Tectonic control on sedimentation, erosion and redeposition of Upper Jurassic sandstones, Central Graben, North Sea - From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin - page 483

Facies S4: Upper Shoreface

Facies S5: Foreshore and coastal plain

Facies S2: Offshore
transition

Facies S3: Lower Shoreface

Fine to medium grained sandstones
with occasional relict stratification
and strong bioturbation. Low angle
discontinuities and scour-and-fill
structures occasionally observed.

Stratified sandstone with cross- and planar-
stratification and carbonaceous-rich
mudstone, ripple stratified sandstones and
thin coal beds - low preservation potential.

Very fine grained sandstones
with abundant horizontal
burrows.

Sandy mudstone to very
muddy sandstones showing
strong bioturbation.

Shoreface
progradation

Facies S1: Offshore

≈10m

Silty claystone or argillaceous
siltstone, sometimes calcareous,
ranging from well laminated to
highly bioturbated.

Ophiomorpha

Ophiomorpha +Skolithos

Palaeophycus, Teichichnus, Planolites, Te rebellina, Asterosoma, Macaronichnus
Chondrites, Helminthopsis,
Phycosiphon, Planolites, Te rebellina

Te rebellina, Chondrites,
Helminthopsis horizontalis

≈3 km

Fig. 6. Shoreface progradation model (after Gowland, 1996).