Download or read book Provenance of the South Texas Paleocene Eocene Wilcox Group Western Gulf of Mexico Basin written by Glen Nelson Mackey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandstone modal compositions and detrital zircon U-Pb analysis of the Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group of the southern Gulf Coast of Texas indicate long-distance sediment transport primarily from volcanic and basement sources to the west, northwest and southwest. The Wilcox Group of south Texas represents the earliest series of major post-Cretaceous pulses of sand deposition along the western margin of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Laramide basement uplifts have long been held to be the provenance of the Wilcox Group, implying that initiation of basement uplifts was the driving factor for this transition from carbonate sedimentation to clastic deposition. To determine the provenance of the Wilcox Group and test this conventional hypothesis, 40 thin sections were point-counted using the Gazzi-Dickinson method to determine sandstone composition and 10 detrital zircon samples were analyzed by LA-ICP-MS to determine U-Pb age spectra for each of the sampled areas. Modal data for sand grain populations suggest mixed sources including basement rocks, magmatic arc rocks and subordinate sedimentary rocks for the Wilcox Group. Zircon age spectra for these sandstones reveal a complex grain assemblage derived from older sediments and crystalline rocks ranging in age from Archean to Cenozoic. Sediment was primarily derived from Laramide uplifted crystalline blocks of the central and southern Rocky Mountains, the Cordilleran arc of western North America, and arc related extrusive and intrusive igneous rock of northern Mexico. Comparisons of Upper and Lower Wilcox zircon age spectra show that more arc related material was deposited in the Lower Wilcox, whereas more basement material was deposited in the Upper Wilcox.

Download or read book The Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin written by John W. Snedden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and richly illustrated overview of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, including its reservoirs, source rocks, tectonics and evolution.

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Download or read book The Wilcox Group Paleocene Eocene in the Sabine Uplift Area Texas written by W. R. Kaiser and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Petrology and provenance of the Eocene Wilcox Group northeast Texas written by Henry Kwok-Hin Wong and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paleoenvironments Depositional History and Alternate Reference Sections for the Wilcox Group Paleocene Eocene of Northwest Louisiana East Texas written by Lloyd N. Glawe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada written by Andrew Miall and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-04-20 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sedimentary Basins of the United States and Canada, Second Edition, focuses on the large, regional, sedimentary accumulations in Canada and the United States. Each chapter provides a succinct summary of the tectonic setting and structural and paleogeographic evolution of the basin it covers, with details on structure and stratigraphy. The book features four new chapters that cover the sedimentary basins of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. In addition to sedimentary geologists, this updated reference is relevant for basin analysis, regional geology, stratigraphy, and for those working in the hydrocarbon exploration industry. Features updates to existing chapters, along with new chapters on sedimentary basins in Alaska and Arctic Canada Includes nearly 300 detailed, full-color paleogeographic maps Written for general geological audiences and individuals working in the resources sector, particularly those in the fossil fuel industry

Download or read book Southern and Central Mexico Basement Framework Tectonic Evolution and Provenance of Mesozoic Cenozoic Basins written by Uwe C. Martens and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environments of Deposition Wilcox Group Texas Gulf Coast written by Houston Geological Society and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Depositional History and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Upper Wilcox Group and Reklaw Formation Northern Bee County Tx RI284 written by William A. Ambrose and published by . This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report of Investigations No. 284, "Depositional history and stratigraphic evolution of the Upper Wilcox Group and Reklaw Formation, northern Bee County, Texas" is a detailed study of the upper Wilcox and Reklaw stratigraphic succession in a 190-mi2 (~490-km2) area along the upper Wilcox shelf margin in northern Bee County, Texas. By interpreting and mapping 19 high-frequency, fourth-order regressive-transgressive sequences, it demonstrates that the upper Wilcox to Reklaw succession contains greater variability in depositional systems, facies, and reservoir sandstone-body geometry than previously documented.

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Download or read book The Depositional System for the Middle and Lower Wilcox in Houston Embayment Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin written by Lauren Kathleen Mercado and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox formation has been a very oil and gas productive formation in the Gulf of Mexico. Recoveries are on the order of 40 to 500 million barrels of oil, but the potential exists to produce 3 to 15 billion barrels of oil. However, a number of technical and intellectual difficulties arise in economically producing the Wilcox Formation. Deep water Wilcox discoveries are located in low-permeability turbidite sandstones deposited in lower slope channels and basin floor fans in the Gulf of Mexico. The turbidite channels and fans are deep basin equivalents to the shelf delta systems located >250 miles updip, now below onshore Texas. It is important to understand the Paleocene-Eocene shelf depositional system dynamics as these are sediment feeders to the deep water turbidites and will provide a better understanding of the delivery system into the basin. This thesis focuses on the Middle and Lower Wilcox Formation specifically looking in the area of the Brazos and Colorado paleo-delta systems below the present day Texas coastal plain. The study areas represent shelf, shoreline and deltaic coastal deposits. The data used were well logs, such as gamma ray, spontaneous potential and resistivity. Using well log patterns the deposits have been broken down into six stratigraphic sequences on vertical logs, mapped, and analyzed. Signatures of log patterns also have been used to identify depositional systems from fluvial to coastal plain to the shelf in order to understand cycle stacking. The migration of the depocenters indicated a slight progradation, followed by retrogradation, followed by progradation caused by changes in accommodation and sediment supply. The analysis of the shelf and coastal depocenters suggest a possible complex link to the deep basin sediment transfer rather than a simple fluvial-delta-shelf-edge delta to deep water pathway.

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Download or read book Trapping Capacity of Shear Zones in the Eocene Wilcox Formation Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin Texas written by Alana Lynn Haveman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Genetic Stratigraphic Sequence Analysis of the Upper Wilcox Gulf Basin Texas written by Steven Kendrick Miller and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Upper Wilcox genetic sequence (UWGS) is a transgressively bounded unit that represents the last major progradational episode associated with Wilcox (Paleocene-Eocene) deposition in the Texas Gulf Coast basin. The UWGS includes at outcrop, the Sabinetown Formation, the Carrizo Formation and the lower Reklaw Formation, and in the subsurface it includes the upper part of the Middle Wilcox Subgroup, all of the Upper Wilcox Subgroup and the lower part of the Reklaw Formation. UWGS depositional systems in the Rio Grande embayment (South Texas) include two large but distinct delta complexes, the Rosita and Burgos deltas. The Rosita delta system contains the Duval, Massive, and Live Oak deltas which were fed by the Carrizo fluvial system. The Burgos delta system contains the Fandango and the Zapata deltas and was fed by an unnamed and unmapped fluvial system originating from northern Mexico. Depositional systems within the UWGS in the Houston embayment (East Texas) include two small delta systems, the Columbus and the Jasper, and an intervening strandplain system, the Harris. The Columbus delta was supplied by the Jewett fluvial system and the Jasper delta by an unnamed and unmapped fluvial system originating in Louisiana. UWGS deposition began following the transgression of the Lower Wilcox shelf margin and the deposition of a regional marine mudstone containing a maximum flooding surface (MFS). An influx of sediment from the west from the last pulse of the Laramide Orogeny (55ma) began deltaic progradation in the Rio Grande embayment. At approximately the same time, delta systems in the Houston embayment first prograded and then were transgressed as the trunk fluvial system shifted to the southwest. The resulting transgressive deposits include the Yoakum shale, which defines the top of the Sabinetown Formation. A fall in sea level at the end of the Yoakum/Sabinetown transgression extended the delta systems in the Rio Grande embayment to the shelf edge; the smaller delta systems in the Houston embayment shifted basinward. A slow relative rise followed as the systems in both embayments continued to prograde/aggrade and then were progressively transgressed. A transgressive shelf with isolated sands ('Atkinson' sands) developed over the drowned basin margin. The Bigford barrier/lagoon complex marked the maximum landward migration of the shoreline