Stratigraphy interpretation

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Gawthorpe, R.L., Fraser, A.J. and Collier, R.E.L.I. 1994. Sequence stratigraphy in active extensional basins implications for the interpretation of ancient basin-fills. Mar. Pet. Geol., 11 642-658. 

Kraus, M.J. Bown, T.M. (1986) Paleosols and time resolution in alluvial stratigraphy. In Paleosols, Their Recognition and Interpretation (Ed. Wright, V.P.), pp. 180-207. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 

In the paleo-oceanographic context, constant flux tracers are valuable tools because they enable the reconstruction of particulate fluxes. One of the advantages of this approach is that it allows us to establish mass accumulation rates independently from single-point age models (e g., O). These models frequently are biased and sensitive to sediment redistribution effects. For example, this holds true for paleoceanographic studies in the Quaternary, where many interpretations of the sediment record rely on potentially erroneous sediment accumulation rates derived from 5 0 stratigraphy. 

Figure 18. Stratigraphy variation in interpreted chemocline depth based on detailed aragonite crystal size spectra collected from laminae of two offshore cores from Waldsea Lake. The dark continuous line is a 3 sample running average (modified from Greengrass et al., 1999 Deleqiat et al., 1999).

Chemical stratigraphy is best interpreted alongside biological methods. 

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