The validity and usefulness of autostratigraphic length scale in interpreting geologic sections: An examination with diffusion-based forward stratigraphic modeling

Keigo Motomiya, Kenya Ono, Tetsuji Muto, Naoya Wada

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... sediment supply. (B) relative sea level changes with a time step of 500 years over 40,000 years. FP: falling phase, RP rising phase. For the final...

New Biostratigraphic and Paleoecological Strategies for Defining and Identifying the Basinward “Edges� of Ancient Continental Shelf Systems

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Geometry, Lateral Variation, and Preservation of Downlapping Regressive Shelf Deposits: Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea Margin, Italy

Fabio Trincardi, Michael E. Field

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the latest cycle of high-frequency sea-level oscillations that characterized the Pleistocene. Our investigation focuses on a sector of the shelf where...

Computer Modeling a Miocene Carbonate Platform, Mallorca, Spain

Dan W. J. Bosence , Luis Pomar , David A. Waltham , Thomas H. G. Lankester

AAPG Bulletin

... by erosional truncation during the subsequent sea level fall (fourth-magnitude [4-M] relative sea level cycle f Mallorca; Table 1). A wedge-shaped...

High-Resolution Foraminiferid Stratigraphy as Evidence for Rapid, Coseismic Subsidence: Preliminary Results

Christine Shivelle Manhart

Pacific Section of AAPG

...-sea level could be determined by identifying modern associations, determining the zone in the marsh that association represents, and showing...

Tidal Rhythmites as Possible Indicators of Very Rapid Subsidence in a Foreland Basin: An Example from the Miocene Marine Molasse Formation of the Digne Foreland Basin, SE France

Renaud Coueffe, Bernadette Tessier, Patrick Gigot, Bernard Beaudoin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., in MacDonald, D.I.M., ed., Sedimentation, Tectonics and Eustasy—Sea-level Changes at Active Margins: International Association of Sedimentologists, Special...

Typical Pleistocene Oil & Gas Plays Offshore Louisiana

Edward McFarlan, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... sections as a Figure 9. Schematic facies model in geologic time for Pleistocene sandy facies in Phase II area during a typical cycle of sea level change...

Glacioeustatic Fluctuations: The Mechanism Linking Stable Isotope Events and Sequence Stratigraphy from the Early Oligocene to Middle Miocene

Vitor S. Abreu, Geoffrey A. Haddad

Special Publications of SEPM

... carbonates is an independent proxy for ice volume (sea level) which has been under utilized in sequence stratigraphic analyses. This is somewhat...

Factors in Mid-Continent Pennsylvanian Limestone Deposition

Philip H. Heckel

Tulsa Geological Society

..., approximating rate of sea-level rise and fall. Because rates of rise and fall may differ independently within a single cycle, variation in rates of transgression...

Depositional History of the Smackover Formation in Southwest Alabama

D. Joe Benson

GCAGS Transactions

... and sea-level changes from seismic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy: in W.P.S. Ventress, D.G. Bebout, B.F. Perkins, and C.H. Moore, eds., The Jurassic...

Reservoirs on Platforms Developed Under Small, High Frequency Sea Level Oscillations (Greenhouse Conditions)

J.F. Read

Special Publications of SEPM

... poorly developed even though cycle tops may associated with pulses of Subsidence or long term relative sea level rise. Consequently, years, because...

Application of Production Decline Curve Analysis to Clastic Reservoir Facies Characterization within a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: Example„Frio Formation, South Texas

John D. Pigott, Bryant W. Bradley

GCAGS Journal

...-order global sea level cycle and a half (Fig. 2) made up of three limbs. The cycle commences with a Rupellian global sea level rise, is followed...

Chapter 5: Depositional Cyclicity Within the Mayes Group (Meramecian–Chesterian) Along the Western Edge of the Mississippian Outcrop Belt in Northeastern Oklahoma

Cory J. Godwin, James O. Puckette

AAPG Special Volumes

... on northeastern Banks Island, N.W.T.: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v. 19, p. 730–781. Giles, P. S., 2009, Orbital forcing and Mississippian sea level...

Orbital Chronology of Cretaceous-Paleocene Marine Sediments

Timothy D. Herbert, Isabella Premoli Silva, Elisabetta Erba, Alfred G. Fischer

Special Publications of SEPM

... the position of the extinction level within magnetochron C29R and to measure the rates of environmental and evolutionary changes across the boundary. Cycle...

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION AND DOLOMITIZATION HISTORY OF THE DEVONIAN JEFFERSON FORMATION, SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA

S.L. Dorobek, T.M. Smith

Montana Geological Society

.... Very thick cycles may record long period sea level oscillations, increased local subsidence rates during cycle deposition, some type...

ABSTRACT: Application of Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis to Thin Cratonic Carbonate-Dominated Shelf Cycles (Upper Pennsylvanian) in Mid-Continent, by W. Lynn Watney, Ralph W. Knapp, John A. French, Jr., and John H. Doveton; #91030 (2010)

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ABSTRACT: Interactive Web Based Teaching Tools For Extending The Understanding Of The Concepts Of Sequence Stratigraphy, by Christopher G. St. C. Kendall, Nassir S. Alnaji, and Phillip Moore; #90906(2001)

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Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy of the Upper Kharaib and Shuaiba Formations: Implications for the Early Cretaceous Evolution of the Arabian Gulf Region

Volker C. Vahrenkamp

AAPG Bulletin

... complete cycles and one incomplete cycle of rising and falling sea level. At this point, it is unclear whether there is any correlation between...

Seismic stratigraphy of a Lower Cretaceous prograding carbonate platform (Oman) and implications for the eustatic sea-level curve

Emmanuel Dujoncquoy, Carine Grélaud, Philippe Razin, Patrice Imbert, Frans van Buchem, Gérard Dupont, and Arnaud Le Bec

AAPG Bulletin

..., and L. A. Hardie, 1990, Depositional cycles, composite sea-level changes, cycle stacking patterns, and the hierarchy of stratigraphic forcing: Examples...

Recognition of Relative Sea-Level Change in Upper Cretaceous Coal-Bearing Strata: A Paleoecological Approach Using Agglutinated Foraminifera and Ostracodes to Detect Key Stratigraphic Surfaces

Neil E. Tibert, R. Mark Leckie, Jeffrey G. Eaton, James I. Kirkland, Jean-Paul Colin, Elana L. Leithold, Michael E. Mccormic

Special Publications of SEPM

... level change (Vail et al., 1977) for the North American Western Interior Sea. Stratigraphic Cycle Duration Vail et al. (1977) 1st 2nd 200–500 myr 10...

Baselap Patterns and the Recognition of Lowstand Exposure and Drowning--A Mississippian-Ramp Example and its Seismic Signature

C. Robertson Handford

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., AND TODD, R.G., 1984, Jurassic unconformities, chronostratigraphy, and sea-level changes from seismic stratigraphy and biostratigraphy, in Schlee...

Clay-Mineral Suites in Cyclic Miocene Sediments: A Model for Continental-Margin Deposition in a Mixed Siliciclastic-Phosphatic-Dolomitic-Biogenic System

Mead A. Allison , Stanley R. Riggs

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... through major Miocene fluctuations in sea level. The kaolinite suite is present in a fourth-order cycle immediately preceding the sea-level lowstand...

Speculative Petroleum Systems of the Southern Pelotas Basin, Offshore Uruguay

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Stratigraphy of Upper Pennsylvanian Cyclical Carbonate and Siliciclastic Rocks, Western Paradox Basin, Utah

Mark R. Williams

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... of a cycle into a series of high-frequency cycles is most apparent in shallow marine deposits in which the effects of small scale sea-level fluctuations...

Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy and Petroleum Geology--Where to From Here?: GEOHORIZONS

Henry W. Posamentier , Paul Weimer

AAPG Bulletin

... phase of the late 1970s and 1980s involved applying global sea level curves and, later, coastal onlap curves (Vail et al., 1977; Haq et al., 1987...