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Variations in Sequence Stratigraphy: GEOL 716

This document outlines the key concepts and surfaces of sequence stratigraphy that are covered in GEOL 716: Variations in Sequence Stratigraphy at the University of South Carolina. It discusses sequence stratigraphy frameworks, base level controls, transgression and regression, flooding surfaces, system tracts, and key bounding surfaces like maximum flooding surfaces, ravinement surfaces, and sequence boundaries. The class is taught by Professor Chris Kendall in the spring of 2006.

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Variations in Sequence Stratigraphy: GEOL 716

This document outlines the key concepts and surfaces of sequence stratigraphy that are covered in GEOL 716: Variations in Sequence Stratigraphy at the University of South Carolina. It discusses sequence stratigraphy frameworks, base level controls, transgression and regression, flooding surfaces, system tracts, and key bounding surfaces like maximum flooding surfaces, ravinement surfaces, and sequence boundaries. The class is taught by Professor Chris Kendall in the spring of 2006.

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GEOL 716: Variations in Sequence Stratigraphy

University of South Carolina


Spring 2006

Octavian Catuneanu, 2002

Professor Chris Kendall


EWS 304
[email protected]
777.2410

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy

A framework of genetically related


stratigraphic facies geometries and
their bounding surfaces used to
determine depositional setting
Sequence Stratigraphy
Subdivision & interpretation of sedimentary
record using a framework surfaces seen in
outcrops, well logs, & 2-D and 3-D seismic.
Include:
 Surfaces of erosion & non-deposition (sequence
boundaries)
 Flooding (trangressive surfaces [TS] &/or maximum
flooding surfaces [mfs])
This framework used to predict the extent of
sedimentary facies geometry, lithologic character,
grain size, sorting & reservoir quality
GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
Stratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy – Base Level

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy – Base Level

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy – Base Level
Controls

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy – Base Level
Controls

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Sequence Stratigraphy – Base Level
Controls

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Transgression & Regression

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Transgression - Regression

After Catuneanu, 2002


GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
Stratigraphy
Normal Regression

After Catuneanu, 2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Forced Regression

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Transgression

After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002
GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
Stratigraphy
Terminations

After Catuneanu, 2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Seismic Expression

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002
Sequences
system
tracts
etc
After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Fluvial & Shoreface – F. Regression

After Catuneanu, 2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Falling
Stage
System
Tract

After
After
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Ravinement
&
Normal
Regression

After
After
Catuneanu

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence 2002


2002
Stratigraphy
Flooding Surfaces

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Flooding Surfaces

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Regional
Architecture
of
Depositional
Systems,
System Tracts,
&
Surfaces
After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Wheeler Diagram –Regress/Trans Cycle

After
After Catuneanu
Catuneanu 2002
2002
GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
Stratigraphy
Regional
Architecture
Transition
Zone
“Fluvial – Shore”
After
After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Coastal Erosion of Transgression

After Catuneanu, 2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Sequence
Stratigraphy After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002

Model
Tree

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Sequence Boundaries

After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
2002 Stratigraphy
Subaerial
Unconformities

After
After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Formation of Subaerial Unconformity

After
After Catuneanu, 2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Fluvial & Shoreface Forced
Regression Deposits

After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
Stratigraphy
Correlative
Conformity

After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Wheeler Diagram –Regress/Trans Cycle
Temporal Significance of A & B Surfaces

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


After Catuneanu 2002 Stratigraphy
Basal
Surface
Forced
Regression

After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Regressive
Surface
of
Marine
Erosion
After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Maximum
Regressive
Surface
of
Marine
Erosion
After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Progradation of Coarsening
Upward Succession

After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
Stratigraphy
Maximum
Flooding
Surface

After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Ravinement
Surface

After
After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Within
Trend
Normal
Regressive
Surface
After
After
Catuneanu
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Within
Trend
Flooding
Surface
After
After
Catuneanu

2002
2002

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy
Hierarchies of Sequences

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002 Stratigraphy
Superimposed Shoreline Shifts

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002 Stratigraphy
Features of Shelf and Ramp

After
After Catuneanu,
Catuneanu, 2002
2002
GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence
Stratigraphy
Lecture Ends!!

 And so to supper

GEOL 716 Lecture 3: Sequence


Stratigraphy

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