Sedimentary succession and recognition marks of lacustrine gravel beach-bars, a case study from the Qinghai Lake, China

Abstract: The present is the key to the past. Based on the dissection of modern beach-bars in the Qinghai Lake, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China, including two profiles parallelly to the shoreline, two profiles vertically to the shoreline and one plane-view profile, the sedimentary succession and recognition marks of lacustrine gravel beach-bars have been summarized. Vertically, the lacustrine gravel beach-bars develop with the “ABC” succession. The A interval, the B interval, and the C interval respectively correspond with the gravelly sand facies, the well-sorted gravel facies, and the graded sand facies. The lacustrine gravel beach-bars is composed of several combinations of the “ABC” succession, such as “ABAB”, “ABCABC”, “BCBC”. The main recognition marks of lacustrine gravel beach-bars is the following: the bottom contact is distinct and with the “ABC” succession; and the lacustrine beach-bars develop the swash bedding and sheet-like parallelly to the lakeshore. These viewpoints have significant contributions to the reconstruction of paleoenvironments and paleoshorelines and to the reservoir interpretation within lacustrine beach-bar clastic bodies.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Sedimentary succession and recognition marks of lacustrine gravel beach-bars, a case study from the Qinghai Lake, China ; volume:12 ; number:1 ; year:2020 ; pages:59-70 ; extent:12 ; Open Geosciences ; 12, Heft 1 (2020), 59-70 (gesamt 12)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Peng, Biao ; Han, Jichang ; Xie, Xiao ; Wang, Luyao

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/geo-2020-0005
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2501051650511.250438800952
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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