Unsung pioneers of sequence stratigraphy: Eliot Blackwelder, Joseph Barrell, Amadeus Grabau, John Rich and Harry Wheeler

Few facies analysts or stratigraphers would argue against the contention that the transition to facies-driven sequence stratigraphic correlations represents one of the most important paradigm shifts in modern stratigraphy. What is less commonly appreciated is that most of the fundamental underpinnings of sequence stratigraphy were derived from a relatively small number of pioneers in the early to mid-1900s;most of them largely unknown or …