The Sava depression represents the most southern part of the Pannonian basin (Fig. 1). After the Middle Eocene, a long continental phase started in the area represented by the present depression, during which tectonic movements occurred and a fault network was created along which the basin subsided by extension. The oldest proven sediments belong to the fresh-water Ottnangian deposits which are...

Typhoons have a significant effect on the marine depositional environment and depositional process. In this paper, we used the high-resolution Chirp sonar sub-bottom profiler and radioisotope detection techniques to examine the storm-deposited layer formed in the seawater near the path of Typhoon Saola along the coast of Fujian, China. The thickness of the typhoon-deposited layer acquired using...

A grid-oriented technique has been developed in order to build a 3D hydrostratigraphic model of the Quaternary sediments overlying a regional fractured rock aquifer, in the area of Châteauguay located south of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is part of the St-Lawrence Lowlands, a topographical lowland underlied by Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. It is based on the integration of the surficial sedimen...

Extremely shallow lakes are found in the Altiplano, or high plain, of South America, in which large diurnal temperature variation occurs. In these shallow systems, the water temperature is control by head exchanges with the atmosphere and with the bottom sediments. As a consequence, the amplitude of the daily fluctuations in water temperature is reduced by heat exchanges with the bottom sedimen...

Shallow shear wave reflection surveys using high frequency vibroseis techniques provides information about the Tertiary bedrock surface and Pleistocene sediments on the Fraser River delta, in B.C., Canada. Besides the clear advantage of shear wave profiling in this shallow gas environment, the added resolution potential and ability to measure the shear wave velocity field enhances the fusion of...

The resistance to sliding beneath soft-bedded glaciers depends on the effective stress, N, which is controlled by the subglacial hydrological system. While large-scale water transport is primarily through conduits, the effective stress profile beneath most of the glacier base is expected to be controlled by seepage flows through the permeable sediments. Models of the response to forced changes ...

Abstract. In this paper, we consider a multi-lithology diffusion model used in stratigraphic modelling to simulate large scale transport processes of sediments described as a mixture of L lithologies. This model is a simplified one for which the surficial fluxes are proportional to the slope of the topography and to a lithology fraction with unitary diffusion coefficients. The main unknowns of ...