Early Channel Evolution in the Middle Permian Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas, USA

Submarine channels are important conduits for sediment in deep marine environments, and understanding their formation is critical to modeling basin fill processes. Most models describing channel evolution focus on turbidity currents as the erosive and constructive force in channel initiation. Howe...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gunderson, Spencer
Other Authors: Tice, Michael M.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9710