High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of a Clastic Foredeep Succession (Paleocene, Spitsbergen): An Example of Peripheral-Bulge-Controlled Depositional Architecture

Rikke Bruhn, Ron Steel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... systems tracts. Thickness trends of the incised shoreface sandstone body in sequence 6 reflect a general NW-SE orientation of the coastline (Fig. 7A...

Biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Oligocene succession, offshore Nile Delta, southeastern Mediterranean, Egypt, and its paleoenvironmental implications

Ahmed Zakaria, Nabil Aboul Ela, and Samy Ahmed Mohamed

AAPG Bulletin

...). The sequence boundaries and flooding surfaces were correlated with the global eustatic sea-level models. Three major breaks—Eocene–Oligocene, lower...

Abstract: Sequence Stratigraphy, Frontier Formation, South-Central Wyoming: Eustatic and Tectonic Influences, by B. L. Mieras; #91017 (1992).

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Glacio-Eustatic Sea Level Fluctuations and the Formation of Pennsylvanian Age Carbonate Reservoirs in the Permian Basin of West Texas

Al Reid, Sue Tomlinson Reid

West Texas Geological Society

... and SACROC fields are examples of reservoir systems formed during repeated high sea level stands, and were heavily dependent on basin subsidence to create...

Lithospheric Flexure and Related Base-level Stratigraphic Cycles in Continental Foreland Basins: An Example from the Putumayo Basin, Northern Andes

John Londono, Juan M. Lorenzo, Victor Ramirez

AAPG Special Volumes

... 450 m [1480 ft] above sea level, and active fluvial systems run eastwest, mostly orthogonal to the modern Andes. Similarly, paleodata analyses also...

Abstract: Petroleum Exploration Plays of the Onshore Doula//Kribi-Campo of Cameroon, West Africa, by R. Seme Abomo; #90951 (1996).

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Abstract: Tectonic Control of Foreland Basin Nested Sequence Architecture in the Sego Sandstone and Upper Castlegate Sandstone(Upper Cretaceous), Book Cliffs, Utah, U.S.A., by A. Willis and A. D. Miall; #90937 (1998).

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Sequence Stratigraphy of Plio-Pleistocene Sedimentary Rocks in North-Central Green Canyon and Western Ewing Bank, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Zurilma Acosta, Paul Weimer

GCAGS Transactions

... of the sediments were deposited in lowstand systems tracts consisting of basin-floor fan, slope-fan, and prograding wedge facies. Transgressive systems tracts...

Eocene Turbidite-Population Statistics from Shelf Edge to Basin Floor, Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Bryn E. Clark, Ron J. Steel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of sites of turbidite accumulation in time and space in Clinoform 14. Inset: simplified relative sea-level curve. TST = transgressive systems tract, HST...

Fluvial Sequence Stratigraphy: The Wapiti Formation, West-Central Alberta, Canada

Federico Fanti, Octavian Catuneanu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the previously undifferentiated fully nonmarine Wapiti Formation into depositional sequences and component systems tracts. Ainsworth, C., 1994...

Stratigraphic Organization of Late Pleistocene Deposits of the Western Part of the Golfe du Lion Shelf (Languedoc Shelf), Western Mediterranean Sea, Using High-Resolution Seismic and Core Data1

Michel Tesson, Henry W. Posamentier, and Bernard Gensous

AAPG Bulletin

...). These systems tracts are inferred to be associated with successive stages of a cycle of relative change of sea level and are referred to as highstand...

Lithofacies, Organic Geochemistry, Petrology, and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Ellesmerian Sequence: Integrated Analyses of Tenneco Phoenix #1 Cores, North Slope, Alaska

Vaughn D. Robison, William C. Dawson

Special Publications of SEPM

...! Ravinement Surface coa rse-g rained fluvial sandstone; thin mud and conglomeratic layers 8200 -. Generalized Lithology .c Systems Tracts Figure 9...

Sequence Stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-Albian) Carbonate Platforms of Northeastern Mexico: Regional and Global Correlations

Christoph Lehmann , David A. Osleger , Isabel Montanez

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that developed through one rise-fall cycle of relative sea-level change. The internal architecture of each of these FIG. 5. Generalized...

Chapter 5: Depositional Cyclicity Within the Mayes Group (Meramecian–Chesterian) Along the Western Edge of the Mississippian Outcrop Belt in Northeastern Oklahoma

Cory J. Godwin, James O. Puckette

AAPG Special Volumes

... on northeastern Banks Island, N.W.T.: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 19, p. 730–781. Giles, P. S., 2009, Orbital forcing and Mississippian sea level...

Development of An Incised-Valley Fill Under the Influence of Tectonism and Glacio-Eustatic Sea-Level Change: Valley Morphology, Fluvial Style, and Lithology

Erik S. Rasmussen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... with relative sea-level change, in Dalrymple, R.W., Boyd, R., and Zaitlin, B.A., eds., Incised Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences: SEPM, Special...

Sequence Stratigraphy in the Upper Cretaceous Series of the Anglo-Paris Basin: Exemplified by the Cenomanian Stage

Francis Robaszynski, Andy Gale, Pierre Juignet, Francis Amédro, Jan Hardenbol

Special Publications of SEPM

... sea-level change responsible for the control of post-Paleozoic sedimentary sequences has been shown in cycle charts developed mostly from the study...

ABSTRACT: Facies Architecture of the Upper Pennsylvanian Oread Cyclothem, Subsurface Southeastern Kansas and Northeastern Oklahoma; #90020 (2003)

Wan Yang, Michael Bruemmer

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... with maximum sea-level fall. Depositional topography, sea-level fluctuations, and oceanic upwelling were the dominant controls on the facies architecture...

Petrographic Characteristics of Maximum-Transgressive and Regressive Deltaic Sandstones of Upper-Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Oread Cyclothem, NE Oklahoma, #50886 (2013)

Lu Zhu, Wan Yang

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... associated with sea-level changes. This hypothesis is tested by petrographic study of three sandstones from maximumtransgressive Heebner delta and 4 from...

Deciphering Earth's Natural Hourglasses: Perspectives On Source-To-Sink Analysis

William Helland-Hansen, Tor O. Sømme, Ole J. Martinsen, Ian Lunt, John Thurmond

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., M.D., and Womack, J.H., 2009, Climate change, sea-level change, and fluvial sediment supply to deepwater systems, in Kneller, B., Martinsen, O.J....

Concepts and Methods for the Recognition of Cyclicity in the Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin, NE USA

Olusanmi O. Emmanuel, Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... blooms and clastic influx rates, rather than water depth. Given a depositional model that is not driven primarily by sea-level fluctuations, new...

Late Triassic Paleogeography and Depositional History of the Chinle Formation, Southern Utah and Northern Arizona

Ronald C. Blakey, Richard Gubitosa

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... depositional system that was dominant during a non-quantitative period of time. 1) The lower cycle comprises the lower fluvial phase and lower paludal...

Alternatives to Eustasy in Sequence Control: Chapter 6

Wolfgang Schlager

AAPG Special Volumes

... of sea level (e.g. Vail et al., 1977; Haq et al., 1987). The theory postulates furthermore that a global stack of relative sea-level curves from sequence...

Sandy Contourites of the Lower Kazusa Group in the Boso Peninsula, Japan: Kuroshio-Current-Influenced Deep-sea Sedimentation in a Plio-pleistocene Forearc Basin

Makoto Ito

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... relationship between paleocurrent directions of sandy contourites and associated systems tracts was evident. Variations in speed and direction of deep-water...

Biostratigraphy in Indonesia: Methods, Pitfalls and New Directions

J. T. van Gorsel

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on the Exxon cycle chart (latest published version is by Haq et al. 1987). Major extinctions may be related to eustatic sea level falls, while diversification...

Tectonically Forced Retrogradation of the Lower Mississippian Joana Limestone, Nevada and Utah

Katherine A. Giles

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... lithofacies and interpreted position of cycle/parasequences, systems tracts, and sequences. Location of measured sections are displayed on Fig. 1...