Siliciclastic shallow-marine deposits record the interface between land and sea, and its response to a variety of forcing mechanisms: physical process regime, the internal dynamics of coastal and shelfal depositional systems, relative sea level, sediment flux, tectonic setting, and climate. These deposits have long been the subject of conceptual stratigraphic models that seek to explain the interplay between these various forcing mechanisms, and their preservation in the stratigraphic record. This volume arose from an SEPM research conference on shoreline-shelf stratigraphy that was held in Grand Junction, Colorado, on August 24-28, 2004. The aim of the resulting volume is to highlight the development over the last 15 years of the stratigraphic concepts and models that are used to interpret siliciclastic marginal-marine, shallow-marine, and shelf deposits. With an introductory and overview section and then a more detailed contribution section, this book covers the significant outcrops in the region, including the Punta Barrosa Formation, CerroToro Fm., and the Tres Pasos Fm. Color photo mosaics, diagrams and maps show channel complexes, channel margin details, clastic injectites, sheet complexes, slope deposits, mass transport deposits and slope minibasin fills. With the detailed descriptions and overviews, the authors communicate how the deposits fit into the basin and the complex deep water architecture of this basin.
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