Correlation and Provenance of Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Fluvial Strata, Utah, U.S.A., from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Petrography

Lawton, Timothy F.; Bradford, Beth A.

doi:10.2110/jsr.2011.45

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“…9D). The similarity of Kaiparowits and FarrerTuscher detrital zircon populations can be attributed to an upstream-downstream relationship between Kaiparowits and Farrer depositional systems (Lawton and Bradford, 2011). Field evidence for possible reworking of Kai parowits sand into the Flagstaff depositional system is hidden beneath the Marysvale volcanic fi eld (Fig.…”

Section: Colton In the Book Cliffs-roan Cliffs Column (B) Includesmentioning

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“…Sediment was delivered to the Cretaceous Sevier foredeep of the southern Cordilleran foreland basin both by transverse paleofl ow eastward off the Sevier thrust belt and by longitudinal paleofl ow northward from the Mogollon highlands transecting central Arizona (Lawton et al, 2003;Dickinson and Gehrels, 2008, 2010a, 2010bLawton and Bradford, 2011). The Sevier and Mogollon provenances yielded contrasting pre-arc detrital zircon populations.…”

Section: Sevier and Mogollon Provenancesmentioning

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“…Kaiparowits strata in the Table Cliff syncline constitute a distal fl uvial facies of meander belt and anastomosed alluvial deposits (Eaton et al, 1987;Goldstrand, 1992;Lawton et al, 2003;Roberts, 2007;Lawton and Bradford, 2011). Only the lowermost Kaiparowits Formation preserves any record of tidal infl uence on sedimentation from the Cretaceous interior seaway, and the bulk of the unit may have formed as a terminal fl uvial accumulation deposited rapidly within an incipient Laramide down-bowing on the site of the Table Cliff syncline.…”

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The fl uviodeltaic Colton Formation (Late Paleocene-Early Eocene) forms a lobate depositional system that prograded from the south into the Laramide Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah (United States) with a preserved sediment volume of ~3000 km 3 and a maximum thickness of ~1000 m. Joint consideration of detrital zircon ages, paleocurrent trends, and sandstone petrofacies permits an assessment of Colton provenance relations in the context of evolving Cretaceous-Paleogene sedimentation in the Utah foreland. Grains with U-Pb ages younger than 285 Ma derived from the Cordilleran magmatic arc form ~50% of the detrital zircons in arkosic Colton sand, and were transported ~750 km to the Uinta Basin from the Mojave segment of the arc by the California paleoriver. Colton sedimentation was the Paleogene culmination of a persistent pattern of Cretaceous sediment transport northward, subparallel to the Sevier thrust front, to supplement east-directed sediment delivery to the retroarc foreland from the Sevier thrust belt. The ratio of longitudinally to transversely derived sediment was enhanced in foreland strata after Laramide deformation produced intraforeland uplifts that screened the foreland belt from Sevier sources. The relative abundance of arc-derived detrital zircons that were contributed to strata of the Utah foreland increased in late Campanian time and remained high into Eocene time. Detrital zircon populations in Paleogene forearc strata of southern California are compatible with coeval derivation of arc-derived detritus in the forearc sands and the Colton backarc sand from a common paleodrainage divide crossing the Mojave region to connect hinterland Nevadaplano and Mexicoplano uplands to the north and south.

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Section: Colton In the Book Cliffs-roan Cliffs Column (B) Includesmentioning

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“…2b) (Horton et al 2004;DeCelles & Coogan 2006;Lawton & Bradford 2011), although the Castlegate Sandstone also contains some recycled Cretaceous grains (sample CP34 of Dickinson & Gehrels 2010). Shallow-marine strata of the Star Point Sandstone and Blackhawk Formation comprise wave-dominated deltaic shoreline sandstones (e.g.…”

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Towards a sequence stratigraphic solution set for autogenic processes and allogenic controls: Upper Cretaceous strata, Book Cliffs, Utah, USA

Hampson

2016

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Upper Cretaceous strata exposed in the Book Cliffs of east-central Utah are widely used as an archetype for the sequence stratigraphy of marginal-marine and shallow-marine deposits. Their stratal architectures are classically interpreted in terms of accommodation controls that were external to the sediment routing system (allogenic), and that forced the formation of flooding surfaces, sequence boundaries, and parasequence and parasequence-set stacking patterns. Processes internal to the sediment routing system (autogenic) and allogenic sediment supply controls provide alternatives that can plausibly explain aspects of the stratal architecture, including the following: (1) switching of wave-dominated delta lobes, expressed by the internal architecture of parasequences; (2) river avulsion, expressed by the internal architecture of multistorey fluvial sandbodies and related deposits; (3) avulsion-generated clustering of fluvial sandbodies in delta plain strata; (4) 'autoretreat' owing to increasing sediment storage on the delta plain as it lengthened during progradation, expressed by progradational-toaggradational stacking of parasequences; (5) sediment supply control on the stacking of, and sediment grain-size fractionation within, parasequence sets. The various potential allogenic controls and autogenic processes are combined to form a sequence stratigraphic solution set. This approach avoids anchoring of sequence stratigraphic interpretations on a specific control and acknowledges the non-unique origin of stratal architectures.

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“…Sediments were sourced from the Sevier Fold and Thrust Belt to the west and transported generally eastward across the > 1600 km wide, < 4800 km long (north-south elongate) Cordilleran foreland basin (Kauffman, 1977). Various magmatic arc terrains to the southwest may also have been Cretaceous sediment sources at times (Lawton and Bradford, 2011). The Cordilleran foreland basin fill is asymmetric in crosssection and thickens to the west due to tectonic loading of uplifted strata in the 8 Sevier Fold and Thrust Belt causing flexural subsidence that allowed a thick succession of Upper Cretaceous sediments to accumulate (Fig.…”

Section: Upper Cretaceous Sedimentary Rocks In the Book Cliffs And Thmentioning

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High Resolution Correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy Between the Book Cliffs and the Western Henry Mountains Syncline, Utah, U.S.A.

Seymour

Fielding

2013

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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Correlation and Provenance of Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Fluvial Strata, Utah, U.S.A., from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Petrography

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Towards a sequence stratigraphic solution set for autogenic processes and allogenic controls: Upper Cretaceous strata, Book Cliffs, Utah, USA

High Resolution Correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy Between the Book Cliffs and the Western Henry Mountains Syncline, Utah, U.S.A.

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