Architecture of a tide-influenced river delta in the Frontier Formation of central Wyoming, USA

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 667-688

  Willis, B J ^a,c   Bhattacharya, J P ^a   Gabel, S L ^b   White, C D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^c U Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Frontier Formation; Tidal delta; Tidal ridge; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CRETACEOUS; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; FLOW PATTERN; SANDSTONE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032759777     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00239.x     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Allem, J.R.L. (1980) Sand waves: a model of origin and internal structure. Sedim. GeoL, 26, 281-328.
2. Allen, G.P., Laurier, D. and Thouvenin, J. (1979) Etude sedimentologique du delta de la Mahakam. Notes et Mémoires. Total, Compagnie Française des Pétroles, Paris.
3. Astin, T.R. and Rogers, D.A. (1991) Subaqueous shrinkage cracks in the Devonian of Scotland reinterpreted. J. Sedim. Petrol, 61, 850-859.
4. Banerjee, I. (1991) Tidal sand sheets of the Late Albian Joli Fou-Kiowa-Skull Creek Marine transgression, Western Interior Seaway of North America. In: Clastic Tidal Sedimentology (Ed. by D.G. Smith, G.E. Reinson, B.A. Zaitlin and R.A. Rahmani),
5. Can. Soc. Petrol. Geol. Mem., 16, 335-348.
6. Barlow, J.A. and Haun, J.D. (1966) Regional stratigraphy of Frontier Formation and relation to Salt Creek Field, Wyoming. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 50, 2185-2196.
7. Barrell, J. (1912) Criteria for the recognition of ancient delta deposits. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 23, 377-446.
8. Berne, S., Auffret, J.P. and Walker, P. (1988) Internal structure of subtidal sandwaves revealed by high-resolution seismic reflection. Sedimentology, 35, 5-20.
9. Bhattacharya, J.P. and Walker, R.G. (1992) Deltas. In: Fades Models: Response to Sea Level Change (Ed. by R.G. Walker and N.P. James), pp. 157-175. Geological Association of Canada, St Johns, Newfoundland.
10. Boersma, J.R. (1994) A large-tidal delta and its successive spill-over apron: detailed proximal-distal facies relationships (Miocene Lignite Suite, Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany). In: Clastic Tidal Sedimentology (Ed. by D.G. Smith, G.E. Reinson, B.A. Zaitlin and R.A. Rahmani),
11. Can. Soc. Petrol. Geol. Mem., 16, 227-254.
12. Burst, J.F. (1965) Subaqueously formed shrinkage cracks in clay. J. Sedim. Petrol., 35, 348-353.
13. Coleman, J.M. and Wright, L.D. (1975) Modern river deltas: variability of processes and sand bodies. In: Deltas: Models for Exploration (Ed. by M.L. Broussard), pp. 99-149. Houston Geological Society, Houston.
14. Coleman, J.M., Gagliano, S.M. and Smith, W.G. (1970) Sedimentation in a Malaysian high tide tropical delta. In: Deltaic Sedimentation: Modern and Ancient (Ed. by J.P. Morgan),
15. Spec. Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral., 15, 185-197.
16. Cowan, C.A. and James, N.P. (1992) Diastasis cracks: mechanically generated synaeresis-like cracks in the Upper Cambrian shallow water oolite and ribbon carbonates. Sedimentology, 39, 1101-1118.
17. Cronin, L.E. (ed.) (1975) Estuarine Research 2. Academic Press, New York.
18. Crysdale, B.L. (1990) Isopach map of the interval from surface elevation to the top of the Pennsylvanian and Permian Minnelusa Formation and equivalents, Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana. US Geol. Surv., Misc. Field Studies, Map MF-2140A, 1:500 000.
19. Curtis, D.M. (1970) Miocene deltaic sedimentation, Louisiana Gulf Coast. In: Deltaic Sedimentation: Modern and Ancient (Ed. by J.P. Morgan),
20. Spec. Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral., 15, 293-308.
21. Dalrymple, R.W. (1984) Morphology and internal structure of sand waves in the Bay of Fundy. Sedimentology, 31, 365-382.
22. Dalrymple, R.W. (1992) Tidal depositional systems. In: Fades Models: Response to Sea-Level Change (Ed. by R.G. Walker and N.P. James), pp. 195-218. Geological Association of Canada, St John's, Newfoundland.
23. Dyman, T.S., Merewether, E.A., Molenaar, C.M., Cobban, W.A., Obradovich, J.D., Weimer, R.J. and Bryant, W.A. (1994) Stratigraphic transects for Cretaceous rocks, Rocky Mountains and Great Plains Regions. In: Mesozoic Systems of the Rocky Mountain Region, USA (Ed. by M.V. Caputo, J.A. Peterson, and K.J. Franczyk),
24. Rocky Mountain Section, Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral. (Soc. Sedim. Geol.), 365-292.
25. Elliott, T. (1986) Deltas. In: Sedimentary Environments and Facies (Ed. by H.G. Reading), pp. 113-154. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
26. Fisher, W.L. and McGowen, J.H. (1967) Depositional systems in the Wilcox Group (Eocene) of Texas and their relationship to occurrence of oil and gas. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 53, 30-54.
27. Galloway, W.E. (1975) Process framework for describing the morphologic and stratigraphic evolution of deltaic depositional systems. In: Deltas, Models for Exploration (Ed. by M.L. Broussard), pp. 87-98. Houston Geological Society, Houston, TX.
28. Gardener, M.H. (1995) The stratigraphie hierarchy and tectonic history of the mid-Cretaceous foreland basin of central Utah. In: Stratigraphie Evolution of Foreland Basins (Ed. by S.L. Dorobek and G.M. Ross),
29. Spec. Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral., 52, 283-303.
30. Gilbert, G.K. (1885) The topographic features of lake shores. US Geol. Survey, 5th Annual Report, 69-123.
31. Hayes, M.O. (1975) Morphology of sand accumulation in estuaries. An introduction to the Symposium 1975. In: Estuarine Research (Ed. by L.E. Cronin), pp. 3-22. Academic Press, New York.
32. Heiland-Hansen, W. and Gjelberg, J.G. (1994) Conceptual basis and variability in sequence stratigraphy: a different perspective. Sedim. Geol., 92, 31-52.
33. Henriksen, S. and Weimer, P. (1996) High-frequency depositional sequences and stratal stacking patterns in Lower Pliocene coastal deltas, Mid-Norwegian continental shelf. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 80, 1867-1895.
34. McGooky, O.P., Haun, J.D., Hale, L.A., Goodell, H.G., McCubbin, D.G., Weimer, R.J. and Wulf, G.R. (1972) Cretaceous system. In: Geological Atlas of the Rocky Mountain Region, United States of America (Ed. by W.W. Mallory), pp. 190-228. Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Denver, CO.
35. Marzo, M. and Puigdefabregas, C. (eds) (1993) Alluvial Sedimentation. Int. Assoc. Sediment. Spec. Publ., 17.
36. Meckel, L.D. (1975) Holocene sand bodies in the Colorado delta area, northern Gulf of California. In: Deltas: Models for Exploration (Ed. by M.L. Broussard), pp. 239-265. Houston Geological Society, Houston, TX.
37. Meliere, D. and Steel, R.J. (I995a) Facies architecture and sequentiality of nearshore and 'shelf sandbodies; Haystack Mountains Formation, Wyoming, USA. Sedimentology, 42, 551-574.
38. Meliere, D. and Steel, R.J. (I995b) Variability of low-stand wedges and their distinction from forced-regressive wedges in the Mesaverde Group, Southeast Wyoming. Geology, 23, 803-806.
39. Merewether, E.A., Cobban, W.A. and Cavanaugh, E.T. (1979) Frontier Formation and equivalent rocks in eastern Wyoming. Mountain Geologist, 16, 67-101.
40. Miall, A.D. and Tyler, N. (eds) (1991) The three-dimensional facies architecture of terrigenous clastic sediments and its implications for hydrocarbon discovery and recovery. Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral., Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology, 3.
41. Nio, S.D. (1976) Marine transgression as a factor in the formation of sand wave complexes. Geol. Mijnbouw, 55, 18-40.
42. Nio, S.D. and Yang, C. (1991a) Diagnostic attributes of clastic tidal deposits: a review. In: Clastic Tidal Sedimentology (Ed. by D.G. Smith, G.E. Reinson, B.A. Zaitlin and R.A. Rahmani),
43. Can. Soc. Petrol. Geol. Mem., 16, 3-27.
44. Nio, S.D. and Yang, C. (1991b) Sea-level fluctuations and geometric variability of tide-dominated sand-bodies. Sedim. Geol., 70, 161-193.
45. Off, T. (1963) Rhythmic linear sand bodies caused by tidal currents. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 47, 324-341.
46. Pemberton, S.G., MacEachern, J.A. and Froy, R.W. (1992) Trace fossil/facies models: environmental and allostratigraphic significance. In: Fades Models: Response to Sea Level Change (Ed. by R.G. \Valker and N.P. James), pp. 47-72. Geological Association of Canada, St John's, Newfoundland.
47. Picard, M.D. (1966) Oriented, linear-shrinkage cracks in Green River Formation (Eocene), Raven Ridge Area, Uinta Basin, Utah. J. Sedim. Petrol., 36, 1050-1057.
48. Flint, A.G. (1988) Sharp-based shoreline sequences and 'offshore bars' in the Cardium Formation of Alberta: their relationship to relative changes in sea level. In: Sea-Level Changes: an Integrated Approach (Ed. by C.K. Wilgus, B.S. Hasting, G.G. St C. Kendall, H.W. Posamentier, C.A. Ross and J.C. Van Wagoner),
49. Spec. Publ. Soc. Econ. Paleontol. Mineral., 42, 357-370.
50. Plummor, P.S. and Gostin, V.A. (1981) Shrinkage cracks: desiccation or synaeresis? J. Sedim. Petrol., 51, 1147-1156.
51. Posamentier, H.W., Allen, G.P., James, O.P. and Tesson, M. (1992) Forced regressions in a sequence stratigraphic framework: Concepts, examples, and exploration significance. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull., 76, 1687-1709.
52. Reading, H.G. and Collinson, J.D. (1996) Clastic coasts. In: Sedimentary Environments; Processes, Fades and Stratigraphy (Ed. by H.G. Reading), pp. 154-228. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
53. Reineck, H.E. and Singh, I.E. (1980). Depositional Sedimentary Environments. Springer-Verlag, New York.
54. Reinson, G.E. (1992) Transgressive barrier island and estuarine systems. In: Fades Models: Response to Sea Level Change (Ed. by R.G. Walker and N.P. James), pp. 179-194. Geological Association of Canada, St John's, Newfoundland.
55. Sha, L.P. and de Boer, P.L. (1995) Ebb-tidal delta deposits along the west Frisian Islands (The Netherlands): process, faciès, architecture, and preservation. In: Clastic Tidal Sedimentology (Ed. by D.G. Smith, G.E. Reinson, B.A. Zaitlin and R.A. Rahmani),
56. Can. Soc. Petrol. Geol. Mem., 16, 227-254.
57. Stride, A.H., Belderson, R.H., Kenyan, N.H. and Johnson, M.A. (1982) Offshore tidal deposits: sand sheet and sand bank faciès. In: Offshore Tidal Sands: Processes and Deposits (Ed. by A.H. Stride), pp. 95-125. Chapman & Hall, New York.
58. Swift, D.J.P. (1975) Tidal sand ridges and shoal retreat massifs. Mar. Geol., 18, 105-134.
59. Swift, D.J.P. and Field, M.E. (1981) Evolution of a clastic sand ridge field; Maryland sector, North American inner shelf. Sedimentology, 28, 461-482.
60. Tesson, M., Allen, G.P. and Ravenne, C. (1993) Late Pleistocene shelf-perched lowstand wedges on the Rhone continental shelf, inf. Assoc. Sediment. Spec. Publ., 18, 183-196.
61. Tillman, R.W. and Merewether, E.A. (1994) Field guide for valley-fill, estuarine, and shelf ridge sandstones, Mid-Cretaceous Frontier Formation, central Wyoming. In: 1994 Annual Meeting Field Trip Guidebook, p. 90. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver, CO.
62. Tillman, R.W. and Merewether, E.A. (1997] Bayheaddelta and estuary-mouth bars of early Cenomanian age in the mid-Cretaceous Frontier Formation, central Wyoming (extended abstracts). Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Ann. Mtg., 2 (A657), 1-4.
63. Twichell, D.C. (1983) Bedform distribution and inferred sand transport on George's Bank, United States Atlantic continental shelf. Sedimentology, 30, 695-710.
64. Van Wagoner, J.C. (1991) High-frequency sequence stratigraphy and faciès architecture of the Sego Sandstone in the Book Cliffs of western Colorado and eastern Utah. In: Sequence Stratigraphy Applications to Shelf Sandstone Reservoirs: Outcrop to Subsurface Examples (Ed. by J.C. Van Wagoner, D. Nummedal, C.R. Jones, D.R. Taylor, D.C. Jennette and G.W. Riley), pp. 1-22. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol, Tulsa, OK.
65. Van Wagoner, J.C., Mitchum, R.M., Campion, K.M. and Rahmanian, V.D. (1990) Siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy in well logs, cores, and outcrops: concepts for high-resolution correlation of time and facies. Methods in Exploration Series 7. Am. Assoc. Petrol. GeoL, Tulsa, OK.
66. Visser, M.J. (1980) Neap-spring cycles reflected in Holocene subtidal large-scale bedform deposits: a preliminary note. Geology, 8, 543-546.
67. Wright, L.D., Coleman, J.M. and Thom, B.C. (1975) Sediment transport and deposition in a macrotidal river channel, Ord River, Western Australia. In: Estuarine Research 2 (Ed. by L.E. Cronin), pp. 309-322. Academic Press, New York.
68. Yang, C.S. (1989) Active, moribund, and buried tidal sand ridges in the East China Sea and southern Yellow sea. Mar. GeoL, 88, 97-116.
69. Yang, C.S. and Sun, J. (1988) Tidal sand ridges on the East China Sea shelf. In: Tide-Influenced Sedimentary Environments and Facies (Ed. by P.L. De Boer, A. Van Gelder and S.D. Nio), pp. 23-38. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Boston.