Sequence Stratigraphy Reading List
Foundational Papers in Sequence Stratigraphy and Architectural Element-Analysis
Galloway, W.E., 1989, Genetic stratigraphic sequences in basin analysis I: Architecture
and genesis of flooding-surface bounded depositional units: AAPG Bulletin, v.73, p.125142.
Haq, B.U., et al., 1988, Mesozoic and Cenozoic chromostratigraphy and cycles of sealevel change, in C.K. Wilgus, B.S. Hastings, C.G.St.C Kendall, H.W. Posamentier, C.A.
Ross and J.C. Van Wagoner (eds.), Sea Level Changes – an Integrated Approach: SEPM
Special Pub. 42, p.71-108.
Miall, A.D., 1985, Architectural-element analysis: A new method of facies analysis
applied to fluvial deposits: Earth-Science Review, v. 22, p. 261-308.
Miall, A.D., 1988, Reservoir heterogeneities in fluvial sandstone: Lessons from outcrop
studies: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v.72, no.6, p.682-687.
Mitchum, R.M., 1977, Seismic stratigraphy and global changes of sea level, Part 1:
Glossary of terms used in seismic stratigraphy, in Payton, C.E., ed., Seismic Stratigraphy
– Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: Association of Petroleum Geologists
Memoir 26, p.205-212.
Mitchum, R.M., Vail, P.R., and Thompsen, S., 1977, Seismic stratigraphy and global
changes of sea level, Part 2—The depositional sequence as a basic unit for stratigraphic
analysis: AAPG memoir 26, p.53-62.
North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, (NACSN), 1983, North
American stratigraphic code: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin,
v.67, p.841-875.
Sarg, J.F., 1988, Carbonate sequence stratigraphy: SEPM Special Publication 42, p.155181.
Sloss, L.L., 1963, Sequences in the cratonic interior of North America: GSA Bulletin,
v.74, p.93-114.
Vail, P.R. and Mitchum, R.M., 1977, Seismic stratigraphy and global changes of sea
level, Part 1—Overview: AAPG Memoir 26, p.51-52.
Vail, P.R., Mitchum, R.M., and Thompson, S., 1977, Seismic stratigraphy and global
changes of sea level, Part 3—Relative changes of sea level from coastal onlap: AAPG
Memoir 26, p.63-81.
C.K. Wilgus, B.S. Hastings, C.G.St.C Kendall, H.W. Posamentier, C.A. Ross and J.C.
Van Wagoner (eds.), Sea Level Changes – an Integrated Approach: SEPM Special Pub.
42.
Van Wagoner, J.C., et al., 1990, Siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy in well logs, cores and
outcrops: AAPG Methods in Exploration Series, No.7, 55p.
Wheeler, H.E., 1958, Time stratigraphy: AAPG Bulletin, v.42, no.5, p.1047-1063.
Some Formative Publications in Sequence Stratigraphy and Architectural-Element
Analysis
Allen, G.P. and Posamentier, H.W., 1994, Transgressive facies and sequence architecture
in mixed tide- and wave-dominated incised valleys: Examples from the Gironde Estuary,
France in Dalrymple, R.W., Boyd, R., and Saitlin, B.A., eds., Incised-Valley Systems:
Origin and Sedimentary Sequences: SEPM Special Publication No.51
Best, J.L. and Ashworth, P.J., 1997, Scour in large braided rivers and the recognition of
sequence stratigraphic boundaries: Nature, v.387, p.275-277.
Bhattacharya, J.P., 1993, The expression and interpretation of marine flooding surfaces
and erosional surfaces in core; examples from the Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan
Formation, Alberta foreland basin, Canada in Posamentier, H.W., Summerhayes, C.P.,
Haq, B.U., and Allen, G.P. (eds.) Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Associations:
Special Publication Number 18 of the International Association of Sedimentologists,
p.125-160.
Bhattacharya, J.P. and Willis, B.J., (2001), Lowstand deltas in the Frontier Formation,
Powder River Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.: Implications for sequence stratigraphic models:
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.
Blum, M.D. and Tornqvist, T.E., 2000, Fluvial response to climate and sea level: A
review and look forward: Sedimentology, v.47, p. 1-48.
Blum, M.D., 1994, Genesis and architecture of incised valley fill sequences: a late
Quaternary example from the Colorado River, Gulf coastal plain of Texas in Weimer, P.,
and Posamentier, H.W., eds., Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy: Recent Developments
and Applications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 58, p. 259283.
Bohac, K.M., et al., 2002, Sequence stratigraphy in fine-grained rocks: Beyond the
correlative conformity, in Armentrout, J.C. and Rosen, N.C. (eds.), Sequence
Stratigraphic Models for Exploration and Production: Evolving Methodology, Emerging
Models and Application Histories: 22nd Annual Gulf Coast section SEPM Foundation
Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p.321-348.
Bouma, A.H. and Stone, C.G., 2000, Fine-grained turbidite systems: AAPG memoir
72/SEPM Special Publication 68, 342p.
Bridge, J.S., Jalfina, G.A., and Georgieff, S.M., 2000, Geometry, lithofacies, and spatial
distribution of Cretaceous fluvial sandstone bodies, San Jorge Basin, Argentina: Outcrop
analog for the hydrocarbon-bearing Chubut Group: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.
70, no.2, p.341-359.
Bromley, M.H., 1991, Architectural features of the Kayenta Formation (Lower Jurassic),
Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.: Relationship to salt tectonics in the Paradox Basin:
Sedimentary Geology, v.73, p.77-99.
Cowan, E.J., 1991, The large-scale architecture of the fluvial Westwater Canyon
Member, Morrison Formation (Jurassic), San Juan Basin, New Mexico, in Miall, A.D.
and Tyler, N. (eds.) The Three-dimensional Facies Architecture of Terrigenous Clastic
Sediments, and its Implication for Hydrocarbon Discovery and Recovery: Society of
Economic Paleontologists and Mineralologists Concepts in Sedimentology and
Paleontology 3, p.80-93.
Currie, B.S., 1997, Sequence stratigraphy of nonmarine Jurassic-Cretaceous rocks,
central Cordilleran foreland-basin system: Geological Society of America Bulletin,
v.109, no.9, p.1206-1222.
DeCelles, P.G., Gray, M.B., Ridgeway, K.D., Cole, R.B., Pivnik, D.A., Pequera, N.,
Srivastava, P., 1991, Controls on synorogenic alluvial-fan architecture, Beartooth
Conglomerate (Paleocene), Wyoming and Montana: Sedimentology, v.38, p.567-590.
Embry, A.F., 2002, Transgressive-regressive (T-R) sequence stratigraphy, in Armentrout,
J.C. and Rosen, N.C. (eds.), Sequence Stratigraphic Models for Exploration and
Production: Evolving Methodology, Emerging Models and Application Histories: 22nd
Annual Gulf Coast section SEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference,
p.151-172.
Ethridge, F.G., Wood, L.J., and Schumm, S.A., 1998, Cyclic variables controlling fluvial
sequence development: Problems and perspectives, in Shanley, K.W. and McCabe, P.J.
(eds.) Relative Role of Eustacy, Climate, and Tectonism in Continental Rocks: Society
of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralologists Special Publication 59, p.17-29.
Heller, P.L. and Paola, C., 1996, Downstream changes in alluvial architecture: An
exploration of controls on channel-stacking patterns: Journal of Sedimentary Research,
v.B66, no.2, 297-306.
Galloway, W.E. and Sylvia, D.A., 2002, The many faces of erosion: theory meets data in
sequence stratigraphic analysis, in Armentrout, J.C. and Rosen, N.C. (eds.), Sequence
Stratigraphic Models for Exploration and Production: Evolving Methodology, Emerging
Models and Application Histories: 22nd Annual Gulf Coast section SEPM Foundation
Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p.99-112.
Holbrook, J.M., 1996, Complex fluvial response to low gradients at maximum regression:
A genetic link between smooth sequence-boundary morphology and architecture of
overlying sheet sandstone: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 66, p. 713-722.
Holbrook, J.M., 2001, Origin, genetic interrelationships, and stratigraphy over the
continuum of fluvial channel-form bounding surfaces: An illustration from middle
Cretaceous strata, southeastern Colorado: Sedimentary Geology, v. 124, p.202-246.
Hunt, D. and Tucker, M.E., 1992, Stranded parasequences and the forced regressive
wedge systems tract: Deposition during base-level fall: Sedimentary Geology, v.81, p.19.
McCarthy, P.J. and Plint, A.G., 1998, Recognition of interfluve sequence boundaries:
Integrating paleopedology and sequence stratigraphy: Geology, v.26, p.387-390.
Martinsen, O.J., and Helland-Hansen, W., 1995, Strike variability of clastic depositional
systems: Does it matter for sequence-stratigraphic analysis? Geology, v.23, no.5, p.439442.
Miall, A.D., 1994, Sequence stratigraphy and chronostratigraphy: Problems of definition
and precision in correlation, and their implications for global eustasy: Geoscience
Canada, v.21,p.1-26.
Miall, A.D., 1996, The Geology of Fluvial Deposits: Sedimentary Facies, Basin
Analysis, and Petroleum Geology: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 582 p.
Miall, A.D., 1997, The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences: Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
433p.
Mutti, E., 1985, Turbidite systems and their relations to depositional sequence, in Zuffa,
G.G., ed., Provenance of Arenites: NATO-ASI Series, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, D.
Reidel, p.65-93.
Peper, T., 1994, Tectonic and eustatic control on Albian shallowing (Viking and Paddy
Formations) in the Western Canada foreland basin: Geological Society of America
Bulletin, v.106, p.253-264.
Posamentier, H.W and Allen, G.P., 1993, Siliciclastic sequence stratigraphic patterns in
foreland ramp-type basins: Geology, v. 21, p.455-458.
Posamentier, H. W., Allen, G.A., James, D.P., and Tesson, M., 1992, Forced regressions
in a sequence stratigraphic framework: Examples and exploration significance: AAPG
Bulletin, v.76, no.11, p.1687-1709.
Posamentier, H.W. and Vail, P.R., 1988, Eustatic controls on clastic deposition II –
Sequence and systems tract models, in Wilgus, C.K., Hastings, B.S., Kendall, C.G.S.J.C.
Posamentier, H.W., Ross, C.A., and Van Wagoner, J.C., eds, Sea-Level Changes: an
Integrated Approach: SEPM, Special Publication 42, p. 125-154.
Schlager, W., 1993, Accommodation and supply – a dual control on stratigraphic
sequences: Sedimentary Geology, v.86, p.111-136.
Schlager, W., 2005, Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy: SEPM
Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology #8, 200p.
Schumm, S.A., 1993, River response to baselevel change: Implications for sequence
stratigraphy: Journal of Geology, v. 101, p. 279-284.
Schumm, S.A. and Ethridge, F.G., 1994, Origin, evolution and morphology of fluvial
valleys, in Dalrymple, R.W., Zaitlin, B.A., Scholle, P.A. (eds.) Incised-valley Systems:
Origin and Sedimentary Sequences: Society of Sedimentary Geology Special Publication
51, p.11-27.
Shanley, K.W., and McCabe, P.J., 1994, Perspectives on the sequence stratigraphy of
continental strata: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 78, p. 544568.
Van Wagoner, J.C., Mitchum, R.M., Campion, K.M., and Rahmanian, V.D., 1990,
Siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy in well logs, cores, and outcrops: American
Association of Petroleum Geologists Methods in Exploration Series, No. 7, 55 p.
Walker, R.G., 1992, Facies, facies models and modern stratigraphic concepts, in Walker,
R.G. and James, N.P. (eds.) Facies Models: Responses to Sea-Level Change: Geological
Association of Canada, St. John’s, Newfoundland, p.1-14.
Weimer, P. and Buffler, R.T., 1988, Distribution and seismic facies of Mississippi fan
channels: Geology, v.16, p.900-903.
Weimer, R.J., 1984, Relation of unconformities, tectonics and sea level changes,
Cretaceous of Western Interior, United States of America, in Schlee, J.S., ed.,
Interregional Unconformities and Hydrocarbon Accumulation: American Association of
Petroleum Geologists Memoir 36, p. 7-36.
Wellner, R.W., and Bartek, L.R., 2003, The effect of sea level, climate, and shelf
physiography on the development of incised-valley complexes: A modern example from
the East China Sea: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 926-940.
Willis, A., 2000, Tectonic control of nested sequence architecture in the Sego Sandstone,
Neslen Formation and Upper Castlegate Sandstone (Upper Cretaceous), Sevier Foreland
Basin, Utah, U.S.A.: Sedimentary Geology, v.136, p.277-317.
Zaitlin, B.A., Dalrymple, R.W., and Boyd, R., 1994, The stratigrahpic organization of
incised-valley systems associated with relative sea-level changes, in Dalrymple, R.W.,
Boyd, R., and Zaitlin, B.A. (eds.) Incised-valley Systems: Origin and Sedimentary
Sequences: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralologists Special Publication
51, p.45-60.