The channels are filled largely with the deposits of low-density turbidity currents characterized by plane lamination and climbing-ripple cross-lamination. In contrast, lobes contain thick-bedded massive and cross-stratified sandstones deposited by high-density flows. This contrast of apparently higher energy, high-density turbidite divisions in the lobes and lower energy, low-density deposits in the upslope channel fill is thought to reflect diachronous deposition of these otherwise contiguous parts of the deposystem. When sand deposition was occurring on the lobe complex, large, high-density flows moved through and largely bypassed or actively eroded the upslope channels. As flow volumes and strength declined, deposition on the lobe complex waned and sand deposition from low-density currents occurred within the channels, with little sediment other than mud reaching the lobe complex.
The overall northward paleoflow direction in the outcrop window is parallel to the inferred eastern paleoslope. The abundance of massive turbidites in the most downslope deposits and evidence for correlative deposits with south- and southwest-directed paleocurrents a short distance to the north suggest that the basin may have been ponded.