Guy Plint
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis Pro
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Guy Plint, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis Professor of the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
The primary research of my group is focused on the Cretaceous rocks of the Western Canada foreland basin. Fundamentally, we are interested in understanding the processes (tectonism, eustatic change, sediment supply) that controlled deposition, erosion and depositional cyclicity. We have access to all public drilling records (well logs) for the basin, which allows construction of very detailed stratigraphic cross-sections. We employ an allostratigraphic (sequence stratigraphic) approach which permits division of the basin fill into genetic units, related to relative sea-level changes. Mapping of sequence-bounding surfaces allows isopach maps to be constructed, which reveal the complex subsidence history of the basin. This approach also permits mapping of facies belts, and hence regional paleogeography can be reconstructed. The excellent subsurface stratigraphic framework allows correlation to outcrop on the periphery of the basin, allowing sedimentological detail from outcrop to be integrated into the regional picture.
Publications
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Grifi MD, Plint AG, Walaszczyk I. Rapidly changing styles of subsidence revealed by high-resolution mudstone allostratigraphy: Coniacian of Sweetgrass Arch area, southern Alberta and northern Montana. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 2012 Dec 5;50(4):439-61.
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Shank JA, Plint AG. Allostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Cardium Formation in subsurface and outcrop in southern Alberta, and correlation to equivalent strata in northwestern Montana. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology. 2013;61(1):1-40.
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Cook TD, Wilson MV, Murray AM, Plint AG, Newbrey MG, Everhart MJ. A high latitude euselachian assemblage from the early Turonian of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2013 Jul 1;11(5):555-87.
