Revised estimate of δ34S for marine sulfates from the Upper Ordovician: Data from the Williston Basin, North Dakota, U.S.A.

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-103

  Fox, Jon S ^a   Videtich, Patricia E ^b  

^a ERM Northeast   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHYDRITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY GEOCHEMISTRY; SULPHATE; SULPHUR ISOTOPE;

USA, NORTH DAKOTA, WILLISTON BASIN;

EID: 0030617980     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(96)00065-0     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Claypool G. E., Holser W. T., Kaplan I. R., Sakai H. and Zak I. (1980) The age curves of sulfur and oxygen isotopes in marine sulfate and their mutual interpretation. Chem. Geol. 28, 199-260.
2. Elias, R. J. (1988) Upper Ordovician stratigraphy, sedimentation, and biotas in the vicinity of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Field Guide, Canadian Paleontology and Biostratigraphy Seminar, 11 pp., Winnipeg, Manitoba.
3. Ethington R. L. and Furnish W. M. (1960) Upper Ordovician conodonts from southern Manitoba. J. Paleontology 34, 265-274.
4. Foerste A. F. (1929) The cephalopods of the Red River Formation of southern Manitoba. Denison Univ. Bull., Sci. Lab. Jour. 24, 129-235.
5. Fox, J. S. (1993) Depositional and diagenetic controls on porosity evolution in the "C" zone, Red River Formation (Upper Ordovician), Divide County, North Dakota. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Dept. of Geology and Geological Engineering, Univ. of North Dakota, 311 pp.
6. Holser W. T. and Kaplan I. R. (1966) Isotope geochemistry of sedimentary sulfates. Chem. Geol. I, 93-135.
7. Jensen, M. L. and Nakai, W. N. (1962) Sulfur isotope meteoric standards, results and recommendations. In Biogeochemistry of Sulfur Isotopes (ed. M. L. Jensen), Proceedings, National Science Foundation Symposium, pp. 30-35, Yale University, April 12-14.
8. Kent, D. M. (1960) The evaporites of the Upper Ordovician strata in the northern part of the Williston basin, Saskatchewan Dept, Min. Res. Report 46, 46 pp.
9. Kline V. H. (1942) Stratigraphy of North Dakota. Bull. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. 26, 336-379.
10. Kohm, J. A. and Louden, R. O. (1978) Ordovician Red River of eastern Montana and western North Dakota: relationships between lithofacies and production, Proc. Williston Basin Symposium, pp. 99-117, Montana Geol. Society 24th Annual Conference, Billings, MT.
11. Longman M. W., Fertal T. G. and Glennie J. S. (1983) Origin and geometry of Red River Reservoirs, western Williston basin. Bull. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. 67, 744-771.
12. Maiklem W. R., Bebout D. G. and Glaister R. F. (1969) Classification of anhydrite - a practical approach. Bull. Canadian Pet. Geol. 17, 194-233.
13. Sasaki, A. (1972) Variation of sulfur isotope composition of oceanic sulfate, Proc. 24th Int. Geol. Cong., Sec. 10, 342-345.
14. Thode, H. G. and Monster, J. (1965) Sulfur isotope geochemistry of petroleum, evaporites, and ancient seas. In Fluids in Subsurface Environments (eds A. Young and J. E. Galley), 367-377, Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Mem. 4, Tulsa, OK.
15. 32S secular variations. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 44, 579-587.
16. Warren, J. K. (1991) Sulfate-dominated sea-marginal and platform evaporative settings: sabkhas and salinas, mudflats and salterns. In Evaporites, Petroleum and Mineral Resources (ed. J. L. Melvin), Developments in Sedimentology 50, 69-188, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
17. Westrop, S. R. and Ludvigsen, R. (1983) Systematics and paleoecology of Upper Ordovician trilobites from the Selkirk Member of the Red River Formation, southern Manitoba, Manitoba Dept. of Energy and Mines, Min. Res. Div. Geol. Report GR 82-2.