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This workshop/seminar will be based in a small hotel on the beach of Carboneras, a fishing village, just east of Almeria SE Spain

In the field, participants will study and use outcrops in the Tabernas and Sorbas Basins and apply hydrological and geological models to explain, shape and scale of submarine fan bodies in a small, active basin. The outcrops will illustrate the impact of flow behavior on the  geological heterogeneity in deepwater reservoirs. This fieldtrip incorporates new observations and new results of dedicated flume experiments.

Day 1 - General outline of the feeder canyon and turbidite lobe systems of the Tabernas Basin; Discussion on bedforms formed during supercritical and subcritical flow.

Day 2 - Buho Canyon: gravelly turbidite facies and cyclic steps; bed forms related to internal hydraulic jump in turbidity currents.

Day 3 - Turbidite sheets: the hydraulically enigmatic Bouma Ta: its relation to sub and super critical bed forms. The concept of single and two phase suspension flow;
Recognition of the hydraulic jumps in channel to lobe transition area. Examples of jump related deep scours in supercritical traction carpets.

Day 4 - Sand-rich turbidite lobe system - Successions resulting from waning and waxing, alternating super and subcritical flow.