Utility of coal petrology for sequence-stratigraphic analysis

This paper confirms the identification within coal seams of most of the sequence-stratigraphically significant surfaces, e.g. sequence and parasequence boundaries, transgressive, flooding, and maximum flooding surfaces. It also gives examples of some new ones, referred to as accommodation reversal, non-marine flooding, give-up transgressive, terrestrialisation, and paludification surfaces. Some of these are specific to coal measures, but the give-up transgressive and accommodation reversal surfaces may have wider significance.