Geostrophic circulation or shallow marine turbidity currents? The dilemma of paleoflow patterns in strom-influenced prograding shoreline systems

WL Duke - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1990 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In ancient storm-influenced prograding shoreline sequences, sole marks (mainly tool marks)
from hummocky crossstratified storm deposits are commonly oriented normal to …

Is there evidence for geostrophic currents preserved in the sedimentary record of inner to middle-shelf deposits

DA Leckie, LF Krystinik - Journal of Sedimentary …, 1989 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Unidirectional, oscillatory and combined-flow paleocurrent data from many ancient wave-
dominated coastlines indicate that sediment transport was directed offshore at angles of 70 …

Shelf sandstones and hummocky cross-stratification: new insights on a stormy debate

WL Duke, RWC Arnott, RJ Cheel - Geology, 1991 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A new depositional model for hummocky cross-stratified sandstones is based on the
following observations.(1) Storms transport coastal sand to the inner shelf under oscillatory …

Hummocky cross-stratification and megaripples; a geological double standard?

DJP Swift, AG Figueiredo… - Journal of …, 1983 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Hummocky cross-stratification in ancient sedimentary deposits is considered to be
diagnostic of inner shelf storm deposits. Megaripples of 2-5 m spacing are typical responses …

Bypass-zone tempestite facies model and proximality trends for an ancient muddy shoreline and shelf

PM Myrow - Journal of Sedimentary research, 1992 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Member 2 of the late Precambrian to Lower Cambrian Chapel Island Formation of southeast
Newfoundland was primarily deposited in storm-influenced, nearshore and shelf …

Tempestite deposition

PM Myrow, JB Southard - Journal of Sedimentary …, 1996 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A model is developed to explain the wide range of sedimentary structures found in ancient
storm-deposited beds. The model predicts the nature and association of internal …

Modern shallow-water graded sand layers from storm surges, Bering Shelf; a mimic of Bouma sequences and turbidite systems

CH Nelson - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1982 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A sequence of graded sand layers, interbedded with mud, extends offshore over 100 km
from the Yukon Delta shoreline across the flat, shallow (< 20 m depth) epicontinental shelf of …

Submarine channel initiation, filling and maintenance from sea‐floor geomorphology and morphodynamic modelling of cyclic steps

JA Covault, S Kostic, CK Paull, HF Ryan… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in acoustic imaging of submarine canyons and channels have provided accurate
renderings of sea‐floor geomorphology. Still, a fundamental understanding of channel …

Temporal variation in the wavelength of hummocky cross-stratification: Implications for storm intensity through Mesozoic and Cenozoic

M Ito, A Ishigaki, T Nishikawa, T Saito - Geology, 2001 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Hummocky cross-stratification is believed to be one of the diagnostic sedimentary structures
of storm-dominated shallow-marine environments. The wavelength of this stratification …

The role of shelf morphology on storm‐bed variability and stratigraphic architecture, Lower Cretaceous, Svalbard

SA Grundvåg, ME Jelby, S Olaussen… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The dominance of isotropic hummocky cross‐stratification, recording deposition solely by
oscillatory flows, in many ancient storm‐dominated shoreface–shelf successions is …