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Sub-grid parameterisation of fluvio-deltaic processes and architecture in a basin-scale stratigraphic model
Dalman, R.A.F.; Weltje, G.J. (2008). Sub-grid parameterisation of fluvio-deltaic processes and architecture in a basin-scale stratigraphic model. Comput. Geosci. 34(10): 1370-1380. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.005
In: Computers and Geosciences. Elsevier Science: Oxford; New York. ISSN 0098-3004; e-ISSN 1873-7803, meer
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Trefwoorden
    Marien/Kust; Brak water; Zoet water
Author keywords
    Alluvial architecture; Fluvio-deltaic; Avulsion; Stratigraphic; Numerical; Reservoir model

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  • Dalman, R.A.F.
  • Weltje, G.J., meer

Abstract
    We present a parameterisation of fluvio-deltaic drainage network evolution and alluvial architecture in a basin-scale 2-DH model. The model setup is capable of producing convergent and divergent channel networks. Major elements are the alluvial-ridge aggradation and the coupled overbank deposition, the dimension and style of the channel belt and the sub-grid stratigraphic expression. Avulsions are allowed to develop out of randomly instigated crevasses. Channel stability is modelled one dimensionally by calculating the flow and sediment transport at prospective avulsion nodes. The ultimate fate of crevasses (failed avulsion, successful avulsion, stable bifurcation) depends on the ratio of cross-valley and in-channel gradients in the local neighbourhood of the grid cell under consideration and on the amount and distribution of the suspended sediment load in the water column. The sub-grid parameterisation yields implicit knowledge of the alluvial architecture, which may be analysed stochastically. Stochastic realisations of the alluvial architecture allow us to investigate the relationship between basin-fill architecture and small-scale alluvial architecture, which is likely to improve geological reservoir modelling of these notoriously complex deposits. Modelling results under conditions of time-invariant forcing indicate significant quasi-cyclic autogenic behaviour of the fluvio-deltaic system. Changes in the avulsion frequency are correlated with the number and length of distributary channels, which are in turn related to alternating phases of progradational and aggradational delta development. The resulting parasequences may be difficult to distinguish from their allogenically induced counterparts.

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