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MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.104967
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Clinothem-set pairs; Rollover trajectory; sequence stratigraphy; Time scale; Bohai Bay basin
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42072149]
- Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing [2462020YXZZ020]
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This study examines greenhouse aggradational to progradational clinothem pairs at different time scales in the Oligocene Qikou and Eocene Dongying sags in the Bohai Bay Basin. It highlights the importance of time scales in predicting sediment dispersal to deepwater and cautions against applying sequence stratigraphy mechanically in lacustrine basins.
Twenty-five 10(6) yr-scale and fifteen 10(5) yr-scale greenhouse aggradational to progradational clinothem pairs with rising-then-flat rollover trajectories were recognized in the Oligocene Qikou and Eocene Dongying sags in the Bohai Bay Basin. A comparison of them highlights the pivotal but underappreciated role of time scales on shelf-edge- or clinothem-based prediction of sediment dispersal to deepwater (i.e., different time scales involve different drivers of sediment dispersal to deepwater), drawing the attention of the pitfall of mechanically applying sequence stratigraphy to lacustrine basins. Over time scale of 10(6) yr, flat topset-to-foreset rollover trajectories and aggradational-progradational-degradational (APD) clinothem sets are all the predictors of the delivery of coarse-grained terrestrial sediments into deep-lake floors of the Eocene Qikou sag, as evidenced by the occurrence of aggradational bottomsets in front of them. Over time scale of 10(5) yr, rising topset-to-foreset rollover trajectories and aggradational-progradational (PA) clinothem sets are, in contrast, the proxy for sediment dispersal to lake-floor areas of the Eocene Dongying sag, as evidenced by the occurrence of aggradational clinoforms in front of them. On a longer time scale of 10(6) yr or more, tectonics and climates are greatly varied. Sediment dispersal to deepwater is then facilitated by the base-level falls, and is predicted by flat shelf-edge or rollover trajectories and PA clinothem sets. On a shorter time scale of 10(5) yr or less, only climates are highly variable. Sediment dispersal to deepwater is then facilitated by the lake-level rises (i.e., more humid climates), and is predicted by rising shelf-edge or rollover trajectories and APD clinothem sets.
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