Facies, Backwater Limits, and Paleohydraulic Analysis of Rivers in a Forced-regressive, Compound Incised Valley, Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah, U.s.a.

We analyze a compound, piedmont-linked, coastal-plain incised-valley system from the Turonian Ferron sandstone, Utah, to evaluate valley-fill facies models in the context of bayline and backwater effects, as well as presenting quantitative estimates of paleohydraulic parameters, such as slope and discharge. Three photomosaics and eight measured sections along variably oriented cliffs show three terraces formed by a single-thread meandering …