Distinguishing between debris flows and hyperconcentrated flows an example from the eastern Swiss Alps Nancy C. Calhoun1,2 and John J. Clague1 1 Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada 2 Oregon Department of Geology Mineral Industries, 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 965, Portland, OR 97232, USA If you are interested in our products, consult now to get a more favorable price;
Consulting productsIts subunits are 3.1.1 Basal pebble and gravel 0-68 m Massive conglomerate beds few cm to 1 m thick containing quartite, shale, sandstone and carbonate clasts derived directly from the Mesooic bedrocks, which is best exposed on the Tetang village section
View AllPredominantly massive to well-bedded tuffaceous marine siltstone with interbedded arkosic and basaltic sandstone. Includes conglomerate in King County and along north side of Olympic Peninsula. Minor lava flows and breccia in western Lewis County and eastern Grays Harbor County. Coal seams in central Lewis County and north-central Pierce County
View AllGlacimarine processes affect about 20 of the global ocean today, and this area expanded considerably under cyclical full-glacial conditions during the Quaternary Fig. 1 Dowdeswell et al. 2016 b . Many of the submarine landforms produced at the base and margin of past ice sheets remain well preserved on the seafloor in fjords and on high-latitude continental shelves after the retreat of
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View AllThis paper reports on geoarchaeological work conducted at the site of Isturit during the 1996-1997 and the 2000-2005 excavations. The study of geomorphological context and sedimentary deposits both outside and inside the karstic block permit the main evolutionary phases to be described.The karstic system comprises three stepped levels, which are linked to downcutting stages of the Arberoue
View All2017-10-12initiate as ank failures and leave diamictic deposits. Clay-poor lahars also called non-cohesive lahars, generally consisting of gravel- and sand-sied clasts, originate as water oods that entrain material. Flood waters leading to the formation of clay-poor lahars have been produced during lake breakout Pierson, 1999 Pringle
View All2020-5-1older outwash gravel containing a paleosol and related to a minor glaciation. 2. Lacustrine sediments from the last interglacial MIS 5e, based on pollen analysis and luminescence dating. Underlain by delta fore-sets. 3. Discordance. 4. Laminated lacustrine deposits and top-sets in form of an aquatic till. Glaciolacustrine and lacustrine fore
View AllTurn left onto gravel road. 56.3 90.5 Turn right and proceed through Weyerhaueser gate 54. 63.6 102.4 Turn left onto Mud Mountain Dam Road. 64.3 103.5 Turn left into gravel parking area and park. On foot, follow trail south out of parking area. After 100 m the trail will meet a gravel road. Follow the road past two metal gates and down
View All2018-1-6Gba 1981 described massive gravel with horion-tally bedded cobbles. These sediments form topset relics in the western sandpit Text-fig. 6. It rep-resents a classical Gilbert-type delta type B accord-ing to the Postma 1990 classification. The facies described from
View AllIn LF-A4b, massive and conglomeratic rocks of LF 10, LF 11.1, LF 12.4, and LF 13.2.2 alternate with finer-grained siliciclastic deposits of LF 7.1 and LF 8.2. In addition, massive siltstones LF 3.1 are locally present. Massive sandstone laterally passes into 3-D trough cross-bedded sandstones and the base of the coarse units is mostly erosional
View AllZamostya location of the profiles in Fig. 1C 1 massive gravel lithofacies Gm, 2 diamictic sandy gravel filling a large-scale trough lithofacies GSDe, 3 horiontally stratified sand lithofacies Sh, 4 ripple cross-laminated sand lithofacies Sr, 5 mean
View AllAbstract. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet discharges into the Weddell Sea via the Coats Land ice margin. We have used geophysical data to determine the changing ice-sheet configuration in this region through its last glacial advance and Holocene retreat and to identify constraints on its future stability. Methods included high-resolution multibeam bathymetry, sub-bottom profiles, seismic
View All2013-3-21tion up to 450500 m thick is composed of massive diamictites separated by a member of sandstones and shales with dropstones. Its basal part includes basic volcanics, dolomites, dolomitied limestones, and shales locally, sandstones, gravel, and slump breccias are observable. The Koiva Formation 250600 m
View AllGS sandy gravel SG gravelly sand S sand SGD diamictic gravelly sand SG alternating sand and mud pebbles FS sandy silt S silt Table 2 Lithofacies code - structure codes by Miall, 1978 with modifications by Zieliski, 1995 Code Sedimentary structures m massive structure h horiontal stratification w wavy lamination r ripple cross-lamination
View AllMost of the gravel is 1.3 to 2.5 cm 0.5-1.0 in in diameter, but pieces as long as 10 cm 4 in are present. The gravel is composed of quart with small amounts of black chert and quartite. Clay commonly occurs as discrete, thin, discontinuous beds, is dark gray where unweathered, white or red where weathered
View AllCore JM0586GC consists of black homogenous mud on top of unsorted gravel in a matrix of dark, sandy mud devoid of foraminifera and macrofauna. The lower unit is interpreted as a diamict in core NP0586GC and as a mixture of diamictic and glacimarine deposits in cores JM1010GC, JM1012GC, and HH121209GC
View All2019-9-25boiarnistego GC ang. cobble coarse-grained gravel. Evans 1991 kolei pryj asad, e ostatnia, maa litera symbolu litofacji scegowo okrela uiarnienie w danej klasie frakcyjnej, np. Smc piasek masywny gruboiarni-sty ang. massive coarse
View All2020-3-28Bonadu gravel is 65 m thick and fines upward from massive sandy cobble gravel at its base to silty sand at its top. Sedimentologic and geomorphic evidence indicates that the liquefied sediment was transported as a hyperconcentated flow, possibly above a basal carpet of coarse diamictic sediment that behaved as a debris flow
View All2017-8-29ORIGINAL ARTICLE The glacial history of the southern Svartenhuk Halv, West Greenland Timothy P. Lane1 David H. Roberts2 Colm O Cofaigh2 Andreas Vieli3 Steven G. Moreton4 Received 16 September 2015Accepted 21 October 2015
View AllBoth lithofacies contain diamictic sandy-clayey gravels, usually massive to crudely bedded, which fill narrow and relatively shallow erosional channels forming palaeochan- nel-like bodies. The lithofacies Gmsb contains addition ally several large boulders, with diameter up to 1.8 m, and
View AllUnit 4 is a clayey, silty massive diamicton that ranges in thickness from a few dm up to 1.5 m Figs. 6, 8. It contains shell fragments and occasional whole shells, as well as gravel clasts 15 cm scattered throughout the unit. A clast-rich horion occurs in the lower part
View All2019-11-27The first stop through a SW-NE orientated drumlin contained massive diamicts and intercalated deformed sorted sand and occasional gravel units. The deformation structures exposed in the northern flank of this drumlin, most notably folds, dip to the S, SW and SE, i.e. parallel to its axis
View All2017-8-13The coarse material gravel, gravel and pebbles with sand, which forms most of the exposed sequence, is underlain by thinly laminated sandy sediments, which make up the lowermost part of the exposed sections
View AllDiamictic organic-rich clasts Shape irregular, lath-shaped, rip-up, angular to sub-rounded Distribution chaotic distribution Sie particle sie varies from granule to cobble A complete range from gravel to clay, poorly sorted, massive In-situ or a close distance Bottom part ORC-2 Floating organic-rich clasts
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