TY - JOUR
T1 - Bar-top hollows: a new element in the architecture of sandy braided rivers
AU - Best, JL
AU - Woodward, J
AU - Ashworth, PJ
AU - Sambrook-Smith, Greg
AU - Simpson, CJ
PY - 2006/8/1
Y1 - 2006/8/1
N2 - Discrete hollows in the bar tops of the South Saskatchewan River are described that form a newly-recognized morphological element of sandy braided rivers. These bar-top hollows, which are up to 1.7 m deep and may extend for 10-30 m down and across flow, have a circular to ovoid planform and are shown, through use of ground penetrating radar, to be filled by a series of distinct, often angle-of-repose, foresets. The hollows form by both erosion and bar-top deposition and may be generated by bar-tail accretion, cross-bar channel cutoff and subsequent fill or lateral accretion at the bar-head. Bar-top hollows occur in the upper part of the bar depositional sequence and may thus prove useful indicators for braid bar reconstruction in ancient sediments, and should not be confused with channel scour. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - Discrete hollows in the bar tops of the South Saskatchewan River are described that form a newly-recognized morphological element of sandy braided rivers. These bar-top hollows, which are up to 1.7 m deep and may extend for 10-30 m down and across flow, have a circular to ovoid planform and are shown, through use of ground penetrating radar, to be filled by a series of distinct, often angle-of-repose, foresets. The hollows form by both erosion and bar-top deposition and may be generated by bar-tail accretion, cross-bar channel cutoff and subsequent fill or lateral accretion at the bar-head. Bar-top hollows occur in the upper part of the bar depositional sequence and may thus prove useful indicators for braid bar reconstruction in ancient sediments, and should not be confused with channel scour. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.05.022
DO - 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.05.022
M3 - Article
VL - 190
SP - 241
EP - 255
JO - Sedimentary Geology
JF - Sedimentary Geology
ER -