This chapter discusses the recognition of the soft-sediment deformations as early-diagenetic features. The early-diagenetic stage— that is, the period between sedimentation and lithification, includes some important changes ...
The term ‘sequence’ was developed in stratigraphy during the forties, but the definition was fairly vague and unpractical. A much clearer and practically applicable (but diverging) definition was developed in sedimentology ...