Sequence Boundary: Its Significance in Stratigraphic Subdivision, Correlation and Classification

(整期优先)网络出版时间:1995-02-12
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SequenceboundaryisstudiedindetailinreferencetothePermianGuadalupianLopingianboundary,basedonhighresolutioncorrelationofconodootzones.Aconceptualsynchronousstratigraphicboundary,correspondingtotheageofthesequenceboundarydatedintheconformableportionofthesequenceboundary,isdefinedasthesequencechronostratigraphicboundary(SCB).Thesequenceboundaryisprovedtobedualinnatureinregardstothesynchronyanddiachroneityofstratigraphicboundaries.Themeritsofthesequenceboundaryinstratigraphicsubpision,correlationandclassificationareelucidatedincomparisonwiththelithostratigraphicboundary,thebiostratigraphicboundaryandthetraditionalapproachoftheglobalstratotypesectionandpoint(GSSP).ByintegratingthevirtuesofthesequenceboundaryandtheGSSP,itisproposedthattheGSSPshouldbeestablishedintheconformableportionoftherelatedsequenceboundary.Theboundaryestablishedinlightofthisapproachisdefinedas