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'''Depocenter''' refers to an area or site of maximum deposition, or the geographic location of the thickest part of any specific geographic unit in a depositional basin.<ref name=ch04r37>Gary, M., McAfee, R. Jr., Wolf, C., L., 1974, [https://www.agiweb.org/pubs/glossary/ Glossary of Geology]: AGI, 805 p.</ref>
 
'''Depocenter''' refers to an area or site of maximum deposition, or the geographic location of the thickest part of any specific geographic unit in a depositional basin.<ref name=ch04r37>Gary, M., McAfee, R. Jr., Wolf, C., L., 1974, [https://www.agiweb.org/pubs/glossary/ Glossary of Geology]: AGI, 805 p.</ref>
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Within a basin, different areas receive different amounts of sediment through time, resulting in numerous depocenters. Each depocenter is an area containing a thick stratigraphic succession. These different depocenters have unique histories of sediment accumulation, compaction, subsidence, deformation, and [[thermal maturation]] of potential hydrocarbon [[source rock]]s. Delineation of these depocenters is the second step in basin analysis. Subdividing a depocenter into age-significant units and depositional cycles is the topic of section C.
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Within a basin, different areas receive different amounts of sediment through time, resulting in numerous depocenters. Each depocenter is an area containing a thick stratigraphic succession. These different depocenters have unique histories of sediment accumulation, compaction, subsidence, [[deformation]], and [[thermal maturation]] of potential hydrocarbon [[source rock]]s. Delineation of these depocenters is the second step in basin analysis. Subdividing a depocenter into age-significant units and depositional cycles is the topic of section C.
    
==Sediment supply rate and facies patterns==
 
==Sediment supply rate and facies patterns==
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