Fluvio-Aeolian Sedimentation—An Example from Banks Island, N.W.T., Canada

A classification scheme for fluvial–aeolian system interaction in desert-margin settings

“…Such wet aeolian systems (sensu Kocurek and Havholm, 1993) undergo aeolian construction and accumulation in a manner that differs from dry aeolian systems. Aeolian sediment transport across wet and damp sediment surfaces is severely restricted (Hotta et al, 1984;Good and Bryant, 1985;Crabaugh and Kocurek,1993;McKenna and Scott, 1998;Mountney and Russell, 2009), which limits the volume of sediment available for aeolian dune construction. Airflows in wet aeolian systems are therefore commonly under-saturated with respect to their potential sand transport capacity, rendering dry sand on existing aeolian dunes susceptible to erosion as the wind attempts to entrain more sediment.…”

Climate evolution during the Pleniglacial and Late Glacial as recorded in quartz grain morphoscopy of fluvial to aeolian successions of the European Sand Belt

“…5), the content of RM grains gradually increased upsection. Such features show that the deposits were simultaneously affected by aeolian processing and fluvial accumulation, and afterwards repeatedly redeposited in an aeolian environment (Good & Bryant, 1985;Goździk, 1995;Woronko, 2012;see Fig. 6).…”

EemianWeichselian Pleniglacial fluvial deposits in S Poland (an example of the Vistula River valley in Kraków)

“…Pres ently, sim i lar events are ob served in the zone of arc tic or sub arc tic cli mate, e.g. in Alaska, in val ley bot toms of snowmelt rivers (Lewkowicz and Young, 1991), Ice land (Moutney and Rus sell, 2004) and Can ada (Good and Bryant, 1985). The re sults of grain-size anal y sis in di cate that dur ing their trans port the de pos its were not sub jected to rapid de po si tion but to quite op po site processes of seg re ga tion and sort ing, as ev i denced by the very well-sorted sal ta tion seg ment (Fig.…”