Syndepositional deformation of the Permian Capitan reef carbonate platform, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Hunt, David; Fitchen, William M.; Koša, Eduard

doi:10.1016/s0037-0738(02)00104-5

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“…Photograph (A) and line drawing (B) of a 2.6-km-long dip-section through the Capitan Platform on the eastern face of Slaughter Canyon. The sequence-stratigraphic framework is adopted from Hunt et al (2002). Fifteen syndepositional faults and two major fractures cut the platform in the present section.…”

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“…proposed for the Capitan platform by Hunt et al (2002). The Capitan platform has been subject to "syndepositional" (i.e., contemporaneous with deposition) deformation leading to the formation of structures such as "folds," "faults," and "fractures."…”

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“…Longley (1999) proposed an alternative model of dissolution, speculating that water expelled from basinal sediments, over which the platform had prograded, may have used fractures within the platform as avenues to escape upwards and mix with near-surface waters to produce undersaturated fluids, thus promoting a mixing-zone type of dissolution. More recently, Hunt et al (2002), Koša. et al (2003) and Hunt (2005, 2006) established that most of the apparent "dikes" and "fissures" reported from Slaughter Canyon (Melim andScholle, 1989, 2002;Melim, 1991;Osleger, 1998;Longley, 1999) are, in fact, early karst-modified syndepositional faults (Fig.…”

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“…Platform strata equivalent to the Capitan reef are stratigraphically subdivided into three major depositional sequences; the (i) Seven Rivers, (ii) Yates and (iii) Tansill composite sequences (Fig. 1B;Osleger, 1998;Tinker, 1998;Kerans and Tinker, 1999;Osleger and Tinker, 1999;Hunt et al, 2002). This study concentrates on the Yates and base Tansill sequences (Fig.…”

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“…Our recent studies of the Capitan Platform have identified a number of syndepositional faults associated with growth folds in Slaughter Canyon, New Mexico (Hunt et al, 2002;Koša et al, 2003;Koša and Hunt, 2005). These faults are parallel to the platform margin and were repeatedly enlarged by dissolution as the platform grew (Fig.…”

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The effect of syndepositional deformation within the Upper Permian Capitan Platform on the speleogenesis and geomorphology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA

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2006

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The effect of syndepositional deformation within the Upper Permian Capitan Platform on the speleogenesis and geomorphology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA

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Early Load‐Induced Fracturing in a Prograding Carbonate Margin

McNeill

Eberli

2009

Perspectives in Carbonate Geology

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The description of early non-tectonic fracturing of carbonates is rare because (1) fractures in young carbonates occur in areas not easily accessible, and (2) burial and diagenesis often precludes the determination of the exact timing of (early) fracturing in older rocks. The Bahamas Drilling Project core Clino recovered the upper part of a young prograding platform margin containing a set of fractures interpreted to be non-tectonic; formed by rapid loading of a clinothem package. Three intervals with open and partially infilled fractures were recovered in Clino, and those fractures are closely related to the lithologic variation in the slope sediments.Fracturing occurred specifically within coarse, well-cemented skeletal deposits. These coarser deposits are generally margin-derived sediments within the background sediment. The overlying and underlying finer-grained sediments are significantly less fractured. The fractures occur within a 45 m thick interval immediately below a surface of non-deposition or erosion with a hiatus of >0.5 my. Our model suggests that early cementation of the skeletal sands, followed by rapid margin progradation, provided significant load to generate brittle fracturing (shear and extensional) in lithified strata. Laboratory deformation experiments, magnetic fracture-plane orientation and the timing of load emplacement are consistent with load-induced fracturing.Fracture planes preferentially dip westward which is parallel to the depositional slope. Similar early fracture porosity can act as high permeability conduits for diagenetic fluids and hydrocarbons in platform margin and slope strata.

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Ancient Basins and Stratigraphic Evolution

Warren

2016

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Syndepositional deformation of the Permian Capitan reef carbonate platform, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Cited by 47 publications

References 9 publications

The effect of syndepositional deformation within the Upper Permian Capitan Platform on the speleogenesis and geomorphology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA

The effect of syndepositional deformation within the Upper Permian Capitan Platform on the speleogenesis and geomorphology of the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Early Load‐Induced Fracturing in a Prograding Carbonate Margin

Ancient Basins and Stratigraphic Evolution

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