Environmental signal propagation in sedimentary systems across timescales

BW Romans, S Castelltort, JA Covault, A Fildani… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Earth-surface processes operate across erosionally dominated landscapes and deliver
sediment to depositional systems that can be preserved over a range of timescales. The …

Times associated with source-to-sink propagation of environmental signals during landscape transience

S Tofelde, A Bernhardt, L Guerit… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sediment archives in the terrestrial and marine realm are regularly analyzed to infer
changes in climate, tectonic, or anthropogenic boundary conditions of the past. However …

On the triggers, resulting flow types and frequencies of subaqueous sediment density flows in different settings

PJ Talling - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Turbidity currents, and other types of underwater sediment density flow, are arguably the
most important flow process for moving sediment across our planet. Direct monitoring …

Buffered, incomplete, and shredded: The challenges of reading an imperfect stratigraphic record

KM Straub, RA Duller, BZ Foreman… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate, tectonics, and life influence the flux and caliber of sediment transported across
Earth's surface. These environmental conditions can leave behind imprints in the Earth's …

[KNIHA][B] Sediment routing systems: The fate of sediment from source to sink

PA Allen - 2017 - books.google.com
This cutting-edge summary combines ideas from several sub-disciplines including geology,
geomorphology, oceanography and geochemistry to provide an integrated view of Earth …

Submarine fans at all sea-level stands: Tectono-morphologic and climatic controls on terrigenous sediment delivery to the deep sea

JA Covault, SA Graham - Geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Early models of stratigraphic sequence development across continental margins predicted
terrigenous sediment delivery to the deep sea principally during periods of sea-level fall and …

The Qs problem: Sediment volumetric balance of proximal foreland basin systems

PA Allen, JJ Armitage, A Carter, RA Duller… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Although the stratigraphy of sedimentary basins depends on the balance between the
magnitude and grain‐size characteristics of the sediment supply (Qs) and the spatial …

Submarine channel initiation, filling and maintenance from sea‐floor geomorphology and morphodynamic modelling of cyclic steps

JA Covault, S Kostic, CK Paull, HF Ryan… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in acoustic imaging of submarine canyons and channels have provided accurate
renderings of sea‐floor geomorphology. Still, a fundamental understanding of channel …

Scale-dependent compensational stacking: An estimate of autogenic time scales in channelized sedimentary deposits

Y Wang, KM Straub, EA Hajek - Geology, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent studies show that paleoenvironmental (allogenic) signals preserved in the
stratigraphic record may be contaminated or overprinted by internally generated (autogenic) …

Monsoonal control on a delayed response of sedimentation to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

F Zhang, Z **, AJ West, Z An, RG Hilton, J Wang… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Infrequent extreme events such as large earthquakes pose hazards and have lasting
impacts on landscapes and biogeochemical cycles. Sediments provide valuable records of …