Eustatic Controls on Clastic Deposition I—conceptual Framework

Posamentier, Henry W.; Jervey, M. T.; Vail, Peter R.

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“…It should be noted that the fluc tu a tion of the shore line po sition is not iden ti fied here with eustatic sea level changes. As many au thors al ready em pha sized, shore line shifts can also result from a chang ing sed i ment sup ply and vary ing ac com mo dation due to re gional tec tonic pro cesses (e.g., Hal lam, 1988;Posamentier et al, 1988).…”

Section: Discussion Sedimentary Environmentmentioning

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Storm-influenced deposition and cyclicity in a shallow-marine mudstone succession - example from the Middle Jurassic ore-bearing clays of the Polish Jura (southern Poland)

Leonowicz

2015

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1 Uni ver sity of War saw, In sti tute of Ge ol ogy, ¯wirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Po land Leonowicz, P., 2015. Storm-in flu enced de po si tion and cyclicity in a shal low-ma rine mudstone suc ces sion -ex am ple from the Mid dle Ju ras sic ore-bear ing clays of the Pol ish Jura (south ern Po land). Geo log i cal Quar terly, 59 (2): 325-344, doi: 10.7306/gq.1221Sedimentological anal y sis of bioturbated mudstones from the Mid dle Ju ras sic ore-bear ing Czêstochowa Clay For ma tion has re vealed com mon rel ics of sed i men tary struc tures, such as thin silt/sand laminae, bed ding-plane ac cu mu la tions of shell debris, small and me dium silt-sand lenses, as well as silt-, sand-and shell-de bris-rich lev els, ac com pa nied by ero sion sur faces and mi nor scours. These fea tures doc u ment pe ri od i cal high-en ergy con di tions of mud de po si tion, in clud ing storm stir ring, event sed i men ta tion and the ac tiv ity of storm-gen er ated bot tom cur rents, which were re spon si ble for sea-floor ero sion and sed i ment sup ply from shal lower parts of the ba sin. The sea bot tom was prev a lently be low the storm wave base, but it rose above it dur ing ex cep tion ally strong storms and in the Early Bathonian zig zag chron when the ba sin ex pe ri enced con sid erable shallowing. The shal low est and high est en ergy con di tions oc curred in the late macrescens subchron, when the bot tom was close to, or above the fair-weather wave base. The es ti mated depth of the sea did not ex ceed sev eral tens of metres, but in some pe ri ods it could be even less than 20 m. Based on the ver ti cal vari a tion of the sand, silt and clay con tents, seven transgressive-re gres sive cy cles have been dis tin guished in the ap prox i mately 75 m thick suc ces sion span ning the Up per Bajocian-Up per Bathonian. Cy cles TR 1 , TR 2+3 , TR 5 and TR 6+7 cor re late with those dis tin guished in the co eval suc ces sion from cen tral Po land, al though the strati graphic po si tion of cy cle bound aries is slightly shifted. These cy cles re cord rel a tive sea level changes that af fected the en tire Pol ish Ba sin. Re gres sions R 2 and R 6 were smaller-scale-events, gen er ated in response to a lo cal tec tonic ac tiv ity and autocyclic shore line progradation.

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Section: Discussion Sedimentary Environmentmentioning

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Storm-influenced deposition and cyclicity in a shallow-marine mudstone succession - example from the Middle Jurassic ore-bearing clays of the Polish Jura (southern Poland)

Leonowicz

2015

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“…It extends throughout what [19] defined as the Niger Delta Province. The basin contains upper Cretaceous to Recent marine to fluvial deposits overlying oceanic crust and fragments of the African continental crust [20]; [21]. The Delta proper began developing in the Eocene.…”

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Well Log Sequence Stratigraphic and Palynological Analysis of Late Miocene to Pliocene Agbada Formation, Southwestern Niger Delta Basin, Nigeria

Adebayo

2014

Review of Environment and Earth Sciences

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Sequence stratigraphic interpretation of 2,and 3 Keywords: Depositional sequence, System tracts, Palynomorph, Well-Log, Sequence stratigraphy, Foraminifera. Contribution/ OriginalityThe study contributes to the existing literature on the Niger Delta Basin by integrating sedimentology, biostratigraphy, well logging and sequence stratigraphy to detect depositional sequences that can serve as reservoirs to substantially increase the oil reserves in the basin. It documents eighteen sequences based mainly on palynological signature in the basin.

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“…6 and 8). Therefore, fluvial deposits above the sequence boundary and below the transgressive surface are inferred to represent a lowstand systems tract (e.g., Posamentier et al, 1988;Van Wagoner et al, 1988). A laterally traceable marine bed with molluscs is found in the geological cross section of the Kitakami Lowland (Figs.…”

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“…6). Therefore, estuary deposits of the Tatsunokuchi Formation below and above the maximum flooding surface are regarded as a transgressive systems tract and a highstand systems tract (TST and HST) (e.g., Posamentier et al, 1988;Van Wagoner et al, 1988), respectively (Figs. 6 and 8).…”

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High-resolution sequence stratigraphy in an incised-valley system on the basis of sedimentary organic matter, sulfur content and fossil diatom: An example from Miocene to Pliocene Tatsunokuchi Formation, Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan

Yoshida

Inoue

Hoyanagi

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Jour. Sed. Soc. Japan

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This paper discusses relationship among depositional environments, origin of the sedimentary organic matter and diatom fossil assemblage, combined with sequence stratigraphy in an incised-valley system. Interpretation of the environments and their changes was based on sedimentary facies, total sulfur (TS) content, and diatom assemblages. The quantity and composition of organic matter were estimated for the environmental interpretation on the basis of the total organic carbon (TOC) content, reflected-light fluorescent microscopy, and stable carbon isotope ratios of the organic matter (d 13 C org ). The Miocene to Pliocene Ishibane, Tatsunokuchi and Motohata formations in northeast Japan consist of estuarine and fluvial deposits that were formed during a rise and fall of sea level. The proportions of vitrinite and cutinite that are coarse-grained and terrestrial in origin are relatively high in fluvial deposits of the lowstand systems tract. The proportion of marine alginite, TOC content, and d 13 C org values increase upward in estuary deposits of the transgressive systems tract. This implies the increase in the influence of the sea and the estuarine bottom conditions becoming anoxic. The proportions of vitrinite and cutinite increase upward in the highstand systems tract, whereas the d 13 C org values and TOC content decrease upward. These reflect the strong influence of river discharge. Variations of diatom fossil assemblage of fresh water, brackish water, intertidal, coastal marine and open marine species indicate the same repetitions of transgression and regression in the Tatsunokuchi Formation. Therefore, the transgressive systems tract in the Tatsunokuchi Formation includes four cycles of transgression and regression, while highstand systems tract shows one cycle of transgression and regression.

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Eustatic Controls on Clastic Deposition I—conceptual Framework

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Storm-influenced deposition and cyclicity in a shallow-marine mudstone succession - example from the Middle Jurassic ore-bearing clays of the Polish Jura (southern Poland)

Storm-influenced deposition and cyclicity in a shallow-marine mudstone succession - example from the Middle Jurassic ore-bearing clays of the Polish Jura (southern Poland)

Well Log Sequence Stratigraphic and Palynological Analysis of Late Miocene to Pliocene Agbada Formation, Southwestern Niger Delta Basin, Nigeria

High-resolution sequence stratigraphy in an incised-valley system on the basis of sedimentary organic matter, sulfur content and fossil diatom: An example from Miocene to Pliocene Tatsunokuchi Formation, Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan

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