| Abstract: | In the central basin in Colorado and Kansas, these sedimentary cycles are represented by limestone-shale and marlstone-shale couplets ~0.5-1.0m in thickness. More calcareous parts of these couplets may be correlated westward into condensed, fossiliferous concretion and shell beds in proximal offshore lithofacies of Arizona and Utah. These concretion and shell beds are physically traceable farther landward (westward) into bioturbated, fossil-rich, transgressive lag deposits that bound 10-20m thick coarsening-upward progradational strand-plain deposits (parasequences) in southwestern Utah. We consider Milankovitch-style orbital forcing of climate and tectonically induced fluctuations in rates of foredeep basin subsidence as possible forcing mechanisms for these basinwide events. -from Authors |
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| Citation Author: | Elder, W. P.; Gustason, E. R.; Sageman, B. B. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Geological Society of America Bulletin |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Correlation of basinal carbonate cycles to nearshore parasequences in the late Cretaceous Greenhorn seaway, Western Interior USA; 1994; Article; Journal; Geological Society of America Bulletin; Elder, W. P.; Gustason, E. R.; Sageman, B. B. |
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| Citation Volume: | 106 |
| Citation Year: | 1994 |
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| Text: | Correlation of basinal carbonate cycles to nearshore parasequences in the late Cretaceous Greenhorn seaway, Western Interior USA; 1994; Article; Journal; Geological Society of America Bulletin; Elder, W. P.; Gustason, E. R.; Sageman, B. B. |
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