| The four wells in the cross section are in a depositionally dip-oriented transect<ref name=ch04r9 /> The correlation horizons, based on seven chronostratigraphically significant bioevents (mostly extinction events), partition the strata into age-correlative intervals.<ref name=ch04r10 /> Most of the chronostratigraphically significant bioevents occur in association with maximum fossil abundance, resulting in the interpretation of these correlation horizons as maximum flooding surface-condensed section data<ref name=ch04r34 /><ref name=ch04r35 /><ref name=ch04r10 /><ref name=Shaffer1987a>Schaffer, B. L., 1987a, The potential of calcareous nannofossils for recognizing Plio-Pleistocene climactic cycles and sequence boundaries on the shelf: Proceedings, Gulf Section SEPM 8th Annual Research Conference, p. 142-145.</ref><ref name=Shaffer1987b>Schaffer, B. L., 1987b, The nature and significance of condensed sections in Gulf Coast late Neogene sequence stratigraphy: Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies Transactions, vol. 40, p. 186-195.</ref><ref name=ch04r72>Pacht, J., A., Bowen, B., E., Bearn, J., H., Schaffer, B., L., 1990, [[Sequence stratigraphy]] of Plio–Pleistocene depositional facies in the offshore Louisiana south additions: Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies Transactions, vol. 40, p. 1–18.</ref><ref name=ch04r9 /> | | The four wells in the cross section are in a depositionally dip-oriented transect<ref name=ch04r9 /> The correlation horizons, based on seven chronostratigraphically significant bioevents (mostly extinction events), partition the strata into age-correlative intervals.<ref name=ch04r10 /> Most of the chronostratigraphically significant bioevents occur in association with maximum fossil abundance, resulting in the interpretation of these correlation horizons as maximum flooding surface-condensed section data<ref name=ch04r34 /><ref name=ch04r35 /><ref name=ch04r10 /><ref name=Shaffer1987a>Schaffer, B. L., 1987a, The potential of calcareous nannofossils for recognizing Plio-Pleistocene climactic cycles and sequence boundaries on the shelf: Proceedings, Gulf Section SEPM 8th Annual Research Conference, p. 142-145.</ref><ref name=Shaffer1987b>Schaffer, B. L., 1987b, The nature and significance of condensed sections in Gulf Coast late Neogene sequence stratigraphy: Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies Transactions, vol. 40, p. 186-195.</ref><ref name=ch04r72>Pacht, J., A., Bowen, B., E., Bearn, J., H., Schaffer, B., L., 1990, [[Sequence stratigraphy]] of Plio–Pleistocene depositional facies in the offshore Louisiana south additions: Gulf Coast Assoc. of Geological Societies Transactions, vol. 40, p. 1–18.</ref><ref name=ch04r9 /> |