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SEDIMENTOLOGY
卷 64, 期 5, 页码 1203-1235出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12316
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Baram Delta Province; combined flow; delta front; gutter cast; humid-tropical; Miocene; shoreface; storm-flood
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London via a NERC PhD Scholarship
- Shell International Exploration & Production (Houston)
- Natural Environment Research Council [1318033] Funding Source: researchfish
The Miocene to Modern Baram Delta Province is a highly efficient source to sink system that has accumulated 9 to 12 km of coastal-deltaic to shelf sediments over the past 15 Myr. Facies analysis based on ca 1 km of total vertical outcrop stratigraphy, combined with subsurface geology and sedimentary processes in the present-day Baram Delta Province, suggests a 'storm-flood' depositional model comprising two distinct periods: (i) fair-weather periods are dominated by alongshore sediment reworking and coastal sand accumulation; and (ii) monsoon-driven storm periods are characterized by increased wave-energy and offshore-directed downwelling storm flow that occur simultaneously with peak fluvial discharge caused by storm precipitation ('storm-floods'). The modern equivalent environment has the following characteristics: (i) humid-tropical monsoonal climate; (ii) narrow (ca <100 km) and steep (ca 1 degrees), densely vegetated, coastal plain; (iii) deep tropical weathering of a mudstone-dominated hinterland; (iv) multiple independent, small to moderate-sized (10(2) to 10(5) km(2)) drainage basins; (v) predominance of river-mouth bypassing; and ( vi) supply-dominated shelf. The ancient, proximal part of this system (the onshore Belait Formation) is dominated by strongly cyclical sandier-upward successions (metre to decametre-scale) comprising (from bottom to top): (i) finely laminated mudstone with millimetre- scale silty laminae; (ii) heterolithic sandstone-mudstone alternations (centimetre to metre-scale); and (iii) sharp-based, swaley cross-stratified sandstone beds and bedsets (metre to decimetre-scale). Gutter casts (decimetre to metre-scale) are widespread, they are filled with swaley cross-stratified sandstone and their long axes are oriented perpendicular to the palaeo-shoreline. The gutter casts and other associated waning-flow event beds suggest that erosion and deposition was controlled by high-energy, offshore-directed, oscillatory-dominated, sediment-laden combined flows within a shoreface to delta front setting. The presence of multiple river mouths and exceptionally high rates of accommodation creation (characteristic of the Neogene to Recent Baram Delta Province; up to 3000 m Ma(-1)), in a 'stormflood'-dominated environment, resulted in a highly efficient and effective offshore-directed sediment transport system.
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