Stratigraphic architecture and depositional history of lower Miocene, Planulina Zone, Southern Louisiana
The Planulina zone is a wedge of clastic sediment positioned between the Anahuac shale below and the Oakville sandstone interval above. Planulna sediments were deposited on an erosional surface, during a general rise in the sea level, and formed a retrogradational wedge. Within the study area, the Planulina zone consists of two large depositional complexes: the Mud Lake complex in west Cameron Parish, Louisiana, and the East Cameron complex in east Cameron Parish. The lowermost depositional sequence in the East Cameron complex is preserved in a network of submarine canyons that were eroded into the upper slope. Framework sands were deposited in channel systems confined to the axis of the canyons, and the sands are encased in marine shale containing benthonic foraminifera indicative of an upper to middle slope paleoenvironment. Two younger depositional sequences overlie the submarine canyon facies and were deposited by deltaic systems that prograded basinward. A zone of expansion extends east to west through the Planulina interval and is named the ''Planulina flexure.'' The flexure is a large fault located at the relict shelf edge and soles out downdip inn the Anahuac shale. Several thousand feet of sediment downthrown on the flexure is equivalent to several hundred feet upthrown, and the flexure represented the boundary dividing updip deltaic processes from downdip slope processes during the beginning of Planulina deposition. The Planulina depositional history and stratigraphic architecture are directly related to the displacement along the flexure and the structural deformation of the underlying Anahuac shale.
- OSTI ID:
- 6776539
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-880301-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Houston, TX, USA, 20 Mar 1988
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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