SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY
Sequence stratigraphy is a branch of geology that attempts to subdivide and link sedimentary deposits into unconformity bound units on a variety of scales and explain these stratigraphic units in terms of variations in sediment supply and variations in the rate of change in accommodation space.
Sequence stratigraphy is the most recent revolutionary paradigm in the field of sedimentary geology. The concepts embodied by this discipline have resulted in a fundamental change in geological thinking and in particular, the methods of facies and stratigraphic analyses. The sequence stratigraphic approach has led to improved understanding of how stratigraphic units, facies tracts, and depositional elements relate to each other in time and space within sedimentary basins. |
Using fossils to tell geological time, biostratigraphy balances biology with geology. In modern geochronology – meaning timescale-building and making correlations between oceans, continents and hemispheres – the microfossil record of speciations and extinctions is integrated with numerical dates from radioactive decay, geomagnetic reversals through time, and the cyclical wobbles of the Earth-Sun-Moon system. This important modern synthesis follows the development of biostratigraphy from classical origins into petroleum exploration and deep-ocean drilling. This book is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, palaeoceanography, palaeobiology and related fields. |
This book was arranged to cover four main themes; a brief history of sequence stratigraphy, concepts and principles, sequence stratigraphic tools and finally the application of sequence stratigraphy to different depositional systems. The book covers all the basics of sequence stratigraphy, and is intended to be a broad text suitable for undergraduate geologists of all years, MSc and PhD sedimentologists and stratigraphers, and for oil company geoscientists who wish to broaden their knowledge of the stratigraphic methods available for solving problems with which they are routinely faced. |
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