See also this post on the speed of change, and a third post This blog is a good place to post explanatory data that may…
SE Asia and the science of stratigraphy
See also this post on the speed of change, and a third post This blog is a good place to post explanatory data that may…
See also the post on environment of deposition from benthic foraminifera Determining environment of deposition is important for tracing facies, and natural successions following Walther’s…
See also the post on environment of deposition from planktonic foraminifera This is an introductory post on determining environment of deposition. An important and complex…
William Shakespeare suggested that names are not important: “A rose by by other name would smell as sweet” (Romeo and Juliet), but names are only…
Well sections are better that outcrops as they are continuous records of sedimentation, especially in the tropics where outcrops degrade so fast. However few wells…
Something I like to stress in teaching is that I do not disagree with the founders of eustatic sequence stratigraphy. Below is an extract from …
A term I use frequently in this blog is that if a “non-Waltherian contact”. This is a deliberately broad description of a horizon in a…
This is a place-holder post for later reference when discussing oxygen isotopes and published eustatic sea level curves. The first figure is my compilation of…
Explaining uncertainty in a broad subject like geology is usually done in very different terms for each input, or type of observation. If you want…
It is a myth that only glacio-eustatic driven processes can change relative sea level by more than 100m in less than a million years Miller…