Stratigraphy in space and time: A reproducible approach to analysis and visualization

Stratigraphy in space and time: A reproducible approach to analysis and visualization

Time-elevation plots and chronostratigraphic diagrams are valuable for understanding and analyzing stratigraphy when time-elevation data, or some approximation of them, are available, for example in f…

February 5, 2024 · Z. Sylvester, K. M. Straub, J. A. Covault
Submarine‐channel meandering reset by landslide filling, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Submarine‐channel meandering reset by landslide filling, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Submarine channels offshore New Zealand were filled with mass transport deposits and this resulted in a reset of the systematic migration of the channels

February 1, 2024 · J. A. Covault, Z. Sylvester, D. B. Dunlap
Chronostratigraphic log correlation in the Permian Basin

Automated multi-well stratigraphic correlation and model building using relative geologic time

Stratigraphic correlation of geophysical well logs is one of the most importantand most time-consuming—tasks that applied geoscientists perform on a daily basis. Using the dynamic time warping (DTW) a…

May 23, 2023 · Z. Sylvester
Stratigraphic correlation: Old concepts inform new approaches

Stratigraphic correlation: Old concepts inform new approaches

In this talk, I first want to revisit and visualize the basic ideas about how time is recorded - or not recorded - in sedimentary deposits and then show how chronostratigraphic diagrams can be used as key elements of an automated workflow for correlating geophysical well logs.

May 13, 2022 · Z. Sylvester
Channel trajectories control deep-water stratigraphic architecture

Channel trajectories control deep-water stratigraphic architecture

Interpretation of deep-water channel deposits is challenging because the spatial arrangement of their constituent lithologies is highly variable. This variability is often thought to be a signature of…

April 4, 2022 · P. D. Morris, Z. Sylvester, J. A. Covault, D. Mohrig
Chronostratigraphic diagrams revisited: Visualization and correlation in the time domain

Chronostratigraphic diagrams revisited: Visualization and correlation in the time domain

We use experimental data from the ‘Jurassic Tank‘ flume (St. Anthony Falls Laboratory) to create three-dimensional chronostratigraphic diagrams, compute stratigraphic completeness, and test several sequence stratigraphic concepts.

May 5, 2021 · Z. Sylvester