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sheetflood [′shēt‚fləd]
(hydrology) A broad expanse of moving, storm-borne water that spreads as a thin, continuous, relatively uniform film over a large area for a short distance and duration. Also known as sheet; sheetwash. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Where an assemblage can be shown to have been produced by temporally separate events, it can be subdivided into component trace-fossil suites, for example, where a burrow and a boring cross-cut in a sedimentary rock (pre-omission and post-omission suites, Bromley 1990) or where hypichnial and epichnial trackways occur on a sheetflood sandstone bed (predepositional and postdepositional suites, Han and Pickerill 1994). Sheetflood flow across the Noachian Plateau ponded in depressions and craters until levels rose to breach crater rims and cut multiple spillways through the developing valley. Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada A variety of lithofacies are present in strata assigned to the Horton Group in southern New Brunswick, including: alluvial fan, sheetflood, fluvio-deltaic, algal swamp, shoreface, carbonate mudflat, shallow lacustrine, evaporitic lake, and offshore lake. |
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