Sequence Stratigraphy Workshop

17th - 18th May 2016

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Who should attend: 

Advanced students and others interested in learning the principles, concepts and application of sequence stratigraphy in siliciclastic strata.

Objectives: 

The main objectives of the course are to review:

• Basic concepts and terminology of sequence stratigraphy
• The stratigraphic building blocks of depositional sequences
• Recognition criteria for the identification of depositional sequences and their components in outcrops, cores, well logs and seismic
• The application of sequence stratigraphy in non-marine, shallow marine and deep water siliciclastic settings

Course content:

This course is designed to teach advanced students the principles, concepts and application of sequence stratigraphy as applied to siliciclastic facies in non-marine, shallow marine, and deep water environments. This will be accomplished by introducing the terminology and the method used at ExxonMobil. The goal of this method is to organize the stratigraphic record into genetic units that can be used to predict the distribution of facies. Students will learn to apply this method by working exercises that integrate outcrops, cores, well logs and seismic.

Course requirements:

Participants should have a basic understanding of siliciclastic depositional settings.  No knowledge of well logs or seismic is required.

Instructors:

Howard Feldman is a senior stratigrapher at ExxonMobil where he has worked for the past 20 years... (Read More)

Jeffrey Geslin is a senior stratigrapher at ExxonMobil where he has worked for the past 17 years... (Read More)