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dc.contributor.advisorHolbrook, John M.
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Samuelen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-31T14:57:56Z
dc.date.available2020-12-31T14:57:56Z
dc.date.created2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.identifiercat-6237884en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/42885
dc.description.abstractThe 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
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dc.relation.ispartofTCU Master Thesisen_US
dc.subjectGeologyen_US
dc.titleProfiles And Paleohydrology Of Supercritical Rivers, The Triassic Dockum Group Of West Texasen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of Geology
etd.degree.levelMaster
local.collegeCollege of Science and Engineering
local.departmentGeological Sciences
local.academicunitCollege of Science and Engineering
dc.type.genreThesis
local.subjectareaGeological Sciences
local.committeemembersMichael Slattery, Omar Harvey
etd.degree.nameMaster of Science


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