Coarse-Grained Deltas

This Special Publication contains most of the contributions presented at the 1st International Workshop on Fan Deltas (1988) but also contains additional papers which make this particular volume a very well-rounded reference source for the advanced undergraduate/graduate student and the professional earth scientist concerned with sedimentology and petroleum geology. The papers describe the sedimentology and tectonic setting of this important depositional environment. Course-grained deltas, ranging from sand to gravelly, are fully covered and the main focus is on steep-face systems whose steep subaqueous slopes are dominated by high-energy processes. The volume includes case histories from around the world and throughout the book there is emphasis on the subaqueous realm of the delta face, its sedimentary processes and facies associations

This Special Publication contains most of the contributions presented at the 1st International Workshop on Fan Deltas (1988) but also contains additional papers which make this particular volume a very well-rounded reference source for the advanced undergraduate/graduate student and the professional earth scientist concerned with sedimentology and petroleum geology. The papers describe the sedimentology and tectonic setting of this important depositional environment. Course-grained deltas, ranging from sand to gravelly, are fully covered and the main focus is on steep-face systems whose steep subaqueous slopes are dominated by high-energy processes. The volume includes case histories from around the world and throughout the book there is emphasis on the subaqueous realm of the delta face, its sedimentary processes and facies associations

General considerations.Deltas - remarks on terminology and classification.Depositional architecture and facies of river and fan deltas: asynthesis.Aspects of sediment movement on steep delta slopes.The underwater development of Holocene fan deltas.Fan-delta facies associations in late Neogene and Quaternarybasins of southeastern Spain.Tectonic controls on course-grained delta depositional systemsin rift basins.Pleistocene fan deltas in southeastern Iberian peninsula:sedimentary controls and sea-level changes.Modern alluvial deltas.Morphology and sedimentology of an emergent fjord-headGilbert-type delta: Alta delta, Norway.Morphology and sedimentary processes on the subaqueous NoeickRiver delta, British Columbia, Canada.Ancient alluvial deltas - effects of tectonics.Fan-delta sequences in the Pleistocene and Holocene BurdurBasin, Turkey: the role of basin-margin configuration in sedimententrapment and differential facies development.Stacked Gilbert-type deltas in the marine pull-apart basin ofAbaran, late Serravallian-early Tortonian, southeastern Spain.Transverse and longitudinal Gilbert-type deltas, TertiaryCoalmont Formation, North Park Basin, Colorado, USA.The Miocene Chunbuk Formation, southeastern Korea: marineGilbert-type fan-delta system.Sequence analysis of a marine Gilbert-type delta, La MielAlbian Lunada Formation of northern Spain.Ancient alluvial deltas - effects of varying climate andwater level.Climatically triggered Gilbert-type lacustrine fan deltas, theDead Sea area, Israel.Pleistocene glacial fan deltas in southern Ontario, Canada.Diurnally and seasonally controlled sedimentation on aglaciolacustrine foreset slope: an example from the Pleistocene ofeastern Poland.Wave-dominated Gilbert-type gravel deltas in the hinterland ofthe Gulf of Taranto (Pleistocene, southern Italy).Non-alluvial deltas.Lava-fed Gilbert-type delta in the Polonez Cove Formation (LowerOligocene), King George Island, West Antarctica.