...Lincoln Pratson; Wences Gouveia Abstract Experimental strata formed in the new Experimental Earthscape (XES) basin at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory of the University of Minnesota offer a realistic model for simulating the seismic response of natural strata and thus for advancing understanding...

... these depositional belts develop under simple but precisely controlled boundary conditions of steady subsidence, sediment flux, and water discharge is achieved through the creation of an experimental stratigraphic succession. The Experimental EarthScape run in 2006 (XES06) focused on the geomorphic evolution...

...Paul L. Heller; Chris Paola; In-Gul Hwang; Barbara John; Ronald Steel Abstract Subsidence is a major factor in the accumulation and architecture of natural basin fills. A recently built experimental facility (Experimental Earthscape Facility [XES]) at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory of the University...

... are sensitive to a variety of factors, including basin geometry, subsidence rate, and sediment discharge. The Experimental EarthScape run in 2006 (XES06) examined the development of fluvial morphology and alluvial architecture as a function of subsidence and sediment flux in an experimental basin based...

... in the Experimental EarthScape facility at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, focusing on stratigraphic surfaces defined by discordant contact geometries, surfaces analogous to those delineated in the original work on seismic sequence stratigraphy. In this controlled setting, we directly evaluate critical sequence...

... is inversely correlated to temporal (vertical) changes in sedimentation rate; and (2) channel-belt stacking density and hence connectedness is directly correlated to lateral changes in sedimentation rate. In this paper we make use of the Experimental EarthScape (XES) Facility at the St. Anthony Falls...

..., and eustatic histories from ancient deposits. Here we test whether subsidence geometry influences shoreline migration in response to sea-level change by comparing two physical experiments conducted in the Experimental EarthScape (XES) basin. The experiments had similar sediment supply, subsidence rate...

...Figure 1 Synthetic seismic data volume generated from a subset of the 2002 Experimental EarthScape (XES) basin experimental stratigraphy. Changes in amplitude are assumed to be an adequate response to the acoustic impedance variability assigned to the deposit. The volume contains multiple...

...Figure 2. A: Plan-view image of XES 06 (Experimental EarthScape; for details, see Connell, 2010 ) experiment taken at runtime (RT) = 2 h, tectonic stage 1a. XES 06 included four sediment sources and built hanging-wall and footwall fans. B: Tectonic geometry of XES 06. Two linear hinges were...

... the shoreline position in their Experimental EarthScape basin ( https://www.safl.umn.edu/facilities/experimental-earthscape-xes-basin ) experiments. The conservation of sediment mass is expressed as where q s is the sediment flux (km 2 /m.y.), t is the simulated model time (m.y.), ɳ is the topographic...

...Figure 2 A) Schematic diagram of the experimental basin, the Experimental EarthScape (XES) facility at the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics at St. Anthony Falls at the University of Minnesota, B) XES Run 02 global sea-level (GSL) curve. Dots on the curve indicate when topographic...

... slip imposed a new, longer time scale for autogenic dynamics by establishing a linked tectonic-sedimentation system. Scaling the experimental results to field length and time scales suggests that comparable autogenic cycles would produce 10–20-m-thick strata on time scales of 10 5 yr, comparable...

... such as outcrops, cut sections, or slices of experimentally deposited sediments. When the deposit is soft sediment, a simple and commonly used method of doing this is to take peels of the surface. This is one method used in the Experimental EarthScape (XES) basin at the University of Minnesota's St. Anthony Falls...

...Fig. 2. Dip oriented stratigraphic section taken from Experimental EarthScape XES02 run and the conditions of base-level change that produced it (modified from Martin et al . 2009 ), overlain with sequence set stacking trends. ...