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A key step in basin modeling, where successively older rock layers are removed to decompact underlying layers, thus allowing reconstruction of the burial history in a basin. The method requires decompaction of the remaining sequence of layers after each stage of backstripping to account for the amount of compaction at each step of burial.<ref name=Petersetal_2012>Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, 2012, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/hedberg4/INTRODUCTION/INTRODUCTION.HTM An overview of basin and petroleum system modeling: Definitions and concepts], ''in'' Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, eds., Basin modeling: New horizons in research and applications: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1106 AAPG Hedberg Series no. 4], p. 1-16.</ref>
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A key step in basin modeling, where successively older rock layers are removed to [[decompaction|decompact]] underlying layers, thus allowing reconstruction of the [[burial history chart|burial history]] in a basin. The method requires decompaction of the remaining sequence of layers after each stage of backstripping to account for the amount of compaction at each step of burial.<ref name=Petersetal_2012>Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, 2012, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/hedberg4/INTRODUCTION/INTRODUCTION.HTM An overview of basin and petroleum system modeling: Definitions and concepts], ''in'' Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, eds., Basin modeling: New horizons in research and applications: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1106 AAPG Hedberg Series no. 4], p. 1-16.</ref>
  
  

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A key step in basin modeling, where successively older rock layers are removed to decompact underlying layers, thus allowing reconstruction of the burial history in a basin. The method requires decompaction of the remaining sequence of layers after each stage of backstripping to account for the amount of compaction at each step of burial.[1]


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  1. Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, 2012, An overview of basin and petroleum system modeling: Definitions and concepts, in Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, eds., Basin modeling: New horizons in research and applications: AAPG Hedberg Series no. 4, p. 1-16.