Paleocurrents and Basin Analysis

Potter, Paul Edwin; Pettijohn, F. J.

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“…5). According to the literature on terrestrial analogues (described in Kuenen (1958), Potter and Pettijohn (1963), Allen (1982), Tucker (1996), Owen (2003), Nichols (2009), among others), flame structures are isolated cusps produced by variation in bulk density. It is well known that in a sedimentary multilayer, this type of deformation originates in response to difference in composition, which causes a marked density contrast between adjacent horizons (Visser et al, 1984;Rossetti De Fátima, 1999;Ghosh et al, 2002).…”

Section: Description Of the Deformational Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Large-scale deformational systems in the South Polar Layered Deposits (Promethei Lingula, Mars): “Soft-sediment” and Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations Mechanisms

Guallini

Brozzetti

Marinangeli

2012

Icarus

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Section: Description Of the Deformational Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Large-scale deformational systems in the South Polar Layered Deposits (Promethei Lingula, Mars): “Soft-sediment” and Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations Mechanisms

Guallini

Brozzetti

Marinangeli

2012

Icarus

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“…The subject of stratigraphy meant classical lithostratigraphy. The books and reviews by Pettijohn (1949Pettijohn ( , 1962Potter and Pettijohn 1963), and Krumbein and Sloss (1951), and Levorsen's (1954) textbook on petroleum geology exemplify this approach.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Modern Stratigraphymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sorby (1852) was the first to recognize the utility of crossbedding for determining current directions. However, as Allen (1993) pointed out, it was not until the appearance of the synthesis by Potter and Pettijohn (1963) that the richness and significance of the preserved record caught the general attention of sedimentary geologists.…”

Section: Facies Means] the Sum Of Lithologic And Paleontologic Characmentioning

confidence: 99%

Logan Medallist 3. Making Stratigraphy Respectable: From Stamp Collecting to Astronomical Calibration

Miall

2015

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The modern science of stratigraphy is founded on a nineteenth-century empirical base – the lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of basin-fill successions. This stratigraphic record comprises the most complete data set available for reconstructing the tectonic and climatic history of Earth. However, it has taken two hundred years of evolution of concepts and methods for the science to evolve from what Ernest Rutherford scornfully termed “stamp collecting” to a modern dynamic science characterized by an array of refined methods for documenting geological rates and processes. Major developments in the evolution of the science of stratigraphy include the growth of an ever-more precise geological time scale, the birth of sedimentology and basin-analysis methods, the influence of plate tectonics and, most importantly, the development, since the late 1970s, of the concepts of sequence stratigraphy. Refinements in these concepts have required the integration of all pre-existing data and methods into a modern, multidisciplinary approach, as exemplified by the current drive to apply the retrodicted history of Earth’s orbital behaviour to the construction of a high-precision ‘astrochronological’ time scale back to at least the Mesozoic record. At its core, stratigraphy, like much of geology, is a field-based science. The field context of a stratigraphic sample or succession remains the most important starting point for any advanced mapping, analytical or modeling work.RÉSUMÉLa science moderne de la stratigraphie repose sur une base empirique du XIXe siècle, soit la lithostratigraphie et la biostratigraphie de successions de remplissage de bassins sédimentaires. Cette archive stratigraphique est constituée de la base de données la plus complète permettant de reconstituer l’histoire tectonique et climatique de la Terre. Cela dit, il aura fallu deux cents ans d’évolution des concepts et des méthodes pour que cette activité passe de l’état de « timbromanie », comme disait dédaigneusement Ernest Rutherford, à l’état de science moderne dynamique caractérisée par sa panoplie de méthodes permettant de documenter les rythmes et processus géologiques. Les principaux développements de l’évolution de la science de la stratigraphie proviennent de l’élaboration d’une échelle géologique toujours plus précise, l’avènement de la sédimentologie et des méthodes d’analyse des bassins, de l’influence de la tectonique des plaques et, surtout du développement depuis la fin des années 1970, des concepts de stratigraphie séquentielle. Des raffinements dans ces concepts ont nécessité l'intégration de toutes les données et méthodes existantes dans une approche moderne, multidisciplinaire, comme le montre ce mouvement actuel qui entend utiliser la reconstitution de l’histoire du comportement orbital de la Terre pour l’élaboration d’une échelle temporelle « astrochronologique » de haute précision, remontant jusqu’au Mésozoïque au moins. Comme pour la géologie, la stratigraphie est une science de terrain. Le contexte de terrain d’un échantillon stratigraphique ou d’une succession demeure le point de départ le plus important, pour tout travail sérieux de cartographie, d’analyse ou de modélisation.

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“…The marked imbrication of the maximum projection plane of the gravel (Fig. 10) is indicative of bedload transport of the sediments (Potter and Pettijohn, 1963;Johansson, 1965;Walker, 1975).…”

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The Age and Origin of the Blakeney Esker of North Norfolk: Implications for the Glaciology of the Southern North Sea Basin

Gale

Hoare

2007

Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products

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The age and origin of the Blakeney ridge of eastern England have been debated for over a century. The feature is shown to be an esker formed in the late stages locally of a glaciation of Middle Quaternary age. The weight of evidence indicates that the esker was associated with the ice that laid down the Marly Drift of central north Norfolk, although this cannot be demonstrated conclusively. The flows that formed the Blakeney esker were subglacial. They took place from northwest to southeast along the length of the ridge, with at least the final phase occurring under hydrostatic pressure. It is likely that the esker developed during a glacial stillstand and under steep hydraulic gradients close to the ice sheet terminus. Although the esker conduit appears to have functioned largely as a Röthlisberger channel, there is evidence of simultaneous incision of the glacial bed. A valley is cut into bedrock beneath the esker. The esker and the buried valley may form the distal components of one of the broadly north-south aligned subglacial valleys that were trenched across the southern North Sea Basin in Middle Quaternary times. The complex assemblage of proglacial glaciofluvial landforms found to the south of the esker may represent the products of transport along the subglacial valley. The ice lobe that occupied the southern North Sea Basin may have left similar buried valley-proglacial fan complexes elsewhere along the northern fringe of East Anglia.

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Paleocurrents and Basin Analysis

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Large-scale deformational systems in the South Polar Layered Deposits (Promethei Lingula, Mars): “Soft-sediment” and Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations Mechanisms

Large-scale deformational systems in the South Polar Layered Deposits (Promethei Lingula, Mars): “Soft-sediment” and Deep-Seated Gravitational Slope Deformations Mechanisms

Logan Medallist 3. Making Stratigraphy Respectable: From Stamp Collecting to Astronomical Calibration

The Age and Origin of the Blakeney Esker of North Norfolk: Implications for the Glaciology of the Southern North Sea Basin

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