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Title

Recent developments in fluvial sedimentology : contributions from the Third International Fluvial Sedimentology Conference / edited by Frank G. Ethridge, Romeo M. Flores, and Michael D. Harvey.

Author

International Fluvial Sedimentology Conference (3rd : 1985 : Colorado State University)

Publication

Tulsa, Okla., USA : Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, c1987.

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Additional Authors

• Ethridge, Frank G.
• Flores, Romeo M.
• Harvey, Michael D.

Description

viii, 389 p : ill., maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Special publication ; no. 39

Uniform Title

Special publication (Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists) no. 39.

Subject

• Facies (Geology) > Congresses
• Geologic Sediments
• River sediments > Congresses
• Sedimentology > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Recent developments in the study of facies models / A. D. Miall -- Toward a better understanding of bedload transport / I. Reid and L. E. Frostick -- Electromagnetic detection of pebble transport in streams : a method for measurement of sediment-transport waves / S. G. Custer ... [et al.] -- Flow dynamics at river channel confluences : implications for sediment transport and bed morphology / J. L. Best -- Location-dependent sediment sorting in bedforms under waning flow in the Rio Grande, Central New Mexico / D. W. Love, A. Gutjahr and S. Robinson-Cook -- A reconnaissance of sedimentation on the Kosi alluvial fan of India / N. A. Wells and J. A. Dorr, Jr. -- Brahmaputra River : channel migration and deposition / C. S. Bristow -- Gravel counterpoint bars : examples from the River Tywi, South Wales / S. A. Smith -- Meandering river point bar lithofacies models : modern and ancient examples compared / D. G. Smith -- Lateral accretion surfaces in ephermeral-stream point bars, Rio Puerco, New Mexico / R. G. Shepherd -- Channel and floodplain facies in a wandering gravel-bed river / J. R. Desloges and M. Church -- Sedimentology and facies architecture of overbank deposits of the Mississippi River, False River Region, Louisiana / K. M. Farrell -- Deltaic depositional processes in a glacier-fed lake : a model for the fluvial/lacustrine interface / J. Bogen -- Large-scale flood deposits associated with the formation of coarse-grained, braided terrace sequences / J. K. Maizels -- Paleohydrology of some Ogallala (Neogene) streams in the Southern Panhandle of Nebraska / R. G. Goodwin and R. F. Diffendal, Jr. -- Vertebrate taphonomy applied to the analysis of ancient fluvial systems / E. H. Koster -- Miocene fluvial facies and vertebrate taphonomy in Northern Pakistan / A. K. Behrensmeyer -- Anatomy of a gravelly meander lobe in the Saskatchewan River near Nipawin, Canada / J. E. Campbell and H. E. Hendry -- Three-dimensional facies geometry in pleistocene outwash sediments, Worcestershire, U. K. / M. R. Dawson and I. D. Bryant -- Coarse-grained low-sinuosity river deposits : examples from plio-Pleistocene : Valdarno Basin, Italy / P. Billi, M. Magi and M. Sagri -- Sedimentology of the White Channel Gravels, Klondike area, Yukon Territory : fluvial deposits of a confined valley / S. R. Morison and F. J. Hein -- Sedimentology of volcanism-induced aggradation in fluvial basins : examples from the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. / G. A. Smith -- Cyclicity and facies characteristics of alluvial sediments in the Monongahela-- Dunkard Groups, Central West Virginia / S. K. Ghosh -- Active tectonic control on alluvial architecture / J. Alexander and M. R. Leeder -- Contrasting architecture of two alluvial suites in different structural settings / M. J. Kraus and L. T. Middleton -- Fluvial response to eocene tectonism, the bridger formation, Southern Wind River Range, Wyoming / P. E. Groll and J. R. Steidtmann -- Structural controls on fluvial distributary systems-- the Luna System, Northern Spain / G. J. Nichols -- Fluvial-sandstone architecture and thrust-induced subsidence, Northern Green River Basin, Wyoming / M. W. Shuster and J. R. Steidtmann -- Evolution of drainage systems in response to acadian deformation : the Devonian Battery Point Formation, Eastern Canada / D. A. Lawrence and B. P. J. Williams -- Evolution of fluvial styles in the Eocene Wasatch Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming / P. D. Warwick and R. M. Flores -- Tectonic control on alluvial paleoarchitecture of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Raton Basin, Colorado and New Mexico / R. M. Flores and C. L. Pillmore -- An application of stratistical modelling to the prediction of hydrocarbon recovery factors in fluvial reservoir sequences / C. R. Fielding and R. C. Crane -- Fluvial sandstone bodies as hydrocarbon reservoirs in Lake Basins / Y. Qui, P. Xue and J. Xiao -- Fluvio-paludal deposits in Lower Kekiktuk Formation (Mississippian), Endiicott Field, Northeast Alaska / J. Melvin -- Numerical simulation of gold distribution in the Witwatersrand Placers / M. Nami and C. S. James -- Facies changes from fluvial conglomerate to braided sandstone of the early Proterozoic Eldorado Formation, Welkom Goldfield, South Africa / C. S. Kingsley.

ISBN

0918985676

OCLC

15742544

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