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Inner-Forearc Sequence Architecture in Response to Climatic and Tectonic Forcing Since 150 ka: Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

Fabien Paquet, Jean-Noel Proust, Philip M. Barnes, Jarg R. Pettinga

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) in the Mahia Basin, and turning SE into the Lachlan Basin. The gravels and coarse sands occupied most of the main valleys on land and tapered...

Overview of Cenozoic Volcanism in the West-Central United States

Robert A. Chadwick

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

...-flow sheets 30-27 m.y. ago and tapered off at 23 m.y. The ash flows were ejected from numerous calderas within the field; 17 ash-flow sheets have been...

Late Miocene-Pliocene Detachment Faulting and Pliocene-Recent Basin-and-Range Extension Inferred from Dismembered Rift Basins of the Salt Lake Formation, SE Idaho

Susanne U. Janecke, Stephanie M. Carney, Michael E. Perkins, Jeffrey C. Evans, Paul K. Link, Robert Q. Oaks Jr., Barbara P. Nash

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... of an extensional wedge (Xiao et al., 1991; Fowler et al., 1995). This theory was developed by analogy with the critically tapered wedge theories...

Lithostratigraphic and Depositional Architecture of the Latrobe Group, Offshore Gippsland Basin

J. M. Bodard, V. J. Wall, R. A. Kanen

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... at this time are not clear but likely constituted a large, comparatively thin sedimentary apron which tapered gradually southward towards the Bassian...

The North Slope Foreland Basin, Alaska: Chapter 13

Kenneth J. Bird, Cornelius M. Molenaar

AAPG Special Volumes

... discovery, North Slope exploration activity lossomed, and the rate of oil and gas discovery shot upward. Since then, the rate has tapered off to one...

TAPHONOMIC VARIANCE BETWEEN MARATTIALEAN FERNS AND MEDULLOSAN SEED FERNS IN THE CARBONIFEROUS MAZON CREEK LAGERSTÄTTE, ILLINOIS, USA

EMMA R. LOCATELLI, LAURA KRAJEWSKI, ALLEN V. CHOCHINOV, MARC LAFLAMME

PALAIOS

... colored concentric rings. States NA Oval, Circular, Egg-shaped (tapered oval), Rectangular, Irregular Brown, Gray, Red-Brown Ringed, Solid Fossil...

Development of Carbonate Banks and Hypersaline Basins, Shark Bay, Western Australia: PART 2

Gregory M. Hagan, Brian W. Logan

AAPG Special Volumes

... crests. Levees rim the banks on eastern and western margins, eventually coalescing on the tapered northern margin into a single levee bank (Fig. 34...

Mixed Volcaniclastic and Pelagic Sedimentary Rocks from the Cenozoic Southern Tonga Platform and their Implications for Petroleum Potential

Neville F. Exon, Richard H. Herzer, James W. Cole

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... with a period of active volcanism involving the Lau-Tongatapu Ridge, which tapered off in the late Miocene. Nearly 250 m of Miocene to lower Pliocene...

Biological and ecological insights from the preservational variability of Funisia dorothea, Ediacara Member, South Australia

Rachel L. Surprenant, James G. Gehling, Mary L. Droser

PALAIOS

... lines, no scalloping Lateral 4 Poor Tapered Rare terminations lateral association with BG 2 and 3 Funisia individuals, these relatively smaller...

Seismic Stratigraphy and Structure of the Victoria Land Basin, Western Ross Sea, Antarctica

A. K. Cooper, F. J. Davey, J. C. Behrendt

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... processing procedures are described by Dadisman et al. (this volume). T h e seismic-reflection data we present are 2 4 fold, tapered-stack profiles...

A Fossil Forest from Italy Reveals that Wetland Conifers Thrived in Early Permian Peri-Tethan Pangea

Steffen Trümper, Ronny Rößler, Corrado Morelli, Karl Krainer, Sara Karbacher, Björn Vogel, Matteo Antonelli, Enrico Sacco, Evelyn Kustatscher

PALAIOS

... the trunk, giving the main roots a tapered, stocky appearance (Fig. 14B). In-situ tree no. 13 has four first-order roots, roughly equidistantly...

Ostracoda of the Prairie Bluff Chalk, Upper Cretaceous, (Maestrichtian) and the Pine Barren Member of the Clayton Formation, Lower Paleocene, (Danian) from Exposures Along Alabama State Highway 263 in Lowndes County, Alabama

James Keith Smith

GCAGS Transactions

..., random ridges; posterior end tapered and terminates in a point above center. Dorsal margin nearly straight, ventral margin concave, forward of center...

Frontmatter, TOC, Road Logs: Structure and Tectonics of Trans-Pecos Texas

Patricia Wood Dickerson, William R. Muehlberger

West Texas Geological Society

... house with “tapered” walls—much thinner at the base than at the top—caused by differential erosion. The roof shelters the upper walls from...

Dynamic casting and growth faulting: Dawson Creek Graben Complex, Carboniferous-Permian Peace River Embayment, Western Canada

J.E. Barclay,, F.F. Krause, R.I. Campbell, J. Utting

CSPG Bulletin

..., kilometre-scale horst and graben blocks. FSJG was an asymmetrical, half-graben trough that tapered in depth and in width to the east and southeast...

Systematic ichnology of the Mabou and Cumberland groups (Carboniferous) of western Cape Breton Island, eastern Canada, 2: surface markings

Dave G. Keighley, Ron K. Pickerill

Atlantic Geology

..., elongate, or tapered in the terminology of Trewin, 1994), and from unifid, bifid, trifid, or quadrifid appendages, (d) o f variable size, and (e) not de...

Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Origin of Lower Devonian (Emsian) Carbonate Mud Buildups, Hamar Laghdad, Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco, Africa

Steven A. Aitken, Christopher J. Collom, Charles M. Henderson, Paul A. Johnston

CSPG Bulletin

... inclined platform beds, which faced and tapered basinward to the south, may account for their asymmetry. MICROSPAR Mud comprising the buildups (M1) consists...

Systematic Catalog of Foraminifera, Humboldt County, California

C. R. Haller

AAPG Special Volumes

.... D-1287, Eel River Formation. This varietal form differs from the normal one in being more compressed in side view and less tapered in plan view...

High-frequency sequences, paleogeography, and syn-depositional tectonism on a shallow clastic ramp: Doe Creek and Pouce Coupe members of the Late Cenomanian Kaskapau Formation, Western Canada Foreland Basin

A. Guy Plint, Michael A. Kreitner

CSPG Bulletin

... an abruptly-tapered wedge that thins from approximately 100 m in the west to an erosional edge close to approximately 120°W. The upper boundary...

Anatomy of a Flysch

Paul Enos

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... terminate abruptly. Common shapes of beds include uniform blankets with tapered edges and a variety of less regular forms which may be skewed...

Microbial Transformation of Molecular Hydrogen in Marine Sediments, with Particular Reference to Petroleum

Claude E. Zobell

AAPG Bulletin

... in the rubber stopper was fitted with a short length of tapered glass tube closed on top with a sleeve-type serum-bottle stopper having a soft rubber...

Chapter 1: Record and Constraints of the Eastward Advance of the Caribbean Plate in Northern South America

Joan F. Flinch, Veronica Castillo

AAPG Special Volumes

...) in the area adjacent to the fold-and-thrust belt to 0.1 km (0.06 mi) in the tapered end in the southcentral part of the basin and to <0.05 km (<0.03 mi...

Experimental Deformation of Sedimentary Rocks Under Confining Pressure: Tests at Room Temperature on Dry Samples

John Handin , Rex V. Hager, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... of the specimen. The specimen is enclosed in a thin-walled, annealed, drawn copper tube of negligible strength which slips over the tapered ends of the piston...

Cretaceous Biostratigraphy of Northern Alaska

Helen Tappan

AAPG Bulletin

... in being narrower and less curved dorsally. Marginulina glabra d'Orbigny, from the Pliocene of Italy, is more tapered and has a more enrolled base...

Cretaceous Stratigraphy of Central Andes of Peru

John J. Wilson

AAPG Bulletin

... tapered spires up to 15 cm. tall are also abundant. A Natica sp. indet. is common in some beds, and rudistid fragments also occur. Part of the mold...