Determining "Ground Truth" in the New Jersey STRATAFORM Natural Laboratory
Abstract
The long-term goal is to understand the creation of preserved stratigraphy along continental terraces, by linking sedimentation processes to preserved sequence stratigraphy and facies architecture. As part of STRATAFORM, the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) and collaborators are continuing to integrate "nested" seismic data available off New Jersey with subsurface samples of various kinds, as they become available. This primary STRATAFORM goal remains elusive off New Jersey, because "ground-truthing" of seismic sequence boundaries and intervening facies by sampling at all relevant depths is as yet incomplete. The objectives are: 1) to study the history of sea-level change over the past ~35 Ma, and 2) to determine the effects of various depositional and erosional processes on the preserved continental margin sediment record, from the seafloor to subbottom depths of ~100 m.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA610003
Entities
People
- Craig S. Fulthorpe
- Hilary Olson
- James A. Austin Jr.
Organizations
- University of Texas at Austin