1984
DOI: 10.1144/gsl.sp.1984.015.01.23
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Facies, facies-associations and sediment transport/deposition processes in a late Precambrian upper basin-slope/pro-delta,, Finnmark, N. Norway

Abstract: Summary The lower Naeringselva Member of the 2.5 to 3.5 km thick Båsnaering Formation varies from 60 to 540 m thick, and is part of the 9 km thick late Precambrian Barents Sea Group cropping out on Varanger Peninsula, north-east Finnmark, N. Norway. It is underlain by a minimum 3.2 km of submarine fan deposits and passes up into delta front and fluvio-deltaic deposits of the Båsnaering Formation. Within the lower Naeringselva Member (LNM) four main facies are recognized: parallel-laminat… Show more

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“…Graded sandstone and massive sandstone occur in a few horizons, constituting meter-thick sandy packets. This association of facies and the greater thickness of laminated muddy sediments are similar to that seen in channel-fill and overbank deposits in basin plain (Hesse and Dalton 1995), continental slope, or prodelta environments (Stow et al 1984;Pickering 1984). More detailed study is, however, needed for comprehensive interpretation.…”
Section: Geological Setting and Sedimentology Of The Osawa Formationsupporting
confidence: 58%
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“…Graded sandstone and massive sandstone occur in a few horizons, constituting meter-thick sandy packets. This association of facies and the greater thickness of laminated muddy sediments are similar to that seen in channel-fill and overbank deposits in basin plain (Hesse and Dalton 1995), continental slope, or prodelta environments (Stow et al 1984;Pickering 1984). More detailed study is, however, needed for comprehensive interpretation.…”
Section: Geological Setting and Sedimentology Of The Osawa Formationsupporting
confidence: 58%
“…Such layers are usually interpreted as subaqueous slump/slide deposits or as a variety of sedimentgravity-flow deposits originated by slope failure and following redeposition on the sediment surface (Cook 1979;Pickering 1982Pickering , 1984Myrow and Hiscott 1991;Maejima et al 1992;Tanaka et al 1992;Shanmugam et al 1994;Grimm and Orange 1997).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Scar House Beds delta is unusual because the density currents deposited their load relatively near the mouth bar area (as evidenced by direct transition from these deposits into mouth bar deposits). In most turbidite-fronted deltaic sequences, there are usually slope deposits between the density-current deposits and the delta-top deposits (for example Collinson, 1969;Chan & Dott, 1983;Pickering, 1984;Heller & Dickinson, 1985;Lundegard, Samuels & Pryor, 1985). Common to all these examples is that the delta systems seem to have built into relatively deep water.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They indicate deposition adjacent to an unstable slope and, in particular, the occurrence of rooted slump folds and stacked, imbricated slump sheets (see Fig. 6a) implies deposition in a base-of-slope setting (Mutti & Ricci-Lucchi, 1972;Chough, 1984;Pickering, 1984).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%