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Sedimentary Geology Geos 240 – Chapter 6 Facies Analysis. Dr. Tark Hamilton Readings from the Holy Book of Tark: (6:1-26) Camosun College. Navajo Sandstone, Jurassic Desert. Facies interpretation of Successive units in Non-Marine Sandstones A&B: trough X-beds E: Asymmetric scour
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Sedimentary GeologyGeos 240 – Chapter 6Facies Analysis Dr. Tark Hamilton Readings from the Holy Book of Tark: (6:1-26) Camosun College
Facies interpretation of Successive units in Non-Marine Sandstones A&B: trough X-beds E: Asymmetric scour F: Rippled SS & MS
Facies interpretation of Successive units in Non-Marine Sandstones (Left) Planar X-beds trough X-beds Asymmetric scour MS Ripple x-stratified & Carbonates (right) Encrinal grainstones Oolite Calcarenites Mudstones
Transect: Permian Reef MarginEl Capitan, New MexicoSonnenfeld, 1993, AAPG Memoir 57
Heirarchy of • Depositional Units • & Hiatus/Diastem • Migrating dunes • Change in • Hydraulic Regime • 3) Lag accumulation • 4) Bar Migration • (autogenic, 1 event) • 5)Channel erosion • (new flood cycle) • 6) Allogenic: • New cycle, tectonic, • Eustatic, climatic
Nonmarine Gething Fm E.K. Cadomin Sandstone Blairmore equivalent AB (Bluesky, NEBC) Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous Hiatus marks regional Tectonic Uplift across WCB Marine Fernie Fm Shales Jurassic
Expansion on Gressley’s vertical Sequences representing changing Environments Mud Drape Ripples Laminated silt Planar X-beds Trough X-beds Erosional scour Vertical Lateral Adjacent environments make vertical successions
Fining upwards Prograding Delta
1 episode infilling Serrated, variable hydraulics Bouma C & D or E
Modern Point Bars On a meander bend In the Milk River Alberta “The present is the Key to the Past!” Carboniferous (Penn.) Channel cut and fill With Point Bar Sands Alabama
Temple of Serapis, Naples After Lyell’s (1830) Geology Marine borings low on columns mark Volcano-tectonic subsidence From Vesuvio! Re-uplift, despite rising sea levels! A new corollary for Walther: The Past is The Key to the Future. Boom!
Destruction of Seawall Vero Beach Florida Hurricane Jeanne September 2004
Bioturbated Ordovician Dolostones2400 km apart! a) Boothia Peninsula & b) Garrison QuarryArctic Islands versus Winnipeg