Sand Bodies
Tidal Deltas



For more information on tidal delta complexes, see Rodriguez, Antonio B., John B. Anderson, and John Bradford, Holocene tidal deltas of the Trinity incised valley: analogs for exploration and production


Map showing the disribution of the sandy proximal tidal delta facies (5a) and locations of cross-sections A-A' through the flood-tidal delta (5b) and B-B' through the ebb-tidal delta (5c). Cross-sections were constructed from core and seismic data.


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