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Sequences, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology: Surface and Subsurface — Memoir 15, 1988
Pages 261-274
Sedimentology

An Integrated Lithostratigraphic and Palynostratigraphic Study of the Ostracode Zone and Adjacent Strata in the Edmonton Embayment, Central Alberta

Indranil Banerjee, Edward H. Davies

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In the subsurface of central Alberta, four palynostratigraphic zones are erected in the Ostracode Zone (Aptian-Albian) and adjacent strata of the Mannville Group, based on the dinoflagellate and miospore assemblages from 134 samples from 22 wells within the Edmonton Embayment. The Edmonton Embayment is a shallow, wide paleotopographic depression infilled with muddy sediments of a lagoon/tidal flat complex overlain by a sandy, flood-tidal deltaic complex. The filled embayment was twice inundated by an advancing sea. A complex relationship between lithostratigraphic and palynostratigraphic units is evident. Paleoecological curves based on palynological assemblages from three key wells (one located outside the embayment) indicate relative sea-level fluctuations. Three minor cycles occur within a major transgressive event terminating near the top of the Ostracode Zone, close to the Aptian-Albian boundary.


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