Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Associations: IAS Special Publication 18

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
Sequence-stratigraphic Concepts
and Principles......Page 11
An overview of sequence-stratigraphic concepts:uses and abuses......Page 12
Modelling passive margin sequence stratigraphy......Page 28
The effects of rate of base-level fluctuation
on coastal-plain, shelf and slope depositional systems:
an experimental approach......Page 51
High-resolution sequence architecture:
a chronostratigraphic model based on
equilibrium profile studies......Page 62
Incised valleys in the Pleistocene Tenryugawa
and Oigawa coastal-fan systems, central Japan:
the concept of the fan-valley interval......Page 76
Deep-sea response to eustatic change
and significance of gas hydrates for continental margin stratigraphy......Page 100
Sequence-stratigraphic Methods
and Tools......Page 114
Foraminifera indicators of systems tracts and global unconformities......Page 115
The expression and interpretation of
marine flooding surfaces and erosional surfaces in core;
examples from the Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation,
Alberta foreland basin, Canada......Page 130
Sequence stratigraphy in coastal environments:
sedimentology and palynofacies of the Miocene
in central Tunisia......Page 166
Quaternary Applications of
Sequence-stratigraphic Concepts......Page 185
Late Pleistocene shelf-perched lowstand wedges on the Rhone continental shelf......Page 186
Late-Quaternary transgressive and highstand deposits
of a deltaic shelf (Rhone delta, France)......Page 200
Seismic stratigraphy of Quaternary stacked progradational sequences
in the southwest Japan forearc: an example of
fourth-order sequences in an active margin......Page 215
Pre-Quaternary Applications of
Sequence-stratigraphic Concepts......Page 235
EUROPE......Page 236
The Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in southern Belgium:biostratigraphic identification criteria of sequence boundaries......Page 237
Namurian (late Carboniferous) depositional systems
of the Craven-Askrigg area, northern England:
implications for sequence-stratigraphic models......Page 247
Sequence stratigraphy of the Clansayesian (uppermost Aptian) formations
in the western Pyrenees (France)......Page 282
Allochthonous deep-water carbonates and relative sea-level changes:
the Upper Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous of southeast France......Page 294
Sequence stratigraphy of carbonate shelves
with an example from the mid-Cretaceous (Urgonian) of southeast France......Page 305
Sedimentary evolution and sequence stratigraphy
of the Upper Jurassic in the Central Iberian Chain, northeast Spain......Page 340
Shelf-to-basin Palaeocene palaeogeography and depositional sequences,
western Pyrenees, north Spain......Page 366
Sequence stratigraphy of carbonate ramps:
systems tracts, models and application to the
Muschelkalk carbonate platforms of eastern Spain......Page 393
GREENLAND......Page 412
Cyclic sedimentation in a large wave and storm-dominated anoxic lake; Kap Stewart Formation (Rhaetian-Sinemurian), Jameson Land, East Greenland......Page 413
NORTH AMERICA......Page 443
Origin of an erosion surface in shoreface sandstones of the Kakwa Member (Upper Cretaceous Cardium Formation, Canada): importance for reconstruction of stratal geometry and depositional history......Page 444
Sequence-stratigraphic analysis of Viking Formation lowstand beach deposits at Joarcam Field, Alberta, Canada......Page 461
Limits on late Ordovician eustatic sea-level change
from carbonate shelf sequences:
an example from Anticosti Island, Quebec......Page 478
The effect of tectonic and eustatic cycles
on accommodation and sequence-stratigraphic framework
in the Upper Cretaceous foreland basin of southwestern Wyoming......Page 491
The sequence-stratigraphic significance of erosive-based shoreface sequences in the Cretaceous Mesaverde Group of northwestern Colorado......Page 511
Sequence stratigraphy of the onshore Palaeogene,
southeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA......Page 526
The use. of sequence stratigraphy to gain new insights into stratigraphic relationships in the Upper Cretaceous of the US Gulf Coast......Page 551
AUSTRALIA......Page 566
Seismic stratigraphy and passive-margin evolution of the southern Exmouth Plateau......Page 567
Application of sequence stratigraphy in an intracratonic setting,
Amadeus Basin, central Australia......Page 590
Index......Page 617
Plates......Page 629