Shelf-Edge delta regime as a predictor of deep-Water deposition

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 681-687

  Dixon, J F ^a   Stee, R J ^a   Olariu, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; SAND; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BASINWARD TRANSPORT; CLINOFORMS; DEEP WATER; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SAND TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT FLUX; SHELF EDGES;

SEA LEVEL;

DEEP WATER; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; OUTCROP; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF BREAK;

EID: 84867461038     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2012.59     Document Type: Review

References (57)

1. BABONNEAU, N., SAVOYE, B., CREMER, M., AND KLEIN, B., 2002, Morphology and architecture of the present canyon and channel system of the Zaire deep-sea fan: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 19, p. 445-467. (Pubitemid 34850548)
2. BANFIELD, L.A., AND ANDERSON, J.B., 2004, Late Quaternary evolution of the Rio Grande delta, in Anderson, J.B., and Fillon, R.H., eds., Late Quaternary Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin: SEPM, Special Publication 79, p. 289-306.
3. BHATTACHARYA, J.P., AND GIOSAN, L., 2003, Wave-influenced deltas: Geomorphological implications for facies reconstruction: Sedimentology, v. 50, p. 187-210. (Pubitemid 36300301)
4. BHATTACHARYA, J.P., AND WALKER, R.G., 1992, Deltas, in Walker, R.G., and James, N.P., eds., Facies Models; Response to Sea Level Change: Geological Association of Canada, p. 157-177.
5. BOYD, R., RUMING, K., GOODWIN, I., SANDSTROM, M., AND SCHRÖDER-ADAMS, C., 2008, Highstand transport of coastal sand to the deep ocean: A case study from Fraser Island, southeast Australia: Geology, v. 36, p. 15-18.
6. BULLIMORE, S., HENRIKSEN, S., LIESTOL, F.M., AND HELLAND-HANSEN, W., 2005, Clinoform stacking patterns, shelf-edge trajectories and facies associations in Tertiary coastal deltas, offshore Norway: Implications for the prediction of lithology in prograding systems: Norwegian Journal of Geology, v. 85, p. 169-87. (Pubitemid 44153669)
7. BURGESS, P.M., AND HOVIUS, N., 1998, Rates of delta progradation during highstands: Consequences for timing of deposition in deep-marine systems: Geological Society of London, Journal, v. 155, p. 217-222. (Pubitemid 128552212)
8. CARVAJAL, C., AND STEEL, R.S., 2006, Thick turbidite successions from supplydominated shelves during sea-level highstand: Geology, v. 34, p. 665-668.
9. CARVAJAL, C., AND STEEL, R., 2009, Shelf-edge architecture and bypass of sand to deep water: Influence of shelf-edge processes, sea level and sediment supply: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 79, p. 652-672.
10. CARVAJAL, C., STEEL, R., AND PETTER, A., 2009, Sediment supply: The main driver of shelf-margin growth: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 96, p. 221-248.
11. COLEMAN, J.M., AND WRIGHT, L.D., 1975, Modern river deltas: Variability of processes and sand bodies, in Broussard, M.L., ed., Deltas, Models for Exploration: Houston, Texas, Houston Geological Society, p. 99-149.
12. COVAULT, J.A., AND GRAHAM, S.A., 2010, Submarine fans at all sea-level stands: Tectonomorphologic and climatic controls on terrigenous sediment delivery to the deep sea: Geology, v. 38, p. 939-942.
13. COVAULT, J.A., NORMARK, W.R., ROMANS, B.W., AND GRAHAM, S.A., 2007, Highstand fans in the California borderland: The overlooked deep-water depositional systems: Geology, v. 35, p. 783-786. (Pubitemid 47433777)
14. CRABAUGH, J.P., AND STEEL, R.J., 2004, Basin-floor fans of the Central Tertiary Basin, Spitsbergen: Relationship of basin-floor sand-bodies to prograding clinoforms in a structurally active basin, in Lomas, S.A., and Joseph, P., eds., Confined Turbidite Systems: Geological Society of London, Special Publication 222, p. 187-228.
15. CUMMINGS, D.I., ARNOTT, R.C.W., AND HART, B.S., 2006, Tidal signatures in a shelfmargin delta: Geology, v. 34, p. 249-252.
16. DAVIS, R.A., AND HAYES, M.O., 1984, What is a wave-dominated coast?: Marine Geology, v. 60, p. 313-329.
17. DEIBERT, J.E., BENDA, T., LOSETH, T., SCHELLPEPER, M., AND STEEL, R., 2003, Eocene clinoform growth in front of a storm-wave-dominated shelf Central Basin Spitsbergen: No significant sand delivery to deepwater areas: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 546-558.
18. DIXON, J.F., STEEL, R.J., AND OLARIU, C., 2012, River-dominated, shelf-edge deltas: Delivery of sand across the shelf break in the absence of slope incision: Sedimentology, v. 59, p. 1133-1157.
19. FLEMING, R.H., AND REVELLE, R., 1939, Physical Processes in the Ocean, in Trask, P.D., ed., Recent Marine Sediments: Tulsa, Oklahoma, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 48-141.
20. FOUFOULA-GEORGIOU, E., HOLM, G., AND TWILLEY, R., 2010, Flood risk reduction with wetland restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Gilbert F. White National Flood Policy Forum, 2010 Assembly, Washington D.C., p. 95-98.
21. GALLOWAY, W.E., 1975, Process framework for describing the morphologic and stratigraphic evolution of deltaic depositional systems, in Brousard, M.L., ed., Deltas, Models for Exploration: Houston, Texas, Houston Geological Society, p. 87-98.
22. GALLOWAY, W.E., 2001, Cenozoic evolution of sediment accumulation in deltaic and shore-zone depositional systems, northern Gulf of Mexico Basin: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 18, p. 1031-1040. (Pubitemid 34102786)
23. HELLAND-HANSEN, W., AND HAMPSON, G.J., 2009, Trajectory analysis; concepts and applications: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 454-483.
24. HUBBARD, S.M., FILDANI, A., ROMANS, B.W., COVAULT, J.A., AND MCHARGUE, T.R., 2010, High-relief slope clinoform development: Insights from outcrop, Magallanes Basin, Chile: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 80, p. 357-375.
25. ICHASO, A.A., AND DALRYMPLE, R.W., 2009, Tidal and wave-generated fluid-mud deposits in the Tilje Formation (Jurassic), offshore Norway: Geology, v. 37, p. 539- 542.
26. JOHANNESSEN, E.P., AND STEEL, R.J., 2005, Clinoforms and their exploration significance for deepwater sands: Basin Research, v. 17, p. 521-550. (Pubitemid 43904619)
27. LI, W., BHATTACHARYA, J.P., AND WANG, Y., 2011, Delta asymmetry: Concepts, characteristics, and depositional models: Petroleum Geoscience, v. 8, p. 278-289.
28. MACEACHERN, J.A., BANN, K.L., BHATTACHARYA, J.P., AND HOWELL, C.D., 2005, Ichnology of deltas: Organism responses to the dynamic interplay of rivers, waves, storms, and tides, in Giosan, L., and Bhattacharya, J.P., eds., River Deltas: Concepts, Models, and Examples: SEPM, Special Publication 83, p. 49-85.
29. MAYALL, M.J., YEILDING, C.A., OLDROYD, J.D., PULHAM, A.J., AND SAKURAI, S., 1992, Facies in a shelf-edge delta an example from the subsurface of the Gulf of Mexico, Middle Pliocene, Mississippi Canyon, Block 109: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 76, p. 435-448.
30. MELLERE, D., PLINK-BJÖRKLUND, P., AND STEEL, R., 2002, Anatomy of shelf-edge deltas on a prograding Eocene shelf margin, Spitsbergen: Sedimentology, v. 49, p. 1101- 1206.
31. MELLERE, D., BREDA, A., AND STEEL, R.J., 2003, Fluvially-incised shelf-edge deltas and linkage to upper-slope channels (Central Tertiary Basin, Spitsbergen), in Roberts, H.H., Rosen, N.C., Fillon, R.H., and Anderson, J.B., Shelf-Margin Deltas and Linked Downslope Petroleum Systems; Global Significance and Future Exploration Potential: Gulf Coast Section, SEPM Foundation, 23rd Annual Research Conference, Houston, Texas, p. 231-266.
32. MULDER, T., AND SYVITSKI, J.P.M., 1995, Turbidity currents generated at river mouth during exceptional discharges to the worlds oceans: Journal of Geology, v. 103, p. 285-299.
33. NAKAJIMA, T., 2006, Hyperpycnites deposited 700 km away from river mouths in the Central Japan Sea: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 60-73. (Pubitemid 43355706)
34. NORMARK, W.R., AND PIPER, D.J.W., 1991, Initiation processes and flow evolution of turbidity currents: Implications for the depositional record, in Osborne, R.H., ed., From Shoreline to Abyss: Contributions in Marine Geology in Honor of Francis Parker Shepard: SEPM, Special Publication 46, p. 207-230.
35. OLARIU C., STEEL, R.J., AND PETTER, A.L., 2010, Delta-front hyperpycnal bed geometry and implications for reservoir modeling: Cretaceous Panther Tongue Delta, Utah: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 94, p. 819-845.
36. OLARIU, M.I., CARVAJAL, R.C., OLARIU C., AND STEEL, R.J., in press, Process and architectural evolution during deltaic cross-shelf transits, Maastrichtian Fox Hills Deltas, Washakie Basin, Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin.
37. PEROV, G., AND BHATTACHARYA J.P., 2011, Pleistocene shelf-margin delta: Intradeltaic deformation and sediment bypass, northern Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 95, p. 1617-1641.
38. PETTER, A.L., 2010, Stratigraphic implications of the spatial and temporal variability in sediment transport in rivers, deltas, and shelf margins [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]: The University of Texas at Austin, 218 p.
39. PETTER, A., AND STEEL, R.J., 2006, Hyperpycnal flow variability and slope organization on an Eocene shelf margin, Central Basin, Spitsbergen: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 90, p. 1451-1472. (Pubitemid 44613832)
40. PLINK-BJÖRKLUND, P., AND STEEL, R.J., 2002, Sea-level fall below the shelf edge, without basin-floor fans: Geology, v. 30, p. 115-118. (Pubitemid 35003302)
41. PLINK-BJÖRKLUND, P., AND STEEL, R.J., 2004, Initiation of turbidity currents: Outcrop evidence for Eocene hyperpycnal flow turbidites: Sedimentary Geology, v. 165, p. 29- 52. (Pubitemid 38306281)
42. PLINK-BJÖRKLUND, P., AND STEEL, R.J., 2006, Incised valleys on an Eocene coastal plain and shelf, Spitsbergen - part of a linked shelf-slope system, in Dalrymple, R.W., Leckie, D.A., and Tillmann, R.W., eds., Incised valleys in time and space: SEPM, Special Publication 85, p. 281-308.
43. PLINK-BJÖRKLUND, P., MELLERE, D., AND STEEL, R.J., 2001, Architecture and turbidite variability of sandprone deepwater slopes: Eocene clinoforms in the central basin of Svalbard: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 71, p. 895-913.
44. POSAMENTIER, H.W., AND VAIL, P.R., 1988, Eustatic controls on clastic deposition: II. Sequence and systems tract models, in Wilgus, C.K., Hastings, B.S., Kendall, S.G.St.C., Posamentier, H.W., Ross, C.A., and Van Wagoner, J.C., eds., Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach: SEPM, Special Publication 42, p. 125-154.
45. REYNAUD, J.Y., AND DALRYMPLE, R.W., 2011, Shallow-marine tidal deposits, Chapter 13, in Davis, S., and Dalrymple, R.W., eds., Principles of Tidal Sedimentation: Springer, Berlin, p. 335-369.
46. ROTHWELL, R.G., KENYON, N.H., AND MCGREGOR, B.A., 1991, Sedimentary features of the South Texas continental slope as revealed by side-scan sonar and high-resolution seismic data: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 75, p. 298- 312.
47. RYAN, M., HELLAND-HANSEN, W., JOHANNESSEN, E.P., AND STEEL, R.J., 2009, Erosional vs accretionary shelf margins: The influence of margin type on deepwater sedimentation - an example from the Porcupine Basin, offshore western Ireland, in Henriksen, S., Hampson, G.J., Helland-Hansen, W., Johannessen, E.P., and Steel, R.J., Trajectory Analysis in Stratigraphy: Basin Research, v. 21, p. 676-703.
48. STEEL, R.J., AND OLSEN, T., 2002, Clinoforms, clinoform trajectories and deep water sands, in Armentrout, J.M., and Rosen, N.C., eds., Sequence Stratigraphic Models for Exploration and Production: Evolving Methodology, Emerging Models and Application Histories: Gulf Coast Section, SEPM Foundation, 22nd Research Conference, CD-ROM, p. 367-380.
49. STEEL, R.J., AND PLINK-BJÖRKLUND, P., 2007, Type II shelf margin, Hogstyna, Norway, in Nilsen, T.H., Shew, R.D., Steffans, G.F., and Studlick, J.R., eds., Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology 56, p. 282-286.
50. STEEL, R.J., CARVAJAL, C., PETTER, A., AND UROZA, C., 2008, Shelf and shelf-margin growth in scenarios of rising and falling sea level, in Hampson, G.J., Steel, R.J., Burgess, P.M., and Dalrymple, R.W., eds., Recent Advances in Models of Siliciclastic Shallow-Marine Stratigraphy: SEPM, Special Publication 90, p. 47-71.
51. SYDOW, J., AND ROBERTS, H.H., 1994, Stratigraphic framework of a late Pleistocene shelf-edge delta, northeast Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 78, p. 1276-1312.
52. SYLVESTER, Z., DEPTUCK, M.E., PRATHER, B.E., PIRMEZ, C., AND O'BYRNE, C., 2012, Seismic stratigraphy of a shelf-edge delta and linked submarine channels in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, in Prather, B.E., Deptuck, M.E., Mohrig, D., Van Hoorn, B., and Wynn, R.B., eds., Application of the Principles of Seismic Geomorphology to Continental-Slope and Base-of-Slope Systems: Case Studies from Seafloor and Near-Seafloor Analogues: SEPM, Special Publication 99, p. 31-59.
53. UROZA, C.A., AND STEEL, R.J., 2008, A highstand shelf-margin delta system from the Eocene of West Spitsbergen, Norway: Sedimentary Geology, v. 203, p. 229-245.
54. VAN WAGONER, J.C., POSAMENTIER, H.W., MITCHUM, R.M., JR., 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., Ross, C.A., Posamentier, H., Van Wagoner, J., and Kendall, C.G.St.C., eds., Sea Level Changes: An Integrated Approach: SEPM, Special Publication 42, p. 39-45.
55. WETZEL, A., 1993, The transfer of river load to deep-sea fans: A quantitative approach: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin, v. 77, p. 1679-1692. (Pubitemid 24395895)
56. WILLIS, B., 2005, Deposits of tide-influenced river deltas, in Giosan, L., and Bhattacharya, J.P., eds., River Deltas: Concepts, Models and Examples: SEPM, Special Publication 83, p. 87-129.
57. WRIGHT, L.D., YANG, Z.-S., BORNHOLD, B.D., KELLER, G.H., PRIOR, D.B., AND WISENAM, W.J., JR., 1986, Hyperpycnal plumes and plume fronts over the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta front: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 6, p. 97-105.