Skip to content viewer section. Along the south margin of the San Gabriel (California) mountain block alluvial fans have accumulated to a thickness of a thousand feet and more. The whole series of ...

Thousands of years ago, glaciers melted and water rushed down the Fraser Canyon. Along the way, the torrent collected gravel ...

Submarine fans receive sediment through canyon-channel systems and are the largest detrital accumulations on Earth. Their general characteristics and developmental models are reviewed. Submarine ...

In both cases there are huge alluvial fans and massive river systems, with river channel deposits, floodplains and deltas. In subduction boundaries, sediment is shed off the volcanic mountains, and ...