Normal wave base Normal wave base

DIAGRAMMATIC
CROSS SECTION
Strom wave base

Oxygenation level Salinity increases

37-45 ppm > 45 ppm

FACIES NUMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Basin Open shelf Toe of slope Foreslope Organic (ecologic) Sands on edge of Open platform Restricted platforms Platforms evaporites
(euxinic or (undaform) carbonates a) Bedded fine grain reef platform (normal marine, a) Bioclastic a) Nodular anhydrite
evaporitic) Open marine neritic sediments with a) Boundstone mass a) Shoal lime sands limited fauna) wackestone, and dolomite on
a) Fine clastics a) Carbonates slumps b) Crust on b) Islands with dune a) Lime sand bodies lagoon, and bays salt flats
b) Carbonates b) Shale b) Foreset debris accumulation of sands b) Wackestone - b) Litho-bioclastic b) Laminated
FACIES c) Evaporites and lime sands organic debris mudstone areas, sands in tidal evaporite in ponds
c) Lime mud and lime mud; bioherms channels
masses bindstone c) Area of clastics c) Lime mud-tide flats
c) Bafflestone Fine clastic units

Dark shale or silt, Very fossiliferous Fine grain Variable, depending Massive limestone - Calcarenite - oolite Variable carbonates Generally dolomite Irregularly laminated
thin limestones limestone interbed- limestone; cherty in on water energy dolomite lime sand or and clastics and dolomitic dolomite and
LITHOLOGY (starved basin); ded with marls; well some cases upslope; sedimen- dolomite limestone anhydrite, may grade
evaporites fill with segregated beds tary breccias and to red beds
salt lime sands
Dark brown, Gray, green, red, Dark to light Dark to light Light Light Dark to light Light Red, yellow, brown
COLOR black, red brown

Lime mudstones; Bioclastic and Mostly lime Lime silt and Boundstones and Grainstone well Great variety of Clotted, pelleted
fine calcisiltites whole fossil mudstone with bioclastic pockets of sorted; rounded textures; grainstone mudstone and
wackstone; some some calcisiltites wackstone - grainstone; to mudstone grainstone;
GRAIN TYPE
calcisiltites packstone packstone laminated
AND DEPOSITIONAL
lithoclasts of mudstone; coarse
TEXTURE
varying sizes lithoclastic
wackestone in
channel
Very even mm Thoroughly Lamination may be Slump in soft Massive organic Medium to large Burrowing traces Birdseye, stromato- Anhydrite after
lamination; burrowed; thin to minor; often sediments; foreset structure or open scale crossbedding; very prominent lites, mm lamina- gypsum; nodular,
BEDDING AND rhythimic medium; wavy to massive beds; bedding; slope framework with festoons common tion, gradded rosettes, chickenwire,
SEDIMENTARY bedding; ripple nodular beds; lenses of graded bioherns; exotic roofed cavities; bedding, dolomite and blades; irreguler
STRUCTURES cross lamination bedding surface sediment; blocks lamination contrary crusts on flats. lamination; carbonate
show diastems lithoclasts and to gravity Cross - bedded caliche
exotic blocks. sand in channels
Rhythmic beds
Quartz silt and Quartz silt, Some shales, silt, Some shales, silt, None Only some quartz Classtics and Clastics and Windblown, land
TERRIGENOUS
shale; fine grain siltstone, and shale; and fine grained and fine grained sand admixed carbonates in well carbonates in derived admixtures;
CLASTICS ADMIXED
siltstone; cherty well segregated siltstone siltstone segregated beds segregated beds clastic may important
OR INTERBEDDED
beds units
Exclusively Very diverse shelly Bioclastic dedritus Colonies of whole Major frame Worn and Open marine fauna Very limited fauna, Almost no indigenous
nektonic - pelagic fauna preserving derived principally fossil organisms building clonies abraidded coquinas lacking (e. g. mainly gastropods, fauna, except for
fauna preserved both infauna and from upslope and bioclastic with ramose forms of forms livinig at or echinoderms, algae, certain stromatolitic algae
chepalopods,
in local epifauna dedritus in pockets; in situ on slope; few foraminifera (e. g.
BIOTA brachiopods);
abundance on communities indigenous mollusca, sponges, miliolids) and
bedding planes dwelling in certain organisms forams, algae ostracods
niches abudant; patch reef
present