SEPM Research Symposium I: Transportation, Accumulation, Colonization, and Stratigraphic Organization of Muddy Sediments
Room Palomino D
Co-Chairs: J. Schieber, C. A. Nittrouer, and B. Dalrymple
8:00 -- Introductory Remarks
8:05 -- J. Schieber: The Indiana University Mudflume—Ongoing and Planned Experiments in Mudstone Sedimentology
8:25 -- A. Bartholomae, O. Joerdel, M. Karle, K. Schrottke: Fine-Grained Sediment Transport in Tidally-Influenced Environments—Detection with Optic-Acoustic Devices
8:45 -- T. S. Chang, O. Joerdel, B. Flemming, A. Bartholomae: Distinction Between Sortable Silts and Flocculated Particles in Muddy Intertidal Sediments: The Role of Flocs and Aggregates in Muddy Sediment Turnover
9:05 -- J. M. Rine: Fining-Upward Lithostratigraphy of a Modern Muddy Coastline Deposit from Suriname, South America—a Record of Sea Level Fluctuations and Longshore Mud Transport
9:25 -- J. A. MacEachern, K. L. Bann, C. R. Fielding: Bioturbated Mudstones: Critical Interpretations from Under-Appreciated Facies
9:45 -- Break
10:05 -- R. W. Dalrymple, D. I. Cummings: The Offshore Transport of Mud: Why It Doesn’t Happen and the Stratigraphic Implications
10:25 -- D. I. Cummings, R. W. Dalrymple, R. W. C. (. Arnott: Why Does the Naskapi Mudstone "Blanket" Prograde the Paleo-Shelf Edge Offshore Nova Scotia?
10:45 -- J. P. Bhattacharya, J. A. MacEachern, B. Vakarelov, C. D. Howell, Jr, A. H. Covault: Hyperpycnal Versus Hypopycnal River Plumes and the Origin of Shelf Muds: Examples from the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway, North America
11:05 -- O. R. Lazar, J. Schieber: A Coherent and Genetically-Based Stratigraphic Framework for the New Albany Shale Succession: Methods and Results
11:25 -- C. R. Fielding, S. G. Thomas, T. D. Frank: Evidence for Large Amplitude Base Level Fluctuations in Fine-Grained Strata of the Mid Permian Wandrawandian Siltstone in the Southern Sydney Basin, Australia