Coe, Angela L.; Bosence, Dam W.J.; Church, Kevin D.; Flint, Stephen S.; Howell, John A. and Wilson, R. Chris L. (2003). The Sedimentary record of sea-level change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press and the Open University.
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Abstract
A textbook describing how past changes in sea-level can be detected through the analysis of the sedimentary record. In particular, it concentrates on the theory of sequence stratigraphy, which provides a framework for how entire sedimentary systems evolve through geological time. Sequence stratigraphy is a model for dividing the sedimentary record into discrete, sedimentary packages on a range of length- and time-scales, where each package represents a cyclic change in sea-level and/or sediment supply. This techniques is widely used to understand the genesis of the sedimentary record, to examine the global synchronicicty of sedimentary cycels and in the exploration for hydrocarbon reserves.
| Item Type: | Authored Book |
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| ISBN: | 0-521-53842-4, 978-0-521-53842-8 |
| Extra Information: | DOI: 10.2277/0521831113 |
| Keywords: | sea-level; sequence stratigraphy; sedimentary record |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Science > Environment, Earth and Ecosystems Science |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) |
| Item ID: | 5900 |
| Depositing User: | Angela Coe |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Nov 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 19:55 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/5900 |
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