Facies Models: Response to Sea Level ChangeRoger G. Walker, Noel P. James, Geological Association of Canada |
Contents
PRINCIPLES TOOLS AND CONCEPTS | 1 |
Subsurface facies analysis | 27 |
environmental and allostratigraphic significance | 47 |
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Alberta American Association ancient anhydrite areas Association of Petroleum bars basin bedforms bioturbated brine Bulletin burrows channel channel-levee Chapter clastic clasts coastal commonly corals Cretaceous cross bedding cycles delta deltaic depositional systems diamict dunes Economic Paleontologists eolian erosion surface erosional estuary eustasy eustatic evaporites examples facies models facies successions Figure fluvial Formation Geological Society glacial grain gypsum halite ichnofacies intertidal Journal of Sedimentary lagoon lamination lobes lowstand marine ments modern mounds mudstones occur offshore Paleontologists and Mineralogists peritidal Petroleum Geologists progradation reefs relative sea level ridges river rocks sabkha saline sand sandbodies sandstone sea level change sea level rise sedi sediment Sedimentology seismic sequence stratigraphy shales shallow water shelf shoreface shoreline slope Society of Economic Special Publication stratigraphic structures subaerial submarine submarine fans subtidal supratidal systems tract tectonic thick tidal flat tion trace fossils transgressive turbidites turbidity currents upper vertical Walker wave zone