RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES VOL. 9, ES1003, doi:10.2205/2007ES000222, 2007
[2] Modern principles of stratigraphy are substantially different from those of the 19th century. This difference is largely due to the development of fundamental sciences and technology. However, some key concepts on relationships between sedimentary strata, outlined in the 17th-19th centuries, were reevaluated and experimentally confirmed only in the second half of the 20th century. One of these stratigraphic concepts is the basic facies law, which was fully evaluated only in the middle of the 20th century [Sloss et al., 1949]. In the 1960-1970s, seismic images of sedimentary strata permitted the real geometrical visualisation of the strata accumulation in sedimentary basins [Vail et al., 1977]. Today, sequence stratigraphy is an integral part of stratigraphy [Miall, 1997]. Its further progress depends on the acquisition of high resolution seismic images of sedimentary basins of various types and on the field and mathematical simulation of sedimentation and sequence architecture formation [Einsele, 0]. Sequence stratigraphy is based on two concepts: facies variations of sediments within the basin, mainly depending on the basin depth and on the distance to the shore, and eustatic sea level variations. These concepts were introduced in the 19th century: the first by N. A. Golovkinsky in 1868 and the second by Suess in 1885-1890. Although the elements of sequence stratigraphy, such as the definition and the architecture of sequences, were formulated within a certain period of time [Fraizer, 1974; Ross, 1991; Sloss, 1963; Vail et al., 1977; Wheeler, 1958], their prototypes were described in earlier works. The review of these works one can find in [Dott, 1992].
[3] The present paper shows that the classic work of N. A. Golovkinsky "The Permian Formation of the Central Kama-Volga Basin", published in St. Petersburg in 1868, contains not only the original formulation of the basic facies law but also some key concepts of sequence stratigraphy including geometry elements of sequences.
Citation: 2007), The Golovkinsky strata formation model, basic facies law and sequence stratigraphy concept: Historical sources and relations, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 9, ES1003, doi:10.2205/2007ES000222.
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