Sedimentary responses to forced regressions
By: edited by D. Hunt and R. L. Gawthorpe.
Contributors: Hunt, D.; Gawthorpe, R. L.; Geological Society of London.
Series: Geological Society special publication -- no.172
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Rocks, Sedimentary; Sedimentary structures; Geology, Stratigraphic; Sedimentation and deposition
Description: "An increasing number of studies in recent years have demonstrated that significant progradation of shallow marine systems occurs under conditions of base-level fall. These new data are forcing many sedimentary geologists to critically re-evaluate many aspects of sequence stratigraphy relating to erosion and deposition during base-level (lake- or relative sea-level) fall, and the intrinsic link made between stratal geometries and base-level change. This volume brings together a collection of articles that focus solely on forced regressions, providing a more complete picture of the development, formation, variability and preservation of the surfaces and deposits generated during base-level fall." "The results of the studies will be of interest to all geologists attempting to understand the relationship between changes in base-level and stratigraphy, and to all who use sequence stratigraphy as a method of stratigraphic correlation and interpretation at outcrop and in the subsurface." "Readership: sedimentologists, stratigraphers, petroleum geologists, marine geologists/stratigraphers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The falling stage systems tract: recognition and importance in sequence stratigraphic analysis / A.G. Plint, D. Nummedal; title: Aspects of the stratal architecture of forced regressive deposits / H.W. Posamentier, W. R. Morris; title: Carbonate megabreccias in a sequence stratigraphic context: evidence from the Cambrian of North Greenland / J.R. Ineson, F. Surlyk; title: Shingled, sharp-based sandstones: depositional response to stepwise forced regression in a shallow basin, upper Triassic gassum formation, Denmark / L. Hamberg, L.H. Nielsen; title: The significance of the Etive Formation in the development of the Brent system: a review of the likelihood of forced regression during progradation / T.R. Olsen, R. Steel; title: Forced regressions: recognition, architecture and genesis in the Campanian of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming / R. Fitzsimmons, S. Johnson; title: Style contrast between forced regressive and lowstand/transgressive wedges in the Campanian of south-central Wyoming (Hatfield member of the Haystack Mountains Formation); title: Forward stratigraphic modelling of forced regressions: evidence for the genesis of attached and detached lowstand systems / R.B. Ainsworth, H. Bosscher, M.J. Newall; title: Tectonically enhanced forced regressions: examples from growth folds in extensional and compressional settings, the Miocene of the Suez Rift and the Eocene of the Pyrenees / R.L. Gawthorpe, M. Hall, I. Sharp, T. Dreyer; title: Recognition and distinction of normal and forced regressions in cyclothemic strata: a Plio-Pleistocene case study from eastern North Island, New Zealand; title: Response of Plio-Pleistocene mixed bioclastic-lithoclastic temperate-water carbonate systems to forced regressions: the Calcarenite di Gravina Formation, Puglia, SE Italy; title: Quaternary forced regression deposits in the Adriatic Basin and the record of composite sea-level cycles / F. Trincardi, A. Correggiari; title: Depositional response to quaternary fourth-order sea-level falls on the Latium margin (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) / F.L. Chiocci; title: Sequence stratigraphy and architecture of the late Pleistocene Lagniappe delta complex, northeast Gulf of Mexico / V. Kolla, P. Biondi, B. Long, R. Fillon; title: Seismic stratigraphy of the Gulf of Cd̀iz Continental Shelf: a model for Late Quaternary very high-resolution sequence stratigraphy and response to sea-level fall / F.J. Hernández-Molina, I. Somoza, F. Lobo; title: Along-strike variability of forced regressive deposits: Late Quaternary, northern Peloponnesos, Greece / L.S. McMurray, R.L. Gawthorpe.