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 ...

One of the most revolutionary, most effective, yet most under-utilized tools introduced into exploration this century is that of seismic stratigraphy. It is not a tool exclusive to geophysicists; nor ...

THE development of reliable methods of world-wide stratigraphic correlation involves the gradual replacement of empirical and traditional ‘index fossils’ by zonal index species selected on the basis ...