Detroit River group in the Michigan basin

Landes, Kenneth K.

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“…29, T24N-RIW. Landes (1951) established the Lucas Formation with its first officially designated member -the Richfield Member. Landes credited Ehlers (1950) with placing the Lucas Formation in the upper part of the Detroit River Group of Middle Devonian age.…”

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The Richfield Member of the Lucas Formation of the detroit river group (lower middle devonian), Michigan Basin, Michigan, USA

Melvin

1989

Carbonates Evaporites

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The Richfield Member of the Lucas Formation is composed of numerous anhydrite and carbonate cyclothems which prograded across the Michigan Basin from the west to the east forming a wedge of sediments. The sulfates were precipitated as either anhydrite or gypsum (1) from the evaporation of pore fluids in the supratidal facies, (2) as lath crystals in the intertidal and subtidal facies, and (3) as subaqueous palmate crystals within the ponds on the supratidal flats and in the deeper basin. The low-relief platform was frequently inundated by basinal waters with only slight changes in water level. Thus, the sabkha was flooded with sheets of water which caused subaqueous palmate gypsum to precipitate so that a single anhydrite bed had both supratidal and subaqueous origins. The intertidal and supratidal zones were characterized by dolomitic algal mats which frequently were partially or totally dolomitized by replacement. The dolomite is typically euhedral to sub-euhedral with an idiotopic texture forming intercrystalline porosity. The subtidal facies was composed of peloids, ooids, and micrite with partial dolomitization. Basinal ionic concentrations regulated whether anhydrites or carbonates were deposited in this zone. Maximum thickness of the Richfield, up to 225 feet, occurred on the western edge where the maximum number of cyclothems were developed. To the east, the unit has fewer carbonate-anhydrite cyclothems and greater amounts of unaltered limestone which thinned to a feather edge. 9

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“…The Detroit River Group was thus extended through the Sylvania Sandstone. Ellis (1969) removed the Sylvania Sandstone from member status as defined by Landes (1951).…”

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The Richfield Member of the Lucas Formation of the detroit river group (lower middle devonian), Michigan Basin, Michigan, USA

Melvin

1989

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“…Tharp's Fig. 4 (structure contour map on top of the Detroit Series) seems to be Landes (1951) Fig. 11, although the caption here (structure contour map of Southern Peninsula of Michigan contoured on base of Lucas formation) is a bit ambiguous; the Lucas formation is the uppermost unit in the Detroit River Series.…”

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“…In later life, Tharp described the thesis work as ''very routine" (Shepherd, 1994, p. 287 Fig. 3 (salt isopach map of the Detroit River Series) formed the basis of Landes (1951) Fig. 5 [the text here (p. 7, indicates modified from Tharp (1944)].…”

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The ties that bind: Soil surveyor William Edgar Tharp and oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp

Landa

2010

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

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“…In the Lower Peninsula, the Detroit River Group is present except in the extreme northern and southeastern regions. The contact between the Detroit River Group and the Dundee Limestone is irregularly marked by an erosional unconformity and is difficult to distinguish in the subsurface due to similarity in lithologies and hence well log responses on either side of the contact (Landes, 1951;Baltrusaitis, 1974). Lilienthal (1978) stated that the top Detroit River pick is often placed a few feet below the top of the Detroit River Group at the first anhydrite or is based upon other lithology characteristics when this anhydrite is not present.…”

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Using Recent Advances in 2d Seismic Technology and Surface Geochemistry to Economically Redevelop a Shallow Shelf Carbonate Reservoir: Vernon Field, Isabella County, Mi

Wood¹,

Wylie²,

Quinlan³

2004

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Detroit River group in the Michigan basin

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

The Richfield Member of the Lucas Formation of the detroit river group (lower middle devonian), Michigan Basin, Michigan, USA

The Richfield Member of the Lucas Formation of the detroit river group (lower middle devonian), Michigan Basin, Michigan, USA

The ties that bind: Soil surveyor William Edgar Tharp and oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp

Using Recent Advances in 2d Seismic Technology and Surface Geochemistry to Economically Redevelop a Shallow Shelf Carbonate Reservoir: Vernon Field, Isabella County, Mi

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