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- Title
Stratigraphy of the Lower Pierre Shale (Campanian): Implications for the Tectonic and Eustatic Controls on Facies Distributions.
- Authors
Bertog, Janet
- Abstract
The lower Pierre Shale represents a time of significant changes in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, resulting from complex interactions of tectonism and eustatic sea level changes. The recognition and redefinition of the units of the lower Pierre Shale has facilitated understanding of the dynamics of the basin. The Burning Brule Member of the Sharon Springs Formation is restricted to the northern part of the basin and represents tectonically influenced sequences. These sequences are a response to rapid subsidence of the axial basin and the Williston Basin corresponding to tectonic activity along the Absoroka Thrust in Wyoming. Unconformities associated with the Burning Brule Member record a migrating peripheral bulge in the Black Hills region corresponding to a single tectonic pulse on the Absoroka Thrust. Migration of deposition and unconformities supports an elastic model for the formation and migration of the peripheral bulge and its interaction with theW illiston Basin.
- Subjects
PIERRE Shale; WILLISTON Basin; STRATIGRAPHIC geology; SEA level; STRUCTURAL geology; CAMPANIAN-Maastrichtian boundary; GEOLOGICAL basins
- Publication
Journal of Geological Research, 2010, Vol 2010, p1
- ISSN
1687-8833
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2010/910243