Facies control on sandstone composition (and influence of statistical methods on interpretations) in the John Henry Member, Straight Cliffs Formation, Southern Utah, USA

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 60-76

  Allen, Jessica L ^a   Johnson, Cari L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Facies; Sandstone provenance; Sedimentary petrography; Straight Cliffs Formation; Univariate vs. multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL METHOD; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FLUVIAL CHANNELS; LONGSHORE DRIFT; MODAL COMPOSITION; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SAMPLE SIZES; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SEDIMENTARY PETROGRAPHY; SHOREFACE; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; SMALL SAMPLING; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRAIGHT CLIFFS FORMATION; TIDAL INLET; UNIVARIATE; UNIVARIATE METHOD; UPDRIFT; UPPER CRETACEOUS; UPPER SHOREFACE; UTAH , USA; WASHOVER; WAVE PROCESS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ESTUARIES; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; LANDFORMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PETROGRAPHY; QUARTZ; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICS;

SAMPLING;

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; LAGOON; LITHIFICATION; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL INLET; TRANSGRESSION; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 77955845628     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.06.023     Document Type: Article

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