Sequence stratigraphic framework of the mid-Cretaceous nonmarine Potomac Formation, New Jersey and Delaware

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (7) ◽  
pp. 713-728
Author(s):  
Jesse D. Thornburg ◽  
Kenneth G. Miller ◽  
James V. Browning
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Delta Plain ◽  
Pollen Zone ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Lower Aptian ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Lithologic Unit ◽  
Stacking Patterns ◽  
Order Sequence

ABSTRACT We developed a sequence stratigraphic framework for the (Barremian to lower Cenomanian) fluvial–deltaic (primarily delta plain) Potomac Formation in the Medford, New Jersey, Fort Mott, New Jersey, and Summit Marina, Delaware coreholes. Previous studies have correlated distinctive lithologic units with attendant pollen zones and identified tentative sequence boundaries between lithologic units I (Barremian to lower Aptian, pollen Zone I), II (Aptian to lowermost Cenomanian, pollen Zone II), and III (lower Cenomanian, pollen Zone III) at all three sites. Here, we further subdivide these units into packages known as fluvial aggradation cycles (FACs). An analysis of FAC stacking patterns reveals potential sequence boundaries and systems tracts. FACs indicate that major lithologic unit boundaries are also sequence boundaries, indicate tentative higher-order sequence boundaries, and provide potential additional correlative surfaces among Potomac Formation sites. Our study demonstrates the applicability of the FAC method to identify stacking patterns and sequence stratigraphic surfaces in fluvial–deltaic deposits and demonstrates that FACs are excellent tools to decipher the difficult-to-correlate surfaces.

Sequence Stratigraphic Characteristics of Damoguaihe Formation in the North of Wuerxun Sag

2015 ◽  
Vol 733 ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
Bao Yu ◽  
Ling Yu Xu
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
The North ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
System Tracts ◽  
High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Order Sequence ◽  
Drilling Core

Using the theories and methods of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy in rift lacustrine basins, we analyzed seismic, logging and drilling core data of the Damoguaihe Formation in the northern Wuerxun Sag area of the Hailaer Basin in order to understand its sequence stratigraphy characters. We identified third-order sequence boundaries and maximum flooding surfaces and established the sequence stratigraphic framework of the Damoguaihe Formation, which is a set of type sequence. It includes lowstand system tracts (LST), transgressive system tracts (TST) and highstand system tracts (HST).

scholarly journals Tectono-Stratigraphic Note: Time calibration of late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic Arabian stratigraphy to orbital-forcing predictions

GeoArabia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moujahed Al-Husseini ◽  
Robley K. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Second Order ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Orbital Forcing ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Time Calibration ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Order Sequence

The recent publication of GTS 2004 (Gradstein et al., 2004) provides an opportunity to recalibrate in time the late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Traissic Arabian Stratigraphy (GeoArabia Special Publication 3, Edited by Al-Husseini, 2004) as represented by the rock units in subsurface Interior Oman (Osterloff et al., 2004a, b) and the Haushi-Huqf Uplift region (Angiolini et al., 2004) (Figure). Additionally, sequence stratigraphic models of orbital forcing (Matthews and Frohlich, 2002; Immenhauser and Matthews, 2004) provide new insights in regards to the time calibration of depositional sequences: the “Rosetta Stone” approach. The Rosetta Stone approach predicts that the period of a third-order depositional sequence is 2.430 ± 0.405 my (denoted DS3 and here adjusted to increase the fourth-order ‘geological tuning fork’ from 0.404 to 0.405 my based on Laskar et al., 2004). The present calibration is also tied to the orbital-forcing model developed by R.K. Matthews (in Al-Husseini and Matthews, 2005; this issue of GeoArabia) that predicts that a second-order depositional sequence (denoted DS2) consists of six DS3s that were deposited in a period of about 14.58 my (6 x 2.430 my); the DS2 being bounded by two regional second-order sequence boundaries (SB2) corresponding to sea-level maximum regression surfaces.

Sequence stratigraphy of the late Carboniferous Clifton Formation, New Brunswick

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (11) ◽  
pp. 1289-1304
Author(s):  
Brandon M. Keough ◽  
Olivia A. King ◽  
Matthew R. Stimson ◽  
Page C. Quinton ◽  
Michael C. Rygel
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Sediment Supply ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Marine Strata ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Carbonaceous Shales ◽  
Study Interval ◽  
Maritimes Basin ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Maximum Flooding Surface

The Maritimes Basin of Atlantic Canada contains a rich record of Pennsylvanian cyclothems. Previous studies have focused on rapidly subsiding depocenters in the central part of the basin where Carboniferous successions feature cyclic alternations between terrestrial and marginal marine strata. In contrast, the Pennsylvanian Clifton Formation was deposited on the relatively stable New Brunswick platform and contains almost entirely terrestrial strata. Although early studies of the Clifton Formation noted a cyclic architecture, particularly within Member B, this unit has remained understudied. We provide a sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic framework for the lower 85 m of Member B and interpret our results relative to a broader regional framework. Near the base of the study interval, the highstand systems tract is composed of red floodplain mudrocks; overlying sequence boundaries are composed of calcretes and (or) channels. The transgressive systems tract and maximum flooding surface are represented by coals and aquatic bivalve-bearing mudrocks. Moving upward through the section, the architecture of the highstand systems tract remains largely unchanged while sequence-bounding paleosols become less well developed, the transgressive systems tract becomes thinner and eventually not preserved, and the maximum flooding surface is only occasionally preserved, possibly represented by carbonaceous shales. These changes in cyclic architecture may be attributed to changes in the magnitude of glacioeustatic fluctuations, climate, and (or) the accommodation/sediment supply ratio. The results of this study show that the Clifton Formation represents the terrestrial/proximal endmember for cyclicity in the Maritimes Basin and provide new insight into paleotopography as a possible control on cyclothem architecture.

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of Silurian Strata in Tazhong Area

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Lun Wei Zhu ◽  
Xue Juan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Tazhong Area ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Comprehensive Study

According to the fundamental principles of high resolution sequence stratigraphy, this paper focused on the application of high resolution sequence stratigraphy to Silurian strata in Tazhong area. Based on the comprehensive study of logging, drilling and seismic information, the high resolution sequence boundaries of Silurian strata and two scales of datum level cycles (long-term and intermediate-term) can be recognized in Tazhong area. Seven chronstratigraphic boundaries can be recognized in Silurian strata, including four sequence boundaries, which were the transformation from datum level falling to datum level rising, and three flooding surfaces, which the transformation from datum level rising to datum level falling. The Silurian strata in Tazhong area can be divided into three third-order sequences which correspond to three long-term datum level cycles, and 11 fourth-order sequences (parasequence sets) relating to 11 intermediate-term datum level cycles. The classification aforementioned can much better solved the corresponding problem between the six lithological sections of Silurian strata and sequence formations, finally establishes the high resolution sequence stratigraphic framework of Silurian strata in Tazhong area.

High resolution linkage of channel-coastal plain and shallow marine facies belts, Desert Member to Lower Castlegate Sandstone stratigraphic interval, Book Cliffs, Utah-Colorado, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1643-1672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon A.J. Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Sediment Supply ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Book Cliffs ◽  
Marine Facies ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Allogenic Processes ◽  
Stacking Patterns ◽  
Order Sequence

AbstractThe Campanian Desert Member and Lower Castlegate Sandstone in the Book Cliffs of east-central Utah to western Colorado, USA, has served as a foundational data set in the development of sequence stratigraphy. Contrary to previous work, no third-order sequence boundaries are recognized. These were originally thought to partition the neighboring coastal plain and shallow marine facies belts into separate systems tracts, unlinked in time or space. In contrast, adjoining channel-coastal plain and shallow marine facies belts are genetically-, temporally-, and spatially-related. Evidence includes the (i) synchronous, strongly progradational stacking patterns within each facies belt, (ii) gradational and conformable transitions between adjoining facies belts, accentuated by the ubiquity of flat-topped, rooted foreshore sandstones passing upwards into carbonaceous-rich-mudstone-dominated coastal plain, (iii) parasequence-scale interfingering of coastal plain-channel and foreshore-shoreface deposits, with channels, white caps and coals embedded within stacked shoreface parasequences, (iv) regional correlation of coals and flooding surfaces, and (v) near orthogonal paleocurrent relationship between channels and shorelines. Terminal channels incise into proximal foreshore-shoreface sandstones in most Desert-Castlegate parasequences. Incisions are generally confined to the parasequence in which the channels are nested, rarely cutting deeper. These shoreface-incised channels are cut and filled at a parasequence-scale, and are bounded above by the same flooding surface that caps each foreshore-shoreface package. The ubiquity of ascending regressive shoreface trajectories and near absence of descending regressive trajectories that intersect depositional slope argues against any significant sea level fall. Increased rates of sediment supply, driven by autogenic and/or allogenic processes, likely generated the strongly progradational Desert-Castlegate great tongue of sandstone.

scholarly journals Predictive diagenetic clay-mineral distribution in siliciclastic rocks as a tool for identifying sequence boundaries in non-marine successions: the Coalspur Formation, west-central Alberta

Geologos ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 169-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Khidir ◽  
Octavian Catuneanu
Keyword(s):  
Clay Mineral ◽  
Secondary Porosity ◽  
Mineral Distribution ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
West Central ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Diagenetic Minerals ◽  
Siliciclastic Rocks ◽  
Sequence Boundaries

Predictive diagenetic clay-mineral distribution in siliciclastic rocks as a tool for identifying sequence boundaries in non-marine successions: the Coalspur Formation, west-central AlbertaThe study of upper Cretaceous-lower Tertiary fluvial deposits of the Coalspur Formation in the Foothills region of west-central Alberta reveals that the distribution of early authigenic kaolinite has a well-defined relation to the sequence stratigraphic framework. In this context, it has been observed that the kaolin mineral content increases in sandstones lying below subaerial unconformities, which mark the most significant stratigraphic hiatuses and hence the sequence boundaries in fully fluvial successions. The increased abundance of authigenic kaolinite immediately below sequence boundaries may have been caused by the infiltration of meteoric water during times of subaerial erosion, resulting in the dissolution of unstable minerals (e.g., micas and feldspar) and the formation of kaolinite and secondary porosity. It is therefore suggested that the change in clay mineral assemblages in the stratigraphic section depends in part on the position of the analyzed sandstone samples relative to the sequence boundaries. In a larger context, the method of using authigenic clays to delineate depositional sequences in non-marine successions needs to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, as the diagnostic early diagenetic minerals underlying the sequence boundary may change as a function of palaeoclimate and also as a function of late diagenetic processes.

Sequence Stratigraphic Research of the Jurassic in the East of Tarim Basin, Northwest China

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 180-184
Author(s):  
Xuan Cheng ◽  
Zai Xing Jiang ◽  
Tian Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Change Point ◽  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Sedimentary Environment ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Seismic Profile ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Braided Channel ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Order Sequence

Based on the study of drilling, well logging and seismic profile, the Jurassic strata of the study area can be divided in to 2 2nd-order and 4 3rd-order sequences. The same formation in different regions unevenly distributed in study area due to sedimentary environment, sedimentary palaeotopography, post-depositional uplift and different degree of erosion. 4 3rd-order sequence boundaries can be recognized in this study, the results shown that the sequence boundaries used to be on the abrupt change point of the logging curve and are characterized by the bottom of large size braided channel scouring.

Framework of Sequence Stratigraphy Sedimentary System and Evolution of Yimin Formation in Yimin Depression

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bi Ao Guo ◽  
Long Yi Shao ◽  
Sheng Zhang ◽  
Kang Yang Qing ◽  
Ming Ming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Flood Plain ◽  
Structure Evolution ◽  
Cumulative Probability ◽  
Delta Front ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Delta Plain ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Sedimentary System ◽  
Well Data ◽  
Object Of Study

Well data, cores, logging, connecting with the characteristic of structure evolution are used to establish the sequence stratigraphic framework of the coal-bearing formation of Yimin Depression in Early Cretaceous. The coal-bearing formation can be divided into two three-order sequences and Yimin Formation, as one of the three-order sequences,is the most important object of study. Through cores description, research of Spontaneous Potential and Resistivity curve shape and analysis of sedimentary Cumulative Probability Size Curve, four facies including fan delta, braid river delta, sublacustrine fan and lake,and some subfacies are identified in Yimin Formation in the sequence stratigraphic framework. Coal-rich belts develop in the southwest delta plain and northwest interdeltaic bay in Yimin Depression. According to the characteristic of the development of coal and sedimentary system, two kinds of coal accumulation models, shallow lake and flood plain in delta front and interdelta, are concluded in Yimin Depression.

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