Autogenic Dynamics and Self-Organization in Sedimentary Systems
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Autogenic Dynamics and Self-Organization in Sedimentary Systems
David A. Budd, Elizabeth A. Hajek, and Sam J. Purkis
Autogenic dynamics and self-organization in sedimentary systems are increasingly viewed as significant and important processes that drive erosion, sediment transport, and sediment accumulation across the Earth’s surface. These internal dynamics can dramatically modulate the formation of the stratigraphic record, form biologically constructed depositional packages, affect ecological patterning in time and space, and impact aspects of geochemical sedimentation and diagenesis. The notion that autogenic processes are local phenomena of short duration and distance is now recognized as false. Understanding autogenic dynamics in sedimentary systems is thus essential for deciphering the morphodynamics of moderns sedimentary systems, accurately reconstructing Earth history, and predicting the spatial and temporal distribution of sedimentary and paleobiologic features in the stratigraphic record. The thirteen papers in this volume present exciting new ideas and research related to autogenic dynamics and self-organization in sedimentology, stratigraphy, ecology, paleobiology, sedimentary geochemistry, and diagenesis. Five papers summarize the current state of thinking about autogenic processes and products in fluvial-deltaic, eolian, and carbonate depositional systems, and in paleobiologic and geochemical contexts. A second group of papers provide perspectives derived from numerical modeling and laboratory experiments. The final section consists of field studies that explore autogenic processes and autogenically modulated stratigraphy in five case studies covering modern and ancient fluvial, deltaic, and shelf settings. This SP should stimulate further research as to how self-organization might promote a better understanding of the sedimentary record.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Introduction to Autogenic Dynamics and Self-Organization in Sedimentary Systems
DAVID A. BUDD, ELIZABETH A, HAJEK, and SAM J. PURKIS
Concepts and Overviews
A Mind of Their Own: Recent Advances in Autogenic Dynamics in Rivers and Deltas
CHRIS PAOLA
Trickle-Down and Trickle-Up Boundary Conditions in Eolian Dune-Field Pattern Formation
GARY KOCUREK and RYAN C. EWING
Biological Self-Organization: Implications for Sedimentary Rocks with Examples from Shallow Marine Settings
THOMAS D. OLSZEWSKI
Spatial Self-Organization in Carbonate Depositional Environments
SAM J. PURKIS, JOHAN VAN DE KOPPEL, and PETER M. BURGESS
Self-Organized Pattern Formation in Sedimentary Geochemical Systems
YIFENG WANG and DAVID A. BUDD
Experimental and Modelling Perspectives
Lattice Models in Ecology, Paleontology, and Geology
ROY E. PLOTNICK
Bedforms Created by Gravity Flows
JUAN J. FEDELE, DAVID HOYAL, ZACHARY BARNAAL, JOSEPH TULENKO, and SHANE AWALT
Comparison of Avulsion Cycles from Subaerial and Subaqueous Fan Experiments with Supercritical Channels
PAUL HAMILTON, KYLE STROM, and DAVID HOYAL
Field Insights
Measuring Scales of Autogenic Organization in Fluvial Stratigraphy: An Example from the Cretaceous Lower Williams Fork Formation, Colorado
ELLEN P. CHAMBERLIN, ELIZABETH A. HAJEK, and SHEILA M. TRAMPUSH
Clustering of Elongate Muddy Delta Lobes within Fluvio–Lacustrine Systems, Jurassic Kayenta Formation, Utah
GALEN HULING and JOHN HOLBROOK
Autogenic Modulation of Fluvial Channel Fills in Allogenically Formed Incised Valleys: Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, USA
HIRANYA SAHOO and M. ROYHAN GANI
River-Dominated Deltas: Upscaling Autogenic and Allogenic Processes Observed in Laboratory Experiments to Field Examples of Small Deltas in Southern Brazil
MARIA LUIZA CORREA DA CAMARA ROSA, DAVID HOYAL, EDUARDO G. BARBOZA, JUAN FEDELE, and VITOR ABREU
Mud Begets Mud: Autogenesis of a Mud-Dominated Coastal Sequence
JAMES M. RINE
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