--> ABSTRACT: Interactive Web Based Teaching Tools For Extending The Understanding Of The Concepts Of Sequence Stratigraphy, by Christopher G. St. C. Kendall, Nassir S. Alnaji, and Phillip Moore; #90906(2001)

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Christopher G. St. C. Kendall1, Nassir S. Alnaji2, Phillip Moore2

(1) Dept. Geology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
(2) University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

ABSTRACT: Interactive Web Based Teaching Tools For Extending The Understanding Of The Concepts Of Sequence Stratigraphy

The web can be used to retrieve critical exploration and production sequence stratigraphic models for professionals and also teach sequence stratigraphy to novitiates. Such a medium provides relevant data including images, text, links, movies of sedimentary simulations, exercises, references, on line papers etc. It demonstrates how sedimentary geometries evolve with variable rates of sedimentation, tectonic movement, and sea-level position. Exercises and movies use hypothetical situations and real-life examples based on outcrops, well log and seismic cross sections assembled to explain the interpretation of complex sequence stratigraphic relationships.

Historically sequence stratigraphy has been learnt working with real data or through use of sedimentary simulations. The later, rather than being general use tools, have tended to be used by a narrow group of specialist who were often the designers and builders of these products. They applied simulations to model sediment erosion and accretion in most sedimentary settings and then used the resulting sequence stratigraphic model to solve problems associated with management of oil reservoirs, and/or aquifers.

The advantage of centralized web based data is that this globally accessible platform provides a template to the complexities of sediment stratigraphy; enabling identification, testing, and modeling of sedimentary systems and the sharing of data with others; enhancing the understanding of biostratigraphy and providing age constraints for stratal geometries and sequence stratigraphic interpretations. They reduce time for understanding interpretations of seismic and well data by identifying and constraining key factors that control sequence stratigraphic geometries and architectures, including rates of sedimentation, eustatic sea level, and tectonics.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90906©2001 AAPG Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado