Early Cretaceous evolution of the McMurray Formation: A review toward a better understanding of the paleo-depositional system

Y Peng, PR Durkin, HK Martin, DA Leckie… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation of the Western Canada Sedimentary
Basin has been the subject of numerous studies, with emphasis on its stratigraphic …

The significance of trace fossils in the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada

MK Gingras, JA MacEachern… - Bulletin of …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This paper considers the paleoecological and paleodepositional significance of bioturbated
channel-associated sands of the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada. The facies …

Earliest Cretaceous transgression of North America recorded in thick coals: McMurray sub-basin, Canada

L Rinke-Hardekopf, SE Dashtgard… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Strata of the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation in the McMurray Sub-Basin
(MSB) of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada, comprise marginal marine, tidal-fluvial, fluvial …

[HTML][HTML] Ichnotaxonomy of the Cambrian spence shale member of the langston formation, Wellsville Mountains, northern Utah, USA

SR Hammersburg, ST Hasiotis, RA Robison - Paleontological …, 2018 - BioOne
The Spence Shale of northern Utah is the oldest North American middle Cambrian (∼ 506–
505 Ma) Burgess Shale-type (BST) deposit and, unlike previously thought for BST deposits …

Resolving stratigraphic architecture and constraining ages of paralic strata in a low‐accommodation setting, Firebag Tributary, McMurray Formation, Canada

L Rinke‐Hardekopf, SE Dashtgard… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The McMurray Formation in McMurray Depocentre, Canada, is typically subdivided
into stratigraphic units based on regionally mappable marine mudstones, the bases of which …

Sedimentology, ichnology, and sequence stratigraphy of the Miocene Oficina Formation, Junín and Boyacá areas, Orinoco oil belt, eastern Venezuela basin

W Rodríguez, LA Buatois, MG Mángano… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Miocene Oficina Formation is widely distributed in the subsurface of the
Orinoco Oil Belt of eastern Venezuela. Despite its economic importance as one of the most …

[HTML][HTML] Application of grouped detrital zircon analyses to determine provenance and closely approximate true depositional age: Early Cretaceous McMurray …

L Rinke-Hardekopf, SE Dashtgard, C Huang… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Lower Cretaceous McMurray-Clearwater succession of the intracontinental
Alberta Foreland Basin, Canada, detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology samples (referred to …

From freshwater to fully marine: Exploring animal-substrate interactions along a salinity gradient (Miocene Oficina Formation of Venezuela)

EJ Solórzano, LA Buatois, WJ Rodríguez… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Venezuela has the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the world and most of these are within
the Orinoco Oil Belt. The Oficina Formation of the Orinoco Oil Belt and the Oritupano Field …

Sedimentary facies of a tide-dominated estuary and deltaic complex in a tropical setting: The middle Miocene Oficina Formation of the Orinoco Oil Belt, Venezuela

EJ Solórzano, LA Buatois, WJ Rodriguez… - Journal of South …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Although the middle Miocene Oficina Formation of the Orinoco Oil Belt represents
most of Venezuela's hydrocarbon resource, a comprehensive and detailed sedimentary …

Integrating facies analysis with dipmeter data to characterize point bars of the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Christina River, AB, Canada

Q Chen, A Shchepetkina, S Melnyk… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation contains crude bitumen reserves of the
Athabasca Oilsands that formed by channel amalgamation and lateral migration of fluvio …