September 2025
September 2025
Basin AnalysisÂ
BASIN ANALYSISÂ
BASIN ANALYSIS is understanding how sedimentary basins form, subside, fill, and preserve Earth’s history.
What Students Will Learn
How basins form (rift, passive margin, foreland, strike-slip).
How tectonics, climate & sea-level control sedimentation.
How facies migrate (Walther’s Law) and record environment shifts.
How sea-level rise/fall creates key stratigraphic surfaces
– Sequence Boundaries, Flooding Surfaces, Maximum Flooding Surfaces.
How sedimentary layers stack (prograding, retrograding, aggrading).
How parasequences & systems tracts build a depositional sequence.
Why It Matters
Predict reservoir–seal–source rock distribution.
Understand basin evolution and stratigraphic architecture.
Apply sequence stratigraphy to wells, seismic & field data.