Field Conference: Cycle and Sequence Stratigraphy of Middle to Upper Cambrian Carbonates, Bonanza King Formation, Southern Great Basin; Lateral Continuity of Middle Cambrian Peritidal Cycles, Southern Nevada: Implications for Their Origin

David A. Osleger, Isabel P. Montañez, Javier Martin-Chivelet, Christoph Lehmann, Jeff Jaech, Eric Stokstad, Milt Kwong

Pacific Section SEPM

... in a section have equal unit length, as the method dictates. The plot for each section has its own vertical scale of cycle number. The horizontal scale...

Stages of platform development in the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Leduc Formation, Peace River Arch, Alberta

George R. Dix

CSPG Bulletin

... the base of the Winterburn Group strata, and have been of help in distinguishing these strata where they directly overlie the Leduc Formation...

Turbidite Reservoir Facies in the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, West-Central Alberta

Thomas F. Moslow,, Graham R. Davies

CSPG Bulletin

... vertical and lateral permeability barriers and reservoir heterogeneity. However, there is a lateral continuity in lithofacies along depositional...

Chapter 21 - Diagenesis: Deformation Features

Dana S. Ulmer-Scholle, Peter A. Scholle, Juergen Schieber, Robert J. Raine

AAPG Special Volumes

.... 385–407, doi: 10.2475/ajs.257.6.385. Cobbold, P. R., and N. Rodrigues, 2007, Seepage forces, important factors in the formation of horizontal hydraulic...

Main Divisions of Pennsylvanian Period and System

Raymond C. Moore , M. L. Thompson

AAPG Bulletin

... distinguishing names of geographic origin, which preferably should be short euphonious terms. Therefore, we give the following names: Ardian Series for Lower...

Multiple Orders of Relative Sea-level Change in an Earliest Cambrian Passive-margin Succession, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwestern Canada

Robert B. MacNaughton, Robert W. Dalrymple, Guy M. Narbonne

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...") to a body formed by a particular order of sea-level variation and/or to one lacking any internal discontinuities other than flooding surfaces...

Equatorial Aridity in Western Pangea: Lower Permian Loessite and Dolomitic Paleosols in Northeastern New Mexico, U.S.A.

Jennifer L.P. Kessler , Gerilyn S. Soreghan , Herbert J. Wacker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 5, p. 43-109. PIMENTAL, N.L., WRIGHT, V.P., AND AZEVEDO, T.M., 1996, Distinguishing early groundwater...

Changes in Depositional Processes—An Ingredient in a New Generation of Sequence-Stratigraphic Models

Shuji Yoshida, Ron J. Steel, Robert W. Dalrymple

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Quaternary and Holocene (Fig. 1). If this potential environmental complexity is not taken into account, identification of bounding discontinuities (e.g....

Genetic Stratigraphic Sequences in Basin Analysis I: Architecture and Genesis of Flooding-Surface Bounded Depositional Units

William E. Galloway

AAPG Bulletin

... to loading, syndepositional structural discontinuities. Units are bounded by hiatal surfaces preserved as submarine unconformities or condensed...

Lowstand alluvial bypass systems: Incised vs. unincised

Henry W. Posamentier

AAPG Bulletin

... from open marine to estuarine to fluvial (Zaitlin et al., 1994). Incised valleys can be the sites of numerous stratigraphic discontinuities...

Use of Gravimetry for Direct Exploration for Oil and Gas

I. O. Tsimel’zon

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... in the direction toward the southeast part of the epi-Hercynian platform (8). The method of Saxov and Nygaard was used for distinguishing local anomalies...

Improved Methods of Geophysical Investigation of Carbonate Sediments of the Volga-Ural Region

V. G. Dvoretskiy, N. G. Nesterenko, A. V. Ruchkin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... than with standard apparatus (2). Measurement of the thickness of the clay cake with an accuracy of 1 mm facilitates the task of distinguishing...

Neogene Dinoflagellate Cysts from the Hunt Dome Kopanoar M-13 Well, Beaufort Sea, Canada: GEOLOGICAL NOTE

Jonathan P. Bujak, Edward H. Davies

CSPG Bulletin

.... Epifluorescence is a valuable technique for distinguishing the indigenous population, and reveals marine and freshwater dinoflagellate cysts...

Ripple Marks as an Aid in Determining Depositional Environment and Rock Sequence

O. F. Evans

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... WAVE-FORMED AND CURRENT-FORMED RIPPLE MARKS In distinguishing between wave-formed and current-formed ripple marks, it is helpful to keep in mind...

Marine Upper Paleozoic Deposits of the Arctic: Regional Arctic Geology of the USSR

V. I. Ustritsky, G. E. Chernyak

AAPG Special Volumes

... marine sections, no faunal change that would allow distinguishing of the two stages is found. Andrianov, V. N., 1966, Verkhnepaleozoyskiye otlozheniya...

Biogenic Structures in Outcrops and Cores. I. Approaches to Ichnology

Robert W. Frey, S. George Pemberton

CSPG Bulletin

... of morphological features in vertical, spreiten-bearing, U-shaped trace fossils. Journal of Paleontology, v. 48, p. 952-962. Fursich, F. T. 1974c...

Recognition of Relative Sea-Level Change in Upper Cretaceous Coal-Bearing Strata: A Paleoecological Approach Using Agglutinated Foraminifera and Ostracodes to Detect Key Stratigraphic Surfaces

Neil E. Tibert, R. Mark Leckie, Jeffrey G. Eaton, James I. Kirkland, Jean-Paul Colin, Elana L. Leithold, Michael E. Mccormic

Special Publications of SEPM

... Change and Stratigraphic Discontinuities SEPM Special Publication No. 75, Copyright © 2003 SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), ISBN 1-56576-084-0...

Geology of Silurian Rocks, Northwestern Ohio

Charles F. Kahle, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OhioJack C. Floyd, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OhioJane L.Forsyth, Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio

Ohio Geological Society

... 27. Vertical changes in sedimentary structures and interpretations of flow regimes...

Depositional Environments of the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain — Southeastern Louisiana

Charles R. Kolb, Jack R. Van Lopik

Houston Geological Society

... significant discontinuities in soil type readily apparent to those familiar with the environments of deposition in the deltaic plain. A commonly occurring...

Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Pedogenesis and Landscape Evolution in a Quaternary Intramontane Basin (Val d’Agri Basin, Southern Apennines, Italy)

Irene Zembo, Luca Trombino, Riccardo Bersezio, Fabrizio Felletti, Monica Dapiaggi

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...): Sedimentary Geology, v. 148, p. 123–138. Pimentel, N.L.V., Wright, V.P., and Azevedo, T.M., 1996, Distinguishing early groundwater alteration effects from...

Decadal architecture and morphodynamics of modern, river-fed turbidite systems: Bute Inlet and Congo Fan

Gustavo Lobato, George Postma, D. Gwyn Lintern, Ricardo S. Jacinto, Matthieu J.B. Cartigny

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... deposits variable in time and space and heterogeneous in terms of facies and geometries. Such discontinuities and heterogeneities cause uncertainties...

Structural Framework of Sunda Shelf

Zvi Ben-Avraham, K. O. Emery

AAPG Bulletin

...) and the overlying sediments and the distinguishing of many strata (Fig. 6) with different velocities. The shallow water depth and the long (50-75 msec) duration...

AAPG Annual Meeting, March 10-13, 2002, Houston, Texas; #90007 (2002).

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REVISED TYPE SECTION OF THE OFICINA FORMATION

John De Sisto

Asociación Venezolana de Geología, Minería y Petróleo (AVGMP)

... where the section is more condensed, some difficulty may be encountered in distinguishing the top of the formation, especially in areas where...

Extinct Bison—Shirley Basin Mining District: Carbon County, Wyoming

Calvin D. Fletcher

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... corresponding parts on a reconstructed skeleton of Bison antiquus figginsi. Figure 1. Skull with distinguishing wide horns. Figure 2. Lower...