Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Meeting October 30 - November 1, 2002, Austin, Texas, #90002 (2002)

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Triassic Sequence Stratigraphy in the Western Part of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria)

Thomas Rüffer, Thilo Bechstãdt

Special Publications of SEPM

... (Hagemeister, 1988). This model was refined and reinterpreted by Bechstadt and Schweizer (1991) using bathymetric ¨ analysis and stacking of fourth-order cycles...

Analysis of Pore Networks and Reservoir Quality of the Upper Cretaceous Woodbine Sandstone in the High-Recovery- Efficiency, Giant East Texas Field

Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, William A. Ambrose

GCAGS Journal

... the Coniacian Austin Chalk (Fig. 2). According to Hentz and Bonnaffé (2010), 14 fourth-order sequences compose the Woodbine Group in the deeper part...

Depositional Systems, Lithofacies, and Lithofacies Stacking Patterns of the Jurassic Smackover Formation (Oxfordian) and Buckner Anhydrite (Kimmeridgian) in Van Zandt County, Texas: A Type-Cored Section from Northeastern Texas

Peter Schemper, Robert G. Loucks, Qilong Fu

GCAGS Journal

...-rich. The core description in Figure 4 shows cycles, discernable by the bundling of mud-rich debrites, which may be controlled by fourth-order...

Shelf Depositional Environments and Reservoir Characteristics of the Kuparuk River Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Kuparuk Field, North Slope, Alaska

Gerard C. Gaynor, Mark H. Scheihing

Special Publications of SEPM

... be modelled as stochastic rather than deterministic shales (Haldorsen and Chang, 1 8 ) 96. (4) Fourth-order shale barriers (Figure 15D...

Facies and Architectural Asymmetry in a Conglomerate-Rich Submarine Channel Fill, Cerro Toro Formation, Sierra Del Toro, Magallanes Basin, Chile

Zane R. Jobe, Anne Bernhardt, Donald R. Lowe

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are exposed on this outcrop face. Fourth-order Units 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are discussed throughout the text. Units 3, 4, and 5 can be correlated to those seen...

Mixed Siliciclastic–Carbonate Upward-Deepening Cycles of the Upper Cambrian Inner Detrital Belt of Laurentia

Paul M. Myrow, John F. Taylor, Anthony C. Runkel, Robert L. Ripperdan

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... carbonate, which formed during third- and fourth-order transgressions in the Late Cambrian (Taylor et al. 2009). These intervals represent maximum...

Testing Applicability of Models Of Distributive Fluvial Systems Or Trunk Rivers In Ephemeral Systems: Reconstructing 3-D Fluvial Architecture In the Beaufort Group, South Africa

Alice R. Gulliford,, Stephen S. Flint, David M. Hodgson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... surface of minor chute channels are separated by fourth-order bounding surfaces (Miall 1996). The Klipkraal channel belts preserve a combination...

Using Fluvial Cyclicity To Decipher the Interaction of Basement- and Fold-Thrust-Belt Tectonics In A Broken Foreland Basin: Vinchina Formation (Miocene), Northwestern Argentina

Sergio A. Marenssi, Patricia L. Ciccioli, Carlos O. Limarino, Laura J. Schencman, Marianela Y. Diaz

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by a fourth-order or third-order surface. The surfaces are commonly floored by a thin lag of massive intraformational conglomerates (Gmi) and/or massive...

Architectural-Element Analysis: A New Method of Facies Analysis Applied to Fluvial Deposits

Andrew D. Miall

Special Publications of SEPM

... channel channels, additional, fourth order. in as would a constitute paleovalley, a would The third-order define an These concepts...

Time-Transgressive Confinement On the Slope and the Progradation of Basin-Floor Fans: Implications For the Sequence Stratigraphy of Deep-Water Deposits

David M. Hodgson, Ian A. Kane, Stephen S. Flint, Rufus L. Brunt, Andrea Ortiz-Karpf

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...: methodology and nomenclature: Newsletters on Stratigraphy, v. 44, p. 173– 245. Chiocci, F.L., 2000, Depositional response to Quaternary fourth-order sea...

Middle Pennsylvanian Sequence Stratigraphy of the Western Arkoma Basin and Bordering Shelves, Oklahoma and Kansas: A Model for Foreland Basins

Allan P. Bennison

Tulsa Geological Society

... as a third-order cycle, a larger mimic of a fourth-order cycle. Such a sequence consists of three to seven transgressive-regressive (T-R) cycles, in which...

Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Facies of an Incised Valley Fill, Lower Cretaceous Bluesky Formation, Aitken Creek Field, British Columbia

Robert H. S. Alway, Thomas F. Moslow

CSPG Special Publications

... are deposited was initiated in latest Aptian-earliest Albian times and represents a high-frequency cycle of approximately fourth order (Vail et al...

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Pahasapa Formation (Madison Croup) in the Northeastern Black Hills: Insights from Regional Correlations

David M. Petty

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... into SLX cycles that are believed to represent fourth-order sequences However, a full discussion of depositional models for fourth-order sequences...

Computer Simulation of the Yates Formation (Permian, Delaware Basin) - Sequence Stratigraphy and Shelf-to-Basin Correlation Implications

James M. Borer, Paul M. Harris

West Texas Geological Society

..., whereas shelf margin deposition was nearly continuous. Fourth-order cycles are the dominant constructional elements of the Yates shelf and seem...

Rhythmic Sedimentation in a Mid-Pennsylvanian Delta-Front Succession, Magoffin Member (Four Corners Formation, Breathitt Group), Eastern Kentucky: A Near-Complete Record of Daily, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly Tidal Periodicities

Rhonda M. Adkins, Kenneth A. Eriksson

Special Publications of SEPM

... sandstones probably marks a lowstand period and represents a fourth order sequence boundary (Chesand represents a major fourth-order sequence boundary Ches...

Eustatic and Tectonic Controls on Cyclic Deposition in Lower Permian Ramp Facies (Chase Group and Basal Wellington Formation) in the U.S. Midcontinent

S. J. Mazzullo

Special Publications of SEPM

... forcing parameters and activity are regarded systems tracts and as whereas sequence stacking patterns fourth and fifth order periodic...

Campanian Shannon Sandstone: An Example of a Falling Stage System Tract Deposit

Katherine M. Bergman, Roger G. Walker

Special Publications of SEPM

... indiprogradational pairs within the Shannon indi cate a fourth cyclicity third-order cate aorder cyclicitysuperimposed on the third fourth-order...

A High-Frequency Sequence Study: A Miocene Deltaic and Estuarine Succession in the Eastern Maracaibo Composite Foreland Basin, Western Venezuela

M. Toro Milano, R. J. Steel

CSPG Bulletin

.... Fourth-order high frequency sequences are in L and R for Lagunillas and La Rosa formations, respectively. Scale of vertical and horizontal distance...

Orbital Cyclicity and Astronomical Calibration of the Upper Miocene Continental Succession Cored at the Iharosberény-I Well Site, Western Pannonian Basin, Hungary

Marco Sacchi, Pál Müller

Special Publications of SEPM

... to the long-eccentricity frequency (400 ky). (4) A fine tuning of the smoothed grain-size curve (fourth-order polynomial fit) was performed in order to get...

Chapter 3: Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Haynesville and Bossier Shales, East Texas and North Louisiana

Andrea D. Cicero, Ingo Steinhoff

AAPG Special Volumes

... in this chronostratigraphic framework: 1st order: 50-100s Ma; second order: 4-50 Ma; third order: 0.5-4 Ma; fourth order: 0.08-0.5 Ma; fifth order: 0.02-0.08...

Chapter 2: Petroleum Geochemistry of the Cenomanian–Turonian Eagle Ford Oils of South Texas

John Zumberge, Harold Illich, Lowell Waite

AAPG Special Volumes

... source-rock distribution: Second-order to fourth-order control and sedimentation flux, in N. B. Harris, ed., The deposition of organic-carbon-rich...

The Yegua Formation: Gas Play in the Burgos Basin, Mexico

Samuel Eguiluz-de Antunano

AAPG Special Volumes

... fourth-order depositional cycles and, in Texas, propose that their intervals 1, 2 (basal Yegua), and 4 (middle part of Yegua) are sequences controlled...

Topography and Significance of a Basinwide Sequence-bounding Erosion Surface in the Cretaceous Cardium Formation, Alberta, Canada

Roger G. Walker, Carolyn H. Eyles

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that penetrate E1 (Fig. 9); the fourth order surface has a goodness of fit of 0.97. The trend surface equation was then used to calculate the UD-E1...

Stratigraphic Sedimentology of Tertiary Cool-Water Limestones, SE Australia

Thomas D. Boreen, Noel P. James

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). The sequence boundary and lowstand wedge are interpreted to represent a series of amalgamated fourth-order and fifth-order surfaces and condensed...