The petrology and stratigraphy of the Reynolds Limestone Member of the Bluefield formation (Mississippian) in southeastern West Virginia / by Lisa Bailey Corbitt.
| Author/creator | Corbitt, Lisa Bailey author. |
| Other author | Neal, Donald W., degree supervisor. |
| Other author | East Carolina University. Department of Geology. |
| Format | Theses and dissertations |
| Production | 1986. |
| Description | 106 leaves, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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| Summary | The Reynolds Limestone Member of the Bluefield Formation is a thin (4 to 22 meters thick), extensive carbonate unit found throughout West Virginia. It is correlative, at least in part, with the driller's "Little Lime" and is a useful subsurface stratigraphic marker. Petrographic analysis indicates that the Reynolds Limestone Member is composed of three shoaling upward sequences. The lithologies in each sequence include, in ascending order, biomicrosparites (packstones) and biomicrosparrudites (packstones) rich in echinoderms, bivalves, brachiopods, and bryozoans; micrites (mudstones), argillaceous biomicrosparites (wackestones) and calcareous shales rich in peloids, brachiopods, bivalves, and gastropods; and dolostones or biolithites. The shoaling upward sequences developed on a broad, shallow shelf dominated by terrigenous clastic sediments. A rise in sea level resulted in the initiation of carbonate sedimentation. The subsequent development of shallowing upward sequences in any given area was dependent upon variations in water depth, subsidence, rate of terrigenous sediment influx and the change in topographic relief. Subsurface straigraphy demonstrates a topographic high perpendicular to the outcrop pattern in Fayette and Greenbrier Counties. This feature subdivides the study area into 2 sub-basins, affecting sedimentation and the development of the sequence in each area. Surface stratigraphy indicates that transitional sedimentation (dolostones or algal lithites) was restricted to the Clayton and Raines Corner sections, suggesting that the topographic high extended through Summers and Monroe Counties. |
| General note | "Presented to the faculty of the Department of Geology ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Geology." |
| General note | Advisor: Donald W. Neal |
| Dissertation note | M.S. East Carolina University 1986 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-82). |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Thèses et écrits académiques. |
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