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 …

Architecture and history of uranium-bearing Palaeocene–Eocene strata deposited on the eastern margin of the Peri-Tethys (Chu-Sarysu Basin, south Kazakhstan)

A Dillinger, E Chanvry, Y Bolat, M Fustic - Sedimentary Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
Deciphering the facies and architecture of alluvial successions provides invaluable insights
into the interplay of tectonics, climate, eustasy, and autogenic processes affecting terrestrial …

Gzhelian cyclothem development in the western North China cratonic basin and its glacioeustatic, tectonic, climatic and autogenic implications

J Liu, D Cao, J Tan, Y Zhang - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gzhelian Ximing Sandstone–to–No. 8 Coal succession of the Taiyuan
Formation in the Linxing gas field and adjacent areas records the complex nested …

Coastal Depositional Responses to Relative Sea-Level Rise: Insights from a Superimposed Sandstone–Shale–Coal Reservoir in the Linxing Gas Field, China

J Liu, Y Zhang, J Tan - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Ximing Sandstone-to-No. 9 Coal succession of the Taiyuan Formation in the Linxing
gas field records a complex internal architecture of a transgressive succession developed in …

[HTML][HTML] Geochronology of reworked ash and its implications for accommodation space variations in distal foreland basins, McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada

SW Fietz, JL Crowley, JA MacEachern… - …, 2023 - oap.unige.ch
A bentonite bed consisting of reworked volcanic ash from the Barremian to Aptian lower
McMurray Formation is dated using chemical abrasion thermal ionization mass spectrometry …

Carbonate Stable Isotope Data Suggest Freshwater Environment for the McMurray Formation (Aptian), Alberta, Canada

F Hasiuk, A Wahbi, L González, M Blum, G Ludvigson - Geosciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Stable isotope, trace element, and cathodoluminescence analyses were performed on
gastropods and matrix from rock cores of the Middle to Upper McMurray Formation (Lower …

Recognizing genetically related depositional packages using 3D photogrammetric outcrop models in a fluvially dominated, tidally influenced meander-belt succession

Q Chen, J Kavanaugh, MK Gingras, MJ Ranger… - Sedimentary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fluvio-tidal estuary deposits are characterized by abundant channel-associated dunes,
compound dunes and point bar deposits. The delineation of boundaries between different …

Revised stratigraphic position of a volcanic-ash-derived maximum depositional age in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation

PR Durkin, L Rinke-Hardekopf - Bulletin of Canadian …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The stratigraphic framework developed for the McMurray Formation and Wabiskaw Member
of the Clearwater Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) provides a consistent nomenclature …

[PDF][PDF] Utilizing sedimentology and geochronology to resolve the architecture of paralic strata in low-accommodation systems, McMurray Formation, Canada

L Rinke-Hardekopf - 2021 - researchgate.net
A combined sedimentological-geochronological approach is employed to unravel the
importance of paleoenvironments landward of the shoreline in understanding the …

Fluvial character and architecture of an outcrop using sedimentology combined with UAV-based modeling, Cretaceous McMurray Formation, NE Alberta, Canada

DA Hayes, SE Botterill, MJ Ranger… - Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
It is widely accepted that most occurrences of inclined heterolithic stratification (IHS) in the
rock record form by laterally accreting point bars in freshwater fluvial, tidally influenced …