Document Type
Presentation
Document Subtype
Abstract
Presentation Date
9-22-2015
Conference Name
ESAAPG Eastern Section 44th Annual Meeting
Conference Location
Indianapolis, Indiana
Source of Publication
ESAAPG-2015-Circular-2015-2
Publisher
Eastern Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Place of Publication
Indianapolis, IN
Publication Date
2015
Volume
2015
Issue
2
Inclusive pages
43
Peer Review
No
Abstract
A series of cores drilled to a depth of ~400 ft from lower Kope Fm. (mid Katian) downward to the High Bridge Group (Sandbian) in the Cincinnati, Ohio area are a link between the Lexington Limestone and the Utica Shale in the Sebree Trough. One 300 foot interval was studied petrographically with 200 thin sections. Preliminary analysis suggests five microfacies: 1) organic, laminated, brown shale with 0.5-1 cm depositional units separated by single layer dalmanellid pavements; 2) calcareous shale to micrite with fine silt and 2-20 cm units; 3) Stacked dalmanellid pavements with siliciclastic mud and calcisiltite matrix, horizontally oriented, unbroken shells with spar or matrix filled articulated valves, units 0.5 – 20 cm thick; 4) Packstones showing a diversity of partially fragmented, randomly oriented brachiopods, bryozoans, and trilobites, some nonskeletal phosphate particles, infiltration structures and erosive bases; and 5) Grainstones, consisting of comminuted shells of a variety of fossils, with high phosphate content, and erosive bases. The 30 foot Logana (~260 – 290 ft) consists mostly of facies 1 with facies 2 and 3. The packstones and grainstones are largely restricted to the Curdsville (>290 ft) and the Grier (<260 >ft).There is no evidence of long distance transport of any clasts larger than silt sized, but packstones and grainstones appear to have been increasingly reworked in place with phosphate enrichment, reflecting longer exposure on the seafloor before burial. Hence, petrographic work permits distinguishing beds that record longer term reworking. Further work may permit delineation of small-scale cycles.
Disciplines
Earth Sciences | Paleontology | Sedimentology | Stratigraphy
Opus Citation
Collin Lambert, Benjamin F. Dattilo, Allison Young, and Carlton Brett (2015).
Microfacies of Curdsville through Grier beneath Cincinnati; characterizing the Utica –Lexington transition in the subsurface. ESAAPG-2015-Circular-2015-2.2015 (2), 43. Indianapolis, IN: Eastern Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists.Presented at ESAAPG Eastern Section 44th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.
https://opus.ipfw.edu/geosci_facpres/176
Included in
Paleontology Commons, Sedimentology Commons, Stratigraphy Commons
Link to Original Published Item
http://esaapg2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ESAAPG-2015-Circular-2015.pdf