2018
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12471
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The significance of superimposed dunes in the Amazon River: Implications for how large rivers are identified in the rock record

Abstract: The recognition of large fluvial channels in the geological record is of great importance for regional palaeohydraulic and palaeogeographical reconstructions, inputs to reservoir modelling, and estimating the input of sediment to sedimentary basins, with consequent larger-scale implications for modelling basin fill. However, available criteria for the interpretation of the scale of ancient fluvial systems are still poorly tested, particularly the widelyadopted assumption that the abundance of large-scale dunes… Show more

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“…Natural variability further complicates our understanding of what controls bedform dimensions. Observations from flume experiments (e.g., Nordin, ; Venditti et al, ) and field studies (e.g., Galeazzi et al, ; Hendershot et al, ) show tremendous natural variability in dune dimensions within and between reaches, but it is not entirely clear what drives this variability. At the dune scale, variability has been linked to merging and splitting, causing dunes to increase or decrease in size (e.g., Gabel, ; Hendershot et al, ; Swanson et al, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Natural variability further complicates our understanding of what controls bedform dimensions. Observations from flume experiments (e.g., Nordin, ; Venditti et al, ) and field studies (e.g., Galeazzi et al, ; Hendershot et al, ) show tremendous natural variability in dune dimensions within and between reaches, but it is not entirely clear what drives this variability. At the dune scale, variability has been linked to merging and splitting, causing dunes to increase or decrease in size (e.g., Gabel, ; Hendershot et al, ; Swanson et al, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The distribution of migration rates is more skewed to smaller values for the UAV/MAV estimates (Figure 18(D)), probably due to the difficulty of delineating smaller unit bars in the coarser-resolution satellite imagery. Although dunes in the South Saskatchewan River cannot be resolved in these CubeSat images, such bedforms may be resolved in larger rivers (so long as turbidity levels are low), where dune size may range up to many metres in height and tens to hundreds of metres in wavelength (see Galeazzi et al, 2018 for details of such dunes in the Amazon River). In this case, dune migration rates may also be quantifiable, although the results herein suggest that estimation of solely the unit bar migration rates may yield comparable results.…”
Section: The Potential Of Using Aerial Imagery To Quantify the Dynamimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Os dados da granulometria revelam semelhanças entre os terraços pleistocênicos e os rios ativos, com duas diferenças notáveis: as amostras dos terraços apresentam menos silte e menor granulação máxima. O segundo ponto refere-se à variação esperada em subambientes, posto que as amostras de canais ativos incluem amostragem de talvegues, onde a fração granulométrica máxima é reconhecidamente maior (Galeazzi et al, 2018). Já a menor proporção de silte pode relacionar-se ao método de seleção das amostras em afloramentos, que tiveram como objetivo primário a datação OSL, mas esse fator isolado não é uma explicação satisfatória.…”
Section: Interpretação Dos Dados Da Granulometriaunclassified
“…Nesse contexto, estudos sobre a forma do leito de rios ativos e a arquitetura deposicional observada em dados geofísicos (Almeida, R. et al, 2016;Tamura et al, 2016;Galeazzi et al, 2018) têm trazido elementos relevantes para aprimorar modelos e determinar critérios de reconhecimento de rios do tipo anastomosado e meandrantes de grande porte, mas permanecem em aberto questões relativas à preservação, no registro sedimentar antigo, dos elementos deposicionais reconhecidos em sistemas ativos. Uma forma de abordar essas questões é o estudo de afloramentos de depósitos quaternários, pois é fácil determinar sua relação com os sistemas ativos em termos de processos e ambientes fisiográficos e, ao mesmo tempo, podem-se aplicar técnicas desenvolvidas para afloramentos antigos, como a análise de fácies e elementos arquitetônicos (Miall, 1996).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
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