Stratigraphy commonly is
interpreted within hierarchical, or scale dependent, frameworks that subdivide
deposits based on interpretations of distinct jumps in characteristics at
certain scales. Here Straub and Pyles
use the compensation index to describe the architecture of stratigraphy exposed
in outcrops of submarine-fan strata in the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone
representing contrasting architectural styles, including predominantly lobe
elements and predominantly channel elements. Results indicate statistically
significant increases in the strength of compensation across larger
hierarchical levels, consistent with hierarchical interpretations of
stratigraphy, and that lobe elements stack more compensationally than channel
elements. The results are interpreted to reflect compensation increases along a
longitudinal transect through this distributive submarine fan, and that some
characteristics of sedimentary systems are hierarchical, whereas others are
fractal.
Quantifying the hierarchical organization of compensation in submarine fans using surface statistics by Kyle M. Straub and David R. Pyles
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