| Abstract: | The modern Monterey submarine fan, one of the largest deep-water deposits off the western US, is composed of two major turbidite systems: the Neogene Lower Turbidite System (LTS) and the late Quaternary Upper Turbidite System (UTS). The areally extensive LTS is a distal deposit with low-relief, poorly defined channels, overbank, and lower-fan elements. The younger UTS comprises almost half of the total fan volume and was initiated in the late Pleistocene from canyons in the Monterey Bay area. Rapidly prograding high-relief, channel-levee complexes dominated deposition early in the UTS with periodic avulsion events. In the last few 100 ka, much of the sediment bypassed the northern fan as a result of allocyclic controls, and deposition is simultaneously occurring on a sandy lobe with low-relief channels and on an adjacent detached muddier lobe built from reconfinement of overbank flow from the northern high-relief channels. During the relatively short-lived UTS deposition, at least seven different channel types and two lobe types were formed. This study provides a significant reinterpretation of the depositional history of Monterey Fan by incorporating all available unpublished geophysical data. ?? 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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| Citation Author: | Fildani, A.; Normark, W. R. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Late Quaternary evolution of channel and lobe complexes of Monterey Fan; 2004; Article; Journal; Marine Geology; Fildani, A.; Normark, W. R. |
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| Text: | Late Quaternary evolution of channel and lobe complexes of Monterey Fan; 2004; Article; Journal; Marine Geology; Fildani, A.; Normark, W. R. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/outside_thumb.jpg |
| URL (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2004.03.001 |
| Date Other: | Thu, 1 Jan 2004 00:00 -0600 |
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