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. On the figures, for confidential reasons, the locations and orientations are not indicated. By the same token only the interpretation of the seismic lines are illustrated. The large majority of the figures are personal and falsifiable. Nevertheless, none of them may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written author's permission (ccramez@compuserve.com) (cramez@ufp.pt).

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
XII - Bibliography

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