References for the Late Cambrian project

A. Geological background and geological maps of central Nevada and western Utah

1. Check out the geological maps close to Hot Creek Range, Tonopah; Ely area; Quinn Canyon Range between Ely and Tonopah; and the House Range area west of Delta, Utah;

2. Read the handouts given in Sept. 3 about the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the sections in those areas;

3. Also check the references related to the regional geology of these areas.

The following provides some references related to the general sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, sedimentary cycles, and the isotopes related to the SPICE and along karstic unconformities in general. You don't need to read all these in one semester, but pick some of them that may be of your interests.

B. Sedimentary facies and stacking patterns of carbonate platforms

Catuneanu, O., Abreu, V., Bhattacharya, J.P., Blum, M.D., Dalrymple, R.W., Eriksson, P.G., Fielding, C.R., Fisher, W.L., Galloway, W.E., Gibling, M.R., Giles, K.A., Holbrook, J.M., Jordan, R., Kendall, C.G.S.C., Macurda, B., Martinsen, O.J., Miall, A.D., Neal, J.E., Nummedal, D., Pomar, L., Posamentier, H.W., Pratt, B.R., Sarg, J.F., Shanley, K.W., Steel, R.J., Strasser, A., Tucker, M.E., and Winker, C., 2009, Towards the standardization of sequence stratigraphy: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 92, p. 1-33.

Van Der Kooij, B., Immenhauser, A., Steuber, T., Hagmaier, M., Bahamonde, J.R., Samankassou, E., and Merino Tome, O., 2007, Marine Red Staining of a Pennsylvanian Carbonate Slope: Environmental and Oceanographic Significance: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 1026-1045.

Garcia-Hidalgo, J.F., Gil, J., Segura, M., and DomiNguez, C., 2007, Internal anatomy of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate platform: the Late Cenomanian-Mid Turonian at the southern margin of the Spanish Central System: Sedimentology, v. 54, p. 1245-1271.

Barnaby, R.J., and Ward, W.B., 2007, Outcrop Analog for Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Ramp Reservoirs--Stratigraphic Hierarchy, Facies Architecture, and Geologic Heterogeneity: Grayburg Formation, Permian Basin, U.S.A: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 34-58.

Schwarz, E., Spalletti, L.A., and Howell, J.A., 2006, Sedimentary response to a tectonically induced sea-level fall in a shallow back-arc basin: the Mulichinco Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Sedimentology, v. 53, p. 55-81.

Rankey, E.C., Riegl, B., and Steffen, K., 2006, Form, function and feedbacks in a tidally dominated ooid shoal, Bahamas: Sedimentology, v. 53, p. 1191-1210.

Macneil, A.J., and Jones, B., 2006, Sequence stratigraphy of a Late Devonian ramp-situated reef system in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: dynamic responses to sea-level change and regressive reef development: Sedimentology, v. 53, p. 321-359.

Braaksma, H., Proust, J.N., Kenter, J.A.M., Drijkoningen, G.G., and Filippidou, N., 2006, Sedimentological, Petrophysical, and Seismic Characterization of an Upper Jurassic Shoreface-Dominated Shelf Margin (the Boulonnais, Northern France): Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 175-199.

Vandeginste, V., Swennen, R., Gleeson, S.A., Ellam, R.O.B.M., Osadetz, K., and Roure, F., 2005, Zebra dolomitization as a result of focused fluid flow in the Rocky Mountains Fold and Thrust Belt, Canada: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 1067-1095.

Rasmussen, E.S., and DybkjaeR, K., 2005, Sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Oligocene-Lower Miocene of eastern Jylland, Denmark: role of structural relief and variable sediment supply in controlling sequence development: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 25-63.

Porta, G.D., Kenter, J.A.M., and Bahamonde, J.R., 2004, Depositional facies and stratal geometry of an Upper Carboniferous prograding and aggrading high-relief carbonate platform (Cantabrian Mountains, N Spain): Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 267-295.

Paul M. Myrow, L.T.B.A.B.C.J.F.T.R.L.R., 2004, Flat-pebble conglomerate: its multiple origins and relationship to metre-scale depositional cycles: Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 973-996.

Fan, D., Li, C., and Wang, P., 2004, Influences of Storm Erosion and Deposition on Rhythmites of the Upper Wenchang Formation (Upper Ordovician) Around Tonglu, Zhejiang Province, China: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p. 527-536.

Chow, N., and George, A.D., 2004, Tepee-shaped agglutinated microbialites: an example from a Famennian carbonate platform on the Lennard Shelf, northern Canning Basin, Western Australia: Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 253-265.

De Wet, C.B., Frey, H.M., Gaswirth, S.B., Mora, C.I., Rahnis, M., and Bruno, C.R., 2004, Origin of meter-scale submarine cavities and herringbone calcite cement in a Cambrian microbial reef, Ledger Formation (U.S.A.): Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p. 914?23.

Baas, J.H., van Kesteren, W., and Postma, G., 2004, Deposits of depletive high-density turbidity currents; a flume analogue of bed geometry, structure and texture: Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 1053-1088.

Bauer, J., Kuss, J., and Steuber, T., 2003, Sequence architecture and carbonate platform configuration (Late Cenomanian-Santonian), Sinai, Egypt: Sedimentology, v. 50, p. 387-414.

Rankey, E.C., 2002, Spatial patterns of sediment accumulation on a Holocene carbonate tidal flat, Northwest Andros Island, Bahamas: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 591-601.

Jiang, G., Christie-Blick, N., Kaufman, A.J., Banerjee, D.M., and Rai, V., 2002, Sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Infra Krol Formation and Krol Group, Lesser Himalaya, India: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 524-542.

Azeredo, A.C., Wright, V.P., and Ramalho, M.M., 2002, The Middle-Late Jurassic forced regression and disconformity in central Portugal: eustatic, tectonic and climatic effects on a carbonate ramp system: Sedimentology, v. 49, p. 1339-1370.

Glumac, B., and Walker, K.R., 2000, Carbonate deposition and sequence stratigraphy of the terminal Cambrian grand cycle in the Southern Appalachians, U.S.A: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 952-963.

Lehmann, C., Osleger, D.A., and Montanez, I., 2000, Sequence stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-Albian) carbonate platforms of northeastern Mexico; regional and global correlations: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 373-391.

C. Carbonate cycles and stacking patterns

Bosence, D., Procter, E., Aurell, M., Bel Kahla, A., Boudagher-Fadel, M., Casaglia, F., Cirilli, S., Mehdie, M., Nieto, L., Rey, J., Scherreiks, R., Soussi, M., and Waltham, D., 2009, A Dominant Tectonic Signal in High-Frequency, Peritidal Carbonate Cycles? A Regional Analysis of Liassic Platforms from Western Tethys: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 79, p. 389-415.

Conrad, C.P., and Husson, L., 2009, Influence of dynamic topography on sea level and its rate of change: Lithosphere, v. 1, p. 110-120.

Burgess, P.M., 2008, The nature of shallow-water carbonate lithofacies thickness distributions: Geology, v. 36, p. 235-238.

Moucha, R., Forte, A.M., Mitrovica, J.X., Rowley, D.B., Qu, S., Simmons, N.A., and Grand, S.P., 2008, Dynamic topography and long-term sea-level variations: There is no such thing as a stable continental platform: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 271, p. 101-108.

Spence, G.H., and Tucker, M.E., 2007, A Proposed Integrated Multi-Signature Model for Peritidal Cycles in Carbonates: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 797-808.

Benedictis, D.D., Bosence, D.A.N., and Waltham, D., 2007, Tectonic control on peritidal carbonate parasequence formation: an investigation using forward tectono-stratigraphic modelling: Sedimentology, v. 54, p. 587-605.

Burgess, P.M., 2006, The Signal and the Noise: Forward Modeling of Allocyclic and Autocyclic Processes Influencing Peritidal Carbonate Stacking Patterns: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 962-977.

Beavington-Penney, S.J., Wright, V.P., and Racey, A., 2006, The Middle Eocene Seeb Formation of Oman: An Investigation of Acyclicity, Stratigraphic Completeness, and Accumulation Rates in Shallow Marine Carbonate Settings: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 1137-1161.

Colombi? C., and Strasser, A., 2005, Facies, cycles, and controls on the evolution of a keep-up carbonate platform (Kimmeridgian, Swiss Jura): Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 1207-1227.

Anderson, E.J., 2004, The cyclic hierarchy of the 'Purbeckian' Sierra del Pozo Section, Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian), southern Spain: Sedimentology, v. 51, p. 455-477.

Wilkinson, B.H., Merrill, G.K., and Kivett, S.J., 2003, Stratal order in Pennsylvanian cyclothems: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 115, p. 1068-1087.

Elrick, M., and Snider, A.C., 2002, Deep-water stratigraphic cyclicity and carbonate mud mound development in the Middle Cambrian Marjum Formation, House Range, Utah, USA: Sedimentology, v. 49, p. 1021-1047.

Tipper, J.C., 2000, Patterns of Stratigraphic Cyclicity: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 1262-1279.

Hampson, G.J., 2000, Discontinuity surfaces, clinoforms, and facies architecture in a wave-dominated, shoreface-shelf parasequence: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 325-340.

Wilkinson, B.H., Diedrich, N.W., Drummond, C.N., and Rothman, E.D., 1998, Michigan hockey, meteoric precipitation, and rhythmicity of accumulation on peritidal carbonate platforms: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 1075-1093.

Wilkinson, B.H., Diedrich, N.W., and Drummond, C.N., 1996, Facies successions in peritidal carbonate sequences: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66, p. 1065-1078.

D. Sequence boundaries and related features

Neal, J., and Abreu, V., 2009, Sequence stratigraphy hierarchy and the accommodation succession method: Geology, v. 37, p. 779-782.

George, A.D., Chow, N., and Trinajstic, K.M., 2009, Syndepositional fault control on lower Frasnian platform evolution, Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Australia: Geology, v. 37, p. 331-334.

Theiling, B.P., Railsback, L.B., Holland, S.M., and Crowe, D.E., 2007, Heterogeneity in Geochemical Expression of Subaerial Exposure in Limestones, and Its Implications for Sampling to Detect Exposure Surfaces: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 159-169.

Skotnicki, S.J., and Knauth, L.P., 2007, The Middle Proterozoic Mescal Paleokarst, Central Arizona, U.S.A.: Karst Development, Silicification, and Cave Deposits: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 1046-1062.

Immenhauser, A., Dublyansky, Y.V., Verwer, K., Fleitman, D., and Pashenko, S.E., 2007, Textural, Elemental, and Isotopic Characteristics of Pleistocene Phreatic Cave Deposits (Jabal Madar, Oman): Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 68-88.

Berra, F., 2007, Sedimentation in shallow to deep water carbonate environments across a sequence boundary: effects of a fall in sea-level on the evolution of a carbonate system (Ladinian-Carnian, eastern Lombardy, Italy): Sedimentology, v. 54, p. 721-735.

MacNeil, A.J., and Jones, B., 2006, Palustrine Deposits on a Late Devonian Coastal Plain--Sedimentary Attributes and Implications for Concepts of Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 292-309.

Kosa, E., and Hunt, D.W., 2006, Heterogeneity in Fill and Properties of Karst-Modified Syndepositional Faults and Fractures: Upper Permian Capitan Platform, New Mexico, U.S.A: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 131-151.

Sattler, U., Immenhauser, A., HillgARtner, H., and Esteban, M., 2005, Characterization, lateral variability and lateral extent of discontinuity surfaces on a Carbonate Platform (Barremian to Lower Aptian, Oman): Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 339-361.

Nielsen, P., Muchez, P., Heijlen, W., Fallick , T.A.E., Dominique, E., Keppens, W., and Swennen, R., 2005, Columnar calcites as testimony of diagenetic overprinting at the boundary between Upper Tournaisian dolomites and limestones (Belgium): multiple origins for apparently similar features: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 945-967.

Eliassen, A., and Talbot, M.R., 2005, Solution-collapse breccias of the Minkinfjellet and Wordiekammen Formations, Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard: a large gypsum palaeokarst system: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 775-794.

Burns, F.E., Burley, S.D., Gawthorpe, R.L., and Pollard, J.E., 2005, Diagenetic signatures of stratal surfaces in the Upper Jurassic Fulmar Formation, Central North Sea, UKCS: Sedimentology, v. 52, p. 1155-1185.

Tobin, K.J., and Driese, S.G., 2003, Echinoderm stabilization associated with a paleokarst surface at the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary in Tennessee, U.S.A: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 206-216.

Railsback, L.B., Holland, S.M., Hunter, D.M., Jordan, E.M., Diaz, J.R., and Crowe, D.E., 2003, Controls on Geochemical Expression of Subaerial Exposure in Ordovician Limestones from the Nashville Dome, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 790-805.

Cooper, J.D., and Keller, M., 2001, Palaeokarst in the Ordovician of the southern Great Basin, USA; implications for sea-level history: Sedimentology, v. 48, p. 855-873.

Charcosset, P., Combes, P.-j., Peybernes, B., Ciszak, R., and Lopez, M., 2000, Pedogenic and karstic features at the boundaries of Bathonian depositional sequences in the Grands Causses area (southern France); stratigraphic implications: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 70, p. 255-264.

Frank, T.D., and Bernet, K., 2000, Isotopic signature of burial diagenesis and primary lithological contrasts in periplatform carbonates (Miocene, Great Bahama Bank): Sedimentology, v. 47, p. 1119-1134.

George, A.D., and Powell, C.M., 1997, Paleokarst in an Upper Devonian reef complex of the Canning Basin, Western Australia: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p. 935-944.

E. Carbon isotopes of SPICE and related topics

 Kearsey, T., Twitchett, R.J., Price, G.D., and Grimes, S.T., 2009, Isotope excursions and palaeotemperature estimates from the Permian/Triassic boundary in the Southern Alps (Italy): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 279, p. 29-40.

Gill, B.C., Lyons, T.W., and Saltzman, M.R., 2007, Parallel, high-resolution carbon and sulfur isotope records of the evolving Paleozoic marine sulfur reservoir: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 256, p. 156-173.

Cramer, B.D., and Saltzman, M.R., 2007, Early Silurian paired δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg analyses from the Midcontinent of North America: Implications for paleoceanography and paleoclimate: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 256, p. 195-203.

Young, S.A., Saltzman, M.R., Bergstr?m, S.M., Leslie, S.A., and Xu, C., 2008, Paired δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg records of Upper Ordovician (Sandbian-Katian) carbonates in North America and China: Implications for paleoceanographic change: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 270, p. 166-178.

Saltzman, M.R., Cowan, C.A., Runkel, A.C., Runnegar, B., Stewart, M.C., and Palmer, A.R., 2004, The Late Cambrian SPICE δ13C event and the Sauk II-Sauk III regression; new evidence from Laurentian basins in Utah, Iowa, and Newfoundland: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p. 366-377.

Saltzman, M.R., Ripperdan, R.L., Brasier, M.D., Lohmann, K.C., Robison, R.A., Chang, W.T., Peng, S., Ergaliev, E.K., and Runnegar, B., 2000, A global carbon isotope excursion (SPICE) during the Late Cambrian; relation to trilobite extinctions, organic-matter burial and sea level: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 162, p. 211-223.

Saltzman, M.R., 1999, Upper Cambrian carbonate platform evolution, Elvinia and Taenicephalus zones (pterocephaliid-ptychaspid biomere boundary), northwestern Wyoming: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 69, p. 926-938.

Saltzman, M.R., Runnegar, B., and Lohmann, K.C., 1998, Carbon isotope stratigraphy of Upper Cambrian (Steptoean Stage) sequences of the eastern Great Basin; record of a global oceanographic event: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 110, p. 285-297.

Glumac, B., and Walker, K.R., 1998, A Late Cambrian positive carbon-isotope excursion in the Southern Appalachians; relation to biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, environments of deposition, and diagenesis: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 68, p. 1212-1222.

Aacute, lvaro, J.J., Bauluz, B., Sub, iacute, as, I., Pierre, C., Vizca, iuml, and no, D., 2008, Carbon chemostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician transition in a midlatitude mixed platform, Montagne Noire, France: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 120, p. 962-975.

Glumac, B., and Mutti, L.E., 2007, Late Cambrian (Steptoean) sedimentation and responses to sea-level change along the northeastern Laurentian margin: Insights from carbon isotope stratigraphy: Geological Society of America Bulletin, p. 623-636.

Pufahl, P.K., James, N.P., Kyser, T.K., Lukasik, J.J., and Bone, Y., 2006, Brachiopods in Epeiric Seas as Monitors of Secular Changes in Ocean Chemistry: A Miocene Example from the Murray Basin, South Australia: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 926-941.

Panchuk, K.M., Holmden, C.E., and Leslie, S.A., 2006, Local Controls on Carbon Cycling in the Ordovician Midcontinent Region of North America, with Implications for Carbon Isotope Secular Curves: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 200-211.

Hotinski, R.M., Kump, L.R., and Arthur, M.A., 2004, The effectiveness of the Paleoproterozoic biological pump: A δ13C gradient from platform carbonates of the Pethei Group (Great Slave Lake Supergroup, NWT): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 116, p. 539-554.

Overstreet, R.B., Oboh-Ikuenobe, F.E., and Gregg, J.M., 2003, Sequence stratigraphy and depositional facies of Lower Ordovician cyclic carbonate rocks, southern Missouri, U.S.A: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 421-433.

Immenhauser, A., Della Porta, G., Kenter, J.A.M., and Bahamonde, J.R., 2003, An alternative model for positive shifts in shallow-marine carbonate δ13C and δ18O: Sedimentology, v. 50, p. 953-959.

Meyer, K.M., and Kump, L.R., 2008, Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 36, p. 251-288.

Kump, L.R., Brantley, S.L., and Arthur, M.A., 2000, Chemical Weathering, Atmospheric CO2, and Climate: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 28, p. 611-667.

Kump, L.R., and Arthur, M.A., 1999, Interpreting carbon-isotope excursions; carbonates and organic matter: Chemical Geology, v. 161, p. 181-198.

F. Shale and Mudstone Sedimentology

 Schieber, J., and Yawar, Z., 2009, A new twist on mud deposition-mud ripples in experiment and rock record: The Sedimentary Record, v. 7, p. 4-8.

Schieber, J., and Southard, J.B., 2009, Bedload transport of mud by floccule ripples--Direct observation of ripple migration processes and their implications: Geology, v. 37, p. 483-486.

Schieber, J., 2009, Discovery of agglutinated benthic foraminifera in Devonian black shales and their relevance for the redox state of ancient seas: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 271, p. 292-300.

Schieber, J., Southard, J., and Thaisen, K., 2007, Accretion of Mudstone Beds from Migrating Floccule Ripples: Science, v. 318, p. 1760-1763.

Schieber, J., 1998, Possible indicators of microbial mat deposits in shales and sandstones: examples from the Mid-Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana, U.S.A.: Sedimentary Geology, v. 120, p. 105-124.

G. Methods

 Friedmen, G.M., 1959, Indentification of carbonate minerals by staining methods: Journal of Sedimentary petrology, v. 29, p. 87-97.