Subaqueous deltas and mud belts
Detached
or attached to sandy depocenters
Dominated by along-shelf transport
Numerous
Modern Examples
Very few
ancient examples (Asquith, 1970, Leithold, 1992)
Not
incorporated in stratigraphic models (Mississippi is an exception)
Modern Mud Shelf Deposits
Ebro
Columbia
Diaz et al. (1996)
Wright and Nittouer (1995)