AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50,
(Section Title: Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations) Chapter 7: Stratigraphic
Architecture of Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstones from the Ferron Sandstone Outcrop, East-Central
Utah, by Mark D. Barton, Edward S. Angle, and Noel Tyler, Pages 193 - 210
from:
AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50: Regional
to Wellbore Analog for Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir Modeling: The Ferron Sandstone of Utah,
Edited by Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Roy D. Adams, and Thomas H. Morris
Copyright © 2004 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the
Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.
Regional Sequence Stratigraphic
Interpretations
Chapter 7:
Stratigraphic Architecture of Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstones from the Ferron Sandstone
Outcrop, East-Central Utah
Mark D. Barton1, Edward S. Angle2,
and Noel Tyler3
1Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., Houston, Texas
2Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas
3ARC Group, LLC, Leander, Texas
ABSTRACT
The Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone is a fluvial-deltaic system that is
superbly exposed along the western flank of the San Rafael Swell in east-central Utah. The
Ferron consists of fluvial, near shorezone, and shallow-marine strata that were deposited
along the active margin of an evolving foreland basin. The 180-m-thick (590-ft) Ferron
Sandstone forms an east- to northeast-thinning clastic wedge that is bounded by marine
strata and pinches out over the distance of 40 km (25 mi). Numerous local transgressive
intervals further subdivide the Ferron into 10-20-m (30-60-ft) thick successions of
fluvial and shallow-marine strata that are similar to the commonly used
parasequence.
