dc.contributor.advisor | Holbrook, John M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Walker, Samuel | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-31T14:57:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-12-31T14:57:56Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | en_US |
dc.identifier | cat-6237884 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/42885 | |
dc.description.abstract | The exposures of the Late Triassic Dockum Group in the West Texas High Plains record multiple amalgamated, rarely preserved, upper-flow-regime dominated fluvial architectural elements. Outcrop analysis produces multiple upper-flow-regime lithofacies. Containing these upper-flow-regime lithofacies are architectural elements at the channel-scale, valley-scale and sequence-scale. With the sequence-scale element recording an allocyclic driven, terrestrial sequence boundary. This study address fill processes and estimates the paleoflow parameters, formative discharge, and slope of the Dockum Group formations through the characterization of upper-flow-regime lithofacies and architectural elements. The unique reservoir-quality upper-flow-regime fluvial architectural elements are interpreted as resultant of a monsoonal climate producing massive pulses of rapid flow allowing for the preservation of upper-flow-regime bedforms. Modern analogs of storm driven fluvial systems support the described depositional and fill processes argued in this study and allow for the development of type sections for how upper-flow-regime channel elements appear in outcrop. | en_US |
dc.format.medium | Format: Online | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | TCU Master Thesis | en_US |
dc.subject | Geology | en_US |
dc.title | Profiles And Paleohydrology Of Supercritical Rivers, The Triassic Dockum Group Of West Texas | en_US |
dc.type | Text | en_US |
etd.degree.department | Department of Geology | |
etd.degree.level | Master | |
local.college | College of Science and Engineering | |
local.department | Geological Sciences | |
local.academicunit | College of Science and Engineering | |
dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
local.subjectarea | Geological Sciences | |
local.committeemembers | Michael Slattery, Omar Harvey | |
etd.degree.name | Master of Science | |