From Cycles to Sequences: Sequence Stratigraphy and Relative Sea Level Change for the Late Cambrian of the North China Platform

2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
MEI Mingxiang ◽  
MA Yongsheng ◽  
DENG Jun ◽  
CHEN Huijun
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
North China ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
North China Platform ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The North ◽  
Late Cambrian

scholarly journals Salt-marsh reconstructions of relative sea-level change in the North Atlantic during the last 2000 years

2014 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha L.M. Barlow ◽  
Antony J. Long ◽  
Margot H. Saher ◽  
W. Roland Gehrels ◽  
Mark H. Garnett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic

scholarly journals Developing detailed records of relative sea-level change using a foraminiferal transfer function: an example from North Norfolk, UK

2006 ◽  
Vol 364 (1841) ◽  
pp. 973-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin J Edwards ◽  
B.P Horton
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Function ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The North ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Coastal Deposits

This paper provides a brief overview of the transfer function approach to sea-level reconstruction. Using the example of two overlapping sediment cores from the North Norfolk coast, UK, the advantages and limitations of the transfer function methodology are examined. While the selected cores are taken from different sites, and display contrasting patterns of sedimentation, the foraminiferal transfer function distils comparable records of relative sea-level change from both sequences. These reconstructions are consistent with existing sea-level index points from the region but produce a more detailed record of relative sea-level change. Transfer functions can extract sea-level information from a wider range of sedimentary sub-environments. This increases the amount of data that can be collected from coastal deposits and improves record resolution. The replicability of the transfer function methodology, coupled with the sequential nature of the data it produces, assists in the compilation and analysis of sea-level records from different sites. This technique has the potential to bridge the gap between short-term (instrumental) and long-term (geological or geophysical) records of sea-level change.

Patterns of Holocene relative sea level change in the North of Britain and Ireland

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 58-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.E. Smith ◽  
N. Hunt ◽  
C.R. Firth ◽  
J.T. Jordan ◽  
P.T. Fretwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The North

Developing constraints on the relative sea-level curve for the northeast of Ireland from the mid-Holocene to the present day

2006 ◽  
Vol 364 (1841) ◽  
pp. 857-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian D Orford ◽  
Joanne Murdy ◽  
Robert Freel
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Annual Variation ◽  
Tide Gauge ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Tidal Level ◽  
Tide Gauge Records ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Level Change ◽  
The North

Tide-gauge records from the north of Ireland have been digitized to generate annual estimates of both mean-sea-level (MSL) position from Malin Head (1958–1998), and mean tidal level (MTL) from Belfast Harbour (1918–2002). Both sites exhibit substantial annual variation, but show overall long-term shallow rates of falling relative sea-level change (RSLC) that are very similar at −0.2 mm a −1 (±0.37 mm a −1 ) for Belfast and −0.16 mm a −1 (±0.17 mm a −1 ) for Malin. Using these rates as constraints, plus other constraints of inferred RSLC rates from the mid-Holocene, an approximation of the likely profile of RSLC rates for the northeast of Ireland since 6 ka ago is presented.

scholarly journals Sequence stratigraphy and eustatic sea-level change: the role of micropalaeontology

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Simmons ◽  
C. L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphy ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Sea Level Change ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Sequence Stratigraphic ◽  
Level Change ◽  
Sedimentary Sequences

Abstract. Following the May 1992 meeting in Dijon, which initiated an international project on the “Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins”, it seems an appropriate time to consider the contribution micropalaeontology can make to the science of sequence stratigraphy. In this short note, we assume that readers are familiar with sequence stratigraphic terminology; if not, see Van Wagoner et al. (1988).WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES FACING SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY?Demonstrating global eustatic sea-level change. We accept that the basic sequence stratigraphy model put forward by Peter Vail and his colleagues (see Van Wagoner et al., 1988 for a summary) is a powerful tool for describing many sedimentary successions, and that the associated eustatic sea-level curve (Haq et al., 1987) has some validity. Our own observations on numerous sedimentary sequences around the world suggest that local and global eustatic events exist, and that relative sea-level curves can be constructed, but it should be remembered that the timing and magnitude of many global eustatic events are still to be established. As most workers in the field will be aware, much of the evidence to support the Haq et al. curve has not been published. The Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins Project will go some way to rectify this, but it should be borne in mind that there can be an unfortunate tendency to use the Haq et al. curve for dating in its own right - i.e. fitting relative sea-level changes seen in a succession to the curve. If this is done, then the global . . .

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