Map of the USC Sequence Stratigraphy Site

This page provides a flat file of the various elements of the University of South Carolina sequence stratigraphy site. It is designed to provide a better idea of where everything is! Click on items listed on recurring side bar menu to left and below for acess to this site! Most of the pages on the site often have a pull down menu (see immediately above to left) that gives access to similar topics that you currently may be pursuing! Also use the search menu to the upper left to find items!

Book Reviews & Papers | Appalachian | Arabian Gulf | Basin Analysis | Book Cliffs Papers | Deepwater Sequence Stratigraphy | Carbonates & Sea Level | Computer Modeling & Stratigraphy Bibliography | Computer Modeling and Stratigraphy | Holocene Carbonates Bibliography | Holocene Carbonates | Ichnology & Bed Surfaces | Mallorca Sequences | Measuring Eustasy | Permian West Texas Papers | Sequence Stratigraphy | Sequence Stratigraphy Texts | Simulating Basin Fill Papers
List of books reviewed &submitted to SEG for the Leading Edge "Book Review" section. Also links to .pdf files on the highlighted topics.

Carbonates | Carbonate Classifications | Carbonate Particle Image Gallery | Diagenesis & Porosity | Carbonate Facies | Carbonate Porosity | Carbonate Petrography Exercises | Evolution of Carbonate Sequences | Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy | Carbonate Hydrocarbon Plays | Tectonic Controls on Evaporites | Carbonate Glossary | Carbonate Links & Petrology Resources | Peritidal Tepees World Wide Occurence
Introduction to carbonate petrology with discussions of classifications, facies, photomicrographs, and exercises related to thin sections of carbonate rocks, etc.

Carbonate Petrology | Thin Section Catalog & Exercises | Carbonate Particle Image Gallery | Chemical Grains & CaCO3 Mineralogy | Chert & Chertification | Dolomite & Dolomitization | Intraclasts | Micrite & Micritization | Neomorphism, Diagenesis & Cements | Ooids | Pellets & Peloids | Pisolites & Oncoids | Skeletal Grains
Examples of carbonate photomicrographs of chemical grains, chert, dolomites, intraclasts, micrite, dagenesis, ooid, pelloids, pisolites and skeletal grains.

Contributed Projects | Deepwater Depositional Systems | Marine Depositional Systems | Carbonate Petrology | Appalachians | UAE General | Mallorca | Arabian and Permian Basins | Libyan Petroleum Basins | Peach Tree Rock | Earth Satellite | Yemen | Istvan Csato Projects
Student and other projects related to sequence stratigraphy and a variety of other geological projects highlighted and linked above.

Deepwater Systems | Deepwater Sequence Stratigraphy | Deepwater Source & Settings | Deepwater Sediments | Deepwater Sedimentary Structures | Deepwater Sedimentary Architecture | Clare Basin Stratigraphy | Clare Shales Co Clare - Kerry | Ross Fm Co Clare - Kerry | Gull Island Co Clare | Central Clare Group Co Clare | Deepwater Gallery | Students - Deepwater Sediments | Deepwater - Exercises
Introduction to the world of deepwater sequence stratigraphy illustrated by a virtual field trip of the clastic deepwater sediments of the Ross Formation of Co Clare.

Depositional Analogues | Abu Dhabi Holocene | Appalachian Sediments | Bahamas Holocene | Belize Holocene | Canning Basin | Carpentaria Sediment setting | Eniwetok | Florida Holocene | Great Barrier Reef | Hook Head Paleozoic Outcrops in Co Wexford Ireland | Mallorca Late Miocene Reef | Moroccan Jurassic & Devonian | Okefenokee Swamp Peat | Peach Tree Rock Eocene | Permian Basin - West Texas & New Mexico| Ross Formation of Co Clare Ireland | Tepees World Wide Occurence |
Examples of virtual field trips that visit both carbonate and carbonate depositional settings from all over the world.

Depositional Systems | Barrier Islands | Deltaic | Carbonate Shelf | Clastic Shelf | Carbonate Slope | Clastic Slope | Peat Swamps Okefenokee
Student generated write ups on general carbonate and clastic depositional settings.

Development of Sequence Stratigrapy | Significant Dates | Development of Stratigraphy | Origin of Geologic Periods | Plate Tectonics | Sedimentary Depositional Systems | Peter Vail and Eustasy | History Links | Sequence Stratigraphy References
A personal view of how stratigraphy has developed.

Exercise Modules | Sequence Stratigraphy Basics | Clastic Basin | Carbonate Sequences | Mixed Clastic & Carbonate Basin | Chronostratigraphic Exercise | Seismic Stratigraphy Introduction | Seismic Synthetic Tie - Williston | S. Africa - Seismic | NPRA - Seismic | Bahamas - Seismic | Sedimentary Outcrops | Book Cliffs - Clastic Outcrops | Mallorca - Carbonate Outcrops | Well Logs | Clastic Wells - Guarico Basin | Carbonate Wells - Hypothetical | Carbonate Wells - UAE Offshore Jurassic | Carbonate Wells - Permian Basin Margin | Carbonate Wells - Hanifa | Exercise Print Outs
Descriptive sections introducing sequence stratigraphy and exercises that involve seismic, well logs and outcrops.

Image Gallery | Appalachian Paleozoic's | Bahamas Holocene | Belize Holocene | Canning Basin | Carbonate Diagenesis | Carbonate Particle Image Gallery | Carbonate Porosity | Carpentaria Sediment setting | Earth Satellite | Eniwetok | Florida Holocene | Great Barrier Reef | Hook Head Co Wexford Ireland, Paleozoic Outcrops | Mallorca Miocene | Moroccan Jurassic & Devonian | Okefenokee Holocene | Peach Tree Rock | Permian Basin - West Texas & New Mexico | Shark Bay Holocene | Ross Formation Co Clare Ireland | Tepees World Wide Occurence | UAE Holocene |Yemen Geology
Eclectic library of images largely digitized from a collection of photographs taken at many localities over the years for use in lectures.

Links | Sequence Stratigraphy Links & Resources | General Geology & Miscellaneous Links | Carbonate Links & Other Petrology Resources
Links that may lead to neat and unexpected discoveries for the enquiring geologic mind.

Movies and Animations | Animated Gif Files | Sequence Stratigraphy Movies | Sequence Stratigraphy SedPak Movies
Movies created to introduce the concepts of sequence stratigraphy.

Power Point Lectures | Basics of Sequence Stratigraphy | Eustasy & SL Change | Tools for Subsruface Analysis | Clastic sediment Hierarchies | Carbonate sediment Hierarchies | Carbonate storm deposits | "Carbonate storm deposits and HST surfaces of condensation" | Evaporites, Plate Tectonics and Sequence Stratigraphy | Introduction to Sedpak | Role of lime muds in the stratigraphic section | Process modeling of sedimentology of carbonates | Sedimentary Structures - a compendium | Carbonate Particles - Extensive introduction | Carbonates - a brief overview | Carbonates - Review their Depositional Systems | Carbonates - Diagenetic Behavior | Bahamas - Holocene Carbonates | Shark Bay - Holocene Carbonates | UAE-Holocene Carbonates & Evaporites | Permian Basin - New Mexico & Texas | Geologic History of Appalachian | Arabian Gulf Petroleum | Csato on Petroleum Geology
Overcomplex canned lectures created to introduce the concepts of sequence and sedimentary stratigraphy.

Sequence Stratigraphy Introduction | Basics | Clastic Sequences | Carbonate Sequences | Mixed Clastic & Carbonate Basin | Chronostratigraphy | Seismic Interpretation | Clastic Outcrops | Deepwater Clastics | Carbonate Outcrops | Well Logs General | Well Logs Clastics | Well Logs Carbonates |
Descriptive sections introducing sequence stratigraphy and its use with seismic, well logs and outcrops.

Streaming Lectures on Sequence Stratigraphy
On line lectures introducing sequence stratigraphic concepts and their use.

Terminology
Terminology of sequence and sedimentary stratigraphy. See also the ongoing "Debate on the Sequence Stratigraphy Terminology".

World Petroleum | Fact Sheets | Petroleum Links | Petroleum Reserves and Consumption | Petroleum Basins & Petroleum Lectures
World petroleum reserves for those of you jaded by high prices at the gas stations and garages of the world.