Multi-scale influence of topography on shallow-marine successions associated with long-term transgressions: from Argentinean outcrops to the Norwegian shelf subsurface

Abstract

Thick shallow-marine successions associated with longterm transgressions are less well known than their thin, well-sorted counterparts, more widely studied due to their potential to form good reservoirs. In these successions, particularly in storm-dominated examples, bioturbation can obliterate primary sedimentary characteristics, making stacking patterns and sequences difficult to define, and challenging our understanding of the main controls in their resulting depositional architecture.