Sedimentary organic matter in condensed sections from distal oxic environments: Examples from the Mesozoic of SE France

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 771-788

  Bombardiere, Luca ^a   Gorin, Georges E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; MARL; MESOZOIC; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIC CONDITIONS; PALYNOLOGY;

FRANCE;

EID: 0032440234     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00177.x     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Atrops, F. (1982) La sous famille des Ataxioceratinae (Ammotina) dans le Kimmeridgien inférieur du sudest de la France. Systematique, évolution, chronostratigraphie des genre Orthosphinctes et Ataxioceras. Doc. Lab. Lyon, 83. 463 pp.
2. Bujak, J.P., Barss, M.S. and Williams, G.L. (1977) Organic type and color and hydrocarbon potential. Oil Gas J., 75, 96-100.
3. Combaz, A. (1964) Les palynofaciès. Revue de Micropaléontologie, 7, 205-218.
4. Combaz, A. (1980) Les kérogènes vus au microscope. In: Kerogen: Insoluble Organic Matter from Sedimentary Rocks (Ed. by B. Durand), pp. 55-111. Technip, Paris.
5. Creaney, S. and Passey, Q.R. (1993) Recurring patterns of total organic carbon and source rock quality within a sequence stratigraphy framework. Bull. Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geol., 77, 386-401.
6. De Leeuw, J.W. and Largeau, C. (1993) A review of macromolecular organic compounds that comprise living organisms and their role in kerogen, coal and petroleum formation. In: Organic Geochemistry: Principles and Applications (Ed. by M.H. Engel and S.A. Macko), pp. 23-72. Plenum, New York.
7. Debrand-Passard, S., Courbouleix, S. and Lienhardt, M.-J. (1984) Synthèse géologique du SE de la France. Mem. B.R.G.M., 125. 615 pp.
8. Emery, D. and Myers, K.J. (1996) Organic-rich facies and hydrocarbon source rocks. In: Sequence Stratigraphy (Ed. by D. Emery and K.J. Myers), pp. 238-257. Blackwell, Oxford.
9. Espitalié, J., Deroo, G. and Marquis, F. (1985a) La Pyrolyse Rock Eval et ses applications - 2° partie. Revue de l'Institut Français du Pétrole, 40, 563-579.
10. Espitalié, J., Deroo, G. and Marquis, F. (1985b) La Pyrolyse Rock Eval et ses applications - 1° partie. Revue de l'Institut Français du Pétrole, 40, 755-784.
11. Espitalié, J., Deroo, G. and Marquis, F. (1986) La Pyrolyse Rock Eval et ses applications - 3° partie. Revue de l'Institut Français du Pétrole, 41, 73-89.
12. Gorin, G.E. and Steffen, D. (1991) Organic facies as a tool for recording eustatic variations in marine fine-grained carbonates - example of the Berriasian stratotype at Berrias (Ardèche, SE France). Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 85, 303-320.
13. Hardenbol, J., Thierry, J., Parley, M.P., Jacquin, T., D.E. Graciansky, P.-C. and Vail, P.R. (in press) Jurassic chronostratigraphy. In: Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins (Ed. by P.-C De Graciansky, J. Hardenbol, T. Jacquin, P.R. Vail and M.B. Farley), Spec. Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleont. Miner.
14. Havinga, A.J. (1984) A 20-year experimental investigation into the differential corrosion susceptibility of pollen and spores in various soil types. Pollen Spores, 26, 541-558.
15. Hue, A.Y. (1980) Origin and formation of organic matter in recent sediments and its relation to kerogen. In: Kerogen: Insoluble Organic Matter from Sedimentary Rocks (Ed. B. Durand), pp. 445-474. Technip, Paris.
16. Hue, A.Y. (1988) Sedimentology of organic matter. In: Humic Substances and Their Role in the Environment (Ed. by F.H. Frimmel and R.F. Christman), pp. 215-243. Wiley, Chichester.
17. Ibach, L.E.J. (1982) Relationship between sedimentation rate and total organic carbon content in ancient marine sediments. Bull. Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geol., 66, 170-188.
18. Jones, R.W. (1987) Organic Facies. In: Advances in Petroleum Geochemistry 2 (Ed. by J. Brooks and D. Weite), pp. 1-90. Academic Press, London.
19. Keil, R.G., Hu, F.S., Tsamakis, E.C. and Hedges, J.I. (1994) Pollen in marine sediments as an indicator of oxidation of organic matter. Nature, 309, 639-641.
20. Krumbein, W.E. and Swart, P.K. (1983) The microbial carbon cycle. In: Microbial Geochemistry (Ed. by W.E. Krumbein), pp. 5-62. Blackwell, Oxford.
21. Londeix, L. (1990) La distribution des kystes de dinoflagellés dans les sédiments hémipelagiques (Ardêche) et pélagiques (Arc de Castellane, SE de la France) en domaine vocontien du Valanginien terminal au Barrémien inférieur - biostratigraphie et correlations avec les bassins voisins. PhD thesis, Bordeaux University I.
22. Loutit, T.S., Hardenbol, J. and Vail, P.R. (1988) Condensed sections: the key to age determination and correlation of continental margin sequences. In: Sea Level Changes: an Integrated Approach (Ed. by C.K. Wilgus, B.S. Hastings, C.G.ST.C Kendall, H.W. Posamentier, C.A. Ross and J.C. Van Wagoner), Spec. Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleont. Miner., 42, 183-215.
23. Parry, C.C., Whitley, P.K.J. and Simpson, R.D.H. (1981) Integration of palynological and sedimentological methods in facies analysis of the Brent Formation. In: Petroleum Geology of the Continental Shelf of North West Europe (Ed. by L.V. Illing and G.D. Hobson), pp. 205-215. Heydin, London.
24. Partington, M.A., Copestake, P., Mitchener, B.C. and Underbill, J.R. (1993) Biostratigraphic calibration of genetic stratigraphic sequences in the Jurassic lowermost Cretaceous (Hettangian to Ryazanian) of the North Sea and adjacent areas. In: Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe: Proceedings of the 4th Conference (Ed. by J.R. Parker), pp. 371-386, Geological Society of London, Bath.
25. Pittet, B. and Gorin, G. (1997) Distribution of sedimentary organic matter in a carbonate-siliciclastic platform environment: Oxfordian deposits from the Swiss Jura Mountains. Sedimentology, 44, 915-937.
26. Posamentier, H.W., Jervey, M.T. and Vail, P.R. (1988) Eustatic controls on clastic deposition I - Conceptual framework. In: Sea Level Changes: an Integrated Approach (Ed. by C.K. Wilgus, B.S. Hastings, C.G.ST.C Kendall, H.W. Posamentier, C.A. Ross and J.C. Van Wagoner), Spec. Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleont. Miner., 42, 109-124.
27. Robert, P. (1988) Organic Metamorphism and Geothermal History: Microscopic Study of Organic Matter and Thermal Evolution of Sedimentary Basins. Reidel, Dordrecht. 311 pp.
28. Rowley, J.R., Rowley, J.S. and Skvarla, J.J. (1990) Corroded exines from Havinga's leaf mold experiment. Palynology, 14, 53-79.
29. Scull, B.J., Felix, C.G., McCaleb, S.B. and Shaw, W.G. (1966) The inter-discipline approach to palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Trans. Gulf Coast Assoc. Geol. Soc., 16, 81-117.
30. Staplin, F.L. (1969) Sedimentary organic matter, organic metamorphism, and oil and gas occurrence. Bull. Can. Petroleum Geol., 17, 47-66.
31. Steffen, D. and Gorin, G. (1993a) Palynofacies of the Upper Tithonian-Berriasian deep-sea carbonates in the Vocontian Trough (SE France). Bull. Centres Rech. Explor.-Prod. Elf-Aquitaine, 17, 235-247.
32. Steffen, D. and Gorin, G.E. (1993b) Sedimentology of organic matter in Upper Tithonian-Berriasian deep-sea carbonates of southeast France: evidence of eustatic control. In: Source Rocks in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework (Ed. by B. Katz and L. Pratt), AAPG Studies Geol., 37, 49-65.
33. Strohmenger, C. and Strasser, A. (1993) Eustatic controls on the depositional evolution of the Upper Tithonian Berriasian deep water carbonates (Vocontian Trough, SE France). Bull. Centres Rech. Explor.-Prod. Elf-Aquitaine, 17/1, 183-203.
34. Summerhayes, C.P. (1981) Organic facies of Middle Cretaceous black shales in deep North Atlantic. Bull. Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geol., 65, 2364-2380.
35. Tegelaar, E.W., Derenne, S., Largeau, C. and De Leeuw, J.W. (1989) A reappraisal of kerogen formation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 3, 3103-3107.
36. Tribovillard, N.P. and Gorin, G.E. (1991) Organic facies of the Early Albian Niveau Paquier, a key black shale horizon of the Marnes Bleues Formation in the Vocontian Trough (Subalpine Ranges, SE France). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 85, 227-237.
37. Tuweni, A.O. and Tyson, R.V. (1994) Organic facies variations in the Westbury Formation (Rhaetic, Bristol Channel, S.W. England). Org. Geochem., 200, 1001-1014.
38. Tyson, R.V. (1987) The genesis and palynofacies characteristics of marine petroleum source rocks. In: Marine Petroleum Source Rocks (Ed. by J. Brooks and A.J. Fleet), Geol Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ., 26, 47-67.
39. Tyson, R.V. (1989) Late Jurassic palynofacies trends, Piper and Kimmeridge Clay Formations, UK onshore and northern North Sea. In: Northwest European Micropalaeontology and Palynology (Ed. by D.J. Batten and M.C. Keen), British Micropalaeontological Society Series, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 135-172.
40. Tyson, R.V. (1993) Palynofacies analysis. In: Applied Micropaleontology (Ed. by D.G. Jenkins), pp. 153-191. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
41. Tyson, R.V. (1995) Sedimentary Organic Matter: Organic Facies and Palynofacies. Chapman & Hall, London. 615 pp.
42. Tyson, R.V. (1996) Sequence-stratigraphical interpretation of organic facies variation in marine siliciclastic systems: general principles and applications to the onshore Kimmeridge Clay Formation, UK. In: Sequence Stratigraphy in British Geology (Ed. by S.P. Hesselbo and D.N. Parkinson), Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Publ., 108, 75-96.
43. Vail, P.R., Audemard, F., Bowman, S.A., Eisner, P.N. and Perez-Cruz, C. (1991) The stratigraphic signature of tectonics, eustacy and sedimentology - an overview. In: Cycles and Events in Stratigraphy (Ed. by G. Einsele, W. Ricken and A. Seilacher), pp. 618-659. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
44. Whitaker, M.F. (1984) The usage of palynology in definition of Troll Field geology. In: Reduction of Uncertainties in Innovative Reservoir Geomodelling, 6th Offshore Northern Seas Conference and Exhibition, Stavanger 1984, Norsk Petroleums Forenings, Paper, G6, 44 pp.