An organic geochemical investigation combined with sequence stratigraphy was performed in the Ceará Basin, an offshore basin located Northeastern Brazil. The information available from 30 well logs (gamma-ray, resistivity, density), besides (TOC, and pyrolysis indexes) isotopic (?13C) data, aided preparation of a dataset for this study. application sequence-stratigraphic methods helped classify...

During archeological excavations in the Lower Cerovačka Cave (Mt. Velebit, Croatia), test trench penetrated to a depth of 1.8 m. An undisturbed sequence sediments was exposed. Considering that caves represent highly efficient sediment traps it possible recognize changes depositional mechanisms during Pleistocene–Holocene period. Using multiproxy approach, mineralogical, petrographic, and biostr...

M. Mange Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, England Abstract This integrated study of the sedimentology, magnetostratigraphic chronology and petrography of the mostly continental clastics of the Oligocene to Miocene Swiss Molasse Basin underpins a reconstruction of facies architecture and delineates relationships between the depositional evolution o...

This research focusses on the facies distribution, paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the foraminifera of the Guri Member in the northern Bandar Abbas Hinterland located in the Roydar area of southern Iran. The Guri Member is 570 meters thick and composed of limestone, argillaceous limestone and marl. The distribution of the foraminifera in the study area indicates the existence of three bioz...

During the past 50 years, the turbidite paradigm has promoted many myths related to deep-water turbidite deposition. John E. Sanders (1926–1999), a pioneering process sedimentologist, first uncovered many of these turbidite myths. This paper provides a reality check by undoing 10 of these turbidite myths. Myth No. 1: turbidity currents are non-turbulent flows with multiple sediment-support mech...

A detailed outcrop and sub-surface analysis was completed on the Peay Member sandstone (Frontier Formation) in the northeast Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, building on previous work by Clark (2010) and Hutsky (2011). Regional correlations reveal the sandstone body to be digitate in planform geometry, elongate along depositional dip, and restricted across depositional strike. It is interpreted to be th...

Introduction [1]: Since their discovery, a variety of formation hypotheses have been proposed to explain the diversity of gully observations. These hypotheses can be divided into three broad categories: entirely dry mechanisms [2,3], wet mechanisms invoking groundwater release [4,5], and wet mechanisms invoking surficial meltwater [6,7,8]. It has been difficult to differentiate between these hy...

Well log data are a common source of information for characterizing subsurface environments. A statistical methodology is developed and applied for the interpretation of such data in terms of a multi-state depositional sequence. The well log data is classified into a discrete set of states (e.g., sand, silt, clay) and stratigraphic transitions between these states are described as a continuous ...