AAPG/SEPM: New Insights into Deep-Water Depositional Systems and Processes
Room 388-390
Co-Chairs: M. H. Gardner and M. D. Sonnenfeld
1:25 -- Introductory Remarks
1:30 -- L. F. Pratson, J. Imran, G. Parker, J. Syvitski, E. Hutton: Debris Flows versus Turbidity Currents: A Modeling Comparison of their Dynamics and Deposits
1:50 -- W. D. McCaffrey, B. C. Kneller, O. Al-Ja'aidi: Flow efficiency controls on the geometry and location of turbidite sheet systems
2:10 -- D. R. Lowe: Sediment texture and flow processes as interactive controls on the architecture and properties of deep-water deposits with examples from the Britannia Formation (Lower Cretaceous), North Sea
2:30 -- M. H. Gardner, J. M. Borer: Submarine channel architecture along a slope to basin profile, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas
2:50 -- Break
3:00 -- D. Mellere, R. Steel: Contrasts betwen upper- and lower-slope channel complexes, Battfjellet Fm., Eocene Spitsbergen
3:20 -- C. D. Winker, J. R. Booth: Sedimentary dynamics of the salt-dominated continental slope, Gulf of Mexico: Integration of observations from the seafloor, near-surface, and deep subsurface
3:40 -- C. J. O'Byrne: Re-entrant fans and bypass aprons: depositional response to dynamic slope topography
4:00 -- I. Klaucke, N. H. Kenyon, J. Millington, M. Ivanov: Canyon-lobe systems on the western margin of Corsica and Sardinia, NW Mediterranean Sea
4:20 -- W. R. Morris, D. S. Hastings, S. R. Moothart, K. P. Helmold, M. J. Faust: Sequence Stratigraphic Development and Depositional Framework of Deep Water Slope Apron Systems, Tarn Reservoir, North Slope, Alaska