Stratigraphy: A Modern Synthesis

• Main Author: Miall, Andrew D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Fossil fuels.; Structural geology.; Sedimentology.; Coasts.; Earth Sciences.; Structural Geology.; Coastal Sciences.; Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture).

This book incorporates updated material on sequence stratigraphy, reflection-seismic methods, chronostratigraphy, and new concepts regarding the representation of time in the sedimentary record. It also includes a summary history of the development of ideas, concepts and methods leading to the moder...

Table of Contents:

• The scope of modern stratigraphy
• The stratigraphic-sedimentologic data base
• Facies analysis
• Facies Models
• Sequence stratigraphy
• Basin mapping methods
• Stratigraphy: The modern synthesis
• The Future of Time. .