Modified fischer plots as graphical tools for evaluating thickness patterns in stratigraphic successions

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 179-183

  Martín Chivelet, Javier ^a   Osleger, David A ^b   Montañez, Isabel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Education geoscience; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GEOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 0343673820     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-48.2.179     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Allen, P.A., and Allen, J.R., 1990, Basin analysis, principles & applications: Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publishers, 451 p.
2. Bond, G.C., and Kominz, M.A., 1984, Construction of tectonic subsidence curves for the early Paleozoic miogeocline, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Implications for subsidence mechanisms, age of breakup, and crustal thinning: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 95, p. 155-173.
3. Boss, S.K., and Rasmussen, K.A., 1995, Misuse of Fischer plots as sea-level curves: Geology, v. 23, p. 221-224.
4. Day, P.I., 1997, The Fischer diagram in the depth domain: A tool for sequence stratigraphy: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p. 982-984.
5. Drummond, C.N., and Wilkinson, B.H., 1993, Carbonate cycle stacking patterns and hierarchies of orbitally forced eustatic sea level change: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 63, p. 369-377.
6. Fischer, A.G., 1964, The Lofer cyclothems in the Alpine Triassic: Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin, v. 169, p. 107-149.
7. Goldhammer, R.K., 1997, Compaction and decompaction algorithms for sedimentary carbonates: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p. 26-35.
8. Goldhammer, R.K., Dunn, P.A., and Hardie, L.A., 1990, Depositional cycles, composite sea level changes, cycle stacking patterns, and the hierarchy of stratigraphic forcing: Examples from platform carbonates of the Alpine Triassic: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 102, p. 535-562.
9. Martín-Chivelet, J., Osleger, D.A., and Montañez, I.P., 1998, Sequence stratigraphy of passive margin carbonate platforms: similarities between the Cambrian of the Cordilleran margin, Great Basin (USA), and the Cretaceous of the Betic margin (SE Spain), in J.C. Calaveras, M.A. Garcia del Cura, and J. Soria, editors, 15th International Sedimentological Congress Abstracts, International Association of Sedimentologists, p. 535-536.
10. Miall, A.D., 1997, The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 433 p.
11. Montañez, I.P., and Osleger, D.A., 1993, Parasequence stacking patterns, third-order accommodation events, and sequence stratigraphy of Middle to Upper Cambrian platform carbonates, Bonanza King Formation, southern Great Basin, in R. Loucks, and R. Sarg, editors, Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 57, p. 305-326.
12. Osleger, D.A., and Read, J.F., 1993, Comparative analysis of methods used to define eustatic variations in outcrop: Late Cambrian interbasinal sequence development: American Journal of Science, v. 293, p. 157-216.
13. Pratt, B.R., James, N.P., and Cowan, C.A., 1992, Peritidal carbonates, in R.G. Walker, and N.P. James, editors, Facies models: Response to sea level change: Geological Association of Canada, p. 303-322.
14. Read, J.F., and Goldhammer, R.K., 1988, Use of Fischer plots to define third-order sea-level curves in Ordovician peritidal cyclic carbonates, Appalachians: Geology, v. 16, p. 895-899.
15. Sadler, P.M., Osleger, D.A., and Montañez, I.P., 1993, On the labeling, length, and objective basis of Fischer plots: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 63, p. 360-368.
16. Sclater, J.G., and Christie, P.A.F., 1980, Continental stretching: An explanation of the post-mid-Cretaceous subsidence of the central North Sea Basin: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 85, p. 3711-3739.
17. Schmoker, J.W., and Halley, R.B., 1982, Carbonate porosity versus depth: A predictable relation for south Florida: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 66, p. 2561-2570.
18. Steckler, M.S., and Watts, A.B., 1978, Subsidence of the Atlantic-type continental margin off New York: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 41, p. 1-13.
19. van Hinte, J.E., 1978, Geohistory analysis-application of micropaleontology in exploration geology: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 62, p. 201-222.
20. Vilas, L., Martín-Chivelet, J., Arias, C., Giménez, R., Ruiz-Ortiz, P.A., Castro, J.M., Masse, J.P., and Estevez, A., 1998, Cretaceous carbonate platforms of the Spanish Levante: Sedimentary evolution and sequence stratigraphy, in A. Meléndez, and A.R. Soria, editors, Field Trip GuideBook, 15th International Sedimentological Congress: International Association of Sedimentologists, p. 295-315.