The use of gravels as syntectonic indicators of thrusting has recently been questioned by foreland-basin models that assign gravels to a post-thrusting interval of progradation, except in very proximal areas. On the basis of precise temporal control provided by magnetostratigraphically dated sections, the history of gravel progradation after a major thrusting and uplift event in the northwester...

Atokan-age units in the Permian Basin record a 2-order transgression, with aerially restricted, lower Atokan fluvial to shallow-marine siliciclastics followed by pervasive carbonate deposition. In general, Atokan-age siliciclastics dominated deposition in the west of the Permian Basin while carbonate deposition dominated throughout the rest of the basin. Predominance of carbonate facies across ...

A cyclical pattern can be observed in the central sector of the Guadix Basin (southern Spain) in the Late Pliocene-Quaternary alluvial fan deposits prograding into its axial valley. A climatic significance has been attributed to this cyclicity on the basis of sedimentological and preliminary isotopic studies. The progradation phases of the alluvial fans are here attributed to more arid time int...

ABSTRACT Submarine slopes prograde via accretion of sediment to clinoform foresets and degrade in response channel or canyon incision mass-wasting processes. The timescales over which progradation degradation occur, the large-scale stratigraphic record these processes, remain unclear due poor age constraints subsurface-based studies areally limited exposures exhumed systems. We here integrate 3...

There are a variety of different marine sediment transport processes that affect the evolution of continental shelf profiles. Physically based numerical models make it possible to simulate the evolution of the continental shelf in response to these processes, which may be combined with different magnitudes, frequencies and durations. The basic model that is employed in most numerical simulation...

The Tarim and Junggar basins in central Asia are capped by a thick pile of conglomerates, called the Xiyu Formation, that are commonly linked to a change in climate and/or accelerated uplift near the Plio-Pleistocene boundary. In order to better understand their origin and significance, we carried out a combined structural and magnetostratigraphic study in the Quilitage syncline (southern Tians...