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Sedimentary Facies and Architecture of a Gigantic Gravelly Submarine Channel System in a Cretaceous Foredeep Trough

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Title
Sedimentary Facies and Architecture of a Gigantic Gravelly Submarine Channel System in a Cretaceous Foredeep Trough
Other Titles
칠레 남단 마젤란분지에 발달하는 대규모 하도 퇴적?의 퇴적상 및 구성요소
Authors
Sohn, Young Kwan
Cheo, Moon Young
Hyung Rae Jo
Keywords
architecturedeep-sea channelfaciesmass flow
Issue Date
2010
Citation
Sohn, Young Kwan, Cheo, Moon Young, Hyung Rae Jo. 2010. Sedimentary Facies and Architecture of a Gigantic Gravelly Submarine Channel System in a Cretaceous Foredeep Trough. IAS, Mendoza, Argentina. IAS, Mendoza, Argentina. 2010.09.28~.
Abstract
The Lago Sofia conglomerate in southern Chile is deep-marine gravelly deposits, which are hundreds of meters thick and kilometers wide and extend laterally for more than 100 km, filling the foredeep trough of the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin. For understanding the depositional processes and environments of this gigantic deep-sea conglomerate, detailed analyses on sedimentary facies, architecture and paleoflow patterns were carried out, highlighting the differences between the northern (Lago Pehoe and Lago Goic areas) and southern (Lago Sofia area) parts of the study area. The conglomerate bodies in the northern part occur as relatively thin (< 100 m thick), multiple units intervened by thick mudstone-dominated sequences. They show paleoflows toward ENE and S to SW, displaying a converging drainage pattern. In the southern part, the conglomerate bodies are vertically interconnected and form a thick (> 400 m thick) conglomerate sequence with rare intervening fine-grained deposits. Paleoflows are toward southwest. The north-to-south variations are also distinct in sedimentary facies. The conglomerate bodies in the southern part are mainly composed of clast-supported conglomerate with sandy matrix, which is interpreted to be deposited from highly concentrated bedload layers under turbidity currents. Those in the northern part are dominated by matrix- to clast-supported conglomerate with muddy matrix, which is interpreted as the products of composite mass flows comprising a turbidity current, a gravelly hyperconcentrated flow and a mud-rich debris flow. All these characteristics suggest that the Lago Sofia conglomerate was formed in centripetally converging submarine channels, not in centrifugally diverging channels of submarine fans. The tributaries in the north were dominated by mass flows, probably affected by channel-bank failures or basin-marginal slope instability processes. In contrast, the trunk channel in the south was mostly filled by tractive processes, which
URI
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/handle/201206/8063
Conference Name
IAS, Mendoza, Argentina
Conference Place
IAS, Mendoza, Argentina
Conference Date
2010.09.28~
Type
Proceeding
Indexed
Pro(초록)국외
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2006-2010, Formation, evolution and neotectonics of Antarctica (06-10) / Lee, Jong Ik; Cheo, Moon Young (PE06020, PE08020, PE09020, PE10020, PE07020)
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