A sedimentological & stratigraphic dissection of Jurassic (Toarcian to Kimmeridgian) tidal & shoreface environments of the Fernie Formation in the subsurface of west-central Alberta
| atmire.migration.oldid | 762 | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Krause, Federico | |
| dc.contributor.author | Williams, Samuel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-08T21:33:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-15T07:01:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-03-08 | |
| dc.date.submitted | 2013 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Sedimentary rocks within the Fernie Formation of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) accumulated upon the western epicratonic margin of North America. Along this margin the depositional environments ranged from open marine to continental in origin. In west-central Alberta the deposits of this formation were initially mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments that upwardly were replaced by siliciclastic deposits during the Jurassic. Dissection of these deposits through high resolution analyses of lithofacies, lithofacies associations, and lithosomes reveals three main coastal depositional systems for Toarcian through Kimmeridgian strata of the formation: a storm- and wave-reworked lower Rock Creek Member (Aalenian), a tidally-reworked upper Rock Creek Member (Bajocian) unit dissected by tidal channels, and an enigmatic Oxfordian interval herein named the Niton Member that represents a progradational shallow-marine strand plain subsequently decapitated by a marine incursion. These three depositional systems are separated by widespread unconformable surfaces. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Williams, S. (2013). A sedimentological & stratigraphic dissection of Jurassic (Toarcian to Kimmeridgian) tidal & shoreface environments of the Fernie Formation in the subsurface of west-central Alberta (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25004 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11023/568 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Graduate Studies | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.publisher.place | Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | |
| dc.subject | Geology | |
| dc.subject.classification | Jurassic | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Tidal | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Lithofacies | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Glauconite | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Niton | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Rock Creek | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Alberta | en_US |
| dc.title | A sedimentological & stratigraphic dissection of Jurassic (Toarcian to Kimmeridgian) tidal & shoreface environments of the Fernie Formation in the subsurface of west-central Alberta | |
| dc.type | master thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Geoscience | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Science (MSc) | |
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