ISBN: 1000000040034
This volume is a collection of papers which, for the most part, were included in a symposium of Shelf Sandstone deposits sponsored by SEPM at the Annual Meeting in Denver in 1980. A variety of techniques are useful in documenting shelf depositional process and sand body geometries. Among these are sedimentary structures observed in outcrops and cores, biogenic data including trace fossils, micro- and macro-fauna, detailed seismic sections, and detailed subsurface correlations.
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This volume is a collection of papers which, for the most part, were included in a symposium of Shelf Sandstone deposits sponsored by SEPM at the Annual Meeting in Denver in 1980. A variety of techniques are useful in documenting shelf depositional process and sand body geometries. Among these are sedimentary structures observed in outcrops and cores, biogenic data including trace fossils, micro- and macro-fauna, detailed seismic sections, and detailed subsurface correlations. These types of data are all readily available, at least locally, for Mesozoic rocks. In studying older shelf sandstones such as those from the early Paleozoic and Precambrian, some techniques cannot be used; trace fossils are rare to absent, and it is difficult to establish the relationships of the shelf sand-bodies to the shoreline of the broad shallow seas that were common at that time.
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