scholarly journals Stratigraphic framework of coal beds underlying the northeastern part of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana

1986 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Northeastern Part ◽  
Coal Beds ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework

Rangal Supermodel 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renate Sliwa ◽  
Joan Esterle
Keyword(s):  
Relative Stability ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Age Dating ◽  
Total Thickness ◽  
Eastern Margin ◽  
Coal Beds ◽  
The North ◽  
Stratigraphic Framework ◽  
Coal Measures

More than 6,000 boreholes were compiled to develop a consistent regional scale stratigraphic framework for the Permian Rangal, Baralaba and Bandana coal measures (CMs) within the Bowen Basin. Coal beds and tuff horizons were used as stratigraphic markers, supported by chemostratigraphy and age dating. Results corroborate the general subdivisions of these different coal measures relative to basin location, but increase resolution on migrating depocentres in response to foreland loading and subsidence on coal thickness and splitting patterns. In the north, the Rangal CMs comprise two main seams, correlated as Leichhardt and Vermont. The Yarrabee Tuff is consistently present and splits the Vermont seam. The main Leichhardt seam exhibits relatively simple offset stacking relationships with the underlying Vermont and overlying Phillips seams. In the southwest, the Bandana CMs comprise two to three significant seams—the Aries-Castor, Pollux (Leichhardt equivalent) and Orion—along with the Pisces containing the Yarrabee Tuff. Seams exhibit complex Z splitting and vertical interburden stacking. Locally super-thick seams (crabs) form from convergence of thinner split seams in areas of relative stability over basement highs. In the Taroom Trough, the Baralaba CMs show the greatest response to loading, as seams thin and split along the eastern margin. The variability in the splitting patterns, coupled with the coal measures total thickness, corroborate the extension of the final basin depocentre northward, which was not preserved.

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