie du littoral de la Côte Nord du St. Laurent, in McCann, S.B., ed., The Coastlines of Canada: Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 80-10, p. 215-238.
6. HABBANE, M., 1991, Mise en place en bas niveau marin d'un placer sur le delta externe de la rivière Moisie [unpublished M.Sc. thesis]: Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada, 206 p.
7. HART, B.S., 1987, The evolution of the Outardes River estuary [unpublished M.Sc. thesis]: Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada, 194 p.
8. HART, B.S., 1993, Large scale in situ rotational failure on a low angle delta slope: the Foreslope Hills, Fraser Delta, British Columbia, Canada: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 13, p. 219-226.
9. HART, B.S., AND LONG, B.F., 1990a, Storm deposits from the Quaternary Outardes delta, Quebec, Canada: Sedimentary Geology, v. 67, p. 1-5.
10. HART, B.S., AND LONG, B.F., 1990b, Recent evolution of the Outardes Estuary, Quebec, Canada: consequences of dam construction on the river Sedimentology, v. 37, p. 495-507.
11. HART, B.S., BARRIE, J.V., CHRISTIAN, H.A., HAMILTON, T.S., DAVIS, A.M., AND LAW, L.K., 1993, Marine geological, geophysical and geotechnical investigations of the submarine parts of the Fraser Delta: implications for submarine failures, in Canadian Coastal Conference, 4-7 May, Vancouver, Canada, Proceedings: Coastal Zone Engineering Program, National Research Council, Ottawa, p. 851-865.
12. HART, B.S., HAMILTON, T.S., PRIOR, D.B., AND BARRIE, J.V., 1995, Seismic stratigraphy and sedimentary framework of a deep water Holocene delta: the Fraser Delta, Canada, in Oti, M.N., and Postma, G., eds., The Geology of Deltas: Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema, p. 167-178.
13. HART, B.S., PRIOR, D.B., BARRIE, J.V., CURRIE, R.A., AND LUTERNAUER, J.L., 1992, A river mouth submarine landslide and channel complex, Fraser Delta, Canada: Sedimentary Geology, v. 81, p. 73-87.
14. HEIN, F.J., SYVITSKI, J.P.M., DREDGE, L.A., AND LONG, B.F., 1993, Quaternary sedimentation and marine placers along North Shore, Gulf of St. Lawrence: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 30, p. 553-574.
15. HUNT, D., AND TUCKER, M.E., 1995, Stranded parasequences and the forced regressive wedge systems tract: deposition during base-level fall - Reply: Sedimentary Geology, v. 95, p. 147-160.
16. JOL, H.M., AND ROBERTS, M.C., 1992, The seismic facies of a tidally influenced Holocene delta: Boundary Bay, Fraser River delta, B.C.: Sedimentary Geology, v. 77, p. 173-183.
17. KOUTITONSKY, V.G., LONG, B., LEFAIVRE, D., AND SALA, M., 1991, The influence of hydrodynamical processes on sediment transport in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence: Continental Shelf Research, v. 11, p. 1209-1221.
18. LONG, B.F., AND PARCHURE, T.M., 1992, Analyse et synthèse des observations hydrosédimentologiques, 1990 et 1991, baie de Rupert: Hydro-Québec Report, DAC-1991-RAC-338, 371 p.
19. LONG, B.F., SALA, M., DURAND, J., AND MICHALD, L., 1989, Géométrie d'un lobe deltaique en contexte régressif: Centres de Recherche Exploration-Production Elf-Aquitaine, Bulletin, v. 13, 189-213.
20. MCLEAN, D.G., AND TASSONE, B.L., 1991, A sediment budget for the Lower Fraser River: unpublished Environment Canada Report, 8 p.
21. MICHAUD, L., 1990, Structure d'un lobe deltaique en milieu regressif [unpublished M.Sc. thesis]: Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada, 209 p.
22. MITCHUM, R.M., JR., AND VAN WAGONER, J.C., 1991, High frequency sequences and their stacking patterns: sequence-stratigraphic evidence of rush-frequency eustatic cycles: Sedimentary Geology, v. 70, 131-160.
23. MONAHAN, P.A., LUTERNAUER, J.L., AND BARRIE, J.V., 1994, A delta plain sheet sand in the Fraser River delta, British Columbia, Canada: Quaternary International, v. 20, p. 27-38.
24. MORTON, R.A., AND SUTER, J.R., in press, Sequence stratigraphy and composition of late Quaternary shelf-margin deltas, Northern Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.
25. PLINT, A.G., 1988, Sharp-based shoreface sequences and "offshore bars" in the Cardium Formation of Alberta: Their relationship to relative changes in sea level, in Wilgus, C.K., Hastings, B.S., Posamentier, H.W., Van Wagoner, J.C., Ross, C.A., and Kendall, C.G.St.C., eds., Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach: SEPM Special Publication 42, p. 357-370.
26. POSAMENTIER, H.W., AND ALLEN, G.P., 1993, Variability of the sequence stratigraphic model: effects of local basin factors: Sedimentary Geology, v. 86, p. 91-109.
27. POSAMENTIER, H.W., ALLEN, G.P., AND JAMES, D.P., 1992a, High resolution sequence stratigraphy - the East Coulee Delta: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 62, p. 310-317.
28. POSAMENTIER, H.W., ALLEN, G.P., JAMES, D.P., AND TESSON, M., 1992b, Forced regressions in a sequence stratigraphic framework: concepts, examples and exploration significance: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 76, p. 1687-1709.
29. QUINLAN, G., AND BEUMONT, C., 1982, The deglaciation of Atlantic Canada as reconstructed from the post-glacial relative sea level record: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 19, p. 2232-2246.
30. SALA, M., 1991, Structure et nature des corps sédimentaires formés en regime post-glaciaire dans le domaine sous-marin du delta Holocene de la Natashquan (Golfe du St. Laurent, Canada) [unpublished D.Sc. thesis]: Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France, 161 p.
31. SALA, M., AND LONG, B.F., 1989, Evolution des structures deltaiques du delta de la riviere Natashquan, Quebec: Géographie Physique et Quaternaire, v. 43, p. 311-323.
32. SUTER, J.R., AND BERRYHILL, H.L., JR., 1985, Late Quaternary shelf-margin deltas, northwest Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 69, p.77-91.
33. SYVITSKI, J.P.M., AND PRAEG, D.B., 1989, Quaternary sedimentation in the St. Lawrence estuary and adjoining areas, eastern Canada: an overview based on high resolution seismo-stratigraphy: Géographie Physique et Quaternaire, v. 43, p. 291-310.
34. VAN WAGONER, J.C., POSAMENTIER, H.W, MITCHUM, R.M., VAIL, P.R., SARG, J.F., LOUTIT, T.S., AND HARDENBOL, J., 1988, An overview of the fundamentals of sequence stratigraphy and key definitions, in Wilgus, C.K., Hastings, B.S., Posamentier, H.W., Van Wagoner, J.C., Ross, C.A., and Kendall, C.G.St.C., eds., Sea-level Changes: An Integrated Approach: SEPM Special Publication 42, p. 39-45.
35. WOOD, L.F., ETHRIDGE, F.G., AND SCHUMM, S.A., 1993, The effects of rate of base-level fluctuation on coastal-plain, shelf and slope depositional systems: an experimental approach, in Posamentier, H.W., Summerhayes, C.P., Haq, B.U., and Allen, G.P., eds., Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Associations: International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication 18, p. 43-53.