Sequence stratigraphy, based on sedimentary response to changes in relative sea level gives the explorationist and the development geoscientist a powerful new predictive tool ...

Arduino, the man behind modern stratigraphy It was through a letter dated March 30, 1579 that Giovanni Arduino announced the four orders that form the basis of stratigraphic chronology. Join A.S ...

Sedimentology explores the origin, transport, deposition and diagenetic alterations of the materials that compose sediments and sedimentary rocks. Stratigraphy investigates how those types of rocks ...

Seismic stratigraphy is a powerful tool for exploration and exploitation, especially when the rock-fluid information within the seismic wavelet (reflection character analysis) is integrated with ...

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a team of scientists propose a comprehensive summary of the main fossil sequences and lithostratigraphy of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP ...

The sequence of rock units is presented briefly in Table 1. The naming and subdivision of the Arabian Desert Supergroup and Hammamat Group comply with the Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature.