High-resolution analysis of submarine lobes deposits: Seismic-scale outcrops of the Lauzanier area (SE Alps, France)

High-resolution analysis of submarine lobes deposits: Seismic-scale outcrops of the Lauzanier area (SE Alps, France)

The Lauzanier area represents the northernmost extension of the Annot Sandstone series and contains deposits between 650 and 900 m-thick. This basin was active from upper Bartonian or lower Priabonian to early Rupelian. It is composed of two superposed units separated by a major unconformity. The se...

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Published in:Sedimentary geology Vol. 229; no. 3; pp. 160 - 191
Main Authors: Mulder, Thierry, Callec, Yannick, Parize, Olivier, Joseph, Philippe, Schneider, Jean-Luc, Robin, Cécile, Dujoncquoy, Emmanuel, Salles, Tristan, Allard, Jonathan, Bonnel, Cédric, Ducassou, Emmanuelle, Etienne, Samuel, Ferger, Brice, Gaudin, Mathieu, Hanquiez, Vincent, Linares, Fabien, Marchès, Elodie, Toucanne, Samuel, Zaragosi, Sébastien
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 01-08-2010
Elsevier
Subjects:
Annot Sandstone
Basins
Channelled lobe
Coarsening
Confined basin
Deposition
Earth Sciences
Evolution
Gravity processes
Lobes
Non-channelled lobe
Outcrops
Sciences of the Universe
Sediments
Seismic engineering
Seismic phenomena
Topographic compensation
Non-channelled lobe
Topographic compensation
Gravity processes
Annot Sandstone
Channelled lobe
Confined basin
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Summary:The Lauzanier area represents the northernmost extension of the Annot Sandstone series and contains deposits between 650 and 900 m-thick. This basin was active from upper Bartonian or lower Priabonian to early Rupelian. It is composed of two superposed units separated by a major unconformity. The sediment supply is due to channelled flows coming from the south. Flow processes include mass flow to turbidity currents. The size of the particles and the absence of fine-grained sediment suggest a transport over a short distance. The Lower Unit is made of coarse-grained tabular beds interpreted as non-channelled lobe deposits. The Upper Unit is made of massive conglomerates interpreted as the channelled part of lobes. These lobe deposits settle in a tectonically confined basin according to topographic compensation that occurs from bed scale to unit scale. The abrupt progradation between the lower and the upper unit seems related to a major tectonic uplift in the area. This uplift is also suggested by a change in the petrographic nature of the source and an abrupt coarsening of the transported clasts. This field example allows providing high resolution analysis for depositional sedimentary sequences of terminal lobe deposits in a coarse-grained turbidite system. The outcrop analysis shows the lateral evolution of deposits and the system progradation allows a longitudinal analysis of facies evolution by superposing on the same outcrops the channelled lobe system and the non-channelled lobe system. These results of high-resolution outcrop analysis can be extrapolated to results obtained on sedimentary lobes in recent deep-sea turbidite system that are either restricted to cores, or with a lesser resolution (seismic).
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ISSN:0037-0738
DOI:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.11.005