Tectonic evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts within the North American Cordillera orogenic system

WA Yonkee, AB Weil - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

Estimation of source area, river paleo-discharge, paleoslope, and sediment budgets of linked deep-time depositional systems and implications for hydrocarbon …

JP Bhattacharya, P Copeland, TF Lawton… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The source-to-sink (S2S) concept is focused on quantification of the various components of
siliciclastic sedimentary systems from initial source sediment production areas, through the …

[PDF][PDF] Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western USA

PG DeCelles - American Journal of Science, 2004 - ajsonline.org
Geochronological, structural, and sedimentological data provide the basis for a regional
synthesis of the evolution of the Cordilleran retroarc thrust belt and foreland basin system in …

Deltas

JP Bhattacharya - 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Deltas are discrete shoreline protuberances formed where a river enters a standing body of
water and supplies sediments more rapidly than they can be redistributed by basinal …

Hyperpycnal rivers and prodeltaic shelves in the Cretaceous seaway of North America

JP Bhattacharya… - Journal of …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Despite the historical assumption that the bulk of marine “shelf” mud is deposited by gradual
fallout from suspension in quiet water, recent studies of modern muddy shelves and their …

Late Cretaceous climate changes recorded in Eastern Asian lacustrine deposits and North American Epieric sea strata

C Wang, RW Scott, X Wan, SA Graham, Y Huang… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Cretaceous climate data of the long-lived Cretaceous Songliao Basin (SB) in eastern Asia is
correlated and compared with the Western Interior Seaway (WIS) on the northern American …

Basic building blocks and process variability of a Cretaceous delta: internal facies architecture reveals a more dynamic interaction of river, wave, and tidal processes …

MR Gani, JP Bhattacharya - Journal of Sedimentary …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Although delta-building processes and the resultant facies and facies associations have
been studied for over a century, there remains a lack of well-documented facies architectural …

Searching for modern Ferron analogs and application to subsurface interpretation

JP Bhattacharya, RS Tye - 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A quantitative approach to selecting modern-depositional settings analogous to those of the
Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone is presented as well as an approach to using these analogs …

The Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Crotone Basin (southern Italy): interplay between sedimentation, tectonics and eustasy in the frame of Calabrian Arc migration

M Zecchin, M Caffau, D Civile, S Critelli… - Earth-Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Crotone Basin is the exposed part of a larger Neogene forearc basin developed in the
Ionian Sea in the frame of the SE-ward migration of the Calabrian Arc, which led to the …

Detailed facies analysis of the Upper Cretaceous Tununk Shale Member, Henry Mountains Region, Utah: Implications for mudstone depositional models in …

Z Li, J Schieber - Sedimentary Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Lower-Middle Turonian strata of the Tununk Shale Member of the greater Mancos
Shale were deposited along the western margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway …