Statistical analysis of turbidite bed thickness patterns from the Alpine fold and thrust belt of western and southeastern Greece

Pantopoulos, George; Vakalas, I.; Maravelis, Angelos G.; Zelilidis, A.

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2013.05.007

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“…Summarizing, results shown in Table 16 strongly suggest that the lognormal components detected by the EM/BIC mixture model analysis seem to have a sedimentological origin and are mainly related to beds deposited by dense and more dilute flows respectively, confirming previous observations (Talling, 2001;Sylvester, 2007;Pantopoulos et al, 2013).…”

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“…Detailed descriptions of these statistical techniques and R packages as well as a brief introduction to observed statistical models of turbidite bed thicknesses can be also found inChen and Hiscott (1999), Sylvester (2007), Pantopoulos et al (2013), Palozzi et al (2018) and references therein..…”

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“…Previous studies have attempted to assess the possibility of characterizing turbidite depositional environments based on observed types of bed thickness statistical distributions (Carlson and Grotzinger, 2001;Talling, 2001;Sylvester, P J ;Pantopoulos et al, 2013), and bed thickness clustering (Chen and Hiscott, 1999;Mukhopadhyay et al, 2003;Felletti, 2004;Felletti and Bersezio, 2010b;K ;Pantopoulos et al, 2013).…”

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Turbidite bed thickness statistics of architectural elements in a deep-marine confined mini-basin setting: Examples from the Grès d'Annot Formation, SE France

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Turbidite bed thickness statistics of architectural elements in a deep-marine confined mini-basin setting: Examples from the Grès d'Annot Formation, SE France

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“…Models 1-4 show distributions that approach log-normal. Log-normal distributions are a common occurrence in geology and observed in deep-water settings with respect to turbidite bed thickness and recurrence intervals (Davis, 1986;Sylvester, 2007;Pantopoulos et al, 2013;Clare et al, 2016;Allin et al, 2018). The product of the occurrences of two or more normallydistributed random variables results in a log-normal distribution (Davis, 1986).…”

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A Poor Relationship Between Sea Level and Deep-Water Sand Delivery

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Baumgardner

Sun

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Sedimentary Geology

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The most commonly cited control on delivery of sand to deep water is the rate of relative sea-level fall. The rapid rate of accommodation loss on the shelf causes sedimentation to shift basinward. Field and experimental numerical modeling studies have shown that deep-water sand delivery can occur during any stage of relative sea level position and across a large range of values of rate of relative sea-level change. However, these studies did not investigate the impact of sediment transport efficiency on the relationship between rate of relative sea-level change and deep-water sand delivery rate. We explore this relationship using a deterministic nonlinear diffusion-based numerical stratigraphic forward model. We vary across three orders of magnitude the diffusion coefficient value for marine settings, which controls sediment transport efficiency. We find that the rate of relative sea-level change can explain no more than 1% of the variability in deep-water sand delivery rates, regardless of sediment transport efficiency. Model results show a better correlation with relative sea level, with up to 55% of the variability in deepwater sand delivery rates explained. The results presented here are consistent with studies of natural settings which suggest stochastic processes such as avulsion and slope failure, and interactions among such processes, may explain the remaining variance. Relative sea level is a better predictor of deep-water sand delivery than rate of relative sea-level change because it is the sea-level fall itself which promotes sand delivery, not the rate of the fall. We conclude that the poor relationship between sea level and sand delivery is not an artifact of the modeling parameters but is instead due to the inadequacy of relative sea level and the rate of relative sea-level change to fully describe the dimensional space in which depositional systems reside. Subsequently, sea level itself is unable to account for the interaction of multiple processes that contribute to sand delivery to deep water.

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“…contains a diverse trap style, as well as sedimentary rocks that can act as source, seal, and reservoir are present within its sedimentary succession Pantopoulos and Zelilidis, 2014;Pantopoulos et al, 2013). The presence of these very critical attributes can lead to the definition of the M.R.…”

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Hydrocarbon Plays and Prospectivity of the Mediterranean Ridge

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Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmenta

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The Mediterranean Ridge, the largest physiographic feature in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, is thought to be an accretionary complex, resulting from the convergence of the African and Eurasian plates. The presence of a salt layer in the upper deforming sequence (Late Miocene evaporites) and the unusually great thickness of the incoming sediment column differentiate the Mediterranean Ridge from most other accretionary complexes. Mud volcanoes are present in this region while various lithotypes from Carboniferous to Pleistocene can act as potential source, reservoir, and seal rocks resulting to the recognition of several potential hydrocarbon plays.

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Statistical analysis of turbidite bed thickness patterns from the Alpine fold and thrust belt of western and southeastern Greece

Cited by 20 publications

References 52 publications

Turbidite bed thickness statistics of architectural elements in a deep-marine confined mini-basin setting: Examples from the Grès d'Annot Formation, SE France

Turbidite bed thickness statistics of architectural elements in a deep-marine confined mini-basin setting: Examples from the Grès d'Annot Formation, SE France

A Poor Relationship Between Sea Level and Deep-Water Sand Delivery

Hydrocarbon Plays and Prospectivity of the Mediterranean Ridge

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