Applications of Ichnology to petroleum exploration: A core workshop: SEPM core Workshop No. 17
- ed.
The Society for Sedimentary Geology Core Workshop No. 17 is the first of its kind to focus on trace fossils and their utility in stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental analysis. This volume represents a compilation of previously unpublished ichnological case studies. Emphasis is on the ichnology of shallow marine and marginal marine siliciclastic facies as exemplified by petroliferous Cretaceous strata of the North American western interior, primarily Lower Cretaceous rocks of western Canada. All but one of the fourteen papers that follow the introduction focus on four principal themes which involve the use of ichnological criteria for: the differentiation of facies representing offshore-shelf through foreshore settings; the identification of marginal marine facies; the recognition of storm-related deposits; and the delineation of stratigraphic discontinuity surfaces. Regardless of the primary theme of their papers, most authors have place their studies into a sequence stratigraphy context. The topic of sequence stratigraphy is highlighted by the final paper which addresses the ichno-sedimentologic complexity of transgressive systems tracts. The papers in this volume are accompanied by a total of 22 tables and 218 figures. This collection of quality photographs should be particularly instructive to new students of ichnology as well as the introductory summary of ichnological terminology and classification schemes, the ichnofacies concept, quantification of bioturbation, and the paleoenvironmental significance of trace fossils.
- OSTI ID:
- 6299034
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by Charles E. Savrda, Auburn Univ., in Palaios, Vol. 8, No. 2 (April, 1993)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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