Fluvial-Tidal Sedimentology

PART 1 CONTEXT

CHAPTER 1 Deciphering the Relative Importance of Fluvial and Tidal Processes in the Fluvial–Marine Transition

R.W. Dalrymple, C.E. Kurcinka, B.V.J. Jablonski, A.A. Ichaso, D.A. Mackay

PART 2 MODERN

CHAPTER 2 Estuarine Turbidity Maxima Revisited: Instrumental Approaches, Remote Sensing, Modeling Studies, and New Directions

David A. Jay, Stefan A. Talke, Austin Hudson, Michael Twardowski

CHAPTER 3 Sedimentological Trends Across the Tidal–Fluvial Transition, Fraser River, Canada: A Review and Some Broader Implications

Shahin E. Dashtgard, Andrew D. La Croix

CHAPTER 4 Three-Dimensional Meander Bend Flow Within the Tidally Influenced Fluvial Zone

Claire E. Keevil, Daniel R. Parsons, Gareth M. Keevil, Matthew Ainsley

CHAPTER 5 Sedimentology of a Tidal Point-Bar Within the Fluvial–Tidal Transition: River Severn Estuary, UK

Paul A. Carling, Chloe C. Chateau, Dale A. Leckie, Catherine T. Langdon, Robert G. Scaife, Daniel R. Parsons

PART 3 ANCIENT

CHAPTER 6 Mid to Late Holocene Geomorphological and Sedimentological Evolution of the Fluvial–Tidal

Zone: Lower Columbia River, WA/OR, USA

E.W. Prokocki, J.L. Best, P.J. Ashworth, D.R. Parsons, G.H. Sambrook Smith, A. Nicholas, C.J. Simpson, H. Wang, S.D. Sandbach, C. Keevil

CHAPTER 7 Palaeo-Orinoco (Pliocene) Channels on the Tide-Dominated Morne L’Enfer Delta Lobes and Estuaries, SW Trinidad

Si Chen, Ronald J. Steel, Cornel Olariu

CHAPTER 8 The Ichnology of the Fluvial–Tidal Transition: Interplay of Ecologic and Evolutionary Controls

Davinia Diez-Canseco, Luis A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mangano, Williams Rodriguez, Euridice Solorzano

CHAPTER 9 A Reappraisal of Large, Heterolithic Channel Fills in the Upper Permian Rangal Coal Measures of the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: The Case for Tidal Influence

Christopher R. Fielding

CHAPTER 10 Facies and Architecture of Unusual Fluvial–Tidal Channels with Inclined Heterolithic Strata: Campanian Neslen Formation, Utah, USA

Cornel Olariu, Ronald J. Steel, Mariana I. Olariu, Kyungsik Choi

CHAPTER 11 Geologic Reservoir Characterization of Carboniferous Fluvio-Tidal Deposits of the Illinois Basin, USA

Nathan D. Webb, Beverly Seyler, John P. Grube

CHAPTER 12 Fluvial to Tidal Transition Zone Facies in the McMurray Formation (Christina River, Alberta, Canada), with Emphasis on the Reflection of Flow Intensity in Bottomset Architecture

A.W. Martinius, B.V.J. Jablonski, M. Fustic, R. Strobl, J.H. Van den Berg

PART 4 RESOURCES

CHAPTER 13 Recognition and Prediction of Petroleum Reservoirs in the Fluvial/Tidal Transition

Howard Feldman, Timothy Demko

CHAPTER 14 Characterizing Alluvial Architecture of Point Bars within the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada, for Improved Bitumen Resource Prediction and Recovery

David Moreton, B. Joan Carter

CHAPTER 15 The Cretaceous McMurray Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada: A World-Class, Tidally Influenced Fluvial–Estuarine System—An Alberta Government Perspective

Frances J. Hein