Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, participant will be able to:
- Identify stratigraphic sequences
- Interpret seismic reflection geometries
- Relate sequence stratigraphy to basin architecture, relative sea levels and history
- Build predictive stratigraphic model
Course Outline:
- Historical framework
- 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, diagenesis related to unconformities, incised valleys, slope fans, basin floor fans and prograding complexes illustrated by slide presentation and individual exercises
- TST incised valley fill, two phase sedimentation pattern, source rock and reservoir seal illustrated by slide presentation and individual exercises
- HST alluvial, deltaic, shoreline complexes and shelf sands illustrated by slide presentation and individual exercises
- Exploration and production scaled case histories
- Exploration/production strategies
Who Can Benefit?
Geologists, geophysicists, biostratigraphers and engineers (with some knowledge of geology) needing a fundamental understanding of the principles and applications of sequence stratigraphy.