GEUS Bulletin no 5.pmd

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Triassic Pelion Fm Lower sandstone unit Spath Plateau Mb 56 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 F M C Mud Sand Gr Pelion Fm Payer Dal Fm Bernbjerg Fm Spath Plateau Mb Ugpik Ravine Mb 250 240 230 ? 220 210 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 130 No exposure F M C Mud Sand Gr GEUS Bulletin no 5.pmd 56 29-10-2004, 11:14 Cretaceous Bernbjerg Fm m 360 350 340 330 260 No exposure No exposure F M C Mud Sand Gr

Sedimentary structures Biota Structureless Trough cross-bedding Planar and trough cross-bedding Structureless Planar and trough cross-bedding Faint ripple form sets Cross-lamination Wave ripple cross-lamination Faint ripple form sets Wave ripple cross-lamination Hummocky cross-stratification Parallel lamination Pebbles Mudstone drapes and clasts Plant fragments Log Bivalve Ammonite Belemnite Miscellaneous features Palaeocurrent direction Orientation of wave ripple crest Facies associations Upper shoreface with Hope, a Lower–Middle Callovian sandy succession, c. 190 m thick, overlying the Lower Triassic Wordie Creek Formation is referred to the Pelion Formation (Fig. 5). The succession is divided into two units. The lower unit is 30–40 m thick and consists of medium- to coarse-grained sandstones topped by silty, fine-grained sandstones. The upper unit is up to 155 m thick and differs from the clean sandstones that typify the for- Lower–middle shoreface Offshore – lower shoreface Offshore Trace fossils Bioturbation weak Bioturbation moderate Bioturbation strong Diplocraterion Monocraterion Ophiomorpha Planolites Curvolithos Helminthopsis? Chondrites GEUS Bulletin no 5.pmd 57 29-10-2004, 11:14 Fig. 5. Composite sedimentary section of the Middle–Upper Jurassic succession at Gulelv (Locality 3). The section was compiled from five part-sections located in a north–south direction along Gulelv (Figs 2, 6). Modified from Larsen et al. (1998). mation by containing abundant sandy heteroliths interbedded with cross-bedded sandstones and is included in the Spath Plateau Member (Fig. 5). The lower sandstone unit and the Spath Plateau Member are described and interpreted separately below; the latter member is defined formally as a new member of the Pelion Formation. 57

Sedimentary structures<br />

Biota<br />

Structureless<br />

Trough cross-bedding<br />

Planar and trough cross-bedding<br />

Structureless<br />

Planar and trough cross-bedding<br />

Faint ripple form sets<br />

Cross-lamination<br />

Wave ripple cross-lamination<br />

Faint ripple form sets<br />

Wave ripple cross-lamination<br />

Hummocky cross-stratification<br />

Parallel lamination<br />

Pebbles<br />

Mudstone drapes and clasts<br />

Plant fragments<br />

Log<br />

Bivalve<br />

Ammonite<br />

Belemnite<br />

Miscellaneous features<br />

Palaeocurrent direction<br />

Orientation of wave ripple crest<br />

Facies associations<br />

Upper shoreface<br />

with Hope, a Lower–Middle Callovian sandy succession,<br />

c. 190 m thick, overlying the Lower Triassic Wordie<br />

Creek Formation is referred to the Pelion Formation<br />

(Fig. 5). The succession is divided into two units. The<br />

lower unit is 30–40 m thick and consists of medium- to<br />

coarse-grained sandstones topped by silty, fine-grained<br />

sandstones. The upper unit is up to 155 m thick and<br />

differs from the clean sandstones that typify the for-<br />

Lower–middle shoreface<br />

Offshore – lower shoreface<br />

Offshore<br />

Trace fossils<br />

Bioturbation weak<br />

Bioturbation moderate<br />

Bioturbation strong<br />

Diplocraterion<br />

Mo<strong>no</strong>craterion<br />

Ophiomorpha<br />

Pla<strong>no</strong>lites<br />

Curvolithos<br />

Helminthopsis?<br />

Chondrites<br />

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29-10-2004, 11:14<br />

Fig. 5. Composite sedimentary section<br />

of the Middle–Upper Jurassic succession<br />

at Gulelv (Locality 3). The section<br />

was compiled from five part-sections<br />

located in a <strong>no</strong>rth–south direction<br />

along Gulelv (Figs 2, 6). Modified from<br />

Larsen et al. (1998).<br />

mation by containing abundant sandy heteroliths interbedded<br />

with cross-bedded sandstones and is included<br />

in the Spath Plateau Member (Fig. 5). The lower sandstone<br />

unit and the Spath Plateau Member are described<br />

and interpreted separately below; the latter member is<br />

defined formally as a new member of the Pelion Formation.<br />

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