accommodation

aggradation

progradation

progradational parasequence set

retrogradation

retrogradational parasequence set

stacking patterns

A parasequence set of parasequences in which successively younger parasequence were deposited above one another and there are no significant lateral sifts. The rate of creation of accommodation approximates the rate of accumulation.

References
Van Wagoner, J.C., Posamentier, H.W., Mitchum, R.M., Vail, P.R., Sarg, J.F., Loutit, T.S., Hardenbol, J., 1988, An overview of and key definitions. In: Wilgus, C.K., Hastings, B.S., Kendall, C.G.St.C., Posamentier, H.W., Ross, C.A., Van Wagoner, J.C. (Eds.), Sea Level Changes––An Integrated Approach, vol. 42. SEPM Special Publication, pp. 39–45.

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