Shelf Sand and Sandstone Bodies: Geometry, Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy

Copyright © 1991 The International Association of Sedimentologists

Shelf Sand and Sandstone Bodies: Geometry, Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy

Editor(s): D. J. P. Swift, G. F. Oertel, R. W. Tillman, J. A. Thorne

Published Online: 14 APR 2009

Print ISBN: 9780632032372

Online ISBN: 9781444303933

DOI: 10.1002/9781444303933

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Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–viii)

  2. Concepts of Continental Margin Sedimentation

    1. Sedimentation on Continental Margins, I: A General Model for Shelf Sedimentation (pages 1–31)

      D. J. P. Swift and J. A. Thorne

    2. Sedimentation on Continental Margins, II: Application of the Regime Concept (pages 33–58)

      J. A. Thorne and D. J. P. Swift

    3. Sedimentation on Continental Margins, III: The Depositional Fabric—an Analytical Approach to Stratification and Facies Identification (pages 59–87)

      J. A. Thorne, E. Grace, D. J. P. Swift and A. Niedoroda

    4. Sedimentation on Continental Margins, IV: Lithofacies and Depositional Systems (pages 89–152)

      D. J. P. Swift, S. Phillips and J. A. Thorne

    5. Sedimentation on Continental Margins, V: Parasequences (pages 153–187)

      D. J. P. Swift, S. Phillips and J. A. Thorne

    6. Sedimentation on Continental Margins, VI: A Regime Model for Depositional Sequences, their Component Systems Tracts, and Bounding Surfaces (pages 189–255)

      J. A. Thorne and D. J. P. Swift

  3. Regressive Shelf and Coastal Sandstones

    1. Facies Architecture of a Falling Sea-Level Strandplain, Doce River Coast, Brazil (pages 257–281)

      J. M. L. Dominguez and H. R. Wanless

    2. Origin and Geometry of Storm-Deposited Sand Beds in Modern Sediments of the Texas Continental Shelf (pages 283–308)

      J. W. Snedden and D. Nummedal

    3. Model for Genesis of Shoreface and Shelf Sandstone Sequences, Southern Appalachians: Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of an Early Silurian Shelf System (pages 309–338)

      S. G. Driese, M. W. Fischer, K. A. Easthouse, G. T. Marks, A. R. Gogola and A. E. Schoner

    4. Prograding Shoreline Deposits in the Lower Silurian Medina Group, Ontario and New York: Storm- and Tide-Influenced Sedimentation in a Shallow Epicontinental Sea, and the Origin of Enigmatic Shore-Normal Channels Encapsulated by Open Shallow-Marine Deposits (pages 339–375)

      W. L. Duke, P. J. Fawcett and W. C. Brusse

  4. Transgressive Coastal and Shelf Sandstones

    1. Implications of Tide-Dominated Lagoonal Processes on the Preservation of Buried Channels on a Sediment-Starved Continental Shelf (pages 377–393)

      G. F. Oertel, V. J. Henry and A. M. Foyle

    2. Generation of Late Holocene Sand Ridges on the Middle Continental Shelf of New Jersey, USA—Evidence for Formation in a Mid-Shelf Setting Based on Comparisons with a Nearshore Ridge (pages 395–423)

      J. M. Rine, R. W. Tillman, S. J. Culver and D. J. P. Swift

  5. Sandstones Deposited at Sequence Boundaries

    1. Evolution of an Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Shelf Sandstone Ridge: Analysis of the Crossfield—Cardium Pool, Alberta, Canada (pages 425–456)

      F. F. Krause and D. A. Nelson

    2. Truncated Prograding Strandplain or Offshore Sand Body?—Sedimentology and Geometry of the Cardium (Turonian) Sandstone and Conglomerate at Willesden Green Field, Alberta (pages 457–487)

      D. A. W. Keith

    3. Facies of the Lower Ferron Sandstone and Blue Gate Shale Members of the Mancos Shale: Lowstand and Early Transgressive Facies Architecture (pages 489–510)

      P. E. Riemersma and M. A. Chan

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      Index (pages 511–532)

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