Marine flooding surface

Marine flooding surfaces are a fundamental concept in sequence stratigraphy, where they form the limiting surfaces of parasequences.

A marine flooding surfaces is defined as a sharp contact that separates overlying younger strata with deep-water facies from underlying older strata with shallow-water facies.[1][2] Therefore, marine flooding surfaces indicate a deepening and can display signs of erosion and/or nondeposition resulting in a hiatus or break in the sedimentary record.[1]

References
  1. Van Wagoner, JC (1988). "An overview of the fundamentals of sequence stratigraphy and key definitions". Special Publications of SEPM. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Patzkowsky, Mark E.; Holland, Steven M. (2012). Stratigraphic Paleobiology. Chicago: University of Chicago University Press. p. 34.


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