Cainozoic Depositional History of the North West Shelf

M. Apthorpe

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of the cycles is controlled by global(?) sea level fluctuations, but also by the relative positions of wells on the slope or shelf of the time...

ABSTRACT: Polytopic Vector Analysis of Foraminiferal Faunas from the Offshore Yakataga Formation (Late Cenozoic-Gulf Of Alaska): A Potential Tool for Sequence Biostratigraphers, by Sarah D. Zellers; #91020 (1995).

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From Cyclothems to Sequences: The Record of Eustasy and Climate on an Icehouse Epeiric Platform (Pennsylvanian-Permian, North American Midcontinent)

Thomas D. Olszewski, Mark E. Patzkowsky

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... curves, respectively (Posamentier et al. 1988), this implies that climate shifts occurred when eustatic sea level was changing most rapidly...

Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous Strata, Southern Alberta

Mark L. Caplan,, R. Marc Bustin

CSPG Bulletin

... widely fluctuating subsidence rates superimposed on slowly varying eustatic sea-level, and paleoceanographic changes which altered depositional...

Abstract: Foraminiferal Biofacies, Local Zonation and Paleobathymetry of the Hackberry Sequence (Middle Oligocene Frio) of Southwestern Louisiana, by S. Q. Breard, A. D. Callender, and M. J. Nault; #90924 (1999).

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Abstract: Two-Dimensional Paleoslope Modeling: A New Method for Estimating Water Depths for Benthic Foraminiferal Biofacies, Paleo Shelf Margins, and Systems Tracts, by Stephen F. Pekar and Michelle A. Kominz; #90914(2000)

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Distribution, Microfauna, and Source-Rock Potential of Mississippian Delle Phosphatic Member of Woodman Formation and Equivalents, Utah and Adjacent States

Charles A. Sandberg, Raymond C. Gutschick

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... (Figure 1) and phosphorite production. Ultimately, at about the same time, sea level was lowered about 60 m (200 ft), and the Deseret basin...

Computer (SEDPAK) Modeling of the Late Cambrian Dotsero Formation, Central Colorado: Sequence Stratigraphy Applied to a Cratonic Sequence

Paul J. Bartos

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... deposition appears to be the creation of accommodation space through sea-level changes; these too, were at a significantly smaller scale. Overall...

High-Resolution Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Hartland Shale Member: Analysis of an Oxygen-Deficient Epicontinental Sea

B.B. Sageman

Special Publications of SEPM

...; this volume). level due to basin subsidence or eustatic fluctuation causes westward transgression of the sea over Characteristic Biofacies. Stillstand...

Middle Holocene Sea-Level and Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Coast

Michael D. Blum, Amy E. Sivers, Tracy Zayac, Ronald J. Goble

GCAGS Transactions

...Middle Holocene Sea-Level and Evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Coast Michael D. Blum, Amy E. Sivers, Tracy Zayac, Ronald J. Goble 2003 64 77 Vol. 53...

Late Devonian Mass Extinction: Episodic Climatic Cooling or Warming?

J. B. Thompson, C. R. Newton

CSPG Special Publications

... for an extreme polytaxic oceanic mode which includes a sea level highstand, widespread anoxia, and warm sea surface temperatures that are driven even higher over...

Sedimentology and Acoustic Mapping of Modern Rhodolith Facies on a Non-Tropical Carbonate Shelf (Gulf of California, Mexico)

Steffen Hetzinger, Jochen Halfar, Bernhard Riegl, Lucio Godinez-Orta

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...%), and corals (6%). Based on cluster analysis, biota were grouped into a rhodolith, a rhodolith–bivalve–coral, and a bivalve–bryozoa biofacies...

Late Ordovician Sponge-Dominated, Island-Slope Biofacies, Eastern Australia

B. D. Webby, I. G. Percival

Pacific Section SEPM

...Late Ordovician Sponge-Dominated, Island-Slope Biofacies, Eastern Australia B. D. Webby, I. G. Percival LATE ORDOVICIAN SPONGE-DOMINATED, ISLAND...

Foraminiferal Biofacies in Sediments of the Gulf of Batabano, Cuba: ABSTRACT

Orville L. Bandy

AAPG Bulletin

...Foraminiferal Biofacies in Sediments of the Gulf of Batabano, Cuba: ABSTRACT Orville L. Bandy 1963 349 350 47 2. (February) The Gulf of Batabano...

Holocene Benthic Foraminiferal Diversity and Abundance Variations in Lower Bathyal and Abyssal Environments, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Megan H. Jones, Barun K. Sen Gupta

GCAGS Transactions

... is not just a quiescent marginal sea (Lewis, 1992). In the western Gulf, upper-level circulation patterns are dominated by warm-core anticyclonic...

Recent Ostracode Facies from Panama City to Florida Bay Area

Harbans S. Puri , Neil C. Hulings

GCAGS Transactions

... biofacies are recognized on the west coast of Florida. The carbonate province that includes the Florida Bay area has a very distinct ostracode assemblage...

Criteria in Correlation

Robert M. Kleinpell

Pacific Section of AAPG

... wonderful a fact as a tropical sea shell being found near the surface in the middle of England. Nothing before had ever made me realize, though I had read...

Depositional Sequence Mapping as a Technique to Establish Tectonic and Stratigraphic Framework and Evaluate Hydrocarbon Potential on a Passive Continental Margin: Chapter 5

Richard J. Hubbard, Joe Pape, David G. Roberts

AAPG Special Volumes

... and component gross depositional environments. It is of prime importance in effective basin analysis to recognize the correct level of sequence mapping...

Assumed Holocene Highstands, Gulf of Mexico: Basic Issues of Sedimentary and Landform Criteria--DISCUSSION

Ervin G. Otvos

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., v. 26, p. 49-60. BLUM, M.D. AND CARTER, A.E., 1999, Middle Holocene sea-level highstand at +2 m and evolution of the central Texas coast (abstract...

Abstract: Micropalaeontology and Palaeoenvironments of the Wadi Waqb Member, Jabal Kibrit Formation, and Its Reservoir Equivalent, Saudi Arabian Red Sea, by Geraint W. Hughes; #90077 (2008)

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PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BENTHIC RECOVERY AFTER THE LATE PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENT IN EASTERN LOMBARDY, ITALY

WILLIAM J. FOSTER, SILVIA DANISE, GREGORY D. PRICE, RICHARD J. TWITCHETT

PALAIOS

...). However, other environmental changes, including increased sediment fluxes, eutrophication, and sea-level rise are thought to have contributed...

Organic Geochemistry of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: A Trans-Basinal Evaluation

Richard D. Pancost, Katherine H. Freeman, Michael A. Arthur

Special Publications of SEPM

...) the mixture of Tethys and Boreal ocean waters, typically with either northward expansion of the former as sea level rises (Eicher and Worstell, 1970; Frush...

Geological Modeling of Paleogene - Neogene Sequences From Akholjuni (Cambay Basin) to CACD Area (Mumbai Offshore Basin): An Integrated Approach; #50745 (2012)

Sunita Dabholkar, Dhruvendra Singh, Bamdeo Tripathi, and Rajeev Verma

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... by widespread limestone occurrence, denoting presence of Epeiric Seas, followed by sea level rise and deposition of shales in neritic environments...

Carbonate Platform Drowning and Oceanic Anoxic Events on a Mid-Cretaceous Carbonate Platform, South-Central Pyrenees, Spain

Peter A. Drzewiecki , J. A. Toni Simo

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-Cretaceous clim te and a global rise in sea level resulted in changes in oceanic circulation patterns, increased organic productivity, and a shift...

Conodont Biostratigraphy of the Porvenir Formation (Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian) in the Southeastern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

Lewis M. Brown, Carl B. Rexroad, Alexander N. Zimmerman

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... Formation sedimentation and exerted greater control on depositional sites than did the possibly minor changes in sea level. At the type Locality (Locality...