T248 Clinoforms: Past, Present, and Modeled

Wednesday, 5 November 2003
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  ROLE OF MASS MOVEMENT IN SHELF CLINOFORM GROWTH: THE AMAZON AND GANGES-BRAHMAPUTRA EXAMPLES
  Steven Kuehl, College of William and Mary Virginia Institute Of Marine Sci, Gloucester Point, VA
  65748 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  MARINE DISPERSAL OF FINE-GRAINED RIVER SEDIMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON SUBAQUEOUS-DELTA CLINOFORMS
  J.P. Walsh, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA and N.W. Driscoll, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA and C.A. Nittrouer, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA
  67797 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  MODERN SHELF CLINOFORMS IN THE MISSISSIPPI-ATCHAFALAYA DELTA
  Mead A. Allison, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Ciara F. Neill, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  59265 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  INNER SHELF CLINOFORM DEVELOPMENT FROM FLUID-MUD DEPOSITION: CHENIER PLAIN COAST OF LOUISIANA, USA
  Samuel J. Bentley, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Kristina A. Rotondo, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Harry H. Roberts, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Gregory W. Stone, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Steven Chan, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA
  65101 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  TYPES OF SHELF-MARGIN CLINOFORM AND THEIR ROLE IN BASIN FILLING
  Ronald J. Steel, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Piret Plink Bjorklund, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, N/A and Jeff Crabaugh, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Jack Deibert, Austin Peay State Univ, Clarksville, TN and Donatella Mellere, Exxon Mobil, Houston, TX
  61997 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  RECONSTRUCTING PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH TURBIDITY CURRENTS BUILDING SANDY CLINOFORMS IN THE CRETACEOUS FERRON SANDSTONE, UTAH
  David Mohrig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  66307 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  CLINOFORM CONTROL ON SUBMARINE FAN DEVELOPMENT WITHIN DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES
  Arthur D. Donovan, BP, Houston, TX
  65285 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE MIOCENE CARBONATE BANK MARGIN PROGRADING SEQUENCES IN THE MALDIVES, INDIAN OCEAN, AND THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND IT
  Andrei V. Belopolsky, BP America Inc, Houston, TX and André Droxler, Rice Univ, Houston, TX
  64147 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  SENSITIVITY OF CLINOFORM GEOMETRY TO SEDIMENTARY FORCING MECHANISMS; INSIGHTS FROM NUMERICAL MODELS
  Damian B. O'Grady, Houston, TX and James P.M. Syvitski, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  64405 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  CLINOFORM RESPONSE TO SEA LEVEL: PHASE RELATIONS BETWEEN SHORELINE AND ROLLOVER, DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOUND CLINOFORMS, AND THE TIMING OF MARGIN PROGRADATION
  John Swenson, Univ of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN and Lincoln Pratson, Duke Univ, Durham, NC
  67588 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  EQUILIBRIUM CLINOFORMS ASSOCIATED WITH GRAVITY DRIVEN SEDIMENT TRANSPORT NEAR RIVER MOUTHS
  Carl T. Friedrichs, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA and L. Donelson Wright, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA
  58461 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  THE CURVATURE OF CARBONATE AND SILICICLASTIC CLINOFORMS
  Erwin W. Adams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  66435 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CLINOFORM DYNAMICS
  Chris Paola, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and John Martin, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Jere Mohr, Univ of Minnesota, Duluth, Duluth, MN and Lincoln Pratson, Duke Univ, Durham, NC and Ben Sheets, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and Nikki Strong, Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN and John Swenson, Univ of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN
  64291 (Technical Sessions)