Incised valley fill interpretation for Mississippian Black Hand Sandstone, Appalachian Basin, USA: Implications for glacial eustasy at Kinderhookian-Osagean (Tn2-Tn3) boundary

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 191, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 89-113

  Matchen, David L ^a,b   Kammer, Thomas W ^b  

^a West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian; Eustasy; Fluvial; Glaciation; Incised valley; Mississippian

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; EUSTACY; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GLACIATION; INCISED VALLEY; MISSISSIPPIAN; SANDSTONE;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33748415767     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

References (99)

1. Aitken J.F., and Flint S.S. High-frequency sequences and the nature of incised-valley fills in fluvial systems of the Breathitt Group (Pennsylvanian), Appalachian foreland basin, Eastern Kentucky. Incised-Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences. SEPM Special Publication vol. 51 (1994) 352-368
2. Allen J.R.L. Studies in fluviatile sedimentation: bars, bar-complexes and sandstone sheets (low-sinuosity braided streams) in the Brownstones (L. Devonian), Welsh Borders. Sedimentary Geology 33 (1983) 237-293
3. Batson P.A., and Gibling M.R. Architecture of channel bodies and paleovalley fills in high-frequency Carboniferous sequences, Sydney Basin, Atlantic Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 50 (2002) 138-157
4. Bjerstedt T.W. Regional stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Rockwell Formation and Purslane Sandstone based on the new sideling hill road cut, Maryland. Southeastern Geology 27 (1986) 69-94
5. Bjerstedt T.W., and Kammer T.W. Genetic stratigraphy and depositional systems of the upper Devonian-lower Mississippian Price-Rockwell deltaic complex in the central Appalachians, U.S.A. Sedimentary Geology 54 (1988) 265-301
6. Bork K.B., and Malcuit R.J. Paleoenvironments of the Cuyahoga Formation and Logan Formations (Mississippian) of central Ohio. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Part II 90 (1979) 1782-1838
7. Brenchley P.J., Marshall J.D., Carden G.A., Robertson D.B.R., Long D.G.F., Meidla T., Hints L., and Anderson T.F. Bathymetric and isotopic evidence for a short-lived Late Ordovician glaciation in a greenhouse period. Geology 22 (1994) 295-298
8. Brezinski D.K. Chapter 9: Mississippian. In: Schultz C.H. (Ed). The Geology of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Geological Survey Special Publication vol. 1 (1999) 138-148
9. Bristow C.S. Sedimentology of the rough rock: a carboniferous braided river sheet sandstone in northern England. In: Best J.L., and Bristow C.S. (Eds). Braided Rivers. Geological Society Special Publication vol. 75 (1993) 291-304
10. Bruckschen P., and Veizer J. Oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of Dinantian brachiopods: paleoenvironmental implications for the Lower Carboniferous of western Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 132 (1997) 243-264
11. Bruckschen P., Oesmann S., and Veizer J. Isotope stratigraphy of the European Carboniferous: proxy signals for ocean chemistry, climate and tectonics. Chemical Geology 161 (1999) 127-163
12. Buatois L.A., and Mangano M.G. The paleoenvironmental and paleoecological significance of the lacustrine Mermia ichnofacies: an archetypical subaqueous nonmarine trace fossil assemblage. Ichnos 4 (1995) 151-161
13. Buatois L.A., Mangano M.G., Genise J.F., and Taylor T.N. The ichnologic record of the continental invertebrate invasion: evolutionary trends in environmental expansion, ecospace utilization, and behavioral complexity. Palaios 13 (1998) 217-240
14. Buatois L.A., Gingras M.K., MacEachern J., Mangano M.G., Zonneveld J.-P., Pemberton S.G., Netto R.G., and Martin A. Colonization of brackish-water systems through time: evidence from the trace-fossil record. Palaios 20 (2005) 321-347
15. Carter J.L., and Carter R.C. Bibliography and Index of North American Carboniferous Brachiopods (1898-1968). Geological Society of America Memoir (1970) 128
16. Castle J.W. Recognition of facies, bounding surfaces, and stratigraphic patterns in foreland ramp successions: an example from the Upper Devonian, Appalachian Basin, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 70 (2000) 896-912
17. Clayton G., Manger W.L., and Owens B. Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) miospores from the Cuyahoga and Logan formations of northeastern Ohio, USA. Journal of Micropaleontology 17 (1998) 183-191
18. Cohee G.V. Michigan Basin region. In: Craig L.C., and Connor C.W. (Eds). Paleotectonic Investigations of the Mississippian System in the United States: Part 1. Introduction and Regional Analyses of the Mississippian System. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper vol. 1010 (1979) 49-57
19. Crowell J.C. Pre-Mesozoic Ice Ages: Their Bearing on Understanding the Climate System. Geological Society of America Memoir vol. 192 (1999) 106 pp.
20. 2 and climate change. Science 292 (2001) 870-872
21. De Gibert J.M., and Ekdale A.A. Trace fossil assemblages reflecting stressed environments in the Middle Jurassic Carmel Seaway of central Utah. Journal of Paleontology 73 (1999) 711-720
22. Dennison J.M., and Wheeler W.H. Stratigraphy of Precambrian through Cretaceous Strata of Probable Fluvial Origin in Southeastern United States and their Potential as Uranium Host Rocks. Southeastern Geology Special Publication vol. 5 (1975) 210 pp.
23. De Witt Jr. W. Age of the Bedford Shale, Berea Sandstone and Sunbury Shale in the Appalachian and Michigan basins, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1294-G (1970) (11 pp.)
24. Ettensohn F.R. Rates of relative motion during the Acadian Orogeny based on spatial distribution of black shales. Journal of Geology 95 (1987) 572-582
25. Ettensohn F.R., Greb S.F., Chesnut Jr. D.R., Harris D.C., Mason C.E., Eble C.F., Howell P.D., Watson A.E., and Johnson W.K. Mississippian stratigraphy, depositional environments, and tectonic framework of the central Appalachian basin, eastern Kentucky, U.S.A. In: Hills L.V., Henderson C.M., and Bamber E.W. (Eds). Carboniferous and Permian of the World: XIV ICCP Proceedings, Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, Alberta (2002) 22-40
26. Fagadau, S.P., 1952. Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Logan Formation of central and southern Ohio [PhD thesis]. The Ohio State University, Columbus. 381 pp.
27. Faill R.T. The Acadian Orogeny and the Catskill Delta. In: Woodrow D.L., and Sevon W.D. (Eds). The Catskill Delta. Geological Society of America Special Paper vol. 201 (1985) 15-39
28. Faill R.T. A geologic history of the north-central Appalachians: Part 3. The Allegheny Orogeny. American Journal of Science 298 (1998) 131-179
29. Franklin, G.J., 1961. Geology of Licking County, Ohio: [PhD thesis]. Ohio State University, Columbus. 483 pp.
30. Gordon Jr. M. Late Kinderhookian (Early Mississippian) ammonoids of the western United States. Journal of Paleontology 19 (1986) (supplement to v. 60, no. 3, 36 pp.)
31. Gordon Jr. M., and Mason C.E. Progradation of the Borden Formation in Kentucky, U.S.A., demonstrated by successive Early Mississippian (Osagean) ammonoid faunas. Decimo Congreso Internacional de Estratigrafica y Geologia del Carbonifero, Madrid, 1983. Comte rendu (1985) 191-198
32. Hance L., Devuyst F.-X., and Poty E. Sequence stratigraphy of the Belgium Lower Carboniferous-tentative correlation with the British Isles. In: Hills L.V., Henderson C.M., and Bamber E.W. (Eds). Carboniferous and Permian of the World. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir vol. 19 (2002) 41-51
33. Harper J.A., and Laughrey C.D. Geology of the oil and gas fields of southwestern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Mineral Resource Report 87 (1987) (166 pp.)
34. Harrell J.A., Hatfield C.B., and Gunn G.R. Mississippian System of the Michigan Basin; stratigraphy, sedimentology and economic geology. In: Catacosinos P.A., and Daniels Jr. P.A. (Eds). Early Sedimentary Evolution of the Michigan Basin. Geological Society of America Special Paper vol. 256 (1991) 203-219
35. Heller P.L., Angevine C.L., Winslow N.S., and Paola C. Two-phase stratigraphic model of foreland-basin sequences. Geology 16 (1988) 501-504
36. Higgs K., Clayton G., and Keegan J.B. Stratigraphic and systematic palynology of the Tournaisian of Ireland. Special Paper, Geological Survey of Ireland 7 (1988) 1-82
37. Holden F.T. Lower and Middle Mississippian stratigraphy of Ohio. Journal of Geology 50 (1942) 34-67
38. Hyde J.E. Mississippian formations of central and southern Ohio. In: Marple F.M. (Ed). Ohio Geological Survey, Bulletin vol. 51 (1953) 355 pp.
39. Inners J.D., Skema V.W., and Fleeger G.M. Stop 7: a geological railroad excursion through the Horseshoe Curve and Summit tunnels. In: Gold D.P., Fleeger G.M., and Way J.H. (Eds). 68th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists Guidebook. Geology on the Edge, Selected Geology of Bedford, Blair, Cambria, and Somerset Counties (2003) 146-172
40. Jones P.J. Carboniferous (Chart 5). In: Young G.C., and Laurie J.R. (Eds). An Australian Phanerozoic Timescale (1996), Oxford University Press 110-126
41. Jones G.L.L., and Somerville I.D. Irish Dinantian biostratigraphy: practical applications. In: Strogen P., Somerville I.D., and Jones G.L.L. (Eds). Recent Advances in Lower Carboniferous Geology. Geological Society Special Publications vol. 107 (1996) 371-385
42. Jones S.J., Frostick L.E., and Astin T.R. Braided stream and flood plain architecture: the Rio Vero Formation, Spanish Pyrenees. Sedimentary Geology 139 (2001) 229-260
43. Kepferle R.C. Stratigraphy, petrology, and depositional environment of the Kenwood Siltstone Member, Borden Formation (Mississippian), Kentucky and Indiana. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper vol. 1007 (1977) 49 pp.
44. Khetani A.B., and Read J.F. Sequence development of a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic high-relief ramp, Mississippian, Kentucky, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 72 (2002) 657-672
45. Kirschbaum M.A., and Hettinger R.D. National assessment of oil and gas project: facies analysis and sequence stratigraphic framework of Upper Campanian Strata (Nelsen and Mount Garfield Formations, Bluecastle Tongue of the Castlegate Sandstone, and Mancos Shale), Eastern Book Cliffs, Colorado and Utah. USGS Digital Data Series DDS-69-G, Version 1.0 (2004) 40 pp
46. Kittredge C.J., and Malcuit R.J. Paleocurrent analysis of the Black Hand Sandstone Member of the Cuyahoga Formation (Lower Mississippian) of east-central Ohio. The Ohio Journal of Science 85 (1985) 25
47. Kullmann J., Korn D., and Weyer D. Ammonoid zonation of the Lower Carboniferous Subsystem. Courier Forschung-Institut Seckenberg 130 (1990) 127-131
48. Lane H.R., and Brenckle P.L. Type Mississippian subdivisions and biostratigraphic succession. In: Heckel P.H. (Ed). Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Mississippian Subsystem (Carboniferous System) in its Type Region, the Mississippi River Valley of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Guidebook for Field Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, September 8-13, 2001. Illinois State Geological Survey Guidebook vol. 34 (2005) 83-107
49. Lineback J.A. Illinois Basin: sediment starved during the Mississippian. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 53 (1969) 112-126
50. Loboziak S., Streel M., Caputo M.V., and de Melo J.H.G. Middle Devonian to Lower Carboniferous miospore stratigraphy in the central Parnaiba Basin (Brazil). Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 115 (1992) 215-228
51. Luttrell P.R. Basinwide sedimentation and the continuum of paleoflow in an ancient river system: Kayenta Formation (Lower Jurassic), central portion Colorado Plateau. Sedimentary Geology 85 (1993) 411-434
52. Manger W.L. The Mississippian ammonoids Karagandoceras and Kazakhstania from Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 45 (1971) 33-39
53. Matchen, D.L., 2004. Depositional environments, age, and regional correlation of the Black Hand Sandstone Member of the Cuyahoga Formation and the Lower Mississippian of the central Appalachians [PhD thesis]. West Virginia University, Morgantown, 170 pp. http://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata and jsp_etdId=3344.
54. Matchen D.L., and Kammer T.W. Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian Price and Borden formations in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. Southeastern Geology 34 (1994) 25-41
55. Matchen D.L., and Vargo A.G. Play Mws: Lower Mississippian Weir sandstones. In: Roen J.B., and Walker B.J. (Eds). The Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays. WVGES Publication vol. V-25 (1996) 46-50
56. McCubbin D.G. Barrier-island and strand-plain facies. In: Scholle P.A., and Spearing D. (Eds). Sandstone Depositional Systems. AAPG Memoir 31 (1982) 247-279
57. Miall A.D. Architectural-element analysis: a new method of facies analysis applied to fluvial deposits. Earth-Science Reviews 22 (1985) 261-308
58. Miall A.D., and Jones B.G. Fluvial architecture of the Hawkesbury Sandstone (Triassic), near Sydney, Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Geology 73 (2003) 531-545
59. Mii H.-S., Grossman E.L., and Yancey T.E. Carboniferous isotope stratigraphies of North America: implications for Carboniferous paleoceanography and Mississippian glaciation. Geological Society of America Bulletin 111 (1999) 960-973
60. Miller A.K., and Garner H.F. Lower Mississippian cephalopods of Michigan: Part III. Ammonoids and summary. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 12 (1955) 113-173
61. Pashin J.C., and Ettensohn F.R. Reevaluation of the Bedford-Berea Sequence in Ohio and Adjacent States: Forced Regression in a Foreland Basin. Geological Society of America Special Paper vol. 298 (1995) 68 pp.
62. Pelletier B.R. Pocono paleocurrents in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Geological Society of America Bulletin 69 (1958) 1033-1064
63. Pemberton S.G., Frey R.W., Ranger M.J., and MacEachern J.A. The conceptual framework of ichnology. In: Pemberton S.G. (Ed). Applications of Ichnology to Petroleum Exploration. SEPM Core Workshop vol. 17 (1992) 1-32
64. Posamentier H.W., and Allen G.P. Siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy-concepts and applications. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 7 (2000) (210 pp.)
65. Potter P.E., Maynard J.B., and Pryor W.A. Sedimentology of Shale (1980), Springer-Verlag, New York 306 pp.
66. Pulham A.J. Controls on internal structure and architecture of sandstone bodies within Upper Carboniferous fluvial-dominated deltas, County Clare, western Ireland. In: Whateley M.K.G., and Pickering K.T. (Eds). Deltas: Sites and Traps for Fossil Fuels. Geological Society Special Publication vol. 41 (1989) 179-203
67. Ramsbottom W.H.C., and Saunders W.B. Evolution and evolutionary biostratigraphy of Carboniferous ammonoids. Journal of Paleontology 59 (1985) 123-139
68. Ratcliffe B.C., and Fagerstrom J.A. Invertebrate lebbensspuren of Holocene floodplains: their morphology, origin, and paleoecological significance. Journal of Paleontology 54 (1980) 614-630
69. Read C.B. Floras of the Pocono Formation and Price Sandstone in Parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper vol. 263 (1955) 32 pp.
70. Richardson J.G. Miospore biostratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian clastics of the Michigan Basin, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 138 (2006) 63-72
71. Rodriquez J. Paleontology. Chapter 3. In: Root S.I., Rodriquez J., and Forsyth J.L. (Eds). Geology of Knox County. Ohio Division of Geological Survey, Bulletin 59 (1961) 44-88
72. Root S.I., Rodriguez J., and Forsyth J.L. Geology of Knox County. Ohio Division of Geological Survey, Bulletin vol. 59 (1961) 232 pp.
73. Ross C.A., and Ross J.R.P. Late Paleozoic depositional sequences are synchronous and worldwide. Geology 13 (1985) 147-195
74. Sable E.G., and Dever Jr. G.R. Mississippian Rocks in Kentucky. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper vol. 1503 (1990) 125 pp.
75. Saltzman M.R. Carbon and oxygen isotope stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian (Kinderhookian-lower Osagean), western United States: implications for seawater chemistry and glaciation. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114 (2002) 96-108
76. Saltzman M.R., Gonzalez L.A., and Lohman K.C. Earliest Carboniferous cooling step triggered by the Antler orogeny?. Geology 28 (2000) 347-350
77. Scheckler S.E. Old red continent facies in the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous of Appalachian North America. Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 109 (1986) 223-236
78. Schiner G.R., and Kimmel G.E. Mississippian stratigraphy of northwestern Pennsylvania. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1331-A (1972) (27 pp.)
79. Smosna R. Play Mgn: Upper Mississippian Greenbrier/Newman limestones. In: Roen J.B., and Walker B.J. (Eds). The Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays. WVGES Publication vol. V-25 (1996) 37-40
80. Szmuc, E.J. 1957. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cuyahoga Formation of northern Ohio [Ph.D. thesis]. The Ohio State University, Columbus. 623 pp.
81. Szmuc E.J. The Mississippian System. In: Banks P.O., and Feldmann R.H. (Eds). Guide to the Geology of Northeastern Ohio (1970), Northern Ohio Geological Society 23-67
82. Tape C.H., Cowan C.A., and Runkel A.C. Tidal-bundle sequences in the Jordan Sandstone (Upper Cambrian), southeastern Minnesota, U.S.A.: evidence for tides along inboard shorelines of the Sauk epicontinental sea. Journal of Sedimentary Research 73 (2003) 354-366
83. Thompson T.L., Ford N.S., and Sweet W.C. Conodonts from the Rushville Formation (Mississippian) of Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 45 (1971) 704-712
84. Tye R.S., Bhattacharya J.P., Lorsong J.A., Sindelar S.T., Knock D.G., Puls D.B., and Levinson R.A. Geology and stratigraphy of fluvio-deltaic deposits in the Ivishak formation: applications for development of Prudhoe Bay field, Alaska. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 83 (1999) 1588-1623
85. Vargo A.G., and Matchen D.L. Play Mbi: Lower Mississippian Big Injun sandstones. In: Roen J.B., and Walker B.J. (Eds). The Atlas of Major Appalachian Gas Plays. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Publication vol. V-25 (1996) 41-45
86. Ver Steeg K. Black Hand sandstone and conglomerate in Ohio. Geological Society of America Bulletin 58 (1947) 703-728
87. Webster G.D., and Groessens E. Conodont subdivision of the Lower Carboniferous. Courier Forschung-Institut Senckenberg 130 (1990) 31-40
88. Willis B.J., and Gabel S.L. Formation of deep incisions into tide-dominated river deltas: implications for the stratigraphy of the Sego Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Utah, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 72 (2003) 246-263
89. Witzke B.J., and Bunker B.J. Relative sea-level changes during Middle Ordovician through Mississippian deposition in the Iowa area, North American craton. In: Witzke B.J., Ludvigson G.A., and Day J. (Eds). Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy: Views from the North American Craton. Geological Society of America Special Paper vol. 306 (1996) 307-330
90. Witzke B.J., and Bunker B.J. Comments on the Mississippian succession in Iowa. In: Heckel P.H. (Ed). Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of the Mississippian Subsystem (Carboniferous System) in its Type Region, the Mississippi River Valley of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Guidebook for Field Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, September 8-13, 2001 (2001) 73-82
91. Witzke B.J., and Bunker B.J. Bedrock geology in the Burlington area, southeast Iowa. In: Witzke B.J., Tassier-Surine S.A., Anderson R.R., Bunker B.J., and Artz J.A. (Eds). Pleistocene, Mississippian, and Devonian Stratigraphy of the Burlington, Iowa, Area. 64th Annual Tri-State Geological Field Conference. Iowa Geological Survey Guidebook vol. 23 (2002) 23-51
92. Wolfe E.W., Forsyth J.L., and Dove G.D. Geology of Fairfield County. Ohio Division of Geological Survey Bulletin vol. 60 (1962) 230 pp.
93. Work D.M., and Manger W.L. Masonoceras, a new Karagandoceratid ammonoid from the Lower Mississippian (Lower Osagean) of Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 76 (2002) 574-577
94. Workman L.E., and Gillette T. Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Kinderhook Series in Illinois. Illinois Geological Survey, Report of Investigations vol. 189 (1956) 46 pp.
95. Yang, C., 1998. Basin analysis of the Carboniferous strata in central and southern West Virginia using sequence stratigraphic principles [Ph.D. thesis]. Morgantown, West Virginia University. 349 pp.
96. Ye L., and Kerr D. Sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Pennsylvanian Bartlesville Sandstone, northeastern Oklahoma: a case of an underfilled incised valley. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 84 (2000) 1185-1204
97. Yu X., Ma X., and Qing H. Sedimentology and reservoir characteristics of a Middle Jurassic fluvial system, Datong Basin, northern China. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 50 (2002) 105-117
98. Zaitlin B.A., Dalrymple R.W., and Boyd R. The stratigraphic organization of incised-valley systems associated with relative sea-level change. In: Dalrymple R.W., Zaitlin B.A., and Boyd R. (Eds). Incised-Valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary Sequences. SEPM Special Publication vol. 51 (1994) 45-60
99. Zou, X., 1993. Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippian in western West Virginia: correlation, depositional environments, controls on sedimentation and related reservoir heterogeneities [Ph.D. thesis]. West Virginia University, Morgantown. 414 pp.