Sequence Stratigraphy Lectures


The listed lectures are for your enjoyment and education and are focused on stratigraphic interpretations that explain how sedimentary rocks acquire their layered character, lithology, texture, faunal associations and other properties. These Power Point presentations are based in part on lectures assembled for the university classes of David Barbeau and Christopher Kendall and include specifically:-

Power Point lecture Topic Click and Link to Lecture    Some of content of lectures
"Archticectural Elements- Introduction" Facies, sedstructures, elements and depositional sytems!
"Basics of Sequence Stratigraphy" Role of Steno, Walther & base level surfaces
"Sequence Stratigraphic Surfaces" Octavian Catuneanu's Diagrams
"Eustasy and sea level change" Role of Sloss, Waite shown with Mallorca Movie
"Eustasy and collisions from outer space " What evidence is there that some global base level change is driven by bolide impacts?
"Well Logs and Seismic - Tools for Subsurface Analysis" Outlines how surfaces & lithology are determined from well logs & seismic
"Clastic sediment Hierarchies & Eustasy" Control of sea level & depositional setting on clastics
"Carbonate sediment Hierarchies & Eustasy" Sea level & depositional setting of carbonates
"Carbonate storm deposits and HST surfaces of condensation" Response of Storm Deposits to sea level & depositional setting
"Evaporites, Plate Tectonics and Sequence Stratigraphy" Evaporites sea level, climate & tectonic setting
"Lacustrian, Glacial, Aeolian Systems" Depositional processes in lakes, glaciers, and dunes.
"Introduction to Sedpak" The basics of Sedpak and how to use its menus
"Role of lime muds in the stratigraphic section" The sequestration of lime mud in geologic section
"Process modeling of sedimentology of carbonates" Setting up carbonate simulations?
"Sedimentary Structures - a compendium" Use of sedimentary structures to determine setting
"Ichnology & Ichnofacies; an important tool in stratigraphic interpretation!" Based on work of Pemberton & his co-workers In Alberta and Steve Hasiotis of Kansas
"Carbonate Particles - Extensive introduction" Carbonate allochems and their depositional setting
"Carbonates - a brief overview" Carbonates allochems, ccd and diagenesis
"Carbonates - Review their Depositional Systems" Carbonates and their depositional setting
"Carbonates - Diagenetic Behavior" Carbonates and their diagenesis
"Bahamas - Holocene Carbonates" Carbonates accumulating in Bahamas
"Shark Bay - Holocene Carbonates" Carbonates accumulating in Shark Bay
"UAE-Holocene Carbonates & Evaporites" Carbonates accumulating in UAE
"Trucial States to UAE-Holocene Sediments" A retrospective from 1962 to the present
"Jurassic Deepwater Sediments High Atlas Basin - Morocco" Jurassic Carbonate Turbidites & Lithoherms of High Atlas Basin
"Permian Basin - New Mexico & Texas" Carbonates and evaporites of Permian Basin
"Geologic History of Appalachians" Traces evolving depositional settings in these mountains
"Holocene Cyanobacterial Mats & Lime Muds: Links to Middle East Carbonate Source Rock Potential" Mud & cyanobacteria sequestered in axial trough of Gulf & extensive tidal flats that rim it, the source
"Petroleum occurrence in the Arabian Gulf" Oil is where you find it in Arabia!!

To view a series of timely lectures on Petroleum Geology and the history of petroleum exploitation in the Middle East you should link to Istvan Csato's Petroleum Lectures



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