This is a portion of a basin floor fan system that collects just down slope of the deep water mid slope channels characteritic of the transportation system of submarine fans on the lower slope or basin floor (Beaubouef et al, 1999). Erosion of canyons into the slope and the updip incision of fluvial valleys into the shelf feed the sediment found in the toe of slope. This portion of the basin-floor fan is usually at or close to the mouth of a canyon. Traced seaward the basin floor fan has been divided into proximal fan, mid fan and distal fan.
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References
Beaubouef, R.T., C.R. Rossen, F.B. Zelt, M.D. Sullivan, D.C. Mohrig, D.C. Jennette, J.A. Bellian, S.J. Friedman, R.W. Lovell, and D.S. Shannon, 1999, Deepwater sandstones, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas: AAPG Continuing Education Course Note Series, v. 40, pp.48
