Aspects of Fluvial Sedimentation in the Lower Triassic Buntsandstein of Europe

Prologue....Pages 1-12
Spectrum of local sedimentary elements....Pages 13-14
Braidplain, floodplain and playa lake, alluvial-fan, aeolian and palaeosol facies composing a diversified lithogenetical sequence in the permian and triassic of South Devon (England)....Pages 15-64
Gravel bars in braided-river channels of the basal buntsandstein-facies conglomerates in the cuenca province (Southeastern Iberian ranges, Central Spain)....Pages 65-86
Depositional models of braidplains intertonguing with aeolian dune fields....Pages 87-89
Aeolian sedimentation in the middle buntsandstein in the eifel north-south depression zone....Pages 90-126
Depositional mechanisms and facies models of intertonguing aeolian environment and fluvial milieu in the middle buntsandstein of the mid-european triassic basin....Pages 127-164
Sandy inland braidplain deposition with local aeolian sedimentation in the lower and middle parts of the buntsandstein and sandy coastal braidplain deposition in the topmost zechstein in the sudetes (Lower Silesia, Poland)....Pages 165-196
Fluvial sedimentary styles and associated depositional environments in the buntsandstein west of river rhine in saar area and pfalz (F.R. Germany) and vosges (France)....Pages 197-248
Depositional models of braidplains with associated calcrete pedogenesis....Pages 249-250
Depositional mechanisms controlling formation of coarse fluvial conglomerates in the lower triassic continental red beds of middle europe....Pages 251-280
Sandy braidplain deposition with minor pedogenesis in the labyrinthodontidae beds (middle buntsandstein) of the northeastern holy cross mountains (Poland)....Pages 281-317
Minor pedogenesis and local aeolian influences in sandy to pebbly braidplain deposits of the solling-folge (upper buntsandstein) in the hessian depression (hessen and lower saxony, F.R. germany)....Pages 318-348
Depositional models of braidplains without coexisting non-fluvial environments....Pages 349-350
Gravelly to sandy braidplain deposition in the czerwona góra beds and stryczowice beds (middle buntsandstein) of the northeastern holy cross mountains (poland)....Pages 351-396
Gravelly to sandy braidplain deposition in the buntsandstein-facies bohdašin formation in northeastern bohemia (Czechoslovakia)....Pages 397-410
Fluvial architecture of the buntsandstein-facies redbeds in the middle to upper triassic (Ladinian-Norian) of the southeastern edge of the Iberian Meseta (Southern Spain)....Pages 411-435
Bimodal palaeocurrents in braided-type inland fluvial environments in the buntsandstein of middle europe and other continental formations....Pages 436-446
Depositional models of inland braidplains passing into coastal and marine milieu....Pages 447-448
Fluvial depositional environment evolving into deltaic setting with marine influences in the buntsandstein of northern vosges (France)....Pages 449-477
Fluvial braidplain evolving into lagoonal environment in the coarse marginal facies of the lower buntsandstein relicts in saxony (German Democratic Republic)....Pages 478-486
Fluvial braidplain passing into an intertidal belt at the margin of the tethys sea in the alpine buntsandstein of the drauzug in carinthia and eastern tyrol (Austria)....Pages 487-496
Evolution of fluvial style in the buntsandstein of the northeastern holy cross mountains (Poland) and comparison with the depositional history of the buntsandstein in the eifel (F.R. Germany and Luxembourg)....Pages 497-499
Evolution of fluvial style in the Buntsandstein of the Northeastern Holy Cross Mountains (Poland) and comparison with the depositional history of the Buntsandstein in the Eifel (F.R. Germany and Luxembourg)....Pages 500-508
Gravelly and sandy braidplain evolving into floodplain and playa lake deposits and vice versa in the Buntsandstein-facies sediments and marine incursions in the Triassic of the Lodève region (Southern France)....Pages 509-518
Braidplain and alluvial-fan environmental history and climatological evolution controlling origin and destruction of aeolian dune fields and governing overprinting of sand seas and river plains by calcrete pedogenesis in the Permian and Triassic of South Devon (England)....Pages 519-528
Postdepositional history....Pages 529-530
Diagenetic evolution of opaque and transparent heavy minerals reflecting colour genesis in continental fluvial buntsandstein red beds of the eifel (F.R. Germany)....Pages 531-560
Fluvial-marine transitional depositional environment influencing the diagenesis in the buntsandstein of thuringia (German Democratic Republic)....Pages 561-590
Provenance determination of buntsandstein artefacts from the early-medieval dorestad trading site (the Netherlands): an example of the significance of geological-mineralogical analysis in archaeology....Pages 591-624
Epilogue....Pages 625-626