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AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50, (Section Title: Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations) Chapter 7: Stratigraphic Architecture of Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstones from the Ferron Sandstone Outcrop, East-Central Utah, by Mark D. Barton, Edward S. Angle, and Noel Tyler, Pages 193 - 210
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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
Copyright © 2004 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.

Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations

Chapter 7:
Stratigraphic Architecture of Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstones from the Ferron Sandstone Outcrop, East-Central Utah

Mark D. Barton1, Edward S. Angle2, and Noel Tyler3
1Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., Houston, Texas
2Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas
3ARC Group, LLC, Leander, Texas

ABSTRACT

The Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone is a fluvial-deltaic system that is superbly exposed along the western flank of the San Rafael Swell in east-central Utah. The Ferron consists of fluvial, near shorezone, and shallow-Previous HitmarineNext Hit strata that were deposited along the active margin of an evolving foreland basin. The 180-m-thick (590-ft) Ferron Sandstone forms an east- to northeast-thinning clastic wedge that is bounded by Previous HitmarineNext Hit strata and pinches out over the distance of 40 km (25 mi). Numerous local transgressive intervals further subdivide the Ferron into 10-20-m (30-60-ft) thick successions of fluvial and shallow-Previous HitmarineTop strata that are similar to the commonly used ‘parasequence.’

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