The response of turbidite slope channels to growth-induced seabed topography

Mike Mayall, Lidia Lonergan, Andrew Bowman, Stephen James, Keith Mills, Tim Primmer, Dave Pope, Louise Rogers, Roxanne Skeene

AAPG Bulletin

... complex systems contain generally two to four channel complexes, which we interpret as sequence-stratigraphic fourth-order scale. These add considerable...

The Case for the Regressive Systems Tract with Examples from the Tertiary and Pleistocene of the Northern Gulf Coast Basin, by Marc B. Edwards Search and Discovery Article #40063 (2002)

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Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the earliest deltaic shorelines of the Paleocene Lower Wilcox Group in the Gulf of Mexico

Mariana I. Olariu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that the paleogeography of the Wilcox Group in the northern Gulf of Mexico is more diverse than commonly depicted. At a fourth-order scale dominant...

Detailed internal architecture of a fluvial channel sandstone determined from outcrop, cores, and 3-D ground-penetrating radar: Example from the middle Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, east-central Utah

Rucsandra M. Corbeanu, Kristian Soegaard, Robert B. Szerbiak, John B. Thurmond, George A. McMechan, Deming Wang, Steven Snelgrove, Craig B. Forster, Ari Menitove

AAPG Bulletin

..., fourth-order depositional sequences (FS1 to FS4) within the upper part of the Ferron Sandstone clastic wedge (Figure 2). The fluvial channel complex...

Deltaic process and architectural evolution during cross-shelf transits, Maastrichtian Fox Hills Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming

Mariana I. Olariu, Cristian R. Carvajal, Cornel Olariu, Ronald J. Steel

AAPG Bulletin

... exposures, well locations (1000), and cross sections. (B) A two-dimensional tracking of individual fourth-order cycles through the linked fluvial...

Lithofacies and Diagenetic Features of Strawn Carbonates in the Subsurface of North Central Texas: Implications to Controls on Reservoir Quality

Qilong Fu, William A. Ambrose

GCAGS Journal

... the Desmoinesian to the Virgilian (Heckel, 2008; Rygel et al., 2008), and fourth-order sea-level fluctuations probably varied 20 to 130 ft (~6 to 40 m...

Mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate Platform of Albian-Cenomanian Age from the Iberian Basin, Spain: Chapter 21

A. Garcia, M. Segura, J. F. Garcia-Hidalgo, B. Carenas

AAPG Special Volumes

... 260------------------------ Parasequences The most apparent features in outcrop are minor order (fourth-order) parasequences and fifth-order sequences...

Facies Architecture and Stratigraphic Evolution of A River-Dominated Delta Front, Turonian Ferron Sandstone, Utah, U.S.A.

Sumiyyah Ahmed, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Daniel E. Garza, Yangyang Li

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of lens-shaped mouth bars stack, or prograde, to the west. Bedding surfaces are seen to onlap fourth order surfaces. The initial bed to onlap a fourth...

High Resolution Sequence Strategic Analysis of the Upper Carboniferous (Virgilian, Wabaunsee Group) of the North American Midcontinent

Matthew Wade Boyd

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... stratigraphic name equivalent to a formation. It represents a fourth order sequence. The reason that they identified a cyclothem...

Biostratigraphic and Sequence Stratigraphic Relationships of Upper Carboniferous Conodont and Foraminifer Distribution, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Charles M. Henderson, Sylvie Pinard, Benoit Beauchamp

CSPG Bulletin

... in multiscaled transgressive-regressive sequences. The most obvious sequences are high-order cycles (about 250 000 years; fourth-order of Vail et al., 1991...

Stratigraphic Architecture of "Basal Belly River" Cycles, Foremost Formation, Belly River Group, Subsurface of Southern Alberta and Southwestern Saskatchewan

Anthony P. Hamblin, Byron W. Abrahamson

CSPG Bulletin

..., primarily regressive cycles (fourth-order subunits). Each cycle has continental/coaly deposits in the west, a central belt composed of stacked shoreline...

Modeling Carbonate Microfacies in the Context of High-Frequency Dynamic Relative Sea-Level and Environmental Changes

Guy H. Spence , Maurice E. Tucker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... parasequence (Fig. 3). Shallowing-upward parasequences deposited during fourth-order (0.1-1 My) to fifth-order (0.01-0.1 My) relative sea-level cycles form...

Transgressive Origin of Channeled Estuarine Deposits in the Point Lookout Sandstone, Northwestern New Mexico: A Model for Upper Cretaceous, Cyclic Regressive Parasequences of the U.S. Western Interior (1)

PAUL E. DEVINE

AAPG Bulletin

... (Vail et al., 1977; Ryer, 1983; Swift et al., 1985; Wright, 1986). Fourth-order (Ryer, 1983) and fifth-order (Wright, 1986; 1988) depositional cycles...

Sequence stratigraphy and regional context of the Mancos-Niobrara in the northern San Juan Basin

Walter W. Nelson, Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... between the main lithostratigraphic subunits of the Niobrara Formation in terms of fourth-order cycles caused by varying and overlapping factors. Although...

Confluence Scours Versus Incised Valleys: Examples From the Cretaceous Ferron Notom Delta, Southeastern Utah, U.S.A.

Mohammad S. Ullah, Janok P. Bhattacharya, William R. Dupre

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are overlain by a fourth-order surface capped by compound bar deposits. The story thickness in the confluence scour does not represent the average channel...

Judy Creek: A Case Study for a Two-Dimensional Sediment Deposition Simulation

David M. Scaturo, John S. Strobel, Christopher G. St. C. Kendall, Jack C. Wendte, Gautam Biswas, James Bezdek, Robert Cannon

Special Publications of SEPM

... with a user-defined depth-controlled wave-damping function. Eustatic variation is modeled by a fourth-order linear change in sea level over time...

Chapter 133: Architectural Elements in a Ponded Submarine Fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland

David R. Pyles

AAPG Special Volumes

... the boundaries to fourth-order stratigraphic cycles in the Ross Sandstone and enhance correlations of the sandstones. Each condensed-section-bound...

Outcrop and behind-outcrop characterization of a late Miocene slope fan system, Mt. Messenger Formation, New Zealand

Greg H. Browne, Roger M. Slatt

AAPG Bulletin

...) form a series of meter to 50 m-thick sedimentary cycles (King et al., 1994; Browne et al., 1996). These have been interpreted as fourth-order lowstand...

High-resolution sequence-stratigraphic correlation between shallow-marine and terrestrial strata: Examples from the Sunnyside Member of the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Book Cliffs, eastern Utah

Roy Davies, John Howell, Ron Boyd, Stephen Flint, Claus Diessel

AAPG Bulletin

... and to demonstrate that the coal spans the formation of two marine parasequences and two high-frequency, fourth-order sequence boundaries. This study has important...

The Heterogeneity of Paleocavern Systems Developed Along Syndepositional Fault Zones: The Upper Permian Capitan Platform, Guadalupe Mountains, U.S.A.

Eduard Koša, David Hunt, William M. Fitchen, Marie-Odile Bockel-Rebelle, Gerald Roberts

Special Publications of SEPM

...; Osleger, 1998; Osleger and Tinker, 1999; Hunt et al., 2003). Recent estimates suggest that the individual fourth-order HFS had 125400 ky duration...

Application of High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy to Tidally Influenced Upper Mississippian Carbonates, Illinois Basin

Langhorne B. Smith Jr., J. Fred Read

Special Publications of SEPM

... fluctuations y composite makes third order cou sequences less bundling level fluctuations The dominance of fourth amplitude eustasy associated...

The Second-Order Cycle, Carbonate-Platform Growth, and Reservoir, Source, and Trap Prediction

J. F. Sarg, J. R. Markello, L. J. Weber

Special Publications of SEPM

... as defined in outcrop and core is described in Weber et fourth and fifth order than more evaporitic basin 1 500 m Ross 1986 to the Aneth oil field...

Extended Abstract: Mathematical Model of Energy Storage in Gas Hydrate and its Flow in Pipeline Systems

Oluwatoyin Akinsete, Sunday Isehunwa

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... (PDE). Matrix algebra techniques were used to linearise the nonlinear PDE to arrive at a fourth-order characteristic polynomial equation which...

An Integrated Geological and Petrophysical Study of a Shale Gas Play: Woodford Shale, Permian Basin, West Texas

Nicholas B. Harris, Nikki T. Hemmesch, Cheryl A. Mnich, Khodir Aoudia, Jennifer Miskimins

GCAGS Transactions

..., and mechanical properties. At the level of third and fourth order sea level cycles, TOC is low in lowstand systems tracts and rises through...

Big Horn Basin Tectonics (Leaning on Full and Frequent Quotes from W. T. Thom, Jr.)

John R. Fanshawe

Wyoming Geological Association

..., each resultant Rocky Mountain basin tends to be featured by several, or many, fourth-order asymmetric anticlines, which owe their form...