Development of a braided-fluvial facies model for the Devonian Battery Point Sandstone, Qubec

Eight distinct facies have been defined in a 110 m thick section of the Lower Devonian Battery Point Sandstone near Gaspé, Québec. The first is a scoured surface overlain by massive sandstone with mudstone intraclasts. Facies A and B are trough cross-bedded sandstones, with poorly- and well-defined stratification, respectively. Facies C and D consist of large isolated, and smaller multiple, sets of planar cross-stratified sandstones, …