Elements of high constructive deltaic sedimentation, lower Frio Formation, Brazoria County, Texas
Conference
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OSTI ID:5119334
The lower Frio Formation in eastern Brazoria County, upper Texas Gulf Coast, was deposited in a high constructive deltaic environment in the Houston delta system. Constructive elements of the stacked, elongate to lobate deltas that were intersected in core are storm induced delta front splays, delta front slump deposits, and distributary mouth bar, distributary channel and delta plain assemblages. Reworked and winnowed abandonment facies that are volumetrically insignificant relative to constructive elements are subdivided into a crossbedded shoreface-foreshore subfacies and a fine grained cyclic sequence of storm deposits on the lower shoreface that represent a distal abandonment subfacies. Micropaleontological evidence indicates that deposition of constructive and abandonment facies took place in water depths of less than 120 feet.
- Research Organization:
- Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Bureau of Economic Geology
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC08-79ET27111
- OSTI ID:
- 5119334
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-821009-2; ON: DE82016920
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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