Seismic Sequence Analysis: The Geologic Models

Abstract

The stratigraphic model for seismic analysis is one of time-stratigraphie units and the concept that the section can be broken into such units based on seismic observations. To some extent seismic sequence analysis uses duplicate nomenclature—one set from geologic concepts and another from seismic observations. We often identify elements of these different sets with each other and mix up the nomenclature because of this cross-identification. For example, geologic “time-stratigraphic unit” is used interchangeably with “seismic sequence.”