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Title: Dynamic growth of selected Paleozoic reef complexes

Abstract

The sequential positioning of the compound biothermal facies of paleozoic reefs reflects the history of water movement (rise or fall) over the shelf on which the reef complex accumulated. Siliciclastic deposits are directly related to reef complexes. Reef complexes built on a constructional platform generally show progradation in response to increase water depth over the platform. At least one reef complex in the Sacramento Mountains is retrograde, having formed over a platform that is partly a destructional surface. Reefs are best characterized as progradational or retrogradational in preference to transgressional or regressional. The reef complex often shows several different growth stages separated by hiatuses, although the depositional breaks may appear to be minor. The complex may record tilting of the subreef platform. The reef complex is only a facet of the total sedimentary pattern of the depositional basin. A method is illustrated for determining the relative rate of construction (growth) of reef complexes.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Yates Petroleum Corp., Artesia, NM
OSTI Identifier:
7151492
Report Number(s):
CONF-8604186-
Journal ID: CODEN: AAPGB
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 70:3; Conference: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Southwest Section convention, Ruidoso, NM, USA, 27 Apr 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; REEFS; DEPOSITION; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; 020200* - Petroleum- Reserves, Geology, & Exploration

Citation Formats

Bowsher, A L. Dynamic growth of selected Paleozoic reef complexes. United States: N. p., 1986. Web.
Bowsher, A L. Dynamic growth of selected Paleozoic reef complexes. United States.
Bowsher, A L. 1986. "Dynamic growth of selected Paleozoic reef complexes". United States.
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abstractNote = {The sequential positioning of the compound biothermal facies of paleozoic reefs reflects the history of water movement (rise or fall) over the shelf on which the reef complex accumulated. Siliciclastic deposits are directly related to reef complexes. Reef complexes built on a constructional platform generally show progradation in response to increase water depth over the platform. At least one reef complex in the Sacramento Mountains is retrograde, having formed over a platform that is partly a destructional surface. Reefs are best characterized as progradational or retrogradational in preference to transgressional or regressional. The reef complex often shows several different growth stages separated by hiatuses, although the depositional breaks may appear to be minor. The complex may record tilting of the subreef platform. The reef complex is only a facet of the total sedimentary pattern of the depositional basin. A method is illustrated for determining the relative rate of construction (growth) of reef complexes.},
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month = {Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1986}
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