Palynology of the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Ferron Sandstone Member, Utah, USA: identification of marine flooding surfaces and Milankovitch cycles in subtropical, ever-wet, paralic to non-marine palaeoenvironments

The Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale Formation in Utah includes coal and gas deposits and is an important outcrop analogue to study reservoir characterisation of fluvial–deltaic petroleum systems. Numerous sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic studies of the Notom fluvial–deltaic wedge have been conducted recently; however, palynological analyses had not previously been undertaken. Here, we present …