Introduction

to

Systemic Stratigraphy

Caveat:

These notes should not be taken as an attempt to write a textbook on Stratigraphy. They are just an eclectic assemblage of geological models, cross-sections and seismic profiles used during workshops on Petroleum Geology. None of the plates illustrated here may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of carloscramez@gmail.com

Contents:

Preface

I - Systems Thinking - Gaia Hypothesis

II - Geological Models - Reality - Serendipity

III - Depositional models

IV - Systemic and Genetic Stratigraphy

V - Hierarchical level of Seismic Interpretation

VI - Stratigraphic parameters

A - Eustasy or Eustatism

A.1 - Eustasy metaphor

A.2 - Geoid

A.3 - Geoid Changes

B - Eustatic cycles

C - Climate (Glaciations)

C.1 - Origin of Ice Ages

D - Subsidence & Accommodation

E - Terrigeneous influx

VII - Tectonism versus Eustasy

VIII - Eustatic and Stratigraphic Cycles

IX - Paleogeographic Patterns through Time

a) Proterozoic

b) Early Paleozoic

c) Upper Cambrian

d) Middle Ordovician

e) Middle Silurian

f) Late Early Devonian

g) Early Carboniferous

h) Late Carboniferous

i) Late Permian

j) Triassic

k) Jurassic

l) Cretaceous

m) Tertiary

X - Megasutures & Sedimentary Basins

XI - Seismic Interpretation Grounding

XI - Bibliography

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