Plate Tectonics and Sedimentation

William R. Dickinson

Special Publications of SEPM

... of the layer above M and mous with the lithosphere of others Because of the lateral dimensions of the main intact drift and seafloor 1965 to however...

Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Deposition in an Early Cambrian Oxygen-Stratified Basin, Chapel Island Formation, Southeastern Newfoundland

Paul M. Myrow, Ed Landing

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... at the top of member 3 and in member 4 are capped by peritidal limestones that contain a wide variety of stromatolitic buildups and algal mud mounds...

Paleolimnology of Uppermost Cretaceous Lacustrine Deposits in Western Texas

Homer Montgomery, Kenneth Barnes

PALAIOS

... outcrop is located at the top of the local Cretaceous section. Tornillo Flat * Corresponding author. Published Online: June 2012 The Tornillo Flat (TF...

Salt Withdrawal and Depositional Trends at the Pliocene/Miocene Boundary, Central Eugene Island and Ship Shoal Areas, Offshore Louisiana, USA

T. Farley

GCAGS Transactions

... feeders. Figure 4. Structure map, top of Interval B. Marked contours are in thousands of feet (i.e., −12 = −12000'). Figure 5. Structure map, top...

Deep Sea Carbonates: Acoustic, Physical, and Stratigraphic Properties

Larry A. Mayer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... continuous reflectors in the top 10 meters of the sediment column. The cores, separated horizontally by approximately 250 m, sampled sections that were...

Excello Shale, Northeastern Oklahoma: Clue to Locating Buried Reefs

Martin M. Cassidy

AAPG Bulletin

... and below. Commonly a brown friable clay with small black specks of organic material (plant stems?) is present at the top of the shale. Below the clay...

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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Wood Jams or Beaver Dams? Pliocee Life, Sediment and Landscape Interactions in the Canadian High Arctic

Neil S. Davies, John C. Gosse, Alexandra Rouillard, Natalia Rybczynski, Jin Meng, Alberto V. Reyes, Jarloo Kiguktak

PALAIOS

... part of section. Scale bar ¼ 10 cm. D) Leaf litter laminae at top of section. Scale bar ¼ 2 cm. E) Detail from leaf litter laminae showing intact leaves...

Processes and Rates of Recent (Holocene) Basin Filling in an Active Transform Margin: Santa Monica Basin, California Continental Borderland

D. N. Malouta , D. S. Gorsline, S. E. Thornton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... effects of these two major detrital inputs. The basin, slope-fan, and shelf-bank top sediments are differentiated on the basis of mean particle size...

Mechanical and Chemical Compaction in Fine-Grained Shallow-Water Limestones

Eugene A. Shinn, Daniel M. Robbin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... centimeters shorter than the core tube. A 5-cm-diameter shaft 15 cm long was placed on the steel bed below the bottom piston and another placed on top...

Sequence Stratigraphy and Carbonate-Siliciclastic Mixing in a Terminal Proterozoic Foreland Basin, Urusis Formation, Nama Group, Namibia

Beverly Z. Saylor

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Datum for cross section is maximum flooding surface at top of Huns Member. This surface was selected because it is identifiable from the seaward...

Control of mechanical stratigraphy on bed-restricted jointing and normal faulting: Eagle Ford Formation, south-central Texas

David A. Ferrill, Ronald N. McGinnis, Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart, Zachary T. Sickmann, Michael Bentz, Daniel Lehrmann, and Mark A. Evans

AAPG Bulletin

... superposed on the overall regional flooding event (Donovan and Staerker, 2010; Scott, 2010). For example, the top of the Buda Limestone is interpreted...

Bayesian artificial intelligence for geologic prediction: Fracture case study, Horn River Basin

S. M Agar, W. Li, R. Goteti, D. Jobe, S. Zhang

CSPG Bulletin

... mudstones deposited in front of and over the top of the Devonian PCBC (Keg River, Sulphur River and Slave Point/Presqu’ile Platforms...

Digital characterization of thrombolite-stromatolite reef distribution in a carbonate ramp system (terminal Proterozoic, Nama Group, Namibia)

Erwin W. Adams, John P. Grotzinger, Wesley A. Watters, Stefan Schrder, David S. McCormick, Hisham A. Al-Siyabi

AAPG Bulletin

... of an intact seismic-scale Carboniferous carbonate platform (Asturias, northwestern Spain): A virtual outcrop model, in A. Curtis and R. Wood, eds...

Sequence stratigraphy of a condensed low-accommodation succession: Lower Upper Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone, Henry Mountains, southeastern Utah

Jonathan Antia, Christopher R. Fielding

AAPG Bulletin

... (125 ft) thick, of Cenomanian age, and records multiple cycles of sediment accumulation. The Dakota Sandstone is subdivided into two condensed top...

Control of Relative Sea Level and Climate on Coal Character in the Westphalian C (Atokan) Four Corners Formation, Central Appalachian Basin, U.S.A.

Rhodri M. Jerrett, David M. Hodgson, Stephen S. Flint, Roy C. Davies

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and reworking of peat during transgression, the top of the seam may also represent a transgressive surface of erosion (TrE). The accommodation-reversal surface...

AAPG Memoir 68: Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region. Chapter 14: Tectonic-Sedimentary Evolution of the North Tethyan Margin in the Central Pontides of Northern Turkey

Timur Ustaomer and Alastair Robertson

AAPG Special Volumes

... complex (Saner, 1980; Yilmaz and Tuysuz, 1988, 1991; Tuysuz, 1990). However, the basement is the intact Late Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic Cangaldag Complex...

Structure and Stratigraphy of Forearc Regions

W. R. Dickinson , D. R. Seely

AAPG Bulletin

... each for intraoceanic and continental-margin arcs (A, C, and B, D, respectively): (1) breakage across a previously intact oceanic plate, (2...

CBM - A New Play for the Cooper Basin?

D. Poynton, G. Simon

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... recompletion costs and flow rates will need to be met for a well to be economic. A depth map of the top of the Cooper Basin (Figure 7) shows that almost...

History of Petroleum Exploration of Paleozoic Targets in the Paradox Basin

Gene M. Stevenson, Laura L. Wray

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... productive, given the correct combination of reservoir preservation and intact top and lateral seals. The Paradox Basin has an impressive numbers...

General Geology of the Black Buttes, Northwestern Black Hills, Crook County, Wyoming

Mike Elwood

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... for this study showed the local absence of a thin, cherty dolomite at the top of the Minnelusa. Intrusive Rock Types Introduction The Tertiary igneous...

Mississippi Valley-type Mineralization in Lower Devonian Lower Elk Point Strata, South La Ronge Area, Central Saskatchewan: A Case History

D.M. Kent

Saskatchewan Geological Society

.... The Winnipegosis Formation is an erosional remnant at the top of the Paleozoic succession in the study area. It rarely exceeds 0.45 m in thickness...

Backbeach Deflation Aprons: Morphology and Sedimentology

J. A. G. Cooper, A. M. Smith, A. N. Green

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... deposit on top of a gently sloping (ca. 0.008), planar sandy deflation surface and is typically only one clast thick. It is up to 100 m wide and extends...

Two Decades of Petroleum Geology, 1903-22

Ralph Arnold

AAPG Bulletin

... or "arrested anticlines." Captain A. F. Lucas in January, 1901, opened the first oil field on a salt dome (Spindle Top) in Texas. L. H. Woolsey...

An Estuarine-Embayment Fill Model from the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group West-Central Saskatchewan

B. A. Zaitlin, B. C. Shultz

CSPG Special Publications

... (Alberta Research Council). Plate 1. Full core photograph of Saskoil Gulf Senlac 12-5-39-26W3M (773.5-782.5 m). Top of core is to upper right...