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==Making regional cross sections==
 
==Making regional cross sections==
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[[file:predicting-reservoir-system-quality-and-performance_fig9-84.png|300px|thumb|{{figure number|1}}Large-scale carbonate platform stratal patterns in log cross sections or seismic sections. From Handford and Loucks.<ref name=Handfordandloucks_1995>Handford, C. R., and R. G. Loucks, 1995, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/seismic2/data/a168/a168/0001/0000/0003.htm Carbonate depositional sequences and systems tracts]-responses of carbonate platforms to relative sea-level changes, ''in'' R. G. Loucks and J. F. Sarg, eds., Carbonate sequence stratigraphy: Recent developments and applications: AAPG Memoir 57, p. 3-42.</ref>]]
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Regional cross sections are critical for all interpretations in an exploration play. Regional cross sections establish the correlations that structural, facies tract, and paleogeographic mapping is based on. They show stratigraphic patterns like progradation.
 
Regional cross sections are critical for all interpretations in an exploration play. Regional cross sections establish the correlations that structural, facies tract, and paleogeographic mapping is based on. They show stratigraphic patterns like progradation.
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Use [[:file:predicting-reservoir-system-quality-and-performance_fig9-84.png|Figure 1]] to help identify large-scale carbonate platform stratal patterns in log cross sections or seismic sections.
 
Use [[:file:predicting-reservoir-system-quality-and-performance_fig9-84.png|Figure 1]] to help identify large-scale carbonate platform stratal patterns in log cross sections or seismic sections.
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[[file:predicting-reservoir-system-quality-and-performance_fig9-84.png|thumb|{{figure number|1}}From Handford and Loucks.<ref name=Handfordandloucks_1995>Handford, C. R., and R. G. Loucks, 1995, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/seismic2/data/a168/a168/0001/0000/0003.htm Carbonate depositional sequences and systems tracts]-responses of carbonate platforms to relative sea-level changes, ''in'' R. G. Loucks and J. F. Sarg, eds., Carbonate sequence stratigraphy: Recent developments and applications: AAPG Memoir 57, p. 3-42.</ref>]]
      
==See also==
 
==See also==

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