Carbonate cementation potentially has significant impact upon reservoir quality. Navajo sandstone frequently occurs as spectacular cliffs, cuestas, domes, and bluffs rising from the desert floor. An outcropbased dataset has been used in preference to well data though well data have been incorporated into the study section. The occurrence of firmgrounds, compaction around concretions, and high minuscement porosities indicate that cementation occurred during early diagenesis. It can be distinguished from adjacent jurassic sandstones by its white to light pink color, meterscale crossbedding, and distinctive rounded weathering the wide range of colors exhibited by the navajo sandstone reflect a long history of alteration by groundwater and other. Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the book cliffs, utah cole 1989 field trip guidebooks wiley online library. Lethaia publishes articles of international interest in the fields of palaeontology and stratigraphy. Lethaia is the formal publication outlet for the international palaeontological association ipa and for the international commission on stratigraphy ics. Sequence stratigraphy developed initially as a tool for stratigraphic correlation sloss et al. Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the book cliffs, utah cole 1989 field trip guidebooks.
Extensive carbonate cementation of fluvial sandstones. It is late cretaceous latest turonian early campanian in age and contains fluvial river systems, paralic swamps and lagoons, and marginal marine shoreline siliciclastic strata. Outcrop analysis and facies model of an upper permian. Willis, bj and gabel, sl 2003 formation of deep incisions into tidedominated river deltas. Comprehensive safety discussion kicks off the trip on day 1, followed by. Use of spectral gammaray data to refine subsurface. A good appreciation of the nature of reservoir and nonreservoir rocks in the subsurface is of fundamental importance to sound ep decision making. Guidebook 2010 cochair for 3 agu, 2 aapg, and 2 gsa meeting sessions 2003present. Top of the castlegate sandstone, sagers canyon, book cliffs, eastern utah. Upper cretaceous strata exposed in the book cliffs of east central utah are widely used as an archetype for the sequence stratigraphy of marginalmarine and shallowmarine deposits. Outcrop and subsurface examples from the cretaceous of north america, j. Sedimentary geology rg journal impact rankings 2018 and 2019. Late cretaceous strata in the book cliffs, utah, usa. Use of spectral gammaray data to refine subsurface fluvial stratigraphy.
Reevaluating the sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. Cari johnson research faculty profile university of utah. Recent publications since 1995 refereed journal articles miall, a. Outcrop and subsurface examples from the cretaceous of. Sequence stratigraphic framework of late campanian strata, book cliffs area, utah and colorado. Sequence stratigraphy, a branch of sedimentary stratigraphy, is a methodology that uses the order sedimentary strata accumulated within a framework of major depositional and erosional surfaces to interpret the depositional setting of clastic and carbonate.
Adamson, use of spectral gammaray data to refine subsurface fluvial stratigraphy. At some point, this section will contain hundreds of stratigraphic columns from all over the colorado plateau. Shoreface tongue geometry constrains history of relative sea. Sequence stratigraphy of the book cliffs of eastern utah. Stratigraphic and geomorphologic evidence of three mis 2. Cliffs area of utah and colorado, and has been the focus of stratigraphic reconstruction aimed at developing an understanding. The sequence stratigraphic approach to basin analysis became widely used after peter vail and his exxon colleagues demonstrated that sequences could be defined and correlated by the use of reflectionseismic data. Leader arrives a few days early for pretrip safety reconnaissance of all field stops and roadstracks.
Earlier stratigraphic work had predicted that at the type section of the castlegate formation, the castle gate, near price, utah, the unit consists of two sequences separated by a sequence boundary representing approximately one million years of unrecorded time. Proposed auxiliary boundary stratigraphic section and point assp for the base of the ordovician system at lawson cove, utah, usa james f. This page lists some of the literature with attached. Sequence stratigraphic framework of late campanian strata. These data are used to define the earth filter for a synthetic seismic section. She is a member of the editorial boards for stratigraphy, micropaleontology, and the journal of nannoplankton research. Dolomite cement bodies up to 250 m in size abundant in distal fluvial strata. Shoreface tongue geometry constrains history of relative. Section summary accessible from the selection map, the stratigraphic columns section will eventually be one of the most extensive parts of our database. Mixed meteoricmarine coastal aquifer resulted from baselevel shifts. Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the book cliffs, utah. The straight cliffs formation is a stratigraphic unit in the kaiparowits plateau of south central utah. Sequence stratigraphy and marine to nonmarine facies. The book cliffs are one of the most recognizable landforms in western colorado and eastern utah.
Book cliffs data sets are often used as outcrop analogues for similar subsurface settings worldwide. University of utah distinguished mentoring award 20 blaustein fellowship, stanford university 20 editorial boards. This study documents the sequence stratigraphy of the sego sandstone member in northwestern colorado, just north of rangely, and compares and contrasts it with equivalent strata in the book cliffs area in utah. Implications for exploration models, author hampson, g. Hampson department of earth science and engineering, imperial college, london sw7 2bp, uk. Geology 20072010, basin research 2010present associate editor for gsa memoir 2015, utah geological assoc. The exceptional quality of the wasatch plateau outcrop has given rise to a plethora of stratigraphic studies and serves as a natural laboratory in which to apply sequence stratigraphic principles to clastic sedimentary suc. Towards a sequence stratigraphic solution set for autogenic processes and allogenic controls. Stratigraphic variations within the sego sandstone, book cliffs, central utah article pdf available january 2007 with 165 reads how we measure reads. Methodology and nomenclature octavian catuneanu1, william e. Stratigraphic and geomorphologic evidence of three mis 2 glacial advances in the south fork hoh river valley, olympic mountains, washington, usa volume 92 issue 3 cianna e. It is well exposed around the margin of the kaiparowits plateau in the grand staircase escalante. Pdf stratigraphic variations within the sego sandstone.
Petrographic observations indicate an early diagenetic origin. The campanian book cliffs strata of eastern utah and western colorado has been used to develop, test and refine sedimentological and stratigraphic ideas and models over the years, including the principles and concepts of sequence stratigraphy. Fluvial systems sequence stratigraphy wiley online library. Sequence stratigraphic reinterpretation of open quotes. Synthetic seismic sections have been generated from a 125 km long, depositional dip orientated crosssection compiled from outcrop data from the book cliffs of eastern utah, usa. Hampson department of earth science and engineering, imperial college london, south kensington campus, london sw7 2az, uk g. Sequence stratigraphic framework of late campanian strata, book cliffs area, utah and colorado title. Metrics to discriminate between local and regional controls on deposition in the fluvial john henry member of the straight cliffs formation, southern utah, u. Field data from the upper cretaceous blackhawk formation in the book clitfs utah colorado demonstrate the presence of laterally extensive carbonate cements beneath major marine flooding surfaces. The video shows some of the field evidence for sealevel change and how the sequence stratigraphy model has been applied to this shallowmarine and fluvial succession. The sego sandstone member was deposited in a marginal marine, tideinfluenced environment of the cretaceous seaway. Publications international commission on stratigraphy.
Sequence stratigraphy is a powerful tool for the prediction of depositional porosity and permeability, but does not account for the impact of diagenesis on these reservoir parameters. This video is a virtual field trip to one of the classic locations in the world book cliffs, utah, usa where the sequence stratigraphy method was developed and tested. Upper cretaceous strata, book cliffs, utah, usa gary j. Flint, 1999, a sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic reinterpretation of the upper cretaceous prairie canyon member mancos b and associated strata, book cliffs area, utah, u. Highlights upper cretaceous fluvial strata exposed in the book cliffs, utah. Sequence stratigraphy and marine to nonmarine facies architecture of foreland basin strata, book cliffs, utah, u. Stratigraphic control on laterally persistent cementation. For about 200 miles this escarpment extends from where the colorado river descends south through debeque to price canyon near price, utah. Therefore, integrating diagenesis and sequence stratigraphy can provide a better way of predicting reservoir quality.
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