Science. 1987 Mar 6;235(4793):1156-67. doi: 10.1126/science.235.4793.1156.
Advances in sequence stratigraphy and the development of depositional models have helped explain the origin of genetically related sedimentary packages during sea level cycles. These concepts have provided the basis for the recognition of sea level events in subsurface data and in outcrops of marine sediments around the world. Knowledge of these events has led to a new generation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic global cycle charts that chronicle the history of sea level fluctuations during the past 250 million years in greater detail than was possible from seismic-stratigraphic data alone. An effort has been made to develop a realistic and accurate time scale and widely applicable chronostratigraphy and to integrate depositional sequences documented in public domain outcrop sections from various basins with this chronostratigraphic framework. A description of this approach and an account of the results, illustrated by sea level cycle charts of the Cenozoic, Cretaceous, Jurassic, and Triassic intervals, are presented.
层序地层学的进展和沉积模式的发展有助于解释海平面循环过程中遗传相关沉积组合的成因。这些概念为识别地下资料和世界各地海洋沉积物露头中的海平面事件提供了基础。对这些事件的了解导致了新一代中生代和新生代全球旋回图表的出现，这些图表比仅从地震地层数据更详细地记录了过去 2.5 亿年来海平面波动的历史。人们努力制定一个现实和准确的时间尺度，并广泛应用年代地层学，并将公共领域露头剖面中记录的沉积序列与这个年代地层框架相结合。本文介绍了这种方法的描述和结果，并用新生代、白垩纪、侏罗纪和三叠纪的海平面旋回图来说明。
