Evolution of Permian Evaporite Basin in Texas Panhandle

Mark W. Presley

AAPG Bulletin

... of facies occurrence and layer-cake stacking of beds, covering areas of 100 km (60 mi) or more across. These extensive units indicate that deposition...

The etiology of carbonate porosity

S. N. Ehrenberg

AAPG Bulletin

... (Figure 19). The strata have remarkable “layer-cake” lateral continuity across an epeiric carbonate platform that covers most of the southeastern...

Upper Cretaceous Shannon and Haystack Mountains Formation Field Trip, Wyoming

R. W. Tillman, R. S. Martinsen

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... bentonite markers, show the reservoir facies to “rise and fall” parallel to their elongation, indicating that the ridges were not deposited in layer-cake...

Establishing patterns in sclerobiont distribution in a Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian) depth gradient: toward a sclerobiofacies model

Trisha A. Smrecak, Carlton E. Brett

PALAIOS

...: the Reidlin Road/Mason Road site (Upper Ordovician, Cincinnati, Ohio region), in Davis, R.A., and Cuffey, R.J., eds., Sampling the Layer Cake that Isn...

PASSIVE TRANSGRESSION: REMARKABLE PRESERVATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF UPPERMOST DEVONIAN (FAMENNIAN) MARGINAL AND NEARSHORE MARINE FACIES AND FAUNA OF WESTERN LAURENTIA

PAUL M. MYROW, DEVON COLE, DAVID T. JOHNSTON, DAVID A. FIKE, ANNE HAKIM

PALAIOS

... to Neo-Ulrichian views: the renaissance of ‘‘layer-cake stratigraphy’’: Stratigraphy, v. 4, p. 201–216. BRUUN, P., 1962, Sea level rise as a cause...

Bypass Margins, Basin-Restricted Wedges, and Platform-to-Basin Correlation, Upper Devonian, Canadian Rocky Mountains: Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy of Carbonate Platform Systems

Michael T. Whalen , Gregor P. Eberli , Frans S.P. Van Buchem , Eric W. Mountjoy , Peter W. Homewood

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and Peechee Member, Southesk Formation) are characterized by layer-cake stratal packages and a relatively steep-sided erosional or bypass margin (Figs...

Lithofacies Character and Architecture Across a Pennsylvanian Inner-Platform Transect (Sierra De Cuera, Asturias, Spain)

Giovanna Della Porta, Jeroen A.M. Kenter, Adrian Immenhauser, Juan R. Bahamonde

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are thin (meter-scale), commonly contain peritidal facies and tend to have a "layer cake" stratal pattern (Read 1995). Despite their composite facies...

Salt tectonics in the western Gulf of Cadiz, southwest Iberia

Hugo Matias, Pedro Kress, Pedro Terrinha, Webster Mohriak, Paulo T. L. Menezes, Luis Matias, Fernando Santos, Frode Sandnes

AAPG Bulletin

... was conducted using a layer-cake model based on the constant velocities taken from Ruivo-1 and Algarve 1 wells. The Ruivo-1 well penetrated...

Geologic Occurrence, Paleogeography, and Resources of Phosphate Rock in the Andean Region

Richard P. Sheldon, William C. Burnett, Victor Ricalde R.

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... and phosphorite are dark colored because of their organic content. From the paleogeographic setting, petrographic character, and stratigraphic "layer-cake...

Hybrid Event Beds Generated By Local Substrate Delamination On A Confined-Basin Floor

Marco Fonnesu, Marco Patacci, Peter D.W. Haughton, Fabrizio Felletti, William D. McCaffrey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). The layer-cake stratigraphy constrained by the bed-to-bed correlations in the Mt. Ramaceto section excludes the presence of significant pre-existing...

TAPHONOMY OF AN ORDOVICIAN CRINOID LAGERSTÄTTE FROM KENTUCKY

MASON JANE MILAM, DAVID L. MEYER, BENJAMIN F. DATTILO, BRENDA R. HUNDA

PALAIOS

..., An introduction to the Type Cincinnatian, in A. Davis and R.J. Cuffey (eds.), Sampling the Layer Cake that Isn’t: The Stratigraphy and Paleontology...

The Mid-Carboniferous Arctic Lake Formation, Northwestern Stikine Terrane, British Columbia

M.H. Gunning, J. Fedorowski, M.J. Orchard, E.W. Bamber, R. Friedman, L. Rui, R.G. Anderson, B.L. Mamet, J.K. Mortensen

CSPG Bulletin

... was not in layer-cake fashion. Lateral discontinuity of mid-Carboniferous limestone at Newmont Lake, Forrest Kerr Glacier and Arctic Lake is mainly...

Chapter 9: New Albany Shale, Illinois Basin, USA—Devonian Carbonaceous Mudstone Accumulation in an Epicratonic Sea: Stratigraphic Insights from Outcrop and Subsurface Data

O. R. Lazar, J. Schieber

AAPG Special Volumes

...: Indiana Geological Survey Open File Study 04-05, p. 61–67. Ettensohn, F. R., 1992, Changing interpretations of Kentucky geology—Layer-cake, facies...

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

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Stormevent Sedimentation: Lithofacies Association in the Cardium Formation, Pembina Area, West-Central Alberta, Canada

F. F. Krause, D. A. Nelson

CSPG Special Publications

... in a “layer cake”, or blanket-like, or amalgamated fashion, but instead reflects a composite arrangement such as that of a collage. Our correlation...

Fault Healing and Fault Sealing in Impure Sandstones

David N. Dewhurst, Peter J. Boult, Richard M. Jones, Stuart A. Barclay

AAPG Special Volumes

... by a discordant body of relatively stronger fault rock in a generally layer cake sedimentary sequence. Stress perturbations cause localized high...

Syndepositional tectonic activity in an epicontinental basin revealed by deformation of subaqueous carbonate laminites and evaporites: Seismites in Red River strata (Upper Ordovician) of southern Saskatchewan, Canada

Hussam El Taki, Brian R. Pratt

CSPG Bulletin

... in the epicontinental Williston Basin. Although these units possess an overall ‘layer-cake’ aspect across a broad area, thickness variations in the Herald...

Outcrop Features and Origin of Basin Margin Unconformities in the Lower Chesapeake Group (Miocene), Atlantic Coastal Plain

Susan M. Kidwell

AAPG Special Volumes

...; Blackwelder and Ward, 1976); and finally, the zonal scheme carries the connotation of a layer-cake series of laterally invariant strata inconsistent...

Criteria for the Recognition of Shallow-Perennial-Saline-Lake Halites Based on Recent Sediments From the Qaidam Basin, Western China

Kathryn A. Schubel , Tim K. Lowenstein

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... synchronously across a lake or lagoon, producing layer-cake successions, or diachronously, forming progradational packages from the lake or lagoon...

Anatomy and Stratigraphic Development of a Basin Floor Turbidite System in the Laingsburg Formation, Main Karoo Basin, South Africa

P.J. Sixsmith,, S.S. Flint, H.DeV. Wickens, S.D. Johnson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... helicopter. In a down-dip direction (Fig. 9), the mudstone markers define a "layer cake" stratigraphy with relatively constant thicknesses of sandstone...

Integrated Cyclostratigraphy of a Model Mesozoic Carbonate Platform„The Latemar (Middle Triassic, Italy)

Rainer Zühlke

Special Publications of SEPM

... developed layer-cake geometry characterizes the Latemar platform interior. This depositional architecture, the lack of stratal terminations (onlap, downlap...

Dockum (Upper Triassic) Stratigraphy and Nomenclature

Spencer G. Lucas, Orin J. Anderson

West Texas Geological Society

.... Furthermore, Lehman fails to recognize lateral facies and thickness changes and thus envisions a layer-cake stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic strata...

Cambro-Ordovician Stratigraphy of Central and South-Central Pennsylvania

W.R. Wagner

Appalachian Geological Society

... correlation of sUbsur~ace data with surface exposures indicate that the relationships among these formations may not be as simple as the layer-cake...

Evidence from carbonate platforms bearing on climate, salinity, dasycladalean diversity, and marine anoxic events during the Late Jurassic…Early Cretaceous greenhouse

Antun Husinec

PALAIOS

...). These platforms are consequently composed of markedly layer-cake, meter-scale, lowenergy peritidal and or subtidal cycles (e.g., Osleger, 1991; Montanez ˜...

Geological History of the Western Barrow Sub-Basin: Implications for Hydrocarbon Entrapment at Woollybutt and Surrounding Oil and Gas Fields

D. J. Hearty, G. K. Ellis, K. A. Webster

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... and in particular the Woollybutt Oil Field. The Top Barrow depth map was created using a layer-cake approach comprising (1) Sea level to Base Tertiary...