KINNEYIA-TYPE WRINKLE STRUCTURES ON SANDSTONE BEDS: NOT MICROBIALLY INDUCED BUT DEFORMATION FEATURES CAUSED BY SYNSEDIMENTARY EARTHQUAKES

A category of wrinkle structures, often termed Kinneyia structure or Runzel marks, comprises bedding plane features consisting typically of anastomosing, low-relief, flat-topped ridges with intervening depressions. Topographic relief is usually less than a millimeter. They are locally common on the...

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Published in:	Palaios Vol. 36; no. 10; pp. 313 - 325
Main Author:	Pratt, Brian R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Society for Sedimentary Geology 01-10-2021
Subjects:	Alberta Baltic region Belt Supergroup burrows Cambrian Canada Castle Wildland Provincial Park clastic rocks Eastern Canada Emerson Formation erosion Estonia Europe Grimsby Sandstone Gros Ventre Formation Hamilton Ontario Kunda Estonia Lower Silurian Mesoproterozoic Middle Cambrian Montana Ontario paleoseismicity Paleozoic Precambrian Proterozoic sandstone scour sed rocks, sediments Sedimentary petrology sedimentary rocks sedimentary structures Silurian soft sediment deformation Tiskre Formation United States upper Precambrian Western Canada wrinkle structures Wyoming
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