Relative Role of Eustasy, Climate, and Tectonism in Continental Rocks
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Relative Role of Eustasy, Climate, and Tectonism in Continental Rocks
Keith W. Shanley, Peter J. McCabe
The renaissance in stratigraphy over the last two decades has been largely driven by the belief that stratigraphic packaging is determined by allocyclic controls. An understanding of the controls on stratigraphy allows us to make better predictions about the nature and geometry of strata within areas of basins where data is more limited.
PDF ebook file size: 57 mb
ISBN 978-1-56576-042-4
eISBN 978-1-56576-182-7
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The renaissance in stratigraphy over the last two decades has been largely driven by the belief that stratigraphic packaging is determined by allocyclic controls. An understanding of the controls on stratigraphy allows us to make better predictions about the nature and geometry of strata within areas of basins where data is more limited. A special session was convened at the 1994 Denver annual meeting of the AAPG/SEPM entitled ?Allocyclic controls on nonmarine stratigraphy?. This session featured papers that demonstrated a wide range of approaches to developing an understanding a alluvial architecture. This volume represents a collection of these papers and as such brings together the results of research where authors have examined the relative importance of eustasy, climate, and sediment supply in determining the nature of lithologies and the style of packaging of continental strata. The hope is that readers will appreciate the complexities of nonmarine deposits and will begin to understand that the relative importance of allocyclic controls on architecture vary both in time and space.
PDF ebook file size: 57 mb