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As discussed in Chap. 12, sequence stratigraphy is currently characterized by two alternative, opposing paradigms, the global-eustasy paradigm, and the complexity paradigm. McGowran (2005, p. 365) has pointed out that these are conceptual end-members of a “broad spectrum of responses and approaches to the controversy over global eustasy.” McGowran (2005, p. 366) agreed that such markers as sequence boundaries and maximum flooding surfaces “should not be intrinsic to geochronology,” contra Vail, but he stated “I do not share the Miall-Wilson (1988) view that sequence-surfaces have no promise in correlation.”
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Miall, A.D. (2010). Chronostratigraphy, Correlation, and Modern Tests for Global Eustasy. In: The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05027-5_14
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