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Subject Index Subject index A Fold Belt 442 articulate shell 97 foreland basin 405, 406 aseismic ridges 390 A-subduction 370, 387, 390, 405, suture 421 ash 83, 85, 107, 113 450 Alps 310 assemblage biozone 99, 105, 106 abandoned channel 31 altimeter 14 Asteriacites 45 abandonment facies 85, 231, 287, Amazon Asterosoma 45 291 Basin 187, 332 Athabasca Oil Sands 87, 89 ABC index 219 cone 304 Athapuscow Aulacogen 383, 385 abrasion 98 American Stratigraphic Company Atlantic Absaroka sequence 330, 331 19, 58, 62, 243 coastal plain 281 absolute age 7 4 amino acid content 117 evaporite deposits 378 abyssal plain 86 ammonite 92, 95, 96, 98, 100, Ocean transform faults 414, Acadian orogeny 431, 433 108, 118, 120 417, 418 accretionary arc/prism 387, 393 analysis of variance, paleocurrent shelf 291 accretionary basin, forearc 387, 259 Atlin Terrane 436 394, 396 Andaman Sea 389, 399, 400, 401, atmosphere, Precambrian 455 accretionary terranes 403 attribute, facies 139, 143 basins 433-440 Andaman-Nicobar Ridge 306 aulacogen 380-384, 440, 442 British 434 Andean foreland basin 406 Austin Chalk 79 Cordilleran 434-440 Andes 403, 423 Australia 297 acme biozone 99, 102 andesite 387 collision with Indonesia 388, acoustic impedance 225 Andros Island 179 427 acritarch 54, 125 angiosperm pollen 100 continental interior 440 acrozone 102 Anglo Welsh Cuvette 433 divergent margins 373, 378, 379 active mantle hypothesis 372 anhydrite 86, 303 autocorrelation 356 Aegean Sea 401, 404 in geophysical logs 68, 69 autocyclic controls 178 aeromagnetic date, use of 9, 223 anions 66 automated contouring 78, Aeschnogomphus intermedius 47 anomalies, magnetic 5 243-247, 249 Afghanistan 427 anoxic Africa 252, 299 environment 159, 160 epeirogenic uplift 442 events 357 B age 107 Antarctic agglomerate 112 Continent 308 B-subduction 370, 387 Agulhas Basin 416, 419 Peninsula 399 backarc air photographs 80, 81, 151, 214 shelf 201 basin 387, 389, 390, 399-405 Alabama 29 anticlise 440 spreading 389, 390, 399-401, Alaska 29, 255 Antrimpos speciosus Munster 47 403-404 Alberta 88, 89, 220, 228, 243, Appalachians 265, 304 Baffin bay 372 298 Arabia 44 Bahama Bank, Platform 140, 143, Basin 405, 439 Arabian desert 443 152, 159, 234, 264, 294, Aleutian aragonite 98 297, 299, 301, 378 arc 389 arc Baikal Rift 431, 432 subduction complex 391 migration 389, 400 ball structure 21, 3 9 Alexander Terrane 436, 438, 439 orogeny 423-427 Ballantrae Ophiolite 395 Alexandria Canyon 305 sedimentary basins 3 71, Banda arc 388 algal mats 31, 1 7 5 384-408 Banks Island, Arctic Canada 10, algal mounds 297 archaeocyathid 44 29, 30, 39, 48, 240, 242, Algonquin Arch 325 Archean-Proterozoic boundary 125 262, 269 alizarin red-S 19 architecture, stratigraphic 22 3, Barrandian area 108 Allegheny Duck 353 229, 277-279 barrier island allocyclic controls 17 8 Arenicolites 45 cycle 179 alluvial depositional systems Argentina continental margin 419, facies 222, 231, 235, 286 280-284 420 facies model152, 177, 189-191 alluvial fan 230, 261, 278, 280, arid Barrierinhas Basin 416 422 climate 41 baselap 279 cycle 179 shorelines, facies models 191 basement 214 Alpine arkose 156, 445 basement control 235 clastic petrofacies 446, 448 arrival time 74 Basin and Range province 403, Fault, New Zealand 409, 414 arthropod 4 7 404 469 470 Subject index basin classification, tectonic block diagrams 2 71 Caledonian 368-371 body fossil 41, 44, 61, 77 terminal suture 431, 433 basin models, tectonic 3 71-444 bog iron ores 15 9 -Appalachian suture 421, 433 concept, tectonic 367-368 Bonaire 159 Calgary 59 Precambrian 448-455 bony fish 44 caliche see calcrete basin plain 230, 304 Book Cliffs I 37 California 44, 85, 173 depositional systems 310 Boothia borderland 413,414, 415 facies 86-87 Peninsula 51, 52 -type margins 411 facies models 200 Uplift 270 caliper log 67 bathymetry, invertebrate 174, 175 Boreal province 96 Canada, Cretaceous cycles Battery Point Formation 136, 262 Realm 95 355-356 Bay of Bengal 304, 431 Borneo 388 Canadaspis perfecta (Walcott) 47 beach accretion Bouguer anomaly 10, 234 Canadian Rocky Mountains 109 facies model 152 Bouma sequence 135, 149-150, Canadian Shield 442 sets 264 177, 223 Canadian Stratigraphic Service structures 190 hydraulic interpretation I 6 I, Ltd. 58, 62, 243 Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin 183, 164 Canterbury Plains 414 185, 216, 217, 382 in evaporites 182 Cape Fold Belt 416 Beaufort West 29, 33, 39, 51 bounce-marking 31 Capitan reef 43 bed (lithostratigraphic unit) 78, 79 boundaries, chronostratigraphic carbon dioxide 41 bedding 20, 60, 77 107, 108, 110-111 carbonaceous debris 157 interpretation of 160 boundary stratotype I 10, I 11 carbonate bedform 22 boundary undercurrents 200 bank 278, 292, 306 hierarchy 259-261 paleocurrents 265 buildup, 171, 179,294-295, stability fields 16 2 bounding surface, eolian 166, 16 7 297, 298, 299 bedload rivers 186 boundstone 43 -clastic depositional systems belemnite 100 Bowser Basin 436, 437, 439 292, 293 Belly River Formation 243 Bowser Lake Group 436 compensation depth 200, 402 Bengal Fan 306, 310, 388, 393, brachiopod 44, 48, 94, 95, 97, cycles 178, 179, 181, 182 399, 400, 431, 432 98, 100, 108, 109, 110 deep water 180 Benioff Zone 387, 389, 395 and sea level change 346, 347 deep water, facies models 196 benthonic Brahmaputra River 282, 306, 429, depositional systems 292-301 fauna 109, 120 431 facies models 194- I 97 habit 94 braided river 135, 187 petrology of 141, 142, 158-159 bentonite 112, 113 facies 230 platform 294 Benue Trough 384, 419 Brazil 289, 291, 293, 299 -producing organisms 172 Bering Sea 15 3 continental margin 382 ramp 294, 296, 297, 300 bias, in fossil collection 168, 169 stratigraphic cycles 332, 334 sand 264 Big Bend 409 breccia I 9 sediment classification 156-157 bimodal paleocurrents 16 3, bright-spot technique 225, 226 sediment gravity flow 1 96 262-264 brines, lacustrine 189 shelf 234, 294, 296 biocoenosis 97 Britain 92 shelf facies 218 biofacies accretion of 434 slope depositional systems 299, definition of 134 bromoform 238 301 interpretation of 167 -I 77 Brothers Peak Formation 439 Cardium Formation 292 biogeography 94-97 brush-marking 31 Caroline Trough 382 bioherm 61, 77, 219, 224, 298 bryozoa 44 cartoon 79 biostratigraphic data, use of I 0 buildup, carbonate 294-295, 297, casing cement 60 biostratigraphy 7 4, 89-106, 113, 298, 299 Catahoula Formation 283 114, 115, 118 Burgess Shale 44, 46 catastrophic sedimentation 15 I biostrome 43 Burgessochaeta setigera (Walcott) catastrophism and faunal change biotope 144 47 110 bioturbation 24, 45, 52, 115, 168 Burma 398, 399, 400, 401 cathode ray tube 245 biozone 54, 99-102, 106, 108, burrows 45, 51, 52 cations 66 109,110,113,118,120,144 Bylot Island, Arctic Canada 33 Catskill delta 107, 433 birdseye porosity I 77 bypass, sediment 278 caving 12, 58, 62, 67 birdsfoot delta 269, 287 Ceara Basin 416, 418 Bismark transform fault 414 Central Graben 383 bituminous mudstone 85 c Central North American Rift 442 Black Sea 189, 440 Central Tertiary Basin, black shales, and divergent margins Cache Creek Terrane 436 Spitsbergen 416, 418 378 calcite 98 centripetal Blake Plateau 379, 384 calcrete 31, 33, 157, 160 flow 304 Subject index 471 paleocurrent pattern 262 Plateau 442 North American 90, 296, 297, cephalopod 108 Cretaceous mesothem 354 330 Chad Basin 442, 443 Columbia Plateau basalts 403 Russian, 440, 441, 442 chalk 91, 101, 106, 197, 297 composite standard time unit I 04 uplift 297 Challenger Knoll 310 compressional arc 390, 392 cratonization 440 chamosite 160 computer Cretaceous time scale 121, 122 channel21, 25, 31, 33, 166, 233, graphics 245 crevasse splay 219, 222 257 mapping methods 242-248 crinoid 48 dipmeter plot 266 concurrent-range biozone 99, 100, cross section, stratigraphic 79, fills 214, 219 101, 109 249-256 fluvial 257 condensed sedimentation 98, 166 cross-lamination 21 tidal 257 conference, presentation at 51 crossbedding 21, 22, 29, 40, 60, chert 29, 55, 159 conglomerate 19 61, 256 chevron ripples 165 conodont 54, 55, 62, 97,108,109 classification of 22-24 chicken-wire structure 21 , 41 color of 321, 322 in dipmeter 233, 266-267 Chile 396 Consortium for Continental crossplots 68 Chondrites 45 Reflection Profiling 73, 368 CRT, see cathode ray tube chron 107, 116 constructed basin, forearc 396 crustacean 4 7 chronosome 83, 107 contact, lithostratigraphic 78 Cruziana 45, 175 chronostratigraphy 74, 75, contact matrix 148, 149 Cryptozoic 126 106-126 contaminants 60 crystal cast 21, 39, 41 development of 4 continental Curie point 111 chronozone 106, 107 rise 237 current rose diagrams 258, 259, Churchill Province 442 rise depositional systems 261 circum-Superior belt 453 304-310 curve shape 87 clast support (conglomerate) 19 shelf 278 cutbank 33 clastic dyke 39, 40 slope 31, 40 cyclic sedimentation 77, 177-185 clastic petrofacies 444-448 slope depositional systems analysis of 146-149 clastic petrographic mapping 304-310, 380 cyclothem 147, 348, 350, 351, 236-242 slope facies models 197 353, 358 clastic ratio 215 contour currents 304, 308 clastic ratio maps 271 paleocurrents 265 Climactichnus 45 contouring, automated 243-247 D climbing ripple 29, 166, 256 contourites 200, 308 clinoform 228-230, 278, 286, and sea level change 356 Dactylioceras 92 291' 292, 294, 306, 311 convergent margin 310 data files 78, 242-248 Clive reef 236 basins 3 71 , 3 84-408 computer processable 16 Clorinda 94, 346, 34 7 tectonics 385-391 management systems 244 cluster analysis 105, 139, 141, convolute bedding 21, 40 DDH, see diamond drill hole core 142, 144, 240 Cook Inlet 398, 399 Dead Sea 189 coal31, 66, 79, 82, 160, 188
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