Interaction between turbidity currents and a contour current – A rare example from the Ordovician of Shaanxi province, China

Autor: Li Hua, van Loon A.J. [lpar]Tom[rpar], He Youbin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Geologos, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 15-30 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2080-6574
DOI: 10.2478/logos-2019-0002
Popis: The silty top parts of graded turbidites of the Late Ordovician Pingliang Formation, which accumulated along the southern margin of the Ordos Basin (central China), have been reworked by contour currents. The reworking of the turbidites can be proven on the basis of paleocurrent directions in individual layers: the ripple-cross-bedded sandy divisions of some turbidites show transport directions consistently into the downslope direction (consistent with the direction of other gravity flows), but in the upper, silty fine-grained division they show another direction, viz. alongslope (consistent with the direction that a contour current must have taken at the same time). Both directions are roughly perpendicular to each other. Moreover, the sediment of the reworked turbidites is better sorted and has better rounded grains than the non-reworked turbidites.
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