High resolution sequence stratigraphy of late Mississippian carbonates in the Appalachian Basin

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dc.contributor.authorAl-Tawil, Ausen
dc.contributor.committeechairRead, James Fredricken
dc.contributor.committeememberEriksson, Kenneth A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBambach, Richard K.en
dc.contributor.committeememberGlover, Lynn IIIen
dc.contributor.committeememberDever, G. R. Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentGeological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:23:26Zen
dc.date.adate2008-12-15en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:23:26Zen
dc.date.issued1998-01-09en
dc.date.rdate2008-12-15en
dc.date.sdate2008-12-15en
dc.description.abstractThe late Mississippian carbonates in the Appalachian Basin, U.S.A., were deposited on a huge, south-facing ramp during long-term Mississippian transgression that formed the Mississippian supersequence. The St. Louis- to Glen Dean interval consists of up to twelve fourth-order depositional sequences (300 to 400 k.y. average duration). The sequences (a few meters to over a hundred meters thick) consist of eolianites, lagoonal carbonate muds, ooid shoals, and skeletal banks, and open marine skeletal wackestone and basinal marion the ramp-slope and basin margin. Sequence boundaries are at the top of prograding red-beds, eolianites, and shoal water facies on the ramp, and beneath lowstand sand bodies and quartzose calcisiltite wedges on the ramp margin and slope. Maximum flooding surfaces are difficult to map regionally, therefore it is difficult to separate the TST from the HST of these fourth-order sequences.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentxii, 109 leaves (4 folded)en
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-12152008-160353en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12152008-160353/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/40423en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
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dc.subjectMississippianen
dc.subjectAppalachian Basinen
dc.subjecttectonicsen
dc.subjectglacio-eustacyen
dc.subjectdisconformityen
dc.subjectsequence stratigraphyen
dc.subjectpaleosolen
dc.subjectcarbonatesen
dc.subjectpaleo-climateen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1998.A483en
dc.titleHigh resolution sequence stratigraphy of late Mississippian carbonates in the Appalachian Basinen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineGeological Sciencesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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