Chapter 9: The Kaskaskia Sequence: Reefs, Platforms and Foredeeps the Lower Kaskaskia Sequence — Devonian

Peter Fitzgerald Moore

CSPG Special Publications

... cycles of deepening and shallowing that may provide evidence of absolute sea-level change occur at many scales; their product is a hierarchy of sequences...

The Middle Devonian Geneseo Shale Succession of New York: Interplay between Eustatic Sea Level Rise and Tectonically Driven Sediment Supply, #90112 (2010)

Ryan D. Wilson,

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..., and continued transgression and sea level rise. Above the Geneseo follows the Lodi Limestone, a thin concretionary carbonate/calcareous siltstone unit...

ABSTRACT: Eustatic Overprints on the Diagenetic Evolution of Mesozoic Platform Carbonates from the Arabian Plate; #90013 (2003)

A. S. Alsharhan, F. N. Sadoonl

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... changes. Early diagenesis associated with arid climatic conditions and low amplitude sea level changes can be traced in meter-sized evaporite-carbonate...

Middle Cambrian to Middle Ordovician Cyclic Sedimentation, Southern Rocky Mountains of Alberta

J. D. Aitken

CSPG Bulletin

... at the beginnings or mid-points of depositional cycles. Rhythmic repetitions of sequences of beds occur within both shaly and carbonate half-cycles...

Recent and Ancient Carbonate Cyclic Sequences1

Alan H. Coogan

West Texas Geological Society

... carbonate terrain (Fig. 13) as a topographic base, a clear tropical sea is allowed to transgress the area to a point where sea level stands still...

Carbonate Platform Sedimentology, Upper Cambrian Richland Formation, Lebanon Valley, Pennsylvania

Stephen O. Moshier

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... cycles, the massive ooid deposits could reflect periods of shoaling to above wave base during short-term sea-level falls. Alternatively, the deposits...

Relationships Between Fault-Controlled Subsidence and Preservation of Shallow-Marine Small-Scale Cycles: Example from the Lower Pliocene of the Crotone Basin (Southern Italy)

Massimo Zecchin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... (Figs. 9, 10). Discussion Sea-Level and Climatic Changes The main characteristics of the succession formed by Type 1 cycles are the alternation...

Abstract: Bromine stratigraphy of Windsor Group Major Cycle 1, A guide to depositional conditions, correlation and structural configuration

R. Boehner

Atlantic Geology

... led to potash explorat Ion and Interpretation of many evaporlte sequences. Distribution coefficients for bromine .In chloride salts deposited from sea...

Compaction and the Dynamics of Carbonate-Platform Development: Insights from the Permian Delaware and Midland Basins, Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, U.S.A

David Hunt, William M. Fitchen

Special Publications of SEPM

... of much of the northern wall Sierra Diablo result of position sea level The 30 50 of the terminal shelf slope breaks of Leonardian sequences...

ABSTRACT: Miocene Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy Pattern in the Maldives Reconciled with Foraminiferal Oxygen Isotope Records Used as Proxies for Ice Volume Variations; #90007 (2002)

Andre W. Droxler, Andrei V. Belopolsky, Katharina Billups, Edith Vincent

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... in the Maldives evolved into well-developed margin progradations between 14.5-11 Ma, representing five sea-level cycles generated during an overall regression...

Abstract: Petroleum Play Concepts in the Devonian-Carboniferous of the Northern Canning Basin, Western Australia, by M. J. Jackson, J. M. Kennard, P. N. Southgate, P. E. O'Brien, and M. J. Sexton; #91015 (1992).

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Subaerial Exposure Surfaces on Carbonates-A Review

Annabelle Foos

West Texas Geological Society

...-upwards carbonate cycles formed in response to high frequency sea-level fluctuations and autocyclic processes. These differences are a function...

Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy

J. F. Sarg

Special Publications of SEPM

... superimposed on longer term tectonic changes (i.e., relative changes in sea level). Carbonate platforms associated with sea-level highstands...

Seismic Stratigraphic Study of Two Oxfordian Carbonate Sequences, Eastern Saudi Arabia

George S. Langdon , Steven J. Malecek

AAPG Bulletin

... boundaries allowed us to correlate particular sequences to cycles of sea level change, or on a local scale, to relative shifts in coastal onlap. Sequence...

Deepening-Upward Subtidal Cycles, Murray Basin, South Australia

Jeff J. Lukasik, Noel P. James

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Murray Basin cycles preserve a record of relative sea-level rise whereas open shelf cycles accumulated mostly during relative sea-level fall. ALLMON...

Abstract: Sedimentary Cycles in Virgilian (Upper Pennsylvanian) Rocks in Anadarko Basin, by Bailey Rascoe, Jr.; #90972 (1976).

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Fluvial Response in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Example from the Montserrat Fan Delta, Spain

Beverly A. Burns , Paul L. Heller , Mariano Marzo , Chris Paola

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... regression of the shoreline. Transgressive sequences are deposited as long as relative sea level continues to rise and is not overwhelmed by sediment...

Conclusions: Chapter 7

Wolfgang Schlager

AAPG Special Volumes

... of extraneous controls on sequences, independent of sea level. In siliciclastic systems, sediment supply is governed largely by conditions...

ABSTRACT Is Milankovitch Cyclicity Recognisable in Carbonate Sequences? Numerical Experiments Using the Forward Model CARB3D+, #90104 (2010)

Cooper Katherine J.; Smart Peter L.

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... suggested that stacking patterns in platform carbonate sequences can be interpreted in terms of stationary Milankovitch‐ driven cyclicity in sea level...

How Accurate is the Triassic Global Sea-Level Curve?: Disturbing Results from the Dolomite Mountains, Italy, by L. A. Yose; #90986 (1994).

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Abstract: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Deposits and Associated Clastic Marginal Marine Reservoir Deposits of Mrabtine Formation (Gulf of Gabes, Offshore Tunisia)

Soufiane Chaeib, Mohamed Soussi, and Hella Benjemia

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... is associated to important erosion in connection with a major sea level fall. Based upon Jeffara outcrops and subsurface data such as lithological...

Abstract: Magnetic Susceptibility, Biostratigraphy, and Sequence Stratigraphy: Insights into Timing of Devonian Carbonate Platform Development and Basin Infilling, Western Alberta, by Michael T. Whalen and Jed Day; #90039 (2005)

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Cyclic Deposition of Upper Tertiary Phosphorites of North Carolina Coastal Plain and Their Relation to Global Sea Level Curves: ABSTRACT

Stanley R. Riggs, Don W. Lewis, A. Kelly Scarborough

AAPG Bulletin

... sea level fluctuations. Each depositional unit, its carbonate cap, and the associated diastemic surfaces correlate with established third order sea...

PERMIAN SEDIMENTARY FACIES, SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA

JAMES A. PETERSON

Montana Geological Society

... or northwest, derived as wind blown material swept southward across the exposed shelf carbonate shelf during lower sea level stages of the cycles...

Abstract: Integration of Facies Architecture, Geochemical Signatures and Ooid Granulometrey for Reservoir Quality Prediction, Lower Triassic Khuff Formation, Central Saudi Arabia; #90254 (2016)

Hassan A. Eltom, Osman M. Abdullatif, Lameed O. Babalola, Mazin A. Bashari, Mohamed Yassin, Mutasim S. Osman, Asaad M. Abdulraziq

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... of many Permian-Triassic carbonate sequences are composed of extensive oolite-microbialite deposits, many of which contain major hydrocarbon-producing...