Vertical sedimentation units in a barrier island washover fan Article

Leatherman, SP, Williams, AT. (1983). Vertical sedimentation units in a barrier island washover fan . EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS, 8(2), 141-150. 10.1002/esp.3290080205

cited authors

  • Leatherman, SP; Williams, AT

authors

abstract

  • Overwash is a major component of a barrier island's response to high energy conditions. Examination of the 19‐20 March, 1975, storm deposits at Assateague Island, showed that an overwash sequence could be divided into sedimentation units. Interpretation depends upon defining textural and mineralogical combinations that can be logically ordered as a vertical sequence. If the sequence is depositional and formed from a single material, normal grading usually results; if polymineralogical and erosionally truncated, inverse grading with a top layer of heavy minerals can be formed via an in situ sorting process dependent on disturbance depth and overwash influence. Copyright © 1983 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

publication date

  • January 1, 1983

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start page

  • 141

end page

  • 150

volume

  • 8

issue

  • 2