Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA

ISBN-13: 9789401799058 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 355 str.

Michael Elliot Smith; Alan R. Carroll

Opis

This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world's foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to the Green River Formation
Michael Elliot Smith and Alan R. Carroll

2. Initiation of Eocene lacustrine sedimentation in the Greater Green River Basin: Luman Member of the Green River Formation
Brooke Ann Norsted, Alan R. Carroll, Michael Elliot Smith

3. Lacustrine sedimentology, stratigraphy and stable isotope geochemistry of the Tipton Member of the Green River Formation
Jennifer Walker Graf, Alan R. Carroll, Michael Elliot Smith

4. Stratigraphic Expression of Climate, Tectonism, and Geomorphic Forcing in an Underfilled Lake Basin: Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation
M. Elliot Smith, Alan R. Carroll and Jennifer J. Scott

5. Lake Type Transition from Balanced‐Fill to Overfilled: Laney Member, Green River Formation, Washakie Basin, Wyoming
Meredith K. Rhodes and Alan R. Carroll

6. Stratigraphy and Interbasinal Correlations between Fossil and the Green River Basin, Wyoming
H. Paul Buchheim, Roberto E. Biaggi, and Robert A. Cushman, Jr.

7. Sedimentology of the world class organic-rich lacustrine system, Piceance basin, Colorado
Kati Tänavsuu-Milkeviciene and J. Frederick Sarg

8. Mineralogy of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado
Jeremy Boak and Sheven Poole

9. Facies, stratigraphic architecture, and lake evolution of the oil shale bearing Green River Formation, eastern Uinta Basin, Utah
Morgan J. Rosenberg, Lauren P. Birgenheier, Michael D. Vanden Berg

10. Phosphatic carbonate shale of the "Bird's Nest Saline Zone", upper Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah
Dave Keighley

11. Evaporites of the Green River Formation, Bridger and Piceance Creek Basins: Deposition, Diagenesis, Paleobrine Chemistry, and Eocene Atmospheric CO₂
Elliot A. Jagniecki,  Tim K. Lowenstein

12. Trace fossils of the Eocene Green River lake basins, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado
Jennifer J. Scott, Michael Elliot Smith

Blurb

This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world’s foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic. Its twelve chapters encompass the rich and varied record of lacustrine stratigraphy, sedimentology, geochronology, geochemistry and paleontology. Chapters 2-9 provide detailed member-scale synthesis of Green River Formation strata within the Greater Green River, Fossil, Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins, while its final two chapters address its enigmatic evaporite deposits and ichnofossils at broad, interbasinal scale.