The Atchafalaya inner continental shelf, located along the north-central Gulf of Mexico offshore of Louisiana, is an area of rapid mud accumulation associated with the progradation of a subaqueous delta originating from this Mississippi River distributary. In September–October 2002, this region was impacted by two tropical cyclones (Tropical Storm Isidore and Hurricane Lili) separated by only 7...

International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 cored sediments from eight borehole locations in the carbonate platform of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. The expedition set out to unravel the timing of Neogene climate changes, in particular the evolution of the South Asian monsoon and fluctuations of the sea level. The timing of these changes are assessed by dating resultant sedi...

Sediment mass-balance analysis provides key constraints on stratigraphic architecture and its controls. We use the data-rich Middle Jurassic Brent Delta sediment routing system in proto-Viking Graben, Northern North Sea, to estimate budgets between source areas depositional sinks. Published studies are synthesised provide an age-constrained sequence framework, consisting of four previously defi...

Deformation on shale-rich continental margins is commonly associated with thin-skinned extension above mobile shales. Normal faulting and shale mobilization are widespread such margins, being controlled by progradation gravitational failure of deltaic sedimentary wedges. However, due to uncertainties in seismically imaging shales, our understanding problems like how base mobile-shale controls d...

Integration of ichnologic, sedimentologic, and stratigraphic studies of cores from Lower Pennsylva-nian oil and gas reservoirs (lower Morrow Sandstone, southwest Kansas) allows researchers to distinguish between estuarine-and open-marine deposits. This study represents one of the first published ichnologic analyses of a Paleozoic reservoir and, therefore, provides a unique opportunity to test t...

Stanley, Daniel Jean. The Saint-Antonin Conglomerate in the Maritime Alps: A Model for Coarse Sedimentation on a Submarine Slope. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, number 5, 25 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, 1980.— The Upper Eocene to Lower Oligocene Saint-Antonin Conglomerate, a formation more than 1000 m thick well exposed in the French Maritime Alps, about 30 km north of the Med...

The Merced Formation comprises a 2-km-thick shallow marine and non-marine succession that was deposited in a small transtensional basin along the San Andreas Fault during the late Pliocene to middle Pleistocene. The sediments dip between 10j and 80j to the northeast, and are locally disrupted by small faults. During tilting, the beds have been rotated into subparallelism with the San Andreas Fa...


 It is known that over 90% of oil, gas and condensate in Azerbaijan produced from Productive Series (PS) the Early Pliocene. In this respect, detailed study Pro- ductive deposits their evolution conditions has a special value. Currently most sedimentary basins world latest highly informative methods stratigraphic analysis are applied one these sequence-stratigraphy, which used study. The ...

The identification of the factors triggering continental environmental changes at Permian–Triassic transition is general interest as they allow a better understanding most controversial mass extinction Phanerozoic. This study investigates response to external forcings on successions south-east-margin Central European Basin System in Germany. Studies from this area are scarce, and its evolution ...

This work aims to present the Les Avellanes diapir as a field analog inquire how origin, advance, and emplacement of an allochthonous salt body in continental settings influence local sedimentation terms facies distribution, sediment provenance, stratigraphic relationships. At frontal part South-Central Pyrenean fold-and-thrust belt (Spain), is outcropping structure made Triassic evaporites, lu...