Day 1
Morning lectures on safety, introductions, objectives of the trip, regional setting, Quaternary stratigraphy and morphostratigraphy (beach ridges, coupled barrier-back barrier scarps, Santee River paleovalley and incised valley), incised valley, fluvial, estuarine, and shoreface sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geomorphology as it applies directly to our trip, Influence of antecedent basement structure on Quaternary depositional environments, the focus is on reservoir architecture (sand quality, lateral continuity, sand composition, scales of heterogeneity), facies models, development and exploration applications.
Topics: Fluvial sed/strat, incised valleys, sand and gravel composition, gravel bar architecture, terraces, levees, grain size distributions. Discussions will include the topics of floodplain facies variability, channel morphology, fluvial macroforms (bedforms and bedforms), as well as sediment grain size distribution and composition.