ARCHITECTURE OF MIOCENE OVERBANK DEPOSITS IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN - REPLY

Our study of overbank deposits in the Chinji Formation of northern Pak istan focused on documenting facies architecture and testing models of overbank deposition and floodplain construction. Studies that provide detailed cross-sectional maps of channel body architecture in fluvial successions are becoming increasingly common, but very few studies of this kind span overbank deposits for significant distances. Time in a lluvium is recorded mainly in overbank deposits, and processes of floo dplain construction may control the types of overbank deposits preserv ed, the stacking of channel bodies, and the distribution of fossil rem ains. Bridge (1995) questioned two major aspects of our study: (1) whe ther our bedding diagrams were constructed properly and (2) whether th e data presented are adequate to test our five hypotheses of overbank construction. We address each of these points in turn below.