Controversy exists over the classification of fluvially formed subaerial fans. Authors either restrict alluvial fans to debris flow dominated types or extend the spectrum to fans dominated by braided rivers. The Okavango Fan provides an end member which extends this spectrum to fans dominated by meandering and low sinuosity rivers. The fan is a large (150 km radial axis) shallowly sloping (0.00036), highly vegetated subaerial fan, which can be subdivided into four subenvironments. These are: (1) the entry corridor or Panhandle characterized by single and anastomosing meander belts; (2) the upper fan characterized by meander belts diverging from the fan apex, comprising peat-confined meandering channels, with interchannel swamps forming thick peats; (3) the middle fan with highly confined single and anastomosing low sinuosity rivers and less common prograding meander belts whose channels are confined by thick peats with, however, little chance of peat preservation; and (4) the lower fan in which annual floods from relatively unconfined channels spread over the fan surface and interact with pre-existing aeolian and lacustrine deposits. With the recognition of this new fan type, the spectrum of subaerial fan types can be expressed in terms of: (1) debris flow dominated fans of which the Death Valley fans are a member; (2) braided river dominated fans of which the Kosi Fan is a member; and (3) low sinuosity/meandering (losimean) river dominated fans of which the Okavango Fan is a member. This spectrum can be expressed in terms of variation in slope, maximum size and percentage of surface vegetation, but crucial to the evolution of the various fan types is variation in the flashy to continuous nature of the discharge and the degree of channel confinement evident on the fan surface. Comparable ancient examples of the three fan types are recognizable, many of which provide intermediates between the ideal end members. Debris flow dominated and braid dominated fan types are known from throughout earth history. However, the losimean fan type, because of its reliance on confining vegetation, may only have developed after the Devonian Period. The spectrum of subaerial fan types can be expressed on a triangular field of variation with the vertices defined by the relative importance of the processes which shaped a particular fan system be they debris flows, processes associated with braided rivers or processes associated with meandering and low sinuosity rivers.
在河流成因的陆上扇体分类上仍然存在争议。学者们有将之限定为碎屑流主控冲积扇类型的,也有将之延伸为辫状河成因扇体类型的。奥卡万戈扇提供了一种新端元类型,使河流成因的扇的概念得到扩展,这是一种为底弯度曲流河主控的扇。这种扇是一个范围极大(半径150公里)的缓斜坡(0.00036,这应该是坡度正切函数,译者注),植被极为丰富,可以分为四个亚环境。分别是:(1)入口走廊;以单独的曲流河道以及河道汇聚口沉积带为特征;(2)上扇;以曲流河河道沉积为主,和冲积扇的扇顶不同,它沉积了泥炭为主的曲流河倒沉积,在河道巨厚泥炭沉积间充斥着沼泽;(3)扇中;……
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你这个问题我好几天前就想回答了,可惜太忙,现在想做完这一段,一看,楼主已经看过了,那就没必要继续献丑。另外推荐一篇FLUVIAL FANS: MYTHS, MISCONCEPTIONS, AND THE END OF THE TERMINAL-FAN MODEL
COLIN P. NORTH AND GAIL L. WARWICK写的
另外,A.D.Mail有关于扇三角洲的专著Fan Deltas另外还有一本The geology of fluvial deposits coarse-grained deltas忘了是谁写的了,这些内容应该有所裨益的,总体来说,冲积扇可以认为是出山麓堆积,这个序列在平面上看起来,接着是辫状河三角洲(少数也有Chen称辫状河扇的),然后是低弯度扇,最后是扇三角洲,这是目前关于完整的扇的沉积大家一个总的序列吧,这是从它们所处的地理位置上一个大致的分类。具体的沉积特征,那就要查书了,我没有专门搞这个东西,没有总结哈,抱歉