AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50, (Section Title: Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations) Chapter 5: Stacking Patterns, Sediment Volume Partitioning, and Facies Differentiation in Shallow-Marine and Coastal-Plain Strata of the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah, by Michael H. Gardner, Timothy A. Cross, and Mark Levorsen, Pages 94 - 124
from:
AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50: Regional to Wellbore Analog for Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir Modeling: The Ferron Sandstone of Utah, Edited by Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Roy D. Adams, and Thomas H. Morris
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Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations

Chapter 5:
Stacking Patterns, Sediment Volume Partitioning, and Facies Differentiation in Shallow-Marine and Coastal-Plain Strata of the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah

Michael H. Gardner, Timothy A. Cross, and Mark Levorsen^1
1Department of Geology and Geological Engineering,
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado

"Marooned" in Salina Canyon, Wasatch Plateau, Utah, circa 1910. Photograph courtesy of the family of C. T. Lupton.

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ABSTRACT

Fluvial-deltaic strata of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Western Interior Seaway, form a clastic wedge consisting of eight short-term stratigraphic cycles. The cycles are arranged consecutively in a seaward-stepping, vertically stacked, and landward-stepping stacking pattern. The stacking pattern is a product of fluctuations in accommodation-to-sediment supply (A/S) regimes described by intermediate-term, base-level cycles.