Fluvial Meanders and Their Sedimentary Products in the Rock Record (IAS SP 48)

Content: Intro
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 List of contributors
 Acknowledgements
 Sedimentology of meandering river deposits: advances and challenges
 INTRODUCTION
 ESTABLISHED MODELS AND FORTHCOMING WORKS
 Channel-bend growth and related point-bar facies distribution
 Mechanisms of meander-bend cutoff
 Meandering river channels and vegetation cover
 Geometries of meander-belt sedimentary bodies
 A note on anthropogenic influences
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 REFERENCES
 Controls on the depositional architecture of fluvial point-bar elements in a coastal-plain succession
 INTRODUCTION. GEOLOGICAL SETTINGMETHODS
 Quantitative analysis
 RESULTS
 Type I
 Type II
 Type III
 Type IV
 Distribution of point-bar element types
 DISCUSSION
 Controlling Factors in the Neslen Formation
 Comparison of the Neslen Formation to other similar depositional systems
 CONCLUSIONS
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 REFERENCES
 Toggling between expansion and translation: The generation of a muddy-normal point bar with an earthquake imprint
 INTRODUCTION
 Point-bar processes and types
 Location, palaeogeography and stratigraphy
 METHODS
 RESULTS. Architectural elements binding the muddy-normal lateral-accretion elementThe muddy lateral accretion element
 DISCUSSION
 Depositional controls on mud and sand accretion sets in the muddy normal point bar
 Toggling between expansion and translation --
the origin of the muddy-normal point bar
 Evidence for a large syndepositional earthquake and possible implications
 Relation to petroleum and reservoir potential
 CONCLUSION
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 REFERENCES
 Planform sinuosity of Proterozoic rivers: A craton to channel-reach perspective
 INTRODUCTION
 RATIONALE AND METHODS. FLOW DIVERGENCE IN MODERN RIVERSTHE PROTEROZOIC FLUVIAL RECORD OF LAURENTIA
 Ellice Formation, Elu Basin, Nunavut (Canada)
 Bay of Stoer Formation, Stoer Group, Scotland (UK)
 Applecross Formation, Torridon Group, Scotland (UK)
 Nelson Head Formation, Amundsen Basin, Northwest Territories (Canada)
 Kuujjua Formation, Amundsen Basin, Northwest Territories (Canada)
 DISCUSSION
 Current knowledge gaps and the ongoing debate on pre-vegetation fluvial style
 Pre-vegetation planform sinuosity: the overriding role of discharge modulation
 Local factors: channel hydrographs and bank stability. CONCLUSIONSACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 REFERENCES
 The shortage of geological evidence for pre-vegetation meandering rivers
 INTRODUCTION
 Interpreting pre-vegetation channel planforms
 Were there pre-vegetation meandering rivers? Inductive reasoning
 Were there pre-vegetation meandering rivers? Deductive reasoning
 Were there pre-vegetation meandering rivers? Abductive reasoning
 Were there pre-vegetation meandering rivers? A unified approach
 PRE-VEGETATION CMFM STRATA
 The Neoproterozoic Allt-na-Béiste Member, NW Scotland
 Interpretation of the Allt-na-Béiste Member LA-IHS
 CONCLUSIONS.