Facies and Morphology of Pleistocene Travertine Mounds at Lyman Lake, Arizona
| dc.contributor.advisor | Chafetz, Henry S. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Evans, Ian | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Zhou, Jie | |
| dc.creator | Trantham, Christopher Wayne 1988- | |
| dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0001-8495-7392 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-15T19:45:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-15T19:45:17Z | |
| dc.date.created | December 2015 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-12 | |
| dc.date.submitted | December 2015 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2018-02-15T19:45:17Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Travertine mounds in eastern Arizona formed around central vents and range from <10 m to 50 m in diameter and between 0.5-60 m thick. The travertine mounds are primarily composed of laterally extensive sheets of rhythmically alternating bacterial shrubs and intraclastic layers dipping 1-3° radially away from their vent. Individual laminations of bacterial shrubs may be 0.2-2.5 cm thick, and compose layers 3-50 cm thick extending laterally for 10-70 m. Intramicrite layers 5-40 cm thick and 30-70 m long contain well-rounded to angular allochems 0.02-70 mm long. Oncoids 1-15 mm in diameter occur in lenses 3-8 cm thick and 0.5-10 m long. Carbonate rafts suspended in micrite filled pool deposits are 4-9 cm long, whereas small rafts 0.5-4 cm long occur within bacterial shrub layers. Grass molds are 1-4 mm in diameter and 1-3 cm long, whereas reeds are 0.5-2 cm in diameter and 4-15 cm long. Individual mounds contain various scales of morphological components such as vents, distal edge high angle smooth slopes, and stacked smooth slope dams. High angle slopes are concave downward structures 2-6 m long and 0.5-1.5 m thick, composed of 0.5-5 cm laminae of ray-crystal crusts that abruptly dip 30-45°. Stacked ray-crystal slopes are column 1.5-2 m tall composed of stacked layers of individual crystalline crusts 12-20 cm wide and 3-6 cm thick. These structures represent the distal edge of mounds where water flowed into the surrounding area. Vents are composed of dense ray-crystals layers that change dip dramatically as the layers transition from the vertical walls to the surrounding vent rim. Facies analysis of Mound-A indicates that the mound was deposited over six stages of deposition and composed of seven morphological features. | |
| dc.description.department | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of | |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | born digital | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10657/2166 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
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| dc.subject | Travertine | |
| dc.subject | Facies | |
| dc.title | Facies and Morphology of Pleistocene Travertine Mounds at Lyman Lake, Arizona | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | |
| thesis.degree.department | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Geology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Houston | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science |