A submarine channel from thalweg to overbank pinchout margin (white arrow), incised into slope mudrocks and filled by debris flow conglomerates (about 20 m thick). Lower in the succession, a couple of overbank debris-flow lobes sourced and isolated from an older channel bankfull event (yellow arrows). Mid Jurassic Bowser Basin, northern British Columbia.
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Debris flow lithofacies

A post on debris flows, mud flows, hyperconcentrated flows, mud torrents, gravel flows slurry flows, lahars. General considerations – the […]