Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of Reefs and Carbonate Platforms: A Short Course

by Wolfgang Schlager

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Summary

Classical sequence stratigraphy has been developed primarily from siliciclastic systems. Application of the concept to carbonates has not been as straightforward as was originally expected, even though the basic tenets of sequence stratigraphy are supposed to be applicable to all depositional systems. Rather than force carbonate platforms into the straightacket of a concept derived from another sediment family, this course takes a different tack. It starts out from the premise that sequence stratigraphy is a modern and sophisticated version of lithostratigraphy and as such is a sedimentologic concept. "More sedimentology into sequence stratigraphy" is the motto of the course and the red line that runs through the chapters of this booklet.

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