Second-order Cycle

First-order cycle

Third-order cycle

Fourth-order cycle

Fifth-order cycle

Milankovitch cycles

A cycle of relative or eustatic change of sea level that has a duration in the order of 10 to 80 million years. Supercycles are second-order cycles (Mitchum, 1977, AAPG Memoir 26).

 

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