Figure 2.

Idealized cross section, showing the four types of stacking patterns. In each cross section, landward is to the left and seaward is to the right, modified from [34]. Rates of accommodation are negative for degradational stacking becoming increasingly positive from progradational to retrogradational stacking. Although stacking for upper shoreface, lower shoreface and offshore facies is shown, any three laterally adjacent marine environments from relatively shallow to relatively deep could be substituted.