Transgressive–regressive (T–R) sequence analysis of the Jurassic succession of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Embry
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Analysis ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Sverdrup Basin ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Boundary Characteristics ◽  
Fifth Order ◽  
Order Sequence

Transgressive–regressive (T–R) sequence analysis has been applied to the Jurassic succession of the Sverdrup Basin with sequence boundaries drawn at subaerial unconformities or the correlative transgressive surfaces. A hierarchal system of sequence order that reflects the different nature of the boundaries has been formulated on the basis of boundary characteristics. Second- through fifth-order sequences have been recognized in the Jurassic succession, which itself is part of a first-order sequence of mid-Permian – Early Cretaceous age.The Jurassic strata occur within four second-order sequences. The boundaries of these sequences are characterized by widespread subaerial unconformities across which major changes in depositional and subsidence regimes occur. These boundaries are earliest Rhaetian, earliest Pliensbachian, earliest Bajocian, earliest Oxfordian, and Hauterivian in age.Each second-order sequence is divisible into a number of third-order sequences bounded mainly by basin-wide transgressive surfaces with subaerial unconformities present on the basin margins. The ages of the 10 Jurassic third-order sequences are Rhaetian – Hettangian, Sinemurian, Pliensbachian – Toarcian, late Toarcian – Aalenian, Bajocian, Bathonian, Callovian, Oxfordian – early Kimmeridgian, late Kimmeridgian – early Tithonian, and late Tithonian. The third-order sequences commonly contain three to six fourth-order sequences. These sequences are bound entirely by transgressive surfaces that can be correlated only over a portion of the basin.A good correlation between the second- and third-order transgressive events of the Sverdrup Basin and proposed global events is observed. This worldwide occurrence suggests that the events in part reflect eustatic sea-level changes. The characteristics of the second- and third-order boundaries also indicate that each had a tectonic influence that resulted in a rapid relative sea-level fall (uplift) followed by a rapid rise (subsidence). Given the apparent combination of tectonic and eustatic influence on the generation of the second- and third-order sequence boundaries, they are interpreted to reflect significant plate-tectonic reorganizations that affected the intraplate stress regimes of the oceanic (eustatic) and continental (tectonic) portions of each lithospheric plate.

scholarly journals Tectono-Stratigraphic Note: Time calibration of late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Triassic Arabian stratigraphy to orbital-forcing predictions

GeoArabia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moujahed Al-Husseini ◽  
Robley K. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Second Order ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Orbital Forcing ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Time Calibration ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Order Sequence

The recent publication of GTS 2004 (Gradstein et al., 2004) provides an opportunity to recalibrate in time the late Carboniferous, Permian and Early Traissic Arabian Stratigraphy (GeoArabia Special Publication 3, Edited by Al-Husseini, 2004) as represented by the rock units in subsurface Interior Oman (Osterloff et al., 2004a, b) and the Haushi-Huqf Uplift region (Angiolini et al., 2004) (Figure). Additionally, sequence stratigraphic models of orbital forcing (Matthews and Frohlich, 2002; Immenhauser and Matthews, 2004) provide new insights in regards to the time calibration of depositional sequences: the “Rosetta Stone” approach. The Rosetta Stone approach predicts that the period of a third-order depositional sequence is 2.430 ± 0.405 my (denoted DS3 and here adjusted to increase the fourth-order ‘geological tuning fork’ from 0.404 to 0.405 my based on Laskar et al., 2004). The present calibration is also tied to the orbital-forcing model developed by R.K. Matthews (in Al-Husseini and Matthews, 2005; this issue of GeoArabia) that predicts that a second-order depositional sequence (denoted DS2) consists of six DS3s that were deposited in a period of about 14.58 my (6 x 2.430 my); the DS2 being bounded by two regional second-order sequence boundaries (SB2) corresponding to sea-level maximum regression surfaces.

scholarly journals Devonian Jauf Formation, Saudi Arabia: Orbital Second-order Depositional Sequence 28

GeoArabia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moujahed Al-Husseini ◽  
Robley K. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Early Devonian ◽  
Orbital Cycles ◽  
Flooding Event ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Order Sequence ◽  
Reference Section

ABSTRACT The Devonian Jauf Formation (Huj Group) froms part of a regional transgressive-regressive depositional sequence that extends more than 1,500 km across the Arabian Platform from the Al Jawf outcrops in northwest Saudi Arabia, to the subsurface of eastern Saudi Arabia and Oman (Misfar Group). The formation ranges in thickness from 200–335 m in eastern Saudi Arabia to about 300–330 m in northwest Saudi Arabia. It disconformably (?unconformably) overlies the continental to shallow-marine Tawil Formation, and is unconformably overlain by the continental Jubah Formation. The Jauf Formation consists of five members that are apparently conformable; from base-up: Sha’iba Shale, Qasr Limestone, Subbat Shale, Hammamiyat Limestone and Murayr. In the Al-Qalibah reference section, it is divided into 21 informal units. The Early Devonian Emsian Hammamiyat Member represents the main marine flooding event; it consists of Hammamiyat units 1–6 each characterized by a clastic section that is capped by limestone. The Jauf Formation is interpreted as an orbital second-order depositional sequence (denoted DS2 28), which is bounded by two second-order sequence boundaries: SB2 28 = Jauf/Tawil (c. 407.6 Ma) and SB2 27 = Jubah/Jauf (c. 393.0 Ma). The Jauf Formation appears to consist of six third-order depositional sequences (DS3 28.1 to 28.6) that were deposited in the Early Devonian, ?Pragian and Emsian stages The Hammamiyat Member (DS3 28.4) is interpreted to consist of six fourth-order orbital cycles (DS4 28.4.1 to 28.4.6) each deposited in 0.405 million years.

scholarly journals Reconstruction of the depositional sedimentary environment of Oligocene deposits (Qom Formation) in the Qom Basin (northern Tethyan seaway), Iran

Geologos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Amrollah Safari ◽  
Hossein Ghanbarloo ◽  
Parisa Mansoury ◽  
Mehran Mohammadian Esfahani
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Sedimentary Environment ◽  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequences ◽  
Qom Formation ◽  
Tethyan Seaway ◽  
Qom Basin ◽  
Global Sea Level

AbstractDuring the Rupelian–Chattian, the Qom Basin (northern seaway basin) was located between the Paratethys in the north and the southern Tethyan seaway in the south. The Oligocene deposits (Qom Formation) in the Qom Basin have been interpreted for a reconstruction of environmental conditions during deposition, as well as of the influence of local fault activities and global sea level changes expressed within the basin. We have also investigated connections between the Qom Basin and adjacent basins. Seven microfacies types have been distinguished in the former. These microfacies formed within three major depositional environments, i.e., restricted lagoon, open lagoon and open marine. Strata of the Qom Formation are suggested to have been formed in an open-shelf system. In addition, the deepening and shallowing patterns noted within the microfacies suggest the presence of three third-order sequences in the Bijegan area and two third-order depositional sequences and an incomplete depositional sequence in the Naragh area. Our analysis suggests that, during the Rupelian and Chattian stages, the depositional sequences of the Qom Basin were influenced primarily by local tectonics, while global sea level changes had a greater impact on the southern Tethyan seaway and Paratethys basins. The depositional basins of the Tethyan seaway (southern Tethyan seaway, Paratethys Basin and Qom Basin) were probably related during the Burdigalian to Langhian and early Serravallian.

Subsurface geological imaging of northeastern Tunisia during the middle to the upper Eocene: Insights from integrated geophysical interpretation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-64
Author(s):  
Oussama Abidi ◽  
Kawthar Sebei ◽  
Adnen Amiri ◽  
Haifa Boussiga ◽  
Imen Hamdi Nasr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Upper Eocene ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Seismic Profiles ◽  
Borehole Data ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Good Correspondence ◽  
Basin Inversion ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations

The Middle to Upper Eocene series are characterized by multiple hiatuses related to erosion, non-deposition or condensed series in the Cap Bon and Gulf of Hammamet provinces. We performed an integrated study taking advantage from surface and subsurface geology, faunal content, borehole logs, electrical well logs, vertical seismic profiles and surface seismic sections. Calibrated seismic profiles together with borehole data analysis reveal unconformities with deep erosion, pinchouts, normal faulting and basin inversion which are dated Campanian, intra-Lutetian and Priabonian compressive phases; these events were also described at the regional scale in Tunisia. Tectonics, sea level fluctuations and climate changes closely controlled the depositional process during the Middle to Upper Eocene time. The depositional environment ranges from internal to outer platform separated by an inherited paleo-high. We determine eight third order sequences characterizing the interaction between tectonic pulsations, sea level changes and the developed accommodation space within the Middle to Upper Eocene interval. We correlate the obtained results of the Cap Bon-Gulf of Hammamet provinces with the published global charts of sea-level changes and we find a good correspondence across third order cycles. Model-based 3D inversion proved to be a solution to model the lateral and vertical lithological distribution of the Middle to Upper Eocene series.

scholarly journals Ecophenotypic variation and phylogeny within the Erisocrinacea (Crinoidea): linkage of morphology, ecology, & sea - level in the Late Paleozoic

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 131-131
Author(s):  
Peter F. Holterhoff
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Maximum Size ◽  
Intermediate Frequency ◽  
Characteristic Size ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Metabolic Energy ◽  
Lower Permian ◽  
Early Permian ◽  
Fifth Order

Cyclothems (fifth - order depositional sequences) are the fundamental stratigraphic motif of the Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian of the North American mid - continent. Through this interval, sequences display an overall second order regression modulated by intermediate frequency sea-level fluctuations. Thus, shelfward incursions of offshore (basinal) facies are more extensive in the lower Upper Pennsylvanian, while merely shoaling facies characterize marine units of many higher sequences.Within basal Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) sequences, species of the Erisocrinacea are ubiquitous members of nearshore and offshore crinoid assemblages. However, the species Erisocrinus typus and Delocrinus subhemisphericus display significant ecophenotypic variation between facies: smaller mean and maximum size characterizes offshore/transgressive populations while larger size characterizes nearshore/regressive populations. It is proposed that these are hydrographically - controlled phenotypes: offshore, quiet bottom waters inhibit effective filtration, imposing a metabolic energy threshold beyond which larger morphologies are not viable while nearshore populations are able to assume larger body sizes.Shifting now to the Catacrinidae within the Erisocrinacea, as the frequency of interbasinal drowned shelf conditions waned through the Late Pennsylvanian, new species, inhabiting regressive facies, increased maximum body size and diversity for the family. Thus, lower Virgilian assemblages are highly variable in characteristic size, with smaller, ancestral D. subhemisphericus dominant in offshore facies while robust D. vulgatus, Pyndaxocrinus sp., and Arrectocrinus sp. dominate nearshore facies. Speciation may have involved the stabilization and subsequent diversification of the earlier nearshore phenotype.Through the remainder of the Virgilian and into the Early Permian, near the terminal late Early Permian regression, larger morphologies, represented by D. brownsvillensis, D. vastus, and A. abruptus, dominate midcontinent crinoid assemblages; smaller offshore species had been lost, thus increasing body size for the clade as a whole.Thus, it appears that the same parameters which controlled morphological expression at the fifth - order level (ecophenotypic variation) may also have acted at the second - order level (phylogenetic trend). The interrelationship between sub-cycle and super-cycle sea - level and metabolic viability is paramount to understanding potential morphologies for this clade. However, these factors may not have ultimately influenced clade diversity.

TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTH-EAST GIPPSLAND BASIN

1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.A. Duff ◽  
N.G. Groilman ◽  
D.J. Mason ◽  
J.M. Questiaux ◽  
D.S. Ormerod ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Normal Faults ◽  
Plate Boundaries ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
The South ◽  
Seismic Sequences ◽  
Controlled Deposition ◽  
Global Sea Level ◽  
Sequence Boundaries ◽  
Gippsland Basin

Evolution of the south-east Gippsland Basin since ca. 96 Ma has been governed by the interaction of three distinct processes:re-organisation of regional plate boundaries at 96, 80 and 50 Ma, registered as major angular unconformities or megasequence boundaries;intra-basin response of cover to basement-controlled deformational phases, registered as the sequence boundaries within these megasequences; andthe more subtle balance between regressive sedimentation associated with these phases and the transgressive deposition associated with longer-term eustatic sea level rises.The Golden Beach Megasequence (seismic sequences UK1 and UK2) accumulated syntectonically in an extensional setting characterised by an orthogonal array of north-northeast trending transfer faults and associated normal faults. Major compressional tectonism at ca. 80 Ma terminated this regime, initiating a modified mosaic of stratotectonic domains which controlled deposition of the Latrobe Megasequence.The seismic sequences within this megasequence display two types of cyclicity distinguishing intra-Campanian to Top Maastrichtian sequences (UK3-UK5) from early Tertiary sequences (PL1, PL2 and EO1). The sequence boundaries are considered to be the expression of recurrent compressive deformational phases. They are demonstrable as angular unconformities in transpressional and pull-apart structures in domains within which deformation was focused over the older extensional grain.The ca. 50 Ma Top Latrobe megasequence boundary appears to mark the transition from a basement-coupled deformational style characteristic of the Latrobe Megasequence, to a basement-decoupled inversion style of deformation during deposition of the Seaspray Megasequence (post-50 Ma).Seismic sequence boundaries, at least within basins such as the Gippsland, are therefore the stratigraphic expression of deformational phases rather than signatures of global sea-level changes. Eustacy is not invariably a shorter-term process than basin tectonism, nor is it the sole or main determinant of depositional style.

The geometrical aberrations of general electron optical systems II. The primary (third order) aberrations of orthogonal systems, and the secondary (fifth order) aberrations of round systems

1965 ◽  
Vol 257 (1086) ◽  
pp. 523-552 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second Order ◽  
Order Perturbation ◽  
Optical Systems ◽  
Characteristic Functions ◽  
Electron Optics ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Variation Of Parameters ◽  
General Kind ◽  
Fifth Order ◽  
Orthogonal Systems

The theory of characteristic functions, developed by Sturrock for electron optics, is used to calculate the primary aberrations of rectilinear orthogonal systems of the most general kind. In the second part, the secondary aberrations of round systems are calculated with the aid of Sturrock’s second-order perturbation characteristic functions. A proof of the equivalence of the aberration formulae obtained by Melkich, using the variation of parameters method, and those obtained below is offered in an appendix.

scholarly journals Sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and facies analysis of Cambrian Series 2 – Series 3 boundary strata in northwestern Scotland

2016 ◽  
Vol 155 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUKE E. FAGGETTER ◽  
PAUL B. WIGNALL ◽  
SARA B. PRUSS ◽  
YADONG SUN ◽  
ROBERT J. RAINE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Carbon Isotope ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Carbon Isotopic ◽  
Carbonate Carbon ◽  
Carbon Isotope Excursion ◽  
Isotope Record ◽  
Laurentian Margin ◽  
Sequence Boundaries

AbstractGlobally, the Series 2 – Series 3 boundary of the Cambrian System coincides with a major carbon isotope excursion, sea-level changes and trilobite extinctions. Here we examine the sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and carbon isotope record of this interval in the Cambrian strata (Durness Group) of NW Scotland. Carbonate carbon isotope data from the lower part of the Durness Group (Ghrudaidh Formation) show that the shallow-marine, Laurentian margin carbonates record two linked sea-level and carbon isotopic events. Whilst the carbon isotope excursions are not as pronounced as those expressed elsewhere, correlation with global records (Sauk I – Sauk II boundary andOlenellusbiostratigraphic constraint) identifies them as representing the local expression of the ROECE and DICE. The upper part of the ROECE is recorded in the basal Ghrudaidh Formation whilst the DICE is seen around 30m above the base of this unit. Both carbon isotope excursions co-occur with surfaces interpreted to record regressive–transgressive events that produced amalgamated sequence boundaries and ravinement/flooding surfaces overlain by conglomerates of reworked intraclasts. The ROECE has been linked with redlichiid and olenellid trilobite extinctions, but in NW Scotland,Olenellusis found after the negative peak of the carbon isotope excursion but before sequence boundary formation.

A perturbation calculation of properties of the 2 pπ state of HeH 2+

1957 ◽  
Vol 240 (1221) ◽  
pp. 274-283 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dipole Moment ◽  
Total Energy ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Wave Functions ◽  
Quadrupole Moments ◽  
Perturbation Calculation ◽  
Third Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fifth Order ◽  
Kinetic And Potential Energies

A perturbation calculation, valid in the limit of large separations, of various properties of the 2 pπ state of HeH 2+ is carried out. The total energy and the kinetic and potential energies are calculated to the fifth order, the dipole moment to the third order and the quadrupole moments to the second order and the results compared with those obtained using exact and variationally determined two-centre wave functions. Some results are also given for the 2 pπ u and 3 dπ g states of H + 2 and the influence of nuclear symmetry at large separations is briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Facies patterns and depositional processes in two Frasnian mixed siliciclastic-carbonate systems in the Cantabrian Mountains, northwest Spain

Geologos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Gerard B.S. van Loevezijn ◽  
J.G.M. Raven
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Cantabrian Mountains ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
Depositional Processes ◽  
Gravity Flows ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Basin Geometry ◽  
Order Sequence

AbstractRelative sea level fluctuations during the Frasnian generated two shallow-marine, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate successions in the Devonian Asturo-Leonese Basin. Each system represents a third-order sequence-stratigraphical unit deposited in the same basin during comparable extreme greenhouse conditions without nearby fluvial entry points. Depositional control on the siliciclastic and carbonate distribution was driven by relative sea level fluctuations, basin geometry, availability of sand and the way sediment was distributed by shelf currents. Early Variscan flexural bending of the continental crust changed the basin shape from a shelf with a gradual profile and low dip (early Frasnian) towards a shelf with a steep depositional dip (late Frasnian). Shelf distribution changed from along-shelf transport (early Frasnian) towards offshore-directed gravity flows (late Frasnian). As a consequence, siliciclastic-carbonate distribution changed from a predominance of skeletal carbonate in the proximal shoreface – foreshore area and siliciclastic predominance distally (early Frasnian), to a distribution pattern with proximal shoreface skeletal carbonates, offshore muddy carbonates and a siliciclastic zone in between where gravity flows distributed the siliciclastic sediment down dip (late Frasnian).

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