Sequence Stratigraphy: An Applied Workshop
Sequence Stratigraphy An Applied Workshop
OBJECTIVES
- Identify unconformities and sequence boundaries
- Identify parasequences and utilize in correlation
- Identify incised valleys
- Visualize and interpret deep water fans and their geometries
- Recognize seismic signatures of deep water deposits
- Relate sequence stratigraphy to basin architecture and relative sea levels
- Build predictive stratigraphic models
- Utilize sequence stratigraphy to develop exploration/production strategies
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Geologists, geophysicists, biostratigraphers, and engineers (with some knowledge of geology) needing a fundamental understanding of the principles and applications of sequence stratigraphy.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Seismic geometries
- Unconformities
- Relative sea level
- Eustasy
- Parasequences and their stacking patterns
- Parasequences as a correlation tool
- Relationship of stratigraphic patterns to changes in subsidence rates as driven by regional and earth scale tectonic processes
- Cycle hierarchy
- World-wide cycle chart and its application
- The sequence stratigraphic model
- LST sequence boundaries, incised valleys, slope fans, basin floor fans, and prograding complexes
- TST incised valley fill, source rock and reservoir seal
- HST alluvial, deltaic, shoreline complexes and shelf sands
- Sequence stratigraphy in a mixed clastic/carbonate province
- Exploration and production scaled case histories and strategies