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Measuring Dimensions of Eustasy - Papers

This page lists some of the literature [with some attached .pdf files] related to the analysis of eustatic change and the difficulty, (really the impossibilty since two of the three unknowns must be assumed to solve for the third), of doing this.

Burton, R., C.G.St.C.Kendall, and I. Lerche, (1987), Out of Our Depth: On the Impossibility of Fathoming Eustasy from the Stratigraphic Record, Earth Science Review, v. 24, p. 237- 277  
Cathro, Donna L., James A. Austin Jr., and Graham D. Moss, (2003), Progradation along a deeply submerged Oligocene–Miocene heterozoan carbonate shelf:How sensitive are clinoforms to sea level variations? AAPG Bulletin, v. 87, no. 10, pp. 1547–1574  
Guidish, T.M., C.G.St.C.Kendall, I. Lerche and J.J. O'Brien, (l984), Relationship between eustatic level changes and basement subsidence: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geol. Bull., v. 68, p. l64- l77.  
Kendall,C. G.St.C., Moore, P., Whittle, G., and Cannon R.; (1992 ), A challenge : is it possible to determine eustasy and does it matter?, in Dott, R. H., Jr., ed., Eustasy: The Historical Ups and Downs of a Major Geological Concept: Geological Society of America Memoir 180 p93-107.
Kominz, Michelle A., and Stephen F. Pekar, (2001), "Oligocene eustasy from two-dimensional sequence stratigraphic backstripping", Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 113; no. 3; p. 291–304.
Van Hinte, J. E., (1978), Geohistory analysis-application of micropaleontology in exploration geology: AAPG Bulletin, v. 62, p. 201-222.  
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