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Sequence Stratigraphy - Part 7

Three major rivers - the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Yellow River - supply 20% of the total sediment from land to the ocean, all located in Southeast Asia under a monsoon climate. There are three principal stacking geometries of sediments: retrogradation where the shoreline moves towards land, aggradation where the shoreline does not change position, and progradation where the shoreline advances seaward. Base level describes the balance between erosion and sedimentation, usually at sea level, and changes in base level control the geometries of sedimentary stacking.

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Sequence Stratigraphy - Part 7

Three major rivers - the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Yellow River - supply 20% of the total sediment from land to the ocean, all located in Southeast Asia under a monsoon climate. There are three principal stacking geometries of sediments: retrogradation where the shoreline moves towards land, aggradation where the shoreline does not change position, and progradation where the shoreline advances seaward. Base level describes the balance between erosion and sedimentation, usually at sea level, and changes in base level control the geometries of sedimentary stacking.

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Sedimentary supply

• Note: Currently, 70% of the total


load of sediment is supplied
from 10% of the land area.
• Three rivers: the Ganges, the
Brahmaputra and the Huang He
(Yellow River) supply 20% of the
total fluvial load – all in south
east Asia, all in monsoonal
climate (high specific runoff),
coming of the Tibetan plateau
(maximum height of catchment)
with significant annual and
temperature range.

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Geometries of
sedimentary stacking
• There are three principle
stacking geometries:
• Retrogradation – shoreline and
sedimentary accumulation moves
towards the hinterland.
• Aggradation - shoreline and
sedimentary accumulation do not
changes their relative position.
• Progradation - shoreline and
sedimentary accumulation moves
towards the basin.

Van Wagoner et al., 1990


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Base level
• Cross and Lessenger, 1998:
“descriptor of the interactions
between processes that create
and remove accommodation
space and surficial processes that
bring sediment or that remove
sediment from that space”

• It is the surface of balance


between erosion and
sedimentation which is more or
less at sea level Plummer and McGeary, 1996

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Changes in base level

Catuneanu, 2006

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