Lombardi reservoir, San Ardo field, California: Sequence stratigraphy in a deltaic environment associated with local tectoni

Larue, D. K.; Allen, Jonathan P.; Driscoll, Neal W.; Loera, D.; McGlothlin, S.; McWilliams, Cory K.; Murphy, R.; Pearson, Nadine J.; Singer, James

doi:10.1306/02231715042

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2017

DOI: 10.1306/02231715042

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Lombardi reservoir, San Ardo field, California: Sequence stratigraphy in a deltaic environment associated with local tectoni

D. K. Larue¹,

Jonathan P. Allen²,

Neal W. Driscoll³

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Cratonal tidal deposits of the Paleoproterozoic Mesnard Quartzite, Lake Superior region: interpretation challenges

Larue

2023

Can. J. Earth Sci.

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The Mesnard Quartzite of Paleoproterozoic age is believed to represent among the first preserved cratonal continental rocks in the Lake Superior region, was deposited above Archean basement in the Marquette structural trough and is estimated to contain more than 99% sandstone (now quartzite) beds. The Mesnard Quartzite is interpreted to have been deposited largely by tidal currents. Evidence of tidal current deposition includes lack of wave-influenced structures such as hummocky cross-beds, and presence of strongly unidirectional paleocurrents from cross-beds, mud-drapes on cross-bed foresets, evidence of current reversal including herringbone cross-bedding and sigmoidal cross-bedding. Sandstone bedding types include homogeneous or structureless beds, parallel-laminated beds, cross-beds, and symmetric ripple marks. Unidirectional paleocurrents from cross-beds are largely subparallel to the axis of the Marquette structural trough, leading to the interpretation that the trough was subsiding during deposition. Cross-bed set thickness and symmetric ripple marks both support the interpretation of shallow water marine deposition, likely only a few meters. Although the Mesnard Quartzite is on the order of 110 m thick, there is no evidence of internal sequence boundaries or flooding surfaces, and low accommodation during deposition is inferred. The climate during deposition is interpreted to be humid, and tropical to subtropical based on the quartz arenite composition. Deposition likely occurred in a failed rift basin or in an intracratonic extensional basin.

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Cratonal tidal deposits of the Paleoproterozoic Mesnard Quartzite, Lake Superior region: interpretation challenges

Larue

2023

Can. J. Earth Sci.

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Lombardi reservoir, San Ardo field, California: Sequence stratigraphy in a deltaic environment associated with local tectoni

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Cratonal tidal deposits of the Paleoproterozoic Mesnard Quartzite, Lake Superior region: interpretation challenges

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