Stratigraphic evolution of an estuarine fill succession and the reservoir characterization of inclined heterolithic strata, Cretaceous of southern Utah, USA
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Abstract
Abstract This study documented the architecture of a paralic succession using outcrops of the Upper Cretaceous John Henry Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation, southern Utah (USA). The 65 m thick interval of interest includes a basal succession of elongate tidal bars, which sits unconformably on the Calico Bed of the Smoky Hollow Member. These barforms are overlain by carbonaceous estuarine bay fill with tidal deposits, a bayhead delta and, ultimately, a coastal plain succession. The estuarine succession demonstrates a decreasing tidal influence through time and this is interpreted to reflect evolution from a mixed-energy to a wave-dominated estuary as a result of the changing morphology of the estuary and/or the migration of barrier islands across its mouth. The regional correlations are also discussed, with implications for sequence stratigraphic interpretations. A detailed interpretation of the ancient bayhead delta highlights the internal architecture and provides data for statistical comparison between this feature, which is dominated by inclined heterolithic strata, and a previously published study of fluvial point bar inclined heterolithic strata. The results emphasize distinct grain size trends from these two examples, as well as differences in the continuity and spatial distribution of mudstone drapes, which act as both baffles and barriers to fluid flow.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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