System Tract

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Sequence Stratigraphy
A C H M A D FA R I D Z
BAGASTIO RAMADHAN
I A N K A N TO N A
N A D H I FA S E T YA M A H A F I R A
R A D E N A J E N G A LYA A U L I A M A H A R A N I
Transgressive
System Tract
comprises the deposits that
accumulated from the
onset of coastal
transgression until the time
of maximum transgression
of the coast, just prior to
the renewed regression of
the HST. (sepmstrata.org)

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Lowstand
System Tract
Occurs when the sea water curve is at
its lowest point and begins to rise

Sea rising slowly while sediment

supplies is rather high, occurs as
turbidites and accumulated above
basin-floor fan.

The beds pattern, creating

progradational deposit and becoming
aggradational in lowstand wedge as the
sea level increased
Highstand
System Tract
HST is like Progradrational deposit
HST forming the sediment
accumulation rate that exceed the
rate of accommodation space.
HST constitute the upper system tract
of stratigraphic sequence
HST process: sea level slowly rises,
making sediment supply is sufficient to
outpace the sea level rises
HST will contain an increasingly
progradational set of parasequences
In the late highstand systems tract,
eustatic sea level begins to fall, but is
outpaced by subsidence, such that
relative sea-level is rising, albeit at
ever-slower rates.
This tract system commonly spreading
at sea self.
 This complete sequence is know as a transgressive-regressive
sequence (T-R sequence).
a. Characterized by offline coast

Regressive b. Flooding decreased and low

System Tract c. Mainly due to sediment supply which is enlarged

abundantly as a consequence of periodic cycle
The regressive systems tract
was defined by Embry and d. Consists of retrogradassional parasequence
Johannessen (1992) : it lies
above a transgressive
systems tract and is overlain
by the initial transgressive
surface of the overlying
transgressive systems tract.
Regressive
System Tract

Catuneanu, 2002
 The sediments of this system include :
1. HST
2. FSST
3. LST

Regressive
System Tract
Falling Stage
System Tract
Early lowstand system track (sea level
falls from a highstand position.

FSST is like forced regression ->

progradation deposit

As a result, the coastal plain is not a

site of deposition but rather a zone of
sedimentary bypass, forming an
unconformity surface (Nichols, 2009)

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