Foreland-basin sequence response to collisional tectonism

Castle, James W.

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<0801:fbsrtc>2.0.co;2

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“…Sequence stratigraphic models applied to foreland basins suggest that nearshore accommodation is controlled by the interaction between varying rates of eustatic change and regional patterns of flexural subsidence caused by thrust-sheet loading (Posamentier and Allen 1993;Willis 2000;Castle 2001;Hoy and Ridgway 2003;Atchley et al 2004;Escalona and Mann 2006;Bera et al 2008). In this view, short-and longterm patterns of subsidence are assumed to be identical, such that in areas proximal to the thrust load, subsidence consistently exceeds the pace of eustatic fall, whereas in areas distal to the orogenic belt, the rate of sealevel fall is greater than the rate of subsidence at least part of the time.…”

Section: Eustasy and Subsidencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tectonically simple settings such as passive continental margins and tectonically active basins (e.g., retroarc foreland basins) are both assumed to subside differentially and in comparable ways (Posamentier and Allen 1993;Martinson et al 1998;Willis 2000;Varban and Plint 2008), though with foreland subsidence depending primarily on proximity to the thrust load rather than on crustal thinning. As a result, it has been argued that the rate of subsidence in foreland basins exceeds the rate of eustatic falls consistently in areas proximal to the orogenic belt, but only episodically in regions distal to the thrust load (Posamentier and Allen 1993;Willis 2000;Castle 2001;Hoy and Ridgway 2003;Escalona and Mann 2006;Bera et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 98%

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Tectonically Controlled Nearshore Deposition: Cozzette Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Colorado, U.S.A

Madof¹,

Christie‐Blick²,

Anders³

2015

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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The Book Cliffs of eastern Utah and western Colorado have been pivotal in the development of outcrop-based sequence stratigraphic concepts for nonmarine to shallow marine siliciclastic depositional settings. Prior studies in this area, and more generally in the Cretaceous western interior foreland basin of North America, have concluded that nearshore accumulation is controlled for the most part by the interaction between oscillatory eustatic change and longer-term regional patterns of flexural subsidence. New outcrop and subsurface evidence reported here from the eastern Book Cliffs suggests that three-dimensional tectonic tilting at length scales of up to , 50 km (31 mi) and timescales of less than , 200 kyr also strongly influenced sedimentation. Continental ice sheets are thought to have been small at the time. Documented patterns of accumulation are inconsistent with those expected from interactions of eustasy and regional flexure alone.The upper Campanian Cozzette Sandstone Member of the Mount Garfield Formation consists of twelve lithofacies arranged into six lithofacies assemblages, inferred to have been deposited in shallow marine, marginal marine, and nonmarine depositional environments. Shallow marine facies are organized into six wedge-shaped units , 40 m thick, bounded by flooding surfaces, and separated into three larger-scale cycles, which display along-strike and time-equivalent aggradational and progradational stacking. These successions are interpreted as shoreface-foreshore-swamp parasequences, and are erosionally overlain by fluvial and estuarine deposits. Both fluvial and estuarine accumulations are underlain by composite erosional surfaces, belonging either to two distinct incised-valley fills or to one composite fill. The proposed interpretation is based on high-resolution correlations made from digital video and continuous photographs acquired during a helicopter survey of the member. This interpretation differs significantly from published cross sections of the Cozzette, in which the sandstone is inferred to consist of at least two sheet-like shallow marine parasequences, truncated by sequence boundaries.Facies variations, stratigraphic thickness trends, and geometrical relationships reveal that three basinward-landward cycles of syndepositional to postdepositional tectonic tilting in the southern Piceance basin controlled accumulation in the Cozzette Sandstone. Differential subsidence to the southeast led to the development of a northeast-trending clinoform rollover. Subsequent tilting to the north resulted in renewed accommodation creation, and reorientation of the rollover to an eastward trend. Following deposition of six shallow marine parasequences, tilting towards the northeast resulted in bypass and the development of a sequence boundary. The main conclusion of our study, that nearshore sedimentation was modulated by local tectonism at timescales of less than hundreds of thousands of years, casts doubt on the generally accepted eustatic paradigm at a location that was among the most...

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Section: Eustasy and Subsidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Tectonically Controlled Nearshore Deposition: Cozzette Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Colorado, U.S.A

Madof¹,

Christie‐Blick²,

Anders³

2015

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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“…This collision caused plate subduction and is attributed to the initiation of the current Appalachian Basin structure (Castle, 2001)..…”

Section: Fracture Detection In Central Appalachian Basinmentioning

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3D seismic attribute-assisted fracture detection in the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale, southwestern PA, Central Appalachian Basin

Babarsky

Gao

2012

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2012

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The analyses of conventional structural attributes (first derivative, ant-tracking, phase, curvature, and variance) indicate very complex fracture systems within a Middle Devonian unconventional gas reservoir of the Central Appalachian Basin. In this presentation, we propose to investigate such complexity and the implications of fault networks to the exploration for and production of hydrocarbons. Spectral decomposition (iso-frequency) amplitude analysis was utilized in order to define spectral amplitude response to the fracture facies. The results will be useful to characterize fractured reservoir properties such as fault networks and fracture intensity. We calibrated spectral decomposition attributes using previous petrophysical studies or using structure attributes such as curvature and ant-tracking to determine relationships between spectrally decomposed amplitude attributes and fracture intensity of the reservoir. As a result, this study can potentially enhance the quality of interpretation of seismic data and better define the fracture facies that have important implications for unconventional gas-shale reservoir characterization and CO2 sequestration in the deep subsurface.

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“…3. In particular, recent papers by Castle (1998, 2000, 2001) and Cotter & Driese (1998) provide sedimentological data, including photographs, of the various facies present in Lower Silurian and Upper Devonian strata of the Appalachian basin.…”

Section: Sedimentary Facies Tracts In the Appalachian Basinmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Forms in response to high rates of subsidence and sediment supply in the proximal foreland. After Castle (2001). (G) Incised valley‐fill facies tract.…”

Section: Sedimentary Facies Tracts In the Appalachian Basinmentioning

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Appalachian basin stratigraphic response to convergent‐margin structural evolution

Castle¹

2001

Basin Research

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From study of Palaeozoic formations in the Appalachian foreland basin, a predictive stratigraphic model is proposed based on facies tract development during convergent‐margin structural evolution. Five major facies tracts are recognized: shallow‐water carbonates that formed during interorogenic quiescence and initial foreland subsidence; deep‐water siliciclastics that accumulated in the proximal foreland basin during early collision; syn‐collisional shallow‐water siliciclastics; syn‐collisional, channellized fluvial sandstones that aggraded in the proximal foreland; and progradational shoreline sandstones that were deposited in response to filling of the proximal foreland. Two other facies tracts that occur are organic‐rich siliciclastics (‘black shales’), which accumulated in oxygen‐deficient areas of low clastic‐sediment influx, and incised valley‐fill deposits, which formed where subsidence rate was low. Because the origin of each facies tract is dependent upon a unique combination of rate of accommodation change and rate of sediment supply, facies tract distribution is predictable from spatial and temporal patterns of subsidence and uplift associated with plate convergence. Alternating phases of thrust loading and quiescence caused fluctuations between underfilled and overfilled conditions during Palaeozoic evolution of the Appalachian basin. Along‐strike variations in stratigraphic thickness, facies tract distribution, and development of unconformities in the Appalachian basin reflect the influence of structural irregularities along the collisional margin. In distal parts of the Appalachian foreland and in areas of structural recesses, eustatic influence on stratigraphic patterns is expressed more clearly than in areas of higher subsidence rate.

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Foreland-basin sequence response to collisional tectonism

Cited by 21 publications

References 47 publications

Tectonically Controlled Nearshore Deposition: Cozzette Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Colorado, U.S.A

Tectonically Controlled Nearshore Deposition: Cozzette Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Colorado, U.S.A

3D seismic attribute-assisted fracture detection in the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale, southwestern PA, Central Appalachian Basin

Appalachian basin stratigraphic response to convergent‐margin structural evolution

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