- effects of sea-level rise on erosion, inundation, storm 

 surge and saltwater intrusion 



- methods for controlling erosion, inundation, and 

 saltwater intrusion 



- economic effects of sea-level rise and the value of 

 planning for it 



- implications of sea-level rise for hazardous waste sites 



- planning for sea- level rise before and after a coastal 

 disaster 



The case studies of Charleston, South Carolina, and Galveston, Texas, 

 highlight the hazards and decisions facing shore communities as well as 

 factors influencing individual decisions, such as where and how to rebuild 

 after a storm. (From book jacket). 



Oil BAUM, G. R. , and VAIL, P. R. 1988. "Sequence Stratigraphic Concepts 

 Applied to Paleogene Outcrops, Gulf and Atlantic Basins," Wilgus, C. K. , 

 Hastings, B. S., Kendall, C. G., Posamentier, H. W. , Ross, C. A., and Van 

 Wagoner, J. C, eds . , Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach . Special 

 Publication No. 42, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 

 Tulsa, OK, pp 309-328. 



Type 1 and type 2 sequence boundaries can be used for regional 

 correlation in seismic, wireline log, and outcrop data. Marine condensed 

 sections (zones of markedly reduced sedimentation) divide these sequences and 

 are recognized seismically as downlap surfaces. Sequence boundaries can be 

 dated at their basinward correlative conformities. Depositional sequences are 

 not synthems or allostratigraphic units. Synthems or allostratigraphic units 

 are extended only as far as both of the bounding unconformities or 

 discontinuities are identifiable. Sequences are bounded by unconformities and 

 their correlative conformities and so are identifiable beyond the extent of 

 their bounding discontinuities. Because most of the exposed Paleogene units 

 in the Gulf and Atlantic basins were deposited landward of their respective 

 shelf slope breaks, evidence of deposition of deep-sea fans common to type 1 

 unconformities. Typically, the incised valleys are onlap- filled with 

 reservoir-prone fluvial to estuarine sediments. In additional, sequence 

 boundaries are characterized by abrupt downward shifts in facies with 

 relatively shallower water facies resting sharply on relatively deeper water 

 facies. In carbonates, subaerial unconformities are typically characterized 

 by mesokarst, phosphate pebble conglomerates, and sediment fill of early 

 moldic porosity. 



Condensed sections are characterized by anomalous concentrations of 

 mammillated- to-lobate glauconite, planktonic organisms, phosphate, and exotic 

 minerals, and by glauconitized/phosphatized surfaces commonly associated with 

 hardgrounds or burrowed omission surfaces. Hardgrounds are characterized by 

 intercrystalline sediment fill after subaqueous, acicular, bladed, and/or 

 pelloidal marine cements, and by abrupt shifts to more negative values of 

 calcite above the hardgrounds associated with condensed sections. 



Application of these concepts to outcrop studies reveals that many stage 

 boundaries are typically not placed at sequence boundaries. Rather, they are 

 defined either by micropaleontologic hiatuses and/or planktonic zonal 



