Print this pageAbstract: The Wagon Rock Project: An Interdisciplinary Characterization of Sand-Rich, High-Density Turbidity Current Deposits of the “Merle Formation,” Northern Santa Lucia Range, California
ANDERSON, KAI S., THOMAS A. HICKSON, JULIET G. CRIDER, BRAD D. RITTS, SCOTT YOUNG, LISA LAMB, PER A. AVSETH, ANDREW D. HANSON, CARI JOHNSON, RANIE LYNDS, ELIZABETH L. MASON, PAGE STITES, ZOLTAN SYLVESTER, BRITT ARGOW, TODD GREENE, CARLOS FONSECA, KURT FRIEHAUF, ANGELA HESSLER, JUSTIN HOLL, KAREN HYUN, JING LI, MARJORIE LUCKS, LAURA WEBB; Geological & Environmental Sciences, Earth Systems, and Geophysics Departments, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
Summary
The Wagon Rock Project (WRP) is a study of the sedimentology and structure of a sand-rich portion of the Cretaceous-Paleocene deep-marine “Merle Formation” in the northern Santa Lucia Range, California. Measured stratigraphic sections, mapped photomosaics, and an electronic distance measurement device (EDM) and theodolite survey, provide the basis for creating a rectified 2-D cross section for the south face of Wagon Caves Rock (WCR).
The south face cross section is subdivided into 4 stratigraphic intervals characterized by internally consistent architecture and sedimentology. The uppermost unit may be a paleoseismite. The cross section also illustrates the distribution of the structural features that accommodated post-depositional strain in these strata. The documentation of this outcrop provides a database for calibrating numerical models of subsurface turbidite reservoirs.
AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90937©1998 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah