Publikationsdatum:
2007-11-01
Beschreibung:
Jonathan P. Allen received a B.A. degree in geology-biology from Colby College in 2003 and an M.S. degree in geosciences from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). This study stemmed from research he conducted for his M.S. degree. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at UNL, studying the evolution of paleoclimate within the Carboniferous of Atlantic Canada. Chris Fielding holds the Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Coffman Chair in Sedimentary Geology at the UNL. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Durham (United Kingdom) in 1982 and previously worked for BP Exploration and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His research interests lie in the stratigraphy of continental, coastal, and shallow-marine successions. The sequence-stratigraphic analysis of nonmarine strata has seen several advances in recent years. Such successions, however, are nonetheless difficult to interpret and correlate because the concepts, principles, and methodologies of sequence stratigraphy were developed for coastal and nearshore marine strata where key stratigraphic surfaces that are clearly related to relative changes in base level can be readily recognized (Posamentier and Vail, 1988; van Wagoner et al., 1990; Posamentier and Allen, 1999). Within nonmarine successions, such key surfaces are commonly cryptic, ambiguous, or not easy to correlate. However, several recent publications have attempted to address the sequence stratigraphy of nonmarine successions and their relationship to time-equivalent marine strata (Shanley and McCabe, 1991, 1993, 1994; Shanley et al., 1992; Wright and Marriott, 1993; Gibling and Bird, 1994; Aitken and Flint, 1995; Olsen et al., 1995; Van Wagoner, 1995; Holbrook, 1996; Yoshida et al., 1996; Burns et al., 1997; Rogers, 1998; Legarreta and Uliana, 1998; Posamentier and Allen, 1999; Lang et al., 2001; and see review of Plint et al., 2001). …
Print ISSN:
0149-1423
Digitale ISSN:
1943-2674
Thema:
Geologie und Paläontologie
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