Seismic Chronostratigraphy: As computing performance increased, global seismic interpretation methods became feasible. Global seismic interpretation methods are automated or semi-automated methods that aim to generate fully interpreted volumes; see also Lomask et al, 2006, de Groot et al., 2010; Hoyes and Cheret, 2011; Stark, 2004, Stark et al, 2013. These techniques enable the ability to geoslice through volumes of seismic amplitudes "at will" and derive attributes along geologic time lines, thereby facilitating the recognition of depositional features and potential shallow hazards.

The HorizonCube: In our work we use the HorizonCube workflow in dGB's OpendTect software as starting point. A HorizonCube is defined as a dense set of correlated 3D stratigraphic surfaces. The calculation of this HorizonCube is a crucial step in the seismic stratigraphic interpretation workflow described in this article. The primary input required to create a HorizonCube is a dip field. The dip field is available in the SteeringCube, a volume with dip/azimuth information at seismic resolution. Previously mapped horizons can be used as boundary constraints. By providing a fault framework as input, any significant faulting will be accounted for in the tracking of the HorizonCube.