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AAPG Bulletin, V. 84, No. 2 (February 2000), P. 210-233.

Sequence Stratigraphy of Upper Mississippian Strata in the Central Appalachians: A Record of Glacioeustasy and Tectonoeustasy in a Foreland Basin Setting1

Daniel J. Miller2 and Kenneth A. Eriksson3

©Copyright 2000. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
1Manuscript received June 29, 1998; revised manuscript received May 3, 1999; final acceptance July 9, 1999.
2Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061. Present address: Marathon Oil Company, 1501 Stampede Avenue, Cody, Wyoming 82414; e-mail: DanielMiller@MarathonOil.com
3Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, 24061; e-mail: kaeson@vt.edu
This paper represents part of a dissertation project that was funded in part by grants from the Geological Society of America and the Society of Professional Well Log Analysts. Well logs were provided by the West Virginia Geological Survey and Stonewall Gas Company. We benefited from discussions with Richard Bambach, Fred Read, and Erik Kvale. We appreciate the suggestions for clarification of the text and figures that were provided by Peter Schwans and an anonymous manuscript reviewer.

ABSTRACT

The Upper Mississippian Hinton, Princeton, and Bluestone formations of southern West Virginia constitute a westward-thinning wedge of strata that filled the central Appalachian basin over approximately 7 m.y. Up to 17 transgressive-regressive sequences comprise the study interval in the basin depocenter. High-frequency, fourth-order (~400 k.y.) sequences vary with regard to the degree of basal incision, the overall thickness, and the character of the dominant facies. Five sequence types are recognized in the outcrop belt: (1) major incised valley fill to coastal plain, (2) major incised valley fill to deltaic, (3) minor incised valley fill, (4) coastal plain, and (5) marine-dominated sequences. Sequence development is ascribed to glacioeustasy during the early stages of the Permian-Carboniferous Gondwanan glaciation.

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