Use of Genetic Sequence Stratigraphy in Defining and Determining a Regional Tectonic Control on the "Mid-Cimmerian Unconformity"--Implications for North Sea Basin Development and the Global Sea Level Chart: Chapter 18: Recent Developments in Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy

John R. Underhill, Mark A. Partington

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the dome (Figure 11). This suggests that the Triassic-late Toarcian sequences were deposited in a layer-cake fashion and argues against the graben having...

AAPG Annual Meeting, April 1-4, 2007, Longbeach, California, - AAPG, #90063 (2007).

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Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Stratigraphy of the Besa River Shale, British Columbia

E. E. Pelzer

CSPG Bulletin

... wedges, as opposed to the classic "layer cake" concept. Under the Rich hypothesis the condensed sections to the west End_Page 302...

Tamabra Limestone of the Poza Rica Trend Cretaceous Mexico

Paul Enos

Special Publications of SEPM

... are not arranged in a layer-cake fashion. The "horizons" correlated by Barnetche and Illing (Fig. 6) are useful in constructing the geometry of the field...

Facies, stratigraphy, and evolution of a middle Ediacaran carbonate ramp: Khufai Formation, Sultanate of Oman

Magdalena Osburn, John Grotzinger, and Kristin Bergmann

AAPG Bulletin

... is not exposed, preventing detailed assessment of the shelf-to-basin transition. Although the Khufai Formation has a layer-cake appearance, strong lateral...

Fall 2001 Field Trip Guidebook: Apache Mountains Field Trip: Lower & Upper Munn Formation West Texas

Robert F. Lindsay, Robert F. Ward, Robert C. Trentham, Alvin H. Smith

West Texas Geological Society

... initially correlated using a “layer cake” gently dipping ramp model instead of utilizing a series of prograding clinoforms on a distally steepening carbonate...

Chapter 1: Cretaceous to Neogene Arc–Continent Collision, Orogenic Float Development, and Implications on the Petroleum Systems of Northern Venezuela

Jairo Lugo, Felipe Audemard

AAPG Special Volumes

... Anzoátegui area. The stratigraphy on this cross section shows a thoroughgoing layer-cake succession above the breakup and foredeep unconformities...

Reservoir Characterization of the Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) Lower Bartlesville Sandstone in Big Sandy and Clinesmith Fields, Southeast Kansas

JAMES P. ROGERS, MARK W. LONGMAN

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

.... It marks the beginning of the classical Marmaton and Missourian cyclical carbonate (“ layer-cake”) deposition so well-known in southeast Kansas...

Chapter 3: Two Decades (2000–2020) and Five Paradigm Shifts Gleaned from AAPG’s Giant Fields Database

John C. Dolson, Zhiyong He, Brian W. Horn

AAPG Special Volumes

... in relatively “layer cake” unconventional plays has recently been addressed quantitatively in the Midland Basin (Fisher et al., 2019) and will play...

Lowstand deltas in the Frontier Formation, Powder River basin, Wyoming: Implications for sequence stratigraphic models

Janok P. Bhattacharya, Brian J. Willis

AAPG Bulletin

... and demonstrated that earlier layer-cake lithologic correlation schemes failed to represent stratal architecture controls on reservoir behavior (Begin page...

Comparisons of Upper Devonian and Lower Silurian Tight Formations in Pennsylvania--Geological and Engineering Characteristics

Christopher D. Laughrey, John A. Harper

AAPG Special Volumes

...., 168 p. BRETT, C. E., 1982, Stratigraphy and facies relationships of Silurian (Wenlockian) Rochester Shale: layer-cake geology reinterpreted (abs...

Sequence Development of A Mixed Carbonate-siliciclastic High-Relief Ramp, Mississippian, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Amy B. Khetani, J. Fred Read

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... systems tracts are relatively layer-cake, reflecting loss of accommodation during Late Osagean basin filling, and they prograded more to the west...

The Shannon Shelf-Ridge Sandstone Complex, Salt Creek Anticline Area, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

R. W. Tillman, R. S. Martinsen

Special Publications of SEPM

... that the ridges were not deposited in layer cake fashion In the Salt Creek area the reservoir facies generally gradually rise in section to the south parallel...

The arrival of the paleo–Orinoco Delta at Trinidad: The Cruse Formation delta lobes and delivery to deepwater Atlantic

Ariana Osman, Ronald J. Steel, Ryan Ramsook, Cornel Olariu, Si Chen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and Upper Cruse are not layer-cake chronostratigraphic units, but instead the Lower Cruse represents the muddy slope interval that is coeval with Upper Cruse...

1982 SEPM Presidential Address: Episodic Sedimentation--How Normal Is Average? How Rare Is Rare? Does It Matter?

Robert H. Dott, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... or mostly episodic? Metaphorically speaking, is it more like a solid layer cake or like Swiss cheese? SOME PHILOSOPHIC CONSIDERATIONS I have long felt...

Sedimentologic Model and Production Characteristics of Hartzog Draw Field Wyoming a Shannon Shelf Ridge Sandstone

R. W. Tillman

Special Publications of SEPM

... layer cake stratigraphy to area designate Shannon sandstones as upper or lower This ap proach is incorrect because the sands were not deposited...

Field Trip Guide to Ancient & Modern Organic-Rich Environments in Kalimantan Timur (Borneo), Indonesia

Edited by Tim Moore

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

...  the  basin.  The  Kutai  Basin  sediments  are  far  from  being  layer  cake   stratigraphy  and  should  not  be  viewed...

The Great American Carbonate Bank in Eastern Laurentia: Its Births, Deaths, and Linkage to Paleooceanic Oxygenation (Early CambrianLate Ordovician)

Ed Landing

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and into the Ottawa-Bonnechere aulocogen and produced a simple layer cake stratigraphy (Figures 1, 2).Upper Ordovician Cratonic Carbonates and End...

The Importance of Sedimentary Structures and Early Diagenetic Features in Carbonate Sedimentology

Robert V. Demicco, Lawrence A. Hardie

Special Publications of SEPM

... core of a buildup this results in a "layer cake" stratigraphic record composed of a stack of meter-scale transgressive-regressive depositional cycles...

Distribution of the Permian Blaine Formation Salt in the Subsurface of the Hugoton Embayment Area of Baca County, Southeast Colorado

Robert L. Askew

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and timing of the salt dissolution, the primary conclusion of this study is that the present day configuration of the Blaine Formation salt is not “layer...

Fusuline Correlations: Oquirrh Formation and Durst Group

Walter Sadlick

Utah Geological Association

... in terms of “layer-cake” stratigraphy, then the logical interpretation is that unconformities are present. That is, both the Hell’s Canyon and Morgan...

Integrating Geology and Engineering: Implications for Production in the Bakken Play, Williston Basin

Cosima Theloy, Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...., 1991). The strata in the Williston Basin are characterized by a draping, layer-cake geometry, interrupted only by few structural features...

Introduction to Subsurface Groundwater Studies

Eric Eslinger, Uriel Oko, Jacqueline A. Smith, G. H. Holliday

Special Publications of SEPM

... or inferred. If the stratigraphy is likely to be layer-cake, the intervals to be split-spooned can be varied among the wells so that the entire...

A. Occurrence of Natural Gas in Kansas: Natural Gas in Kansas

Daniel F. Merriam , Edwin D. Goebel

AAPG Special Volumes

... of many thin beds has been compared to a layer cake (Merriam, 1963). The Precambrian basement complex consists of End_Page 1548...

Implications of Sub-Woodford Geologic Variations in the Exploration for Silurian-Devonian Reservoirs in the Permian Basin

Louis J. Mazzullo

West Texas Geological Society

.... Porosity zone symbols same as on structure map (D=dolomite, L=limestone). The carbonate strata in the field create a “layer cake” reservoir system...