Preprints

Facies architecture of submarine channel deposits on the western Niger Delta slope: Implications for grain-size and density stratification in turbidity currents

Zane Richards Jobe, Zoltan Sylvester, Michele Bolla-Pittaluga, Alessandro Frascati, Carlos Pirmez, Daniel Minisini, Nick C Howes, Alessandro Cantelli

Published: 2018-01-29
Subjects: Earth Sciences, Geology, Geomorphology, Mathematics, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, Other Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy

High-resolution bathymetry, seismic reflection, and piston core data from a submarine channel on the western Niger Delta slope demonstrate that thick, coarse-grained, amalgamated sands in the channel thalweg/axis transition to thin, fine-grained, bedded sands and muds in the channel margin. Radiocarbon ages indicate that axis and margin deposits are coeval. Core data show that bed thickness, [...]