Figure 5. Comparison of thickness of the highstand deposits along the Bahamas Transect with sediments of the lowstand and transgressive intervals, which are treated as one unit (shaded areas). The youngest sequences deposited during times of a steep-sided platform have a thick highstand interval; in older sequences, lowstand and transgressive portions reach considerable thicknesses. A-P2 are sequence boundaries (modified from Bernet, 2000).