We examine patterns of occurrence of associated dinosaur specimens (n = 343) from the North American Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation and equivalent beds, by comparing their relative abundance in sandstone and mudstone. Ceratopsians preferentially occur in mudstone, whereas hadrosaurs and the small ornithopod Thescelosaurus show a strong association with sandstone. By contrast, the giant c...

Gamma ray logs are most useful in identifying subsurface lithology and interpreting depositional environments. This study highlights the use of outcrop gamma-ray along with observations total organic carbon (TOC) analysis to provide stratigraphic framework organic-rich rocks Huai Hin Lat Formation central Thailand. The reveals five sedimentary facies including (1) structureless sandstone, (2) s...

The Mishrif Formation is an important succession that was deposited during the Cenomanian–Early Turonian. More than 79 thin sections of core in addition to well log data for from 2 boreholes within E oilfield (E-1, and E- 2) were used determine different associations facies interpret depositional environment Formation. Six major microfacies diagnosed Formation, Mudstone, Wackestone, Packstone, ...

The Middlebury Formation is a Middle Ordovician limestone deposited on the margin of Laurentia during the collision of the Ammonoosuc Arc with Laurentia. Tectonic processes such as subsidence can have an effect on the forearc basin morphology such that the sedimentation in the basin is influenced and the stratigraphy will reflect such tectonic processes. The purpose of this study is to examine ...

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity has documented a section of fluvio-lacustrine strata at Yellowknife Bay (YKB), an embayment on the floor of Gale crater, approximately 500 m east of the Bradbury landing site. X-ray diffraction (XRD) data and evolved gas analysis (EGA) data from the CheMin and SAM instruments show that two powdered mudstone samples (named John Klein and Cumberla...

Massive red or gray mudstones make up much of the fine-grained sedimentary rocks of the Newark Supergroup. In fact, the upper third of most sedimentary cycles in the fine-grained facies of most Newark basins is massive mudstone (division 3 of Olsen, 1984). Massive mudstones have not, however, been studied or described nearly as fully as conglomerates, sandstones, and laminated shales. This lack...

In this paper, three rock types including Sandstone, Mudstone, and Crystalline Gypsum were part of a laboratory study conducted to develop a dataset for predicting the unconfined compressive strength of UAE intact sedimentary rock specimens. Four hundred nineteen rock samples from various areas along the coastal region of the UAE were collected and tested for the development of this dataset and...