Download or read book Advances in the Sedimentary Geology of the Great Valley Group Sacramento Valley California written by Stephan Alan Graham and published by Pacific Section Society of Economic Paleontologists & Mineralogists. This book was released on 1993 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Unlocking the Stratigraphical Record written by Peter Doyle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-03-06 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stratigraphy is the key to understanding the geological evolution of the earth. It provides the framework for our interpretation of the sequences of events which have shaped the earth throughout its 4600 million years of existence. It provides the timescale with which we can determine the relative order of these events, and it provides the means whereby we can calibrate this using absolute ages in years. Stratigraphy is therefore the most fundamental subject in the science of geology, and all geologists are practising stratigraphers. Traditionally, however, stratigraphy has been considered as a Victorian science, a ponderous process of the naming and cataloguing of innumerable geological units most of which are of limited interest outside of a given geographical region. This view has been challenged in recent years through the development of new techniques such as sequence stratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy which have greatly enhanced our capability to interpret earth history. In this book many of the leading practitioners of modern stratigraphy have been gathered together to provide up-to-date and authoritative reviews of most of the important advances in the subject. As such it is the only volume to provide a comprehensive treatment of modern stratigraphy at an advanced undergraduate level.
Download or read book Paleogeography and Sedimentary Development of Two Deep marine Foreland Basins written by Anne Bernhardt and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three chapters focusing on the evolution of marine sedimentary successions that formed as the fill of large submarine channel belts and their tributary systems. These channel belts serve as conduits for gravel- and sand-laden sediment gravity flows along the axes of narrow, elongate foreland basins. In the past, axial channel belts have not been widely recognized in submarine foreland basins (Mutti et al., 2003). However, recent studies have demonstrated the presence of axial channels, 3-8 km in width and > 100 km in length, in a number of marine foredeeps including the Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, southern Chile, and the Tertiary Molasse Basin, northern Austria (De Ruig and Hubbard, 2006; Hubbard et al., 2008, 2009). Additional studies have shown that similar channels are common in submarine trough-shaped basins in other convergent margin settings such as the Peru-Chile trench (Thornburg et al. 1990, Völker et al., 2006), the Hikurangi trough, offshore New Zealand (Lewis and Pantin, 2002), and the Nankai trough, offshore Japan (Fig. 1 in Moore et al., 2007), as well as in modern oceanic rift basins, such as the Maury channel in the Northeast Atlantic Rockall Basin (Cherkis et al., 1973) and the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel (NAMOC) in the Labrador Sea (Hesse et al., 1987, 1990; Hesse, 1989, Klaucke et al., 1998). These occurrences suggest that axial channels may be common sediment transport fairways in elongate deep-water basins in a variety of tectonic settings. This thesis investigates the sedimentary evolution, stratigraphic architecture, and paleogeography of such channel systems in two distinct, yet analogous and complementary research areas: the Magallanes foreland basin in southern Chile, and the Molasse foreland basin in northern Austria. The main objectives of this study are: a)to characterize the processes of submarine sediment transport and deposition in the study areas, b)to explain the associated filling patterns of ancient submarine axial channels and their tributaries, and c)to reconstruct the paleogeography of an ancient seafloor in order to better understand deep-marine sediment dispersal patterns in narrow elongate basins. The Magallanes Basin is a retro-arc foreland basin characterized by a deep-marine filling history from the Cenomanian/ Turonian (Fildani et al., 2003; Fosdick et al., in press) to the Campanian (Chapter 3). The numerous coarse-grained submarine channel and lobe complexes of the Turonian to Campanian Cerro Toro Formation represent a large north-south oriented channel belt that funneled sediment gravity flows along the axis of the foreland basin parallel to the active thrust front (Hubbard et al., 2008). This main axial trunk channel belt was probably fed by at least one, and possibly numerous, tributary channel systems coming off the Andean mountain front to the west. Similarly, sedimentation within the Upper Austrian Molasse Basin during the late Oligocene to early Miocene was largely controlled by an axial trunk channel that was fed by a deltaic system to the west and a tributary system lying along the Inntal fault zone to the southwest (De Ruig and Hubbard, 2006). Three studies were undertaken in order to illuminate the processes and architecture of the fill of submarine foreland basin axial channels: the interaction of submarine debris flows and turbidity currents within the axial channel in the Molasse Basin (Chapter 1), the stratigraphic and architectural evolution of coarse-grained deep-water deposits in a tributary system setting in the Magallanes Basin (Chapter 2), and the paleogeography of the Magallanes Basin axial channel belt and its tributary system and the associated basin-filling pattern over time (Chapter 3). Multiple techniques were combined to achieve these goals, including field mapping, sedimentological analysis of outcrops and rock cores, interpretation of wireline logs and 3D seismic-reflection data, U/Pb dating of zircons, strontium isotope stratigraphy, and a novel approach to lithofacies proportion modeling (Stright et al., 2009).
Download or read book Sedimentary Environments written by Harold G. Reading and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 1417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sedimentary Environments is one of the most distinguished and influential textbooks in the earth sciences published in the last 20 years. The first and second editions both won universal praise and became classic works in sedimentology. Since the publication of the last edition, the study of sedimentary environments and facies has made great strides, with major advances in facies modelling, sequence stratigraphy and basin modelling. The 3rd edition of this classic text will likely set the benchmark even higher, and needless to say, will continue being the textbook of choice for sedimentology students. The latest edition of a classic text. Incorporates all the latest advances in dynamic stratigraphy. Will remain the textbook of choice for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in sedimentology.
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Download or read book External Controls on Deep water Depositional Systems written by SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) and published by SEPM Soc for Sed Geology. This book was released on 2009 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains digital version of this publication.
Download or read book Atlas of Deep Water Outcrops written by Tor H. Nilsen and published by AAPG. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover plus CD
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Download or read book Multiscale Modeling of Deep water Channel Deposits written by Lisa Elizabeth Stright and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sedimentological models capture the processes and subsequent deposits that explain the distribution of facies within a depositional system. The first sedimentological models for deep-water depositional systems were portrayed as idealized shelf break to slope submarine basin sediment dispersal systems. These models were developed from ancient outcrop exposures (Mutti and Lucchi, 1972) and from the modern day seafloor (Normark, 1970, 1978). More recent model development has been based largely on observations from modern slope channels including the Amazon Channel (Pirmez and Imran; 2003), offshore West African (Abreu et al., 2003; Deptuck et al., 2003), and attempts at generalization from multiple studies (Mayall et al., 2006), as well as ancient outcrop studies (e.g., Brushy Canyon; Gardner et al., 2003). Concepts from these sedimentological models have been the principle foundation for development of quantitative geostatistical models. A geostatistical model adapts the conceptualization of facies distribution from the sedimentological model. This information is then coded into a three-dimensional, gridded computer model directly constrained to available data (i.e., wireline logs, core data, and seismic attributes). Geostatistical models developed for deep-water depositional systems have primarily focused on either sinuous channels confined by levees or erosional surfaces (e.g., Larue and Hovadik, 2006; Labourdette et al., 2007; Pyrcz et al., 2008; McHargue et al., 2010; Sylvester et al., 2010) or basin-floor or overbank lobes associated with loss of confinement from sinuous channels (Pyrcz et al., 2005; Wellner et al., 2006; Zhang et al., 2009). Although widely used, such geostatistical models have limited applicability in fitting all deep-water depositional systems, and cases exists that require modification of such models or creation of entirely new models. In this dissertation I show the importance of synthesizing sedimentological and geostatistical models based on observations from the data. The primary objectives of this dissertation are 1) to present methodologies to enable the creation of better sedimentological models from remote sensing data, and 2) to present a means to model depositional architectures for a system that cannot currently be captured with standard geostatistical modeling approaches. The main contributions are threefold. The first contribution, presented in Chapter 1, is a methodology designed to extract subseismic, lithologic information from inverted pre-stack seismic reflectivities. Also, in Chapter 1, the predictive power of this methodology is demonstrated on a dataset from the subsurface of the Molasse Basin in Upper Austria. Beyond this dissertation, Bernhardt et al. (in review) adopted the methodology to support the development of a more predictive sedimentological model for the same dataset. The second contribution, presented in Chapter 2, is a new approach for building predictive quantitative spatial models for a deep-water channel belt, in which sand deposition is controlled by mass-transport-deposit-topography. This methodology leverages sedimentological interpretations derived from subseismic, lithologic information as presented in Chapter 1 and the sedimentological work of Bernhardt et al. (in review). The final contribution of this dissertation is presented in two outcrop studies. Chapters 3 and 4 utilize extensive data collected from deep-water channel outcrops to build digital outcrop models. The model from Chapter 3 is used to demonstrate the predictive power of pre-stack seismic-reflectivity data in interpreting the large-scale architecture of a heterolithic deep-water channel system exposed in the sea cliffs along Blacks Beach near La Jolla, California. Finally, the outcrop modeling study presented in Chapter 4 presents a methodology to capture structural and stratigraphic uncertainty in outcrop observations in order to analyze the three-dimensional channel morphology of the Cerro Toro deep-water channel belt exposed in Sierra del Toro outcrops in the Magallanes Basin of Chile. These four chapters are described in more detail below.
Download or read book Tectonics Sedimentary Basins and Provenance A Celebration of the Career of William R Dickinson written by Raymond V. Ingersoll and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a remarkable combination of intellect, self-confidence, engaging humility, and prodigious output of published work, William R. Dickinson influenced and challenged three generations of sedimentary geologists, igneous petrologists, tectonicists, sandstone petrologists, archaeologists, and other geoscientists. A key figure in the plate-tectonic revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, he explained how the distribution of sediments on Earth's surface could be traced to tectonic processes, and is widely recognized as a founder of modern sedimentary basin analysis. This volume consists of 31 chapters related to Dickinson's research interests; many of the authors are his former students, their students, and their students' students, demonstrating his continuing profound influence. The papers in this volume are an impressive tribute to the depth and breadth of Bill Dickinson's contributions to the geosciences.
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Download or read book Deepwater Sedimentary Systems written by Jon R. Rotzien and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications helps readers identify, understand and interpret deepwater sedimentary systems at various scales – both onshore and offshore. This book describes the best practices in the integration of geology, geophysics, engineering, technology and economics used to inform smart business decisions in these diverse environments. It draws on technical results gained from deepwater exploration and production drilling campaigns and global field analog studies. With the multi-decadal resilience of deepwater exploration and production and the nature of its inherent uncertainty, this book serves as the essential reference for companies, consultancies, universities, governments and deepwater practitioners around the world seeking to understand deepwater systems and how to explore for and produce resources in these frontier environments. From an academic perspective, readers will use this book as the primer for understanding the processes, deposits and sedimentary environments in deep water – from deep oceans to deep lakes. This book provides conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art information on deepwater systems, as well as scenarios for the next 100 years of human-led exploration and development in deepwater, offshore environments. The students taught this material in today's classrooms will become the leaders of tomorrow in Earth's deepwater frontier. This book provides a broad foundation in deepwater sedimentary systems. What may take an individual dozens of academic and professional courses to achieve an understanding in these systems is provided here in one book. - Presents a holistic view of how subsurface and engineering processes work together in the energy industry, bringing together contributions from the various technical and engineering disciplines - Provides diverse perspectives from a global authorship to create an accurate picture of the process of deepwater exploration and production around the world - Helps readers understand how to interpret deepwater systems at various scales to inform smart business decisions, with a significant portion of the workflows derived from the upstream energy industry
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