We combine 'on-fault' trench observations of slip on the Polochic fault (North America-Caribbean plate boundary) with a 1200 years-long 'near-fault' record of seismo-turbidite generation in a lake located within 2 km of the fault. The lake record indicates that, over the past 12 centuries, 10 earthquakes reaching ground-shaking intensities ≥ VI generated seismo-turbidites in the lake. Seismic a...

A high-resolution sedimentological and geochemical study of a high-altitude proglacial lake (Lake Blanc, Aiguilles Rouges, 2352m a.s.l.) revealed 195 turbidites, 190 of which are related to flood events over the last 1400 years. We used the coarsest sediment fraction of each turbidite as a proxy for the intensity of each flood event. Because most flood events at this locality are triggered by l...

The Siluro-Ordovician Southern Uplands terrane occupies a key position in the Caledonian Orogen, yet its genesis is controversial. Marginal basin, back-arc and forearc tectonic regimes, operative at the Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean, have all been invoked. Fresh andesitic detritus within turbidite sandstones has, until now, been assumed to provide evidence for an Ordovician, supra-subd...

This study provides a detailed sedimentological, stratigraphic and depositional model for the lower Whakataki Formation. The fine-grained nature of turbidite successions common Tbcde suggests deposition associated with medial to distal submarine fan deposits. However, textural compositional immaturity, combined high carbonaceous carbonate content clastic sediments indicates proximal detrital in...

Abstract The Miocene Zhujiang Formation is the key horizon for oil and gas exploration in Pearl River Mouth basin of northern South China Sea. With help core observation, seismic attributes various analytical data, sedimentary facies marks, distribution depositional model forced regression basin, Sea, have been studied. Forced regressive deposits were formed during period when relative sea leve...