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Abstract
Notes on Changing Paleoenvironments Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary (Scollard Formation) in the Red Deer River Valley of Southern Alberta
ABSTRACT
The Scollard Formation of southern Alberta comprises alluvial plain deposits that straddle the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Paleochannels in the Scollard Formation display an apparent shift from low sinuosity (straight) to higher sinuosity (meandering) channel forms across the boundary, coincident with the onset of deposition of peats and organic-rich muds. A superb example of this transition is preserved at Knudsen's Coulee and is herein documented.
Although a tectonic influence cannot be ruled out, we propose that the principal cause of the transition is climatic, the result of an increase in wetness, locally rising water tables, and possible changes in discharge characteristics and in-channel sediment load. On the basis of parsimony and the absence of evidence to the contrary, we reject the suggestion that the Cannonball transgression directly influenced changes in the depositional style of the Scollard Formation.
RESUME
La formation Scollard du sud de l'Alberta comprend des depots de plaine alluviale qui chevauchent la frontiere Cretace-Tertiaire. Des paleochenaux dans la formation Scollard montrent un changement apparent de chenaux de faible sinuosite (droits) a des chenaux de sinuosite plus accentuee (a meandres) a travers la frontiere, coincidant ainsi avec le commencement de la sedimentation de tourbes et de boues riches an matiere organique. Un superbe exemple de cette transition est conserve a Knudson's Coulee et est ici documente.
Bien qu'une influence tectonique ne puisse etre exclue, nous proposons que la cause principale de cette transition est climatique, le resultat d'une augmentation du niveau d'humidite, de la hausse locale des nappes phreatiques, et des changements possibles dans les caracteristiques du debit fluviatile et de la charge sedimentaire transportee dans le chenal. En se basant sur la parcimonie et sur l'absence de preuve du contraire, nous rejetons la suggestion que la transgression Cannonball influenca directement les changements dans le style de sedimentation de la formation Scollard.
Traduit par Marc Charest.
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