• 责任者：Mei Mingxiang (School of Earth Science and Natural Resources ; China University of Geosciences ; Beijing 100083 ; China)
• 刊名：Journal of Stratigraphy
• 出版年：2012
• 卷期：36(4)
• 关键词：层序地层学 ; sequence stratigraphy ; 海平面变化 ; sea-level changes
• 页码：p.792-806
• 图表：7 illus., 76 refs.
• 分类号：1200
• issnNo：ISSN0253-4959
• isbnNo：CN32-1187/P

The use of a conceptual time surfaces as part of a sequence boundary has transformed sequence-stratigraphy to have chronostratigraphis significance. This application also results in a number of misconceptions and problems associated with boundary recognition and unit definition in sequence-stratigraphy. Like an unconformity used as a time barrier, both the interpretation of sea-level changes as mechanisms for sequence development and the inconsistence in the conceptual system of sequence-stratigraphy are important scientific problems in sequence-stratigraphy. Tracing the history of these problems is very useful to understanding the development of sequence-stratigraphy in the past 30 years and to further advancing sequence-stratigraphy as a discipline in stratigraphy.