Alternative sequence stratigraphic model for the Desert Member to Castlegate Sandstone interval, Book Cliffs, eastern Utah: Implications for the high-resolution correlation of falling stage nonmarine, marginal-marine, and marine strata
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Published:January 01, 2010
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Simon A.J. Pattison, 2010. "Alternative sequence stratigraphic model for the Desert Member to Castlegate Sandstone interval, Book Cliffs, eastern Utah: Implications for the high-resolution correlation of falling stage nonmarine, marginal-marine, and marine strata", Through the Generations, Lisa A. Morgan, Steven L. Quane
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The purpose of this field trip is to examine the sedimentology, sedimentary architecture, stacking patterns, and correlation of fluvial, coastal plain, deltaic, and shoreface to shelf deposits in the low accommodation Desert Member to Castlegate Sandstone stratigraphic interval (Campanian), Book Cliffs, eastern Utah. Traditional sequence stratigraphic models of falling stage deposits will be tested against an alternative sequence stratigraphic model that links the nonmarine to shallow-marine facies belts in both time and space. The trip will focus on the exceptional three-dimensional outcrop exposures in the Thompson Pass to Sagers Canyon region. At least eight sequence stratigraphic rock packages are...
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Through the Generations

The tradition of Rocky Mountain geology remains strong at all scales, spatially and temporally. This volume fosters that tradition with its collection of peer-reviewed papers associated with the 2010 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Spatially, this volume discusses theories of continental mountain building events in tandem with microscopic observations and parts per billion trace element concentrations. Temporally, the volume covers geologic history from the Precambrian to modern issues of climate change and energy, groundwater contamination, geologic hazards, and landscape evolution. Many of the trips propose new interpretations of famous geologic ideas and environs such as Laramide deformation, the Colorado Mineral Belt, the Lewis and Clark Line, the Chalk Cliffs, and Garden of the Gods.
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- Book Cliffs
- Campanian
- Castlegate Sandstone
- channels
- chronostratigraphy
- clastic rocks
- coal
- correlation
- Cretaceous
- diachronism
- field trips
- Grand County Utah
- guidebook
- high-resolution methods
- lithofacies
- lithostratigraphy
- marine environment
- Mesozoic
- North America
- outcrops
- parasequences
- progradation
- road log
- Rocky Mountains
- sandstone
- sea-level changes
- sedimentary rocks
- Senonian
- sequence stratigraphy
- shallow-water environment
- terrestrial environment
- U. S. Rocky Mountains
- United States
- Upper Cretaceous
- Utah
- eastern Utah
- Desert Member