Index

Aberdeen Member, Blackhawk Formation, Utah 209 Arctic, Palaeoaplysina-phyUoid algae, Greenland Acanthoceras athabascense 163 351-2 Acanthoceras jukesbrownei 14, 17-18, 277-9, 284 Atlantic Realm 279 A. jukesbrownei/C, naviculare Zone 13, 288, 289 zonal type 277 Acanthoceras plenus 279 Barremian, duration 217 Acanthoceras rhotomagense, as diagnostic marker 13, Barremian Glandasse Formation limestones 296-9 16, 271-2, 275, 277-8, 282, 284, 288 estimated sea-water calcite (ESC) 311 accommodation, defined 321 base level Actinocamax plenus/Pachydesmoceras denisonianum changes 42-3 Event 272 defined 37 dctinocamax primus Event 14, 15, 275-6, 278, 285-6 stratigraphic 39 aeolian systems 4-5 base profile Alberta, Foreland basin 159-91 concept 37, 38-43 Albian--Cenomanian boundary types of changes 41 Anglo-Paris Basin 283 edge effects 45-6 Beer, Devon 283 basinal settings excursion 18 biostratigraphy, interbasinal correlation 269-93 Mfinsterland 273-4 criteria for analysis 271 algae, Palaeoaplysina-phylloid algae, Greenland Beatton River 351-2, 357, 361-2 outcrop sections 168-9 alluvial environment palaeogeography 172-4 changes in accommodation space 39 panoramas 182-3 degradation 45 sandstones 172, 173, 174-9, 182-3 graded river 38 sequence stratigraphy interpretations 184, 185 sequence stratigraphy 43-6 Beckwith Plateau 208, 210, 211 alluvial sediments Beer, Albian-Cenomanian boundary 283 graded river 38 Beer Head Limestone 280, 282-3 sequence stratigraphy 37-49 belemnites see Actinocamax primus Event Alps, Western, Vercors carbonate platform 299 Belper Lawn coal 228, 231,236 Alton coal 228 Bil~i-Hora Formation, Turonian 251,253 Amdrup Land, Greenland, carbonate platform 347-65 biostratigraphy, Plio-Pleistocene, Gulf of Mexico 65- geological setting 347-51 72 Kap Jungersen 2 Sequence 352-63 bioturbation, Zoophycus 357 Ammobaculites gravenori 163 Bjzrnoya 347-8 ammonites, zonation 270 Blacldaawk Formation, Utah, Late Campanian Grassy Amphidonte Event 18, 272, 277, 278 Member 194, 207-20 Anglo-Paris Basin Blackstone Formation 162 biostratigraphy 280-2 Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 247-68 carbon correlations, Cenomanian to Turonian 11- depositional units and boundaries 254-63 24 parasequence vs high frequency sequence geological setting 279-80 boundaries 263-6 interbasinal correlations 289-91 lithofacies and geometries 252 location map 280 location map 248 section descriptions 282-5 Lusatian Fault Zone 247, 248 Anthracoceras marine band, Pennine Basin 224-8 methods and terminology 251-4 Anthracoceras sequence 242 parasequences 254-63 occurrence and faunal content 225 Pecinov section, sequence stratigraphy 251 stratigraphy 224 regional framework 247-51 Apache Canyon, Texas, cross-sections 331,333, 342 summary and discussions 263-4 Appalachian Basin, Breathitt Group, (Pennsylvanian), Bohemian Massif 247 sequence stratigraphy 195 Book Cliffs, Utah, Blacldaawk Formation 207-20 Aquitaine Basin Boreal Realm 279-80 geological setting 285-7 Boulonnais Basin 283 interbasinal correlations 289-91 Breathitt Group, (Pennsylvanian) location map 285 expression of interfluvial sequence boundaries section descriptions 287-8 193-206 sequence stratigraphy 286 regional settings, examples 194-204 Arcente, Muleshoe Mound, Sacramento Mountains summary and conclusions 204-5 326-8, 338 Brent Group, East Shetland Basin 87-113, 11 5-28 368 INDEX

acronym BRENT 116 Cassian, Triassic Sella Platform, Dolomites, Italy 330 crossflow analysis 126-7 Castlegate Formation, Utah 209 geological models 116-18 cathodoluminescence method 299-307 lithofacies and depositional environments 90-102 Cenomanian, Lower to Middle management, implications for 110 Aquitaine Basin 287 reserves 115 biostratigraphy 270-1 reservoir models and flow simulations 118-25 carbon isotopes 11-24 sequence analysis 105-8 interpretation and link with sea-level 19-21 facies architecture 109 Middle Cenomanian event I 15-17 summary and discussions 125-6 Middle Cenomanian event II 17-18, 21 type log 89 other mid-Cretaceous carbon excursions 18-19 see also Broom, Etive, Ness, Rannoch and Tarbert Dunvegan Alloformation 159-91 Formations; Cormorant Field interbasinal correlation 269-93 British Columbia, Dunvegan Alloformation 159-91 lithological and faunal markers 14 Brokeoff Mountains, New Mexico, San Andres and location map 12 Grayburg Formations 332, 333, 341 Lower Cenomanian excursions I-III 18-19 Broom Formation, type log 89 sequence stratigraphy interpretations 14-15 Bruneval I Hardground 283 boundaries/onlap surfaces 14-15 bryozoan--crinoid build-ups, Arctic 352 Cenomanian Marls 271 B~ren Cenomanian, Middle to Upper Middle Cenomanian correlation 277 Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 247-68 Upper Cenomanian correlation 276 Peruc-Korycany Formation 249-51 sea-level rises 248-9 Turrilites costatus 271-2 calcite Cenomanian Transgression 271 estimated sea-water calcite (ESC) 311 Chondrites Event 279 fluid inclusion analysis 308--9 Cirque d'Archiane, Vercors carbonate platform, SE Calycoceras asiaticum 278 France 296-320 Calycoceras naviculare Zone 13, 15, 282, 287 platform-flank A. jukesbrowne/C, naviculare Zone 13, 288 paragenesis 307 Calycoceras sp. 276 sections 298, 300-2 Campanian, Late, Book Cliffs, Utah 207-20 platform-top Canada paragenesis 302-7 Dunvegan Alloformation 159-91 sections 297, 300 Oceanic Anoxic Event 20 Clair Basin, structural setting 142 carbon isotopes 11-24 Clair Group (Devonian), hierarchical stratigraphic analysis, paragenetic sequence stratigraphy 311 cycles 139-57 organic carbon accumulation 20, 21 location and structural setting 140 Vercors carbonate platform 311-17 seismic profile 146 carbonate platforms stratigraphy 141-54 evolution, cycle of sea-levels 329 facies associations 141-50, 151 lagoonal/restricted shelf 355 units I-VI 141-50, 151 models of compaction 321-45 summary 154 common stratal patterns 322 synthesis 153 compaction-induced subsidence 322, 324 triangular plots of detrital mineralogy 149 differential compaction 323 upper and lower division 142 silicidastic, North Greenland 347-65 Clare, County Vercors, SE France 295-320 fluvio-deltaic systems 25-35 carbonates maximum and initial flooding surfaces 33 biogenic accumulation 20 Cleveland Basin, carbon correlations, Cenomanian to compaction 324-8 Turonian 11-24 burial, and porosity evolution 325-6 Coal Canyon, Blackhawk Formation, Utah, logs 210 as primary control on depositional evolution coals tion 321-45 accumulation, transgressive intervals 21 discussion 340-2 Alton coal 228 production and sea-level 328-30 Belper Lawn coal 228, 231,236 sequence stratigraphy and compactionally Coal Canyon, Blackhawk Formation, Utah 210 'enhanced' uncomformities 330-3 Haddix Coal 196-7 examples 333-40 Pennine Basin 223, 236-8 see also carbonate platforms Pot Clay coal 227, 230, 236-8 Carboniferous, Upper Ringinglow Coal 238 fluvio-deltaic systems, County Clare 25-35 compaction, conceptual model 321-45 North Greenland 347-65 compaction-induced subsidence 322 Rough Rock Group, Pennine Basin 221-46 deposition and compaction, Sacramento Mountains, INDEX 369

Muleshoe Mound 326-8 Dunvegan Alloformation, Canada 159-91 differential compaction 322-3 allomembers 161-75 Cormorant Field, Brent Group 8%113, 115-28 mapping boundaries 175 Block I, North Viking Graben, map and cross- definitions 163 section 88, 101 falling stage and lowstand systems, hypothetical Block III, well logs 116-17 development 177-80, 187 geological setting 116 location map 160 incised valley regional setting and study area 159-61 sequence analysis 105-8 sequence stratigraphy 175-83 sequence architecture 101,105-8 highstand systems tract 183 location map 88 incised valleys 180-2 reservoir models of permeability 118-25 shoreface sandstones 176 north-dipping models 121-4 transgressive systems tract 182-3 south-dipping models 124-5 stratigraphy 161-75 sequence analysis 105-8 bio- and chronostratigraphy 163 sequence stratigraphy 117 well logs, dip sections 164-5, 166, 167 sequence-based correlation style, and reservoir Durrenstein lowstand wedge 333 behaviour 115-28 well management strategy 121 Cracken Edge, Pennine Basin 229 Crawshaw Sandstone, Pennine Basin 227-34, 236 East Midlands oilfield 221,222 Cretaceous East Midlands Shelf 221-2, 223 Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 247-68 carbon isotopes, correlations 11-24 Vercors carbonate platform, SE France 295-320 coals 236-8 see also Cenomanian incised valley fill dimensions 232 crossflow analysis 126-7 location map 12 Cumbria, W, Dinantian to Namurian 336 'new' marine band, occurrence and faunal content Cunningtoniceras inerme Zone 18, 275 225--8 cyclothems East Shetland Basin see Shetland fluvio-deltaic systems 26-7 Edale Gulf, Pennine Basin 227 Millstone Grit cyclicity 221-2 Eider field 88 Czech Republic, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 247-68 cores 96, 97, 106 facies and sequence architecture 98 type log 89 electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), element depositional architecture, Cumbria, W, Dinantian to abundances 299 Namurian 336 Elkhorn, Upper Elkhorn 1 and 2 coal seam interval, Desert Member, Blackhawk Formation, Utah 209 Betsy Layne 197-202 Desmoinesian, Goosenecks, Paradox Basin 334, 335 England Devon, Beer, Albian-Cenomanian boundary 283 Anglo-Paris Basin 279-85 Devonian, Clair Group, hierarchical stratigraphic Beer Head Limestone 280, 282-3 cycles 139-57 Cleveland Basin 11-24 Diablo Mountains, Texas 331, 341 Cumbria 336 Dinantian to Namurian, Cumbria, W, depositional East Midlands Shelf 12, 221-2, 223 architecture 336 Pennine Basin 221-46 dip reversal, reservoir models of permeability, north Essen Greensands 271 and south-dipping models 121-5 Etive Formation, Brent oillield dixoni Event see Mantelliceras Zone incised valley-floor 102-5 Dolomites, Italy, Triassic Sella Platform 330, 333 near-shore marine 96-102 dolomitization, Vercors carbonate platform 314--15 permeability values 97 Dona Ana, Muleshoe Mound, Sacramento Mountains strand plain 99-100 326-8, 338 sub-facies, influence on reservoir quality 95, 100-2 Doonlicky Sandstone, incised valley fills 27, 30-3 type log 89 Dorset, Eggardon Grit 280 see also Rannoch-Etive Dover-Folkestone, Middle Cenomanian correlation Eucalycoceras pentagonum Zone 277 Cenomanian, Upper boundary 271-2, 277 drainage basin E. pentagonum/C, naviculare Zone 282 base level 37, 42-3 E. pentagonum/I, pictus Zone 278 channel form 44-5 eustatic cycle charts, validity 1-2 dominance and order of changes 43 evaporites, Arctic 356 local disturbances 46 extensional rift basins position of coast 42 sequence stratigraphy model 129-37 subsidence or uplift 41 theoretical variations 130 susceptibility to changes in base profile 46 Exxon models, shelf-slope break 3 370 INDEX flooding surfaces Grayburg Formation, Brokeoff Mountains, New maximum, defined 66, 183 Mexico 332, 333, 337 maximum flooding-downlap surfaces, criteria for Greenland analysis 271 Amdrup Land, carbonate platform, lower and sequence boundaries, reservoir sequences 52-5 Moscovian 347-65 Florida, sea-level rise/fall 53 East Greenland Fault Zone 348 Floy Canyon, Blackhawk Formation, Utah Greensands, England 280 interfluve sequence boundary 216 Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, Last Chance logs 210 Canyon 334, 337 fluid inclusion analyses 308-9 Gulf of Mexico, Plio-Pleistocene 65-86 fluvial aggradation 43-4 biofacies maps 81 fluvio-deltaic systems biostratigraphy 65-72 Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 247-68 chronostratigraphy 78 County Clare, surfaces and systems tracts 25-35 sea-level rise/fall 53, 80 Folkestone, see Anglo-Paris Basin, Cenomanian to sediment accumulation rates 67 Turonian wire-line logs 56 Fontaine Columbette marls, Cirque d'Archiane 297- see also Texas exploration areas 307 Four Corners outcrop, Hazard 194 fourth-order sequences, Dunvegan AUoformation, Haddix Coal 196-7 Canada 159-9 l Harewood Grange, Permine Basin 223, 225-7 France sedimentary log 233 Anglo-Paris Basin 11-24, 279-85, 289-91 Haslingden Flags, Pennine Basin 229, 230, 242-3 Aquitaine Basin 285-91 Hatch Mesa, Utah 211 Vercors carbonate platform 295-320 Hazard Fulmar Formation, North Sea Central Graben 132-6 Hazard-Francis coal interval 202-4 Magoflin Shale member interfluve 194-7 Hercynian Saurland Massifs 271 Gainsborough Trough, Pennine Basin 229 hierarchical stratigraphic cycles, non-marine Clair Galveston South, Texas exploration areas, Gulf of Group 139-57 Mexico 68, 69, 70 high resolution sequence stratigraphy gamma ray logs 'base profile' concept 37-49 definition 25 carbon isotopes 11-24 portable spectrometry, County Clare 25-35 conceptual model: compaction 321-45 Gastrioceras marine bands 223--4, 224-8 controversial aspects 3 G. cancellatum 223-4, 233, 235, 238-9 extensional basins, model for HR sequence G. cumbriense 223-4, 226, 233, 239-42 stratigraphy 129-37 G. subcrenatum 223--4, 231,242 future prospects Germany, Miinster Basin 271-9 aeolian systems 4-5 Glandasse Formation, limestones 296-9 extensional basins 5 estimated sea-water calcite (ESC) 296-9 impact of correlation style 11 5-28 Glauconitic Marl 18-19, 283 lithology prediction 2 gleysols 204 terminology 37-8 Globigerinoides rnitra 76 Holm Land block 348, 349 Globoquadrina altispira depositional cycle 78, 82 Horse Canyon, Utah 214-15 Globorotalia inflata 75 Huddersfield sub-basin 223--4 Globorotalia menardii 75, 76 incised valley fill dimensions 232 Gondwanaland, Carboniferous, ice cap cyclicity 222 'new' marine band, occurrence and faunal content Goosenecks, Paradox Basin, San Juan River, Utah 225 334, 335 Hyalinea balthica 77 graded profile, defined 37 graded river 38 Grassy Member, Book Cliffs, Blacldaawk Formation, incised valleys Utah 207-20 Blackhawk Formation, Utah 211-18 incised valley fills 211-18 Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 247-68 interfluve sequence boundaries 218 Cormorant Field, Brent Group 88, 101,105-8 isometric diagram 219 Etive Formation 102-5 location map 208 Goosenecks, Paradox Basin, Utah 334, 335 sequence stratigraphy 208-11 Rough Rock Group, Pennine Basin 221--46, 229-35 tectonic controls 218 Inoceramus atlanticus Zone 278 Gray Canyon, Blackhawk Formation, Utah L atlanticus/L schoendorfi Zone 276, 277, 278 isopach map 212 Inoceramus crippsi Zone 272, 273, 274 logs 210 Inoceramus pictus pictus 274, 277 strike section 213 Inoceramus schoendorfi Zone 275 INDEX 371

Inoceramus schoendorfi/L atlanticus boundary 276-7 palaeogeographic reconstruction 348 lnoceramus tenustriatus 275 Muleshoe Mound, Sacramento Mountains, Inoceramus virgatus Zone 18-19, 274, 275, 283 compaction 326-8, 338 lnoceramus virgatus/Schloenbachia Event 14, 275 MUnster Basin intertluvial sequence boundaries 5 Albian--Cenomanian boundary 273-4 Breathitt Group (Pennsylvanian) 193-206 biostratigraphy 271-2 Ireland, County Clare, fluvio-deltaic systems, Upper carbon correlations, Cenomanian to Turonian Carboniferous 25-35 11-24 Italy carbon isotopes 11-24 carbon correlations, Cenomanian to Turonian 12 correlation of Upper Cenomanian 273 Triassic Sella Platform, cross-section 330 geological setting 271 interbasinal correlations 289-91 location maps 12, 272 Jukes-Browne's Bed 14, 284 section descriptions 272-9 see also Acanthoceras jukesbrownei sequence stratigraphy 274 Jurassic, Middle, Brent Group, East Shetland Basin 87-113 Jurassic, Upper, Fulmar Formation, North Sea Namurian Central Graben 132-6 basins and blocks, n. England 223 Clare Basin, Ireland 25-35 incised valley fills 234-5 Kap Jungersen 2 Sequence, Greenland, carbonate Rough Rock Group, Pennine Basin 221-46 platform 352-63 Neocardiocerasjuddii Event 279, 281-2, 285-6 depositional environments 352-61 Neohibolites ultimus/Aucellina Event 272, 273 depositional evolution 361-3 Neostlingoceras carcitanense Zone 271,283 internal architecture 358 Ness Formation, Brent oilfield summary and discussion 363-4 back-barrier/lagoon 100 time span 361 near-shore facies stacking patterns 100-2 Kaskapau Formation 162 near-shore marine 96-102 Kenilworth Member, Blackhawk Formation, Utah parasequences 54 209 type log 89 Kentucky, Breathitt Group (Pennsylvanian) 193-206 Nether Heage, Pennine Basin 226, 227-8 Kilkee Sandstone 27 sedimentary logs 234, 235 Kim Fjelde 349 New Mexico Kimmeridgian Formation 287 Brokeoff Mountains, San Andres and Grayburg kink zone 341 Formations 332, 333 Guadalupe Mountains, Last Chance Canyon 334, 337 La Sarthe, Lamnay Hardground 283 Pennsylvanian Pedernal Shelf 333-4 Last Chance Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New New Zealand, Maul field, correlation of wells 55, 58, Mexico 334, 337 59, 60 lithology prediction, value of sequence stratigraphy 2 Normandy Basin 281 Longuville Hardground 283 North America Lower Saxony Basin, Cenomanian to Turonian 11-24 Cenomanian, palaeogeography 160 Lusatian Fault Zone, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 247, Western Interior Seaway 160 248 North Sea, Central Graben, Upper Jurassic Fulmar Formation 132--6 North Viking Graben, Middle Jurassic Brent Group, Magoffin Shale member interfluve 194-7 East Shetland 87-113 Maine Platform 281,283, 284 Cormorant Block I, map and cross-section 88, 101 Mancos Shale, Horse Canyon, Utah 215 Eider field 88 Mantelliceras Zone 270, 282 Tern field 88 M. dixoni Zone 13-16, 275, 283 see also Shetland M. mantelli Zone 272-3, 282-3 Norwegian Barents Shelf 347 MARS, reservoir models of permeability 118 Mesaverde Group, Utah 207 Metoicoceras geslinianum Zone 14, 15, 251, 264, 279, Oceanic Anoxic Event 20 285, 290 oil recovery, OOIP and OH) 122, 126 Millstone Grit Series, Rough Rock Group, Pennine Orbirhynchia Event 14, 18 Basin 221--46 Orbitolina 287 Mississippian, Muleshoe Mound, Sacramento Owd Bert's Horizon 238 Mountains 326-8, 338, 340 Oxfordian, North Sea Central Graben 129-37 Moscovian carbonate platform, Greenland 347-65 oxygen isotopes, Vercors carbonate platform 311-17 372 INDEX

Palaeoaplysina-phylloid algae, Greenland 351-2, 357, see also Cormorant Field 361-2 Rauhe bank, Bftren 279 palaeosols Redmires Flags, Pennine Basin 224, 233 gleysols 204 reservoir sequences 51-63 interfluve 235--6 age measurements 55-6 interfluvial sequence boundaries 5, 204 flooding surfaces, and sequence boundaries 52 Paradox Basin, San Juan River, Utah 334, 335 fluid and rock property measurements 56-9 parasequences laterally extensive surfaces 52-5 Bohemian Cretaceous Basin 254--63 models defined 254 application of physical measurements 51-63 erosion, causes 264 MARS 118-20 fluvial setting 263 permeability, dip reversal 121-5 vs high frequency sequence boundaries 263--6 sequence stratigraphy-based well-log recognition, in fluvial setting 263 correlations 11 5-28 terminology 175-6 simulations, Rannoch-Etive 117-26 Paris basin, location map 280 reflection seismic measurements 59-61 Peace River 161 reservoir pressure measurements 59 outcrop sections 168-9 seismic attributes and geometries 59 palaeogeography 172-4 Rhenish Massif 271 sandstones 172, 173, 179-80 Rhynchostreum suborbiculatum minor 288 sequence stratigraphy interpretations 184 rift basin, example (North Sea Central Graben) 132-6 Peary Land block 349 Ringinglow Coal 238 Pecinov Member and quarry, Bohemian Cretaceous rivers see alluvial sediments; drainage basin; fluvio- Basin 247-68 deltaic systems sequence stratigraphy 251 Rona Ridge, location and structural setting 140 Pennine Basin Rossendale sub-basin coals 223 incised valley fill dimensions 232 geological setting 221-2 'new' marine band 223-4 Rough Rock Group 221-46 occurrence and faunal content 225 Pennsylvanian Rotalipora cushmani 278 Breathitt Group 193-206 Rotalipora greenhornensis 279 Pedernal Shelf, New Mexico 333-4 Rotplfiner 279 permeability barriers, reservoir models 115-28 Rough Rock Group, Pennine Basin 221-46 Perronerie Hardground 283 dip cross-section 227 Peruc-Korycany Formation geological setting 221-2 Middle to Late Cenomanian 249-51 lateral variation 229 parasequences 254-63 location map 222 physical measurements, application to reservoir palaeogeographic reconstruction 240-2 models 51-63 palaeogeography, changes and sequence stacking pictus Event see lnoceramus pictus pictus pattern 242-3 Planktonic-Benthonic Break 283 sedimentology 229 platform settings, criteria for analysis 271 sequence stratigraphy 229-43 Plenus Bank 279 coals 236-8 Plio-Pleistocene, Gulf of Mexico 65-86 framework 238-43 Pot Clay coal 227, 230, 236-8 incised valley fills 229-35 Profusinella Zone 351 interfluve palaeosols 235-6 Pseudoemiliania lacunosa 76 marine bands 238 Puffin Terrace and Fault, North Sea Central Graben stratigraphy 223-9 North Sea 132-3, 134 strike cross-section 226 Pycnodonte Event 15, 17-18, 272, 277, 278

Sables Hardground 283 Raibl Formation, Dolomites, Italy 330, 333 Sacramento Mountains, Muleshoe Mound, Rannoch Formation, Brent oilfield 90-6, i 15-28 compaction 326-8, 338 delta front 93-6 Sagers Reservoir 210 ebb tidal-delta 90-3 Salt Valley Anticline, Utah 217, 218 lower shoreface 90 San Andres Formation, Brokeoff Mountains, New reservoir models and well-log correlations 115-28 Mexico 332, 333, 337 type log 89 San Juan River, Utah, Paradox Basin, Goosenecks see also Rannoch-Etive 334, 335 Rannoch-Etive Sand Rock Mine coal 230 northward progradation of shoreline 116 Saurland Massifs, Hercynian 271 sequence stratigraphy vs lithostratigraphy 117-21 Saxony, Lower Saxony Basin, Cenomanian to reservoir simulation results 121-6 Turonian 11-24 INDEX 373

Scheldt estuary 263 sequence analysis 105-8 Schloenbachia/virgatus Event 14-15, 275, 276, 277 Tethyan, Southern European Tethyan Realm 270, 279, Scout Moor Quarry, Pennine Basin 223 287 sea-levels Texas accommodation 321 Apache Canyon, cross-sections 331, 333 carbonate production 328-30, 328--30 Diablo Mountains 331,341 effect of variations in subsidence 131-2 Texas exploration areas, Gulf of Mexico 66-86 falls, redeposition of pelagic sediment 328 biofacies maps 81 Gulf of Mexico 53, 80 biostratigraphy 65-72 interbasinal correlation 269-93 correlations 73 model of sequence stratigraphy within extensional calibration of depositional cycles 75-6 basins 129-37 current research 82-3 relative, influence on facies and reservoir geometry East Breaks 71 87-113 N-S seismic reflection profile 76 and shoreline orientation 130 Galveston South 68, 69, 70 seismic measurements, reflection 59-61 High Island S Addition area, seismic reflection seismic sections, hinge zone 341 profile 77 Sclla Platform, Sierra Diablo 333, 337 map 66 sequence boundaries palaeogeographic maps 78-82 criteria for analysis 271 pattern correlation 72 and flooding surfaces 65--6 Plio-Pleistocene chronostratigraphy 78 reservoir sequences 52 prograding clinoforms 77 lowstand sediments in rift basins 131-2 regional cycle chart 76--8 Shaftesbury Formation 162 sea-level drop 53, 80 Shetland Basin, East, Jurassic, Middle, Brent Group systems tract analysis 72-5 87-113, 115-28 Thalassinoides 183 Shetland Basin, West, Clair Basin, location and Thelignay-Lamnay, Maine Platform 281,283, 284 structural setting 140 transgressive surfaces shingles, defined 163 criteria for analysis 271 shoreline orientation, and sea-level change 130 defined 66 silica, biogenic accumulation 20 Triassic Sella Platform, Dolomites, Italy 330 siliciclastic influenced carbonate platform, Greenland Trimosina denticulata 77 347-65 Tullig Sandstone 27-30 spectrometry, gamma ray logs, County Clare 25-35 Turonian Spee.ton, Cleveland Basin, Cenomanian to Turonian Bil~i-Hora Formation 251,253 11-24 carbon isotopes and sequence stratigraphy 11-24 Spine Fault, location and structural setting 140 sea-level changes 271 Spitsbergen 347-8 Turrilites costatus Spring Canyon Member, Blackhawk Formation, Utah Cenomanian, Middle 14, 272, 288 209 7". costatus/T, acutus 284 Stoliczkaia dispar Zone 19, 282, 283 Tusher Canyon, Blackhawk Formation, Utah 213 Stub Canyon, Utah 211 subaerial exposure unconformities, Vercors carbonate platform 295-320 Upper EUdaorn 1 and 2 coal seam interval, Betsy discussion 309-16 Layne 197-202 geological and stratigraphic setting 299-302 USA see Gulf of Mexico; New Mexico; Texas; Utah methods 299 Utah paragenetic sequence 302-7 Blackhawk Formation 194, 207-20 fluid inclusion analyses 308-9 Castlegate Formation 209, 209 geochemical analyses 307-8 San Juan River, Paradox Basin, Goosenecks 334, sequence stratigraphic implications 316--17 335 Sunnyside Member, Blackhawk Formation, Utah 209 Sego Canyon, wire-line logs 57 Svalbard 347-8 Straight Cliffs Formation, analogue for Rannoch- systems tracts Etive sequence stratigraphy 125-6 falling stage and lowstand 187 highstand 183 interfluvial sequence boundaries 193-206 Variscan Orogeny 271 terminology 176 Vercors carbonate platform, SE France, subaerial transgressive, marine 182-3 exposure unconformities 295-320 virgatus/Schloenbachia Event 14-15, 275 Vocontian Trough 20 Tarbert Formation, Brent oiltield, type log 89 Tern Field, Brent Group cores 104 Watinoceras coloradoense Zone 279, 282, 285 374 INDEX

Wedekindellina Zone 351 Yeadonian, Rough Rock Group, Pennine Basin 224 well-log correlatiom, reservoir models 115-28 Yucca Mound, Pcnnsylvanian Pedemal Shelf 333--4 Western Interior Seaway, North America 160 Western Paris basin, location map 280 Westphalian A, Crawshaw Sandstone 231 Zechstcin salt 133 wire-line logs Zoophycus, bioturbation 357 Gulf of Mexico 56 Sego Canyon, Utah 57 Wfinstorf, Lower Saxony Basin, Cenomanian to Turonian 11-24