Stratigraphic architecture and flow dynamics of deep-water turbidite deposits : the miocene lower Mount Messenger Formation in the Taranaki Basin in New Zealand, and the Oligocene Puchkirchen Formation in the Molasse Basin in Austria
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation focuses on the architecture, depositional setting, fluid dynamics, and stratigraphic evolution of deep-water deposits in the Taranaki and Molasse Basins. This dissertation consists of three chapters: two of them are studies of the Mount Messenger Formation in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, and the third is the study of the Puchkirchen Formation in the Molasse Basin, Austria. Chapter 1 is a field-based outcrop study of the channel-lobe complex in New Zealand which documents the terminal destination of the siliciclastic deposits on the basin floor. Chapter 1 gives a more precise and polished picture to timing of filling and deposition of the channel and lobe complexes, and a larger picture of the paleogeography of the eastern Taranaki Basin. The subsurface study of Chapter 2 explores the interplay between submarine channel belt and overbank deposits in the Molasse Basin in Austria. This chapter describes the interaction between turbidity currents and debris flows within the channel as well as documents in more detail the slope of the foreland basin and gullies developed on it. Chapter 3 explores the hydrodynamics of formation of dune-size ripples under high-density turbidity currents.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Masalimova, Larisa U |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. |
| Primary advisor | Graham, S. A. (Stephan Alan), 1950- |
| Primary advisor | Lowe, Donald F |
| Thesis advisor | Graham, S. A. (Stephan Alan), 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Lowe, Donald F |
| Thesis advisor | McHargue, Timothy R, 1949- |
| Advisor | McHargue, Timothy R, 1949- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Larisa U. Masalimova. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Larisa Uralovna Masalimova
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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