Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond: New Progress in Science and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico Basin

Albian Stratigraphy of the San Marcos Platform, Texas: Why the Person Formation Correlates with Upper Fredericksburg Group not Washita Group Available to Purchase
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Published:December 01, 2016
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Robert W. Scott, Whitney Campbell, Rachel Hojnacki, Xin Lai, Yulun Wang, 2016. "Albian Stratigraphy of the San Marcos Platform, Texas: Why the Person Formation Correlates with Upper Fredericksburg Group not Washita Group", Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond: New Progress in Science and Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, Christopher M. Lowery, John W. Snedden, Norman C. Rosen
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Abstract
Uppermost Aptian-Albian-lower Cenomanian strata of the Texas Comanchean Series represent three long-term transgressive-regressive cycles: the Trinity, Fredericksburg, and Washita groups that are composed mainly of marine limestone and shale. Each group is composed of shorter term deepening-shallowing cycles. On the Central Texas San Marcos Platform and its downdip equivalents, subsurface strata above the Trinity Group are grouped into the Edwards and Washita groups. Correlations in the 1960s were based on wireline well logs and inferred biostratigraphy that correlated the upper Edwards Group Person Formation with the lower parts of the Washita Group. This correlation crosses a widespread subaerial unconformity that separates the Washita from the underlying Fredericksburg in the northern East Texas Basin and in the Fort Stockton Basin. New biostratigraphic and sedimento-logical data show that the Person actually correlates with the upper part of the Fredericksburg in the Gulf Coast.
- Albian
- biostratigraphy
- carbonate rocks
- clastic rocks
- Comanchean
- correlation
- Cretaceous
- Edwards Formation
- Fredericksburg Group
- lagoonal environment
- lithostratigraphy
- Lower Cretaceous
- marine environment
- Mesozoic
- mudstone
- San Marcos Arch
- sedimentary rocks
- sequence stratigraphy
- shelf environment
- stratigraphy
- Texas
- Trinity Group
- United States
- Washita Group
- well logs
- Kiamichi Formation
- Walnut Formation
- Burt Ranch Member
- Segovia Formation
- Person Formation
- Regional Dense Member