Multivariate sequence stratigraphy: Tackling complexity and uncertainty with stratigraphic forward modeling, multiple scenarios, and conditional frequency maps

Burgess, Peter M.; Lammers, Henne; Oosterhout, Cees van; Granjeon, Didier

doi:10.1306/06260605081

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“…In that sense, SFM addresses the shortcomings of qualitative investigation techniques applied to carbonate systems (e.g. Cabioch et al, 1999;Abbey et al, 2011;Dechnik et al, 2015). Several numerical models have been developed since the 1960s to investigate the evolution of carbonate systems; yet only recently have the complexity of biological interactions -specific to reefs -started to be addressed (Barrett and Webster, 2017;Clavera-Gispert et al, 2017).…”

Section: Sfm Of Carbonate Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Traditionally stratigraphic modelling of carbonatesiliciclastic systems has been applied to locate oil and gas reservoirs (Kendall et al, 1991;Burgess et al, 2006;Warrlich et al, 2008;Hill et al, 2009Hill et al, , 2012. However, SFM has become a popular heuristic tool to better understand and quantify parameters regulating peritidal carbonates (Burgess and Prince, 2015), the development of coral reef environments (Bosscher and Southam, 1992;Clavera-Gispert et al, 2017) as well as microbial (Parcell, 2003) and coral reef growth (Paulay and McEdward, 1990;Bosscher and Southam, 1992;Dalmasso et al, 2001).…”

Section: Sfm Of Carbonate Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The effect of light is assumed to dominate over the effect of water movement in limiting carbonate production (Dullo, 2005) (Fig. 1); however, both effects play a role in determining coral composition and, in turn, rates of vertical accretion (Cabioch et al, 1999;Kayanne et al, 2002).…”

Section: Accommodationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Clavera-Gispert et al (2017) previously incorporated GLVEs to model the geological evolution of large-scale carbonate platforms and assumed that is not meaningful when timescales are beyond the lifespan of an organism and supposed that = 1. Clavera-Gispert et al (2017) examine carbonate production in 500-year intervals whereas pyReefCore explores much smaller intervals (< 10 years), and as coral colonies may live for several decades to centuries (Camoin et al, 1997;Grigg, 2002), is not assumed to be 1. Even when assuming = 1, pyReef-Core simulations produced volatile population dynamics where assemblage populations grew exponentially and were unable to replicate longterm ecosystem stability nor the thousands of years of assemblage persistence observed on some reefs (Camoin et al, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Clavera-Gispert et al (2017) examine carbonate production in 500-year intervals whereas pyReefCore explores much smaller intervals (< 10 years), and as coral colonies may live for several decades to centuries (Camoin et al, 1997;Grigg, 2002), is not assumed to be 1. Even when assuming = 1, pyReef-Core simulations produced volatile population dynamics where assemblage populations grew exponentially and were unable to replicate longterm ecosystem stability nor the thousands of years of assemblage persistence observed on some reefs (Camoin et al, 1997). Hence, while values of are not yet known at the decadal scale, is an important parameter regarding spatial changes in assemblage distributions that occur within centuries.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring coral reef responses to millennial-scale climatic forcings: insights from the 1-D numerical tool pyReef-Core v1.0

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Abstract. Assemblages of corals characterise specific reef biozones and the environmental conditions that change spatially across a reef and with depth. Drill cores through fossil reefs record the time and depth distribution of assemblages, which captures a partial history of the vertical growth response of reefs to changing palaeoenvironmental conditions. The effects of environmental factors on reef growth are well understood on ecological timescales but are poorly constrained at centennial to geological timescales. pyReefCore is a stratigraphic forward model designed to solve the problem of unobservable environmental processes controlling vertical reef development by simulating the physical, biological and sedimentological processes that determine vertical assemblage changes in drill cores. It models the stratigraphic development of coral reefs at centennial to millennial timescales under environmental forcing conditions including accommodation (relative sea-level upward growth), oceanic variability (flow speed, nutrients, pH and temperature), sediment input and tectonics. It also simulates competitive coral assemblage interactions using the generalised Lotka-Volterra system of equations (GLVEs) and can be used to infer the influence of environmental conditions on the zonation and vertical accretion and stratigraphic succession of coral assemblages over decadal timescales and greater. The tool can quantitatively test carbonate platform development under the influence of ecological and environmental processes and efficiently interpret vertical growth and karstification patterns observed in drill cores. We provide two realistic case studies illustrating the basic capabilities of the model and use it to reconstruct (1) the Holocene history (from 8500 years to present) of coral community responses to environmental changes and (2) the evolution of an idealised coral reef core since the last interglacial (from 140 000 years to present) under the influence of sea-level change, subsidence and karstification. We find that the model reproduces the details of the formation of existing coral reef stratigraphic sequences both in terms of assemblages succession, accretion rates and depositional thicknesses. It can be applied to estimate the impact of changing environmental conditions on growth rates and patterns under many different settings and initial conditions.

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Section: Sfm Of Carbonate Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sfm Of Carbonate Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Asymmetric Half‐Graben Sedimentation: Inferences From 3‐D Numerical Modeling

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The tectono‐sedimentary evolution of asymmetric extensional systems driven by the activity of major normal faults or detachments associated with footwall exhumation is often characterized by a sequence of slower, faster, and ultimately again slower subsidence rates in the center of hanging wall half‐grabens during their synkinematic and postkinematic evolution. We have studied this specific evolution by the means of 3‐D stratigraphic numerical modeling that accounts for the variability of the sediment and water flux combined with climatic and sea level variations, and sediment compaction. The model setup is constrained by observations from the Pannonian back‐arc basin of central Europe. Our modeling predicts the formation of low‐order tectonic and higher‐order sea level and climate‐driven transgressive‐regressive sedimentary cycles. Furthermore, we model and analyze the autocyclic nature of the depositional systems. Retrograding‐prograding cycles are visible on the proximal flank of the half‐grabens by their different spatial and temporal expressions, while depocenters record large water depth variations linked to the specific and episodic activity of normal faults and their migration with time. The application to a system of multiple half‐grabens in the Pannonian Basin, which are activated in different locations, at different times and with different kinematics, demonstrates a complex interplay between direct sediment sourcing and the sediments' ability to bypass trapping subbasins and paleo‐reliefs created by eroded footwalls.

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3D forward modelling of the impact of sediment transport and base level cycles on continental margins and incised valleys

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2014

From Depositional Systems to Sedimentary Successions on the Norwegian Continental Margin

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Multivariate sequence stratigraphy: Tackling complexity and uncertainty with stratigraphic forward modeling, multiple scenarios, and conditional frequency maps

Cited by 95 publications

References 29 publications

Exploring coral reef responses to millennial-scale climatic forcings: insights from the 1-D numerical tool pyReef-Core v1.0

Exploring coral reef responses to millennial-scale climatic forcings: insights from the 1-D numerical tool pyReef-Core v1.0

Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Asymmetric Half‐Graben Sedimentation: Inferences From 3‐D Numerical Modeling

3D forward modelling of the impact of sediment transport and base level cycles on continental margins and incised valleys

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