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Sedimentary Geology Geos 240 – Chapter 6 Facies Analysis Dr. Tark Hamilton Dr. Tark Hamilton Readings from the Holy Book of Tark: (6:1-26) Readings from the Holy Book of Tark: (6:1-26) Camosun College Camosun College
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Navajo Sandstone, Jurassic Desert
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Facies interpretation of Successive units in Non-Marine Sandstones A&B: trough X-beds E: Asymmetric scour F: Rippled SS & MS
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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
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Transect: Permian Reef Margin El Capitan, New Mexico Sonnenfeld, 1993, AAPG Memoir 57
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Heirarchy of Depositional Units & Hiatus/Diastem 1)Migrating dunes 2)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
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Nonmarine Gething Fm E.K. Cadomin Sandstone Blairmore equivalent AB (Bluesky, NEBC) Marine Fernie Fm Shales Jurassic Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous Hiatus marks regional Tectonic Uplift across WCB
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Adjacent environments make vertical successions Mud Drape Ripples Laminated silt Planar X-beds Trough X-beds Erosional scour Expansion on Gressley’s vertical Sequences representing changing Environments Vertical Lateral
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Fining upwards Prograding Delta
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Waning Floods Rising Sea Level
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1 episode infilling Serrated, variable hydraulics Bouma C & D or E
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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
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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!
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Destruction of Seawall Vero Beach Florida Hurricane Jeanne September 2004
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Bioturbated Ordovician Dolostones 2400 km apart! a) Boothia Peninsula & b) Garrison Quarry Arctic Islands versus Winnipeg
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