Reply to Comment of O. Catuneanu and M. Zecchin on Non‐unique stratal geometries: implications for sequence stratigraphic interpretations, by: P. M. Burgess and G. D. Prince, Basin Research (2015) 27, 351–365

Burgess, Peter M.; Prince, Guy D.

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“…1A and 1B). While active debate regarding both controlling mechanisms and their stratigraphic responses has been ongoing since the late 1980s (see Haq et al, 1987;Christie-Blick et al, 1988), the community remains divided on the level of applicability of sequence stratigraphy (see Madof et al, 2016;Burgess, 2016), on its status as a workflow as opposed to a paradigm (see Burgess and Prince, 2016;Catuneanu and Zecchin, 2016), and on its ability to be treated as a set of testable hypotheses (this study).…”

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Stratigraphic aliasing and the transient nature of deep-water depositional sequences: Revisiting the Mississippi Fan

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Harris

Baumgardner

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Geology

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Sequence stratigraphy remains the foremost methodology used to describe the stratigraphic record and to interpret the controls on deposition; yet, it relies on long-standing assumptions that few studies have sought to validate. Here, we present results from testing hypotheses related to the deep-water depositional sequence model by revisiting the seismic-based type locality: the Mississippi Fan, in the central Gulf of Mexico. By independently testing the relationship between cycles of relative sea-level change and those of sedimentation, we demonstrate that >98% of Neogene-Quaternary deep-water sequences do not accumulate in a manner prescribed by long-held sequence stratigraphic conventions. Instead, over the past 5.5 Myr, sequences show a temporal mismatch in frequency, phase, and amplitude with cycles of relative sea-level change, a concept we refer to as stratigraphic aliasing. Divergences are attributed to variable rates of sedimentation, which were responsible for creating cycle frequencies that were both higher and lower than those of relative sea-level change, and that resulted in two modes of Mississippi Fan accumulation: lower average sedimentation rates in older sediments, and an opposite trend in younger successions. The latter mode occurred ~2.2 Myr after the onset of North American glaciation, a period marked by significant continental drainage reorganization and salt-tectonic deformation. Based on our conclusions, we recommend that the future of sequence stratigraphy be rooted firmly in assessing the reproducibility of preexisting spatiotemporal predictions and in the rigorous use of multiple working hypotheses.

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Stratigraphic aliasing and the transient nature of deep-water depositional sequences: Revisiting the Mississippi Fan

Madof

Harris

Baumgardner

et al. 2019

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Introduction to the future of sequence stratigraphy: evolution or revolution?

Burgess

Allen

Steel

2016

JGS

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Sequence stratigraphy was first developed as concepts and methods from the late 19th to mid 20th century by geologists such as Barrell and Sloss. It is now at the forefront of how sedimentary geologists observe, record, model and predict strata. The Geological Society William Smith meeting in Burlington House in September 2014 considered the current state and future developments in sequence stratigraphy, and focused particularly on how the subject should progress, either by evolution or by revolution. We feel that this is a relevant question because of continuing debate, and in some cases controversy, about what sequence stratigraphy is, how we do it and what it can be used for. For example, one of the major hindrances to progress has been the interweaving of description and interpretation, mixing method with model. This has been pointed out and discussed by various researchers (Helland-Hansen & Gjelberg 1994; Burgess & Prince in press). This thematic set of papers presents a sample of the state-of-the-art in sequence stratigraphy, representing how the method and model is now being debated and developed, from a plea to retain the earliest version of the concept to the inclusion of more radical ideas stimulated from experimental stratigraphy.

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How To Interpret, Understand, and Predict Stratal Geometries Using Stratal-Control Spaces and Stratal-Control-Space Trajectories

Burgess

Steel

2017

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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Reply to Comment of O. Catuneanu and M. Zecchin on Non‐unique stratal geometries: implications for sequence stratigraphic interpretations, by: P. M. Burgess and G. D. Prince, Basin Research (2015) 27, 351–365

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Stratigraphic aliasing and the transient nature of deep-water depositional sequences: Revisiting the Mississippi Fan

Stratigraphic aliasing and the transient nature of deep-water depositional sequences: Revisiting the Mississippi Fan

Introduction to the future of sequence stratigraphy: evolution or revolution?

How To Interpret, Understand, and Predict Stratal Geometries Using Stratal-Control Spaces and Stratal-Control-Space Trajectories

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