Course Objectives:

• 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
• Para sequences and their stacking patterns
• Para sequences 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, biostratigraphy’s and engineers (with some knowledge of geology) needing a fundamental understanding of the principles and applications of sequence stratigraphy