Sequence stratigraphy is a relatively new branch of geology that attempts to link prehistoric sea-level changes to sedimentary deposits. The 'sequence' part of the name refers to cyclic sedimentary ...

Seismic stratigraphy is a powerful tool for exploration and exploitation, especially when the rock-fluid information within the seismic wavelet (reflection character analysis) is integrated with the ...

New integrative stratigraphy and timescales for 13 geological periods in China from the Ediacaran to the Quaternary have recently been published in a special issue of SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences. The ...

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My current research focuses on integrating ichnology with sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy. I am currently evaluating a number of Cretaceous stratigraphic units in the Western Canada ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Peter M. Sadler, a professor of geology at the University of California, Riverside, has received two prestigious honors: He has been awarded the 2012 ICS Medal of the International ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

A branch of geology and earth sciences, stratigraphy is a field of study that deals with the arrangement and succession of strata (layers) in the Earth. Additionally, it involves the origin, ...

NH copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. V. 1. The chronostratigraphic scale / F.M. Gradstein and J.G. Ogg -- Biochronology / F.M. Gradstein -- Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology / L.A. Hinnov ...