Tidal Depositional Systems
Tidal Depositional Systems
An article by Wood, 2004 reviewed the dimensions of tidal sandbodies. It is good to give an overview of the dimensions. However, the drawback is that the source of the data for the measurements is not explicit.
Table with summary of RioMAR tidal analogs
| NAME, LOCATION | DEPOSITIONAL
ENVIRONMENT |
THICKNESS
(sandbodies)
|
LATERAL EXTENT/
GEOMETRY (sandbodies) |
BAFFLE/ BARRIER/ LITHOLOGIES/ THICKNESS | REFERENCES |
| Baronia Sst.
Eocene Ager Basin |
Shelf tidal dunes | 2-5 m | 100s m to few kms
Sheets formed on shingles |
Highly bioturbated muds and thin sst.
Meters thick |
Olariu et al. 2012 |
| Neslen Fm., Campanian, WIS | Tidal-fluvial channels | Up to 10 m | tens of meters to over 100m,
lenticular. Wedge geometries, IHS |
Meter thick coastal plain muds, coals.
Dm thick silts within the IHS. |
Olariu et al., 2015 |
| Lajas Fm., Jurrasic, Neuquen Basin | Shoreline clinoforms, subaqueous clinoforms? | Up to 4 meters | Tens to hundred of meters,
Bars and channels |
Thin bedded muds and silts | Rossi and Steel, 2016 |
| Lajas Fm. | Shoreline clinoforms, Subaqueous clinoforms? | 5-10 m thick bars | 100s of meters to kms. Wedge shape at large scale with erosional base or fining upward trends | Thin bedded mudstone and siltstone.
Locally highly bioturbated |
Steel et al., 2022 |
| Manzanilla Sst,
Pliocene Paleo-Orinoco |
Channels, Shoreline and subaqueous clinoforms | Up to 10 m (Ch and Sh)
20-30 m thin bedded sst |
No lateral exposures (tens of m channels?) | Mudstone bioturbated or with cm thick sandstones | Huggins, 2019 |
| Morne L’Enfer, Pliocene Paleo-Orinoco | Channels, Shoreline and subaqueous clinoforms | Up to 10 m (Ch and Sh)
20-30 m thin bedded sst |
No lateral exposures (10s to 100s m channels?) | Mudstone bioturbated or with cm thick sandstones | Chen et al., 2014 |
| Fox Hills | Channels and shoreline | 5 to 10 m channels | 100s of meters lateral extent | Olariu et al., 201x | |
| Haystacks | Shoreline and subaqueous clinoforms | Up to 10 m sst for shoreline.
20-30 m dm thick beds |
100s of m to kms lateral extent. | Siltstone with cm thick laminated beds | Mellere and Steel, xxx
Minor et al., xxx |
| Almond | Shoreline clinoforms | 5-10 m thick coarsening upward with 2-3 m thick sst t the top | Hundred of meters to kms | Siltstones | Leva-Lopez et al., xxx
German et al., xxx |
| Almond | Shelf bars | Up to 8 m thick sst. Cross-bedded or HCS | 100s of meters | Meters thick siltstones with cm thick beds and bioturbated | Leva-Lopez et al., xxx
German et al., xxx |
| Camel Head Mbr., Imperial Fm. | Shoreline and subaqueous clinoforms | Up to 5 m thick sst with cross-bedded sst. | 100s of meters to kms | Siltstone with cm thick rippled very fine sandstones | Rey et al., 20xx |