Rift Valley Basins and Sedimentary History of Trailing Continental Margins

Seismic stratigraphy of the Baltimore Canyon trough

“…18), the margin has seven main elements: 1) a rifted Whether Permian rocks exist under the Baltimore trough is not known, nor do we know how to distinguish them from the rocks in syntectonic rift-basins of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic age. Notwithstanding these minor differences, both margins appear to fit the models of Falvey (1974) and Kinsman (1975) for Atlantic-type margins, where a rift phase is followed by a broad subsidence phase. Falvey's model involves block faulting and accumulation of red beds and evaporite deposits (see Van Houten, 1977), and Kinsman's model involves subsidence and accumulation of a massive sedimentary prism over deposits of an earlier formed phase.…”

Diagenetic Reactions in Sandstones

“…The possibility of large scale upwards porewater flow from deeper strata is also reduced by the fact that the total thickness of the sedimentary sequences will normally be limited to 2-) km unless there is no further thinning of continental crust (Kinsman, 1975).…”

Structural framework, stratigraphy, and petroleum geology of the area of oil and gas lease Sale No. 49 on the U.S. Atlantic continental shelf and slope

“…I am not certain that these exist under the Balitmore Canyon Trough or how one would distinguish them from the syntectonic rift basins of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic age in the trough. Notwithstanding these minor differences, I think both margins fit the models of Falvey (1974) and Kinsman (1975) for Atlantictype margins having a rift phase followed by a broad subsidence phase. The rift phase involves block-faulting and accumulation of red beds and evaporite deposits (Van Houten, 1977), and the subsidence phase involves subsidence and accumulation of a massive sedimentary prism over deposits of the earlier formed phase.…”