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Maximum Flooding Surface (MFS) By F. Qayyum This is a short post about the MFS that is considered as an easy to identify on outcrops and well data because of some reasons. This post would covers the fundamentals of placing a MFS in a stratigraphic unit and how to avoid pitfalls in its interpretation. Definition It is a surface that marks the end of shoreline transgression towards land or coastal plain. It suggests a base level rise and subsequent marine transgression onto the shelf or coastal plain. Recognition It can be treated as a downlap surface because overlying strata may prograde and downlap on it. This is a typical case for a normal regressive deltaic progradation or simply siliciclastic system reaching the shoreface and basin. The overlying system could either be a HST or LST depending on the location. On the well logs, it is marked by a deepening up-ward GR trend. This means that one is going to mostly define a massive shale as a MFS marker at a shelf lo...
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ReplyDeleteI would highly appreciate and encourage your efforts for knowledge sharing. I would like to devote this blog to the industry people who are sequence stratigraphers and the students who are learning this discipline.
Your efforts and knowledge sharing might help others to build a strong background of this science.
Although it is a controversial discipline!
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Farrukh