The Sequence Stratigraphy Of The Richmond Strata (Late Ordovician) In The Tristate Area Of Ohio, Kentucky, And Indiana Derived From Outcrops, Cores, And Geophysical Logs.

Petersen, Daniel W.

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The Sequence Stratigraphy Of The Richmond Strata (Late Ordovician) In The Tristate Area Of Ohio, Kentucky, And Indiana Derived From Outcrops, Cores, And Geophysical Logs. Open Access Deposited

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The Richmond Group (Late Ordovician) in the tristate region of southwestern Ohio, north-central Kentucky, and southeastern Indiana consists of a succession of clastic and carbonate sediments deposited on a prograding intracratonic ramp and distal clastic fan. Six regional depositional facies have been delineated during a detailed examination of cores, outcrops, and geophysical logs across a 325 by 350 km study area. The facies, informally designated Facies A through F, are assigned to depositional environments consisting of: a shale-dominated shale distal intracratonic ramp; mixed carbonate and shale proximal intracratonic ramp; shallow subtidal to supratidal intracratonic ramp, and shallow-water, distal clastic wedge; based on their sedimentologic and paleontologic characteristics. Regional cross sections of these facies indicate that the distal clastic wedge prograded from the east and that the intracratonic ramp prograded from the south. In addition, isopach maps indicate that the depocenter of the basin was located southeastern Indiana and southwestern Ohio.

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