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parasequence: a standalone construct

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Stratigraphy

a shallowing-upward succession of beds bounded by marine flooding surfaces, the basic building block of sequence stratigraphy.

In stratigraphy, parasequence refers to a shallowing-upward succession of beds bounded by marine flooding surfaces, the basic building block of sequence stratigraphy. This meaning comes from Wagoner (1988) in Sea-Level Changes.[1]

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References

Wagoner, J. C. V., Posamentier, H. W., Mitchum, R. M., Vail, P. R., Sarg, J. F., Loutit, T. S., & Hardenbol, J. (1988). An Overview of the Fundamentals of Sequence Stratigraphy and Key Definitions. In Sea-Level Changes (pp. 39-45). SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology. https://doi.org/10.2110/pec.88.01.0039

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