High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy:
Innovations & Applications
(Geological Society Special Publication, No. 104)

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy

By John A. Howell, 1996

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    * Publisher:   Geological Society of London
    * Number Of Pages:   374
    * Publication Date:   1996-03-01
    * ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1897799489
    * ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781897799482

Product Description:
In recent years there has been a huge expansion in studies using high resolution sequence stratigraphic techniques. Sequence stratigraphy has evolved from the original concepts of seismic stratigraphy to a scale above seismic resolution. Concepts developed at outcrop are now being successfully applied to sub-surface data sets and are providing a greatly improved understanding of facies geometries and reservoir architecture. This has resulted in the reappraisal of the geology of regions which have been studied for many decades and sequence stratigraphy has developed into a powerful, predictive facies analysis tool for both the hydrocarbon industry and academic research. The papers in this volume illustrate the depth and breadth of current sequence stratigraphic research. Studies are included on many aspects of sequence stratigraphy, from both outcrop and subsurface data with examples from a wide range of countries.

This book contains about 20 papers pertaining to high resolution sequence stratigraphy, a tool used primarily by the oil industry for basin analysis and eustatic prediction. If you don't understand what that means, this book is very likely not for you...start with Coe's excellent "The Sedimentary Record of Sea-Level Change" instead, followed by the classic American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Memoir 26. I personally found Armentrout's paper on the Plio-Pleistocene Gulf of Mexico biostratigraphy very pertinent; Figure 12, the Chronostratigraphic chart of Plio-Pleistocene depositional and biostratigraphic events is most useful.