INDEX 779 stratigraphy (continued] sediment supply 5:171 tectonic processes 5:171, 5:171 f chronostratigraphy 5:168, 5:169f correlation comparisons 5:162f cycle charts 5:169f definition 5:159 eustatic cycles 5:169f, 5:546f, 5:547f facies analysis 4:490, 4:490 f historical background 5:159 parasequences accommodation eustasy 5:161 f basic principles 5:160, 5:161f, 5:546 parasequence-stacking patterns 5:160, 5:162f shorelines 5:161f Phanerozoic 4:25 f, 4:26f recognition criteria biofacies analysis 5:167 depositional systems 5:166 descriptive terminology 5:164, 5:164f highstand systems tracts 4:662 f, 5:163;, 5:1 63f, 5:166 lowstand systems tracts 4:662f, 5:163;, 5:1 63f, 5:165 maximum flooding surface 5:163f, 5:165 sequence boundary 5:163f, 5:164, 5:165 f systems tracts 5:162, 5:163;, 5:163f, 5:165 transgressive surface 5:163f, 5:165 transgressive systems tracts 4:662f, 5:163;, 5:1 63 f, 5:166 unconformities 5:545, 5:545;, 5:546f, 5:547f Silurian 4: 185 site classification 2:3 Smith, William 2:221 South-east Asia 1:183 f9 1:185 f stratigraphic classification basic principles 5:299 biostratigraphic units 5:301, 5:301f chronostratigraphic units 5:301, 5:302; correlation relationships 5:300f Cuvier, Georges 2:181 geochronological units 5:302; Hall, James, Jr 2:195 rock stratigraphic units 5:300, 5:3OOf, 5:301f Smith, William 2:225 time stratigraphic units 5:300f stratigraphic controversy 3:179, 4:176, 5:504 unconformities 5:544 See also geochronology stratopause 1:201 f stratosphere l:201f, 5:217f stream terraces 3:90 Streffordian stage 4:183f strelkinite(Na (U0 ) (V0 ) -6H 0) 3:589; strengite 5:124-125 Strepsodus 2:464f Stricklandia 4:185-186 strike-slip fault systems See faulting processes; folding Strokkur geyser, Iceland 3:108f stromatolites 4:3 83 f Arabian Gulf 4:51 Of, 4:511 Archaean stromatolites attributes l:286f, l:289t biosediments domical stromatolites 1:291 f general discussion 1:285 columnar stromatolites 1:29If conical stromatolites 1:291 f general discussion 4:367 geographic distribution l:280f photograph 4:367f stromatolite-like structures 1:287 biodiversity 1:261 biosignatures 1:28 5t filamentous microbes 1:282f formation processes 1:287f, 1:288;, 3:109 geographic distribution 1:280f Hamelin Bay, Shark Pool, Western Australia 1:282, 1:283 f interpretive processes 1:286 lacustrine deposits 4:556 limestones 1:430, 1:43 If origins 4:352 Permian-Triassic boundary 4:223-224 physical properties l:286f Proterozoic 4:351 reef environments 3:524f, 4:565 Vendian 4:373, 4:377 volcanic-related processes 3:109 Strombolian volcanoes 5:568;, 5:570; Stromboli volcano, Italy 4:3871 strontium (Sr) carbonatites 3:223; crustal composition 5:174; hydrothermal fluids 3:629; hydrothermal ore deposits 5:394; isotopes Cambrian 4:165, 4:171f carbonatites 3:224;, 3:224f, 3:226f, 3:227f, 3:228f chemostratigraphy 1:84, l:86/i 1:87 dolomite formation 5:86 radiometric dating 1:88; Vendian 4:378 lava/lava flows 3:224f oceanic manganese nodular deposits 5:114; radiometric dating 4:202f structural geology See history of geology structure, definition of 3:390; Strunian stage 3:138f Strunius 2:464f Strunz, Hugo 5:121 strunzite 5:124-125 Struthio 5:483 struvite 5:122 stumps 4:579f sturtzstroms 4:690-691 stylolites5:112 stylopids 2:300; Styxosaurus 2:506 suanite (Mg2B2O5) 3:512; sub-Andean fold-and-thrust belt 1:127, 1:158 Subarctic Ural Mountains 2:52 Subcommission on the Systematics of Metamorphic Rocks, IUGS (SCMR) 3:386 subcretion 5:309f, 5:314 subcritical climbing 4:543 subduction zones accretionary wedges 5:307-317 controlling factors 5:317; critical taper 5:309f decollement 5:309, 5:309f, 5:3 Wf, 5:311f,5:315f,5:316f fluid flow 5:312, 5:313f fluid pressure effects 5:307, 5:309f, 5:31 If, 5:315, 5:316f formation processes 5:307, 5:308f, 5:309, 5:310/", 5:31 If methane hydrates 5:312, 5:314f obduction 5:315 oblique subduction 5:315, 5:316f occurrences 5:307 ocean trenches 5:430;, 5:431-432, 5:435f sediment thickness 5:311, 5:312f seeps and vents 5:312 stability 5:309f subcretion 5:309f, 5:314 tectonic erosion background information 5:313 basement topography 5:314, 5:315f fluid pressure effects 5:315, 5:316f turbi&tes5:310f 95:311f Alps 2:133f Ampferer, Otto 3:193 Andes Mountains 1:118, l:125f, l:155f Asia 1:346 f collision zones 5:429f9 5:430-431 crustal recycling processes 1:404, 1:405f Eocene 5:466, 5:468 flux melting 3:21 If, 3:212 Japan 3:297, 3:298f, 3:303-304 large igneous provinces (LIPs) 3:318f, 3:319, 3:319f long-term carbon cycle 1:338, l:338f Mediterranean region 2:136, 2:137f, 2:141f,2:142f metamorphic facies 3:404f 3:411, 3:412f Miocene 5:479-480 Oceania 4:109, 4:114, 4:117 ocean trenches 5:428-437 accretionary wedges 5:307-317, 5:430;, 5:431-432, 5:435f chemosynthetic communities 5:433-434 convergent plate boundaries 4:343/, 4:344, 4:345f, 5:429f9 5:429-430