A simulation model of alluvial stratigraphy
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The quantitative model presented simulates the development of a two‐dimensional alluvial sedimentary succession beneath a floodplain traversed by a single major river. Several inter‐related effects which influence the distribution of channel‐belt sand and gravel bodies within overbank fines are accounted for. These are (a) laterally variable aggradation, (b) compaction of fine sediment, (c) tectonic movement at floodplain margins, and (d) channel avulsion. Selected experiments with the model show how the interconnectedness and areal density of channel‐belt deposits decrease with increasing floodplain width/channel‐belt size, mean avulsion period, and channel‐belt aggradation rate. Separation of stream patterns based on interconnectedness and channel deposit density is difficult. Tectonic movements do not have a significant influence upon the successions unless a preferred direction of tilting is maintained (half‐graben). Then channel‐belt deposits showing offlap tendencies tend to cluster adjacent to the active floodplain margin, leaving dominantly fine‐grained alluvium to accumulate on the inactive side. Individual channel‐belt deposits thicken during aggradation, although a self‐regulating limit to such thickening is likely to operate. ‘Multistorey’features resulting from aggradation may be difficult to tell apart from those arising through superposition of distinct channel‐belt deposits of avulsive origin.
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