EP51A:
Advances and Challenges to Understanding Sedimentary Processes, Dynamics, and the Creation of Stratigraphic Patterns Through Integrated Studies of Sedimentary Deposits from Grain to Basin I


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Session ID#: 61730

Session Description:
Sedimentary deposits are archives of the physical and chemical processes operating on Earth’s surface over timescales of hours to millennia. Recent progress in experimental and numerical modeling capabilities, and innovations in detrital analyses and data processing have improved our understanding of sedimentary dynamics across timescales. Integrated theoretical and empirical studies may shed light on the nature of sediment generation, dispersion, and preservation in depositional systems, and on the origins of the organization of sedimentary structures from grain to basin scales.


Here, we solicit presentations that showcase the latest research linking Earth-surface processes to the emergence of stratigraphic architecture in sedimentary deposits. This session will focus on work that uses novel and integrative approaches, e.g. physical sedimentology, detrital geo-thermochronology, geochemistry, and quantitative stratigraphic analysis, to unravel the connections among climatic, tectonic, autogenic, and/or anthropogenic controls and the emergence of sedimentary patterns from source terranes to depositional sinks.

Primary Convener:  Cody Curtis Mason, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, United States
Conveners:  Tao Sun, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Earth Science Dept., Houston, TX, United States and Sarah E Baumgardner, Chevron Corporation Houston, Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX, United States
Primary Liaisons:  Tao Sun, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Earth Science Dept., Houston, TX, United States and Cody Curtis Mason, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, United States
Chairs:  Tao Sun1, Sarah E Baumgardner2, Rebecca Caldwell3 and Ashley Harris2, (1)Chevron Energy Technology Company, Earth Science Dept., Houston, TX, United States(2)Chevron Corporation Houston, Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX, United States(3)Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sarah E Baumgardner, Chevron Corporation Houston, Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX, United States
Index Terms:

1051 Sedimentary geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
8169 Sedimentary basin processes [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Insights into controls on submarine fan evolution from depth-averaged model of turbidity currents (Invited) (449162)
Huafei Sun1, David C J D Hoyal1, Ramanathan Vishnampet1, Mrugesh Shringarpure1, Bvrsn Prasad2, Juan Jose Fedele1, Gwladys T Gaillot1, Timothy M Demko1, Katherine B Love1 and Kathryn C Denommee3, (1)ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX, United States, (2)ExxonMobil Services & Technology Private Limited, Bengaluru, India, (3)ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, United States
Linking Deposits to Flows: Using a Detailed Characterization of Upstream Accreting Deepwater Deposits to Paleogeography and Paleoflow Properties (458510)
Logan Mitchell West, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Ronald J Steel, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences and Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, David C Mohrig, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States and Cornel Olariu, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Unraveling the geometric signals in mini-basin development that are connected to turbidity-current sedimentation versus gravity sliding: An experimental approach (425906)
Xinggang Christopher Liu1, David C Mohrig1, James L Buttles1, Wonsuck Kim2, Zoltan Sylvester3, Michael R Hudec4, Naiara Fernandez5 and Benjamin Thomas Cardenas6, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States, (2)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (5)The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, United States
The link between depositional process and stratigraphic patterns: Insights from physics-based numerical modeling in three dimensions (454219)
Andrew Stuart Madof, Chevron Corporation Houston, Energy Technology Company, Houston, United States, Rebecca Caldwell, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, United States, Tao Sun, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Earth Science Dept., Houston, TX, United States, Ashley Harris, Chevron, Houston, TX, United States and Morgan Sullivan, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Earth Science Department, Houston, TX, United States
Numerical Models & Virtual Clastic Systems: Revelations for Interpretive Methods and Uncertainty (441985)
Lisa Renee' Goggin1, Ashley Harris2, Tao Sun3, Maisha L Amaru4 and Brian J Willis1, (1)Chevron Corporation Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Chevron, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Chevron Energy Technology Company, Earth Science Dept., Houston, TX, United States, (4)Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX, United States
The stratigraphic signatures of relative sea-level change, flood variability, and channel avulsion in river deltas (413667)
Austin John Chadwick, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sarah Steele, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jose Silvestre, UNAVCO, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, Vamsi Ganti, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael P. Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
River delta floodplains: diffusive deposition, crevasse splays, or avulsions? (Invited) (352201)
Jaap Nienhuis, Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States

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