Application of modern stratigraphic techniques : theory and case histories / edited by Ken Ratcliffe and Brian Zaitlin.

"June, 2010."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Kenneth T. Ratcliffe and Brian A. Zaitlin -- Sequence stratigraphic methodologies. The sequence stratigraphy family tree : understanding the portfolio of sequence methodologies / Arthur D. Donovan -- Correlating siliciclastic successions with sequence stratigraphy / Ashton F. Embry -- Biostratigraphic methodologies. Recent advances in the application of biostratigraphy to hydrocarbon exploration and production / Jason A. Crux ... [et al.] -- A technique to provide digital biostratigraphic information for the seismic interpreter / Paul Watson, Caroline Reid, and Elisabeth Nairn -- Chemostratigraphic methodologies. The application of chemostratigraphic techniques to distinguish compound incised valleys in low-accommodation incised-valley systems in a foreland-basin setting : an example from the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group and Basal Colorado Sandstone (Colorado Group), Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin / Amelia M. Wright ... [et al.] -- Chemostratigraphy of Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) sequences from the southern North Sea (United Kingdom) / Tim J. Pearce ... [et al.] -- Strontium isotope stratigraphy / J.M. McArthur -- Constraining the depositional framework of Lower Carboniferous strata in northern Britain using stable-isotope chemostratigraphy / A.R. Prave, A.E. Fallick, and R.A.J. Robinson -- Magnetic susceptibility stratigraphic methodologies. Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility used for high-resolution correlation among Paleoeocene [sic.]-Eocene boundary sequences in Egypt, Spain, and the U.S.A. / Brooks B. Ellwood ... [et al.] -- Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility used for high resolution correlation among Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) marine sedimentary sequences in the U.S. Western Interior Seaway and the Western Sinai Peninsula, Egypt / Brooks Ellwood ... [et al.] -- Miscellaneous stratigraphic methodologies. Heavy-mineral stratigraphy of the Clair Group (Devonian-Carboniferous) in the Clair Field, West of Shetland, U.K. / Andrew Morton ... [et al.] -- The sequence stratigraphic significance of paralic coal and its use as an indicator of accommodation space in terrestrial sediments / Jennifer Wadsworth, Claus Diessel, and Ron Boyd -- A whole-rock geochemical approach to the recognition and correlation of "marine bands" / Tim J. Pearce ... [et al.].