1. SACRAMENTO
STATE
Geology 103 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Tim Horner Geology Department, CSU Sacramento
Lecture #9:
Turbidity flows, deep sea fan deposits
Reading assignment:
Boggs, 5th ed., pp ,

2. Types of mass-movements
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Table 2.1, p. 32

3. Continental shelf, slope and rise
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Fig , p. 293

4. Parts of a turbidity current:
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 2.4.1, p. 34

5. Turbulence supports grains in a turbidity flow:
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 2.6, p. 33

6. Features of a turbidity flow deposit:
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 2.7, p. 37

7. Bouma sequence Complete Partial
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 2.8, p. 47

8. Bouma
sequence
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure 10.17, p. 300

9. Normark/ Walker fan model
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 2nd edition fig

10. Gravel-rich deep sea fan
Sand-rich deep sea fan
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th edition, Figures 10.18, 10.19, p. 301

11. Idealized progradational fan
From Reineck and Singh, 1986

12. Sediment input to the deep ocean
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure p. 296

13. Sediment types on the deep ocean floor
From Boggs, Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Figure p. 303