Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and ichnology of the Late Pennsylvanian Glenshaw Formation (Lower Conemaugh Group), southern Dunkard basin, Ohio-Kentucky-West Virginia
- Marshall Univ., Huntington, WV (United States). Dept. of Geology
Facies analysis of outcrops of the Glenshaw Formation was carried out at 45 localities over a 761 sq. km area. The glenshaw Formation is 61--76 m thick in the study area. Four marine units (Lower Brush Creek, Upper Brush Creek, Cambridge , and Ames) occur which contain invertebrate body fossils and/or trace fossils including Teichichnus, Rhizocorallium, Aulichnites, Paleophycus, Lockeia, and Curvolithus. Alluvial channel-fills contain internal features that reflect deposition in high sinuosity suspended or mixed load rivers. Paleocurrent data (N = 77) are broadly dispersed with a mean azimuth of 335 degrees. Overbank facies have yielded trackways from giant arthropods and Eryopoid amphibians (Limnopus). There are fewer marine units in the glenshaw than toward the north and west which has made direct detailed correlation of much of the formation problematic. The coal beds and marine units used previous stratigraphic studies may be extended through the recognition of non-coal-bearing paleosols and marine-influenced intervals distinguished by facies relations, and sedimentary and biogenic structures. Nine laterally persistent, paleosol-bounded packages occur which are comparable to allocyclic T-R units reported by Busch and Rollins (1984) from Pennsylvania and Ohio. Alternating episodes of soil formation and alluvial aggradation may reflect updip coastal plain responses to low stand incision of drainage lines and sediment bypassing followed by aggradation of alluvial systems in response to rising sea level. Climate changes may also have played a role in sediment flux.
- OSTI ID:
- 6785850
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9404221-; CODEN: GAAPBC
- Journal Information:
- Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States), Vol. 26:4; Conference: 43. annual meeting of the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, Blacksburg, VA (United States), 7-8 Apr 1994; ISSN 0016-7592
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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