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==Background==

==Background==

Structural restoration is a collective term that encompasses several methods used to reverse the history of deformation and yield a pre-deformational state of the area in a single step restoration or in several intermediate stages (sequential restoration).‎<ref name=Vidalroyoetal_2015>Vidal-Royo, O., Hearon IV, T. E., Connors, C. D., Bland, S., Schaefer, F., Ferrer, O., Mora, I., de Vera, J., Guzofski, C., Rodriguez, F., Blanc, E., & Vaughan, A. (2015). Introduction to special section: Balancing, restoration, and palinspastic reconstruction.</ref> Structural restoration is linked to structural balancing, which is the adjustment of geological interpretation – of a section or an area – so that mass conservation before and after the strain is maintained. Therefore, a balanced section should be: 1) accurate, 2) geologically admissible, 3) restorable (it should be possible to return the section to a pre-deformation geometry), and 4) balanced/valid (mass conservation is maintained).‎<ref name=Dahlstrom_1969>Dahlstrom, C. D. A. (1969). Balanced cross sections. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 6(4), 743-757.</ref><ref name=Elliott_1983>‎Elliott, D. (1983). The construction of balanced cross-sections.</ref> Therefore, structural balancing represents a powerful tool to predict unseen, subsurface geometries based on input data (e.g., outcrop geometries, well-imaged seismic sections/volumes, etc.).

Structural restoration is a collective term that encompasses several methods used to reverse the history of deformation and yield a pre-deformational state of the area in a single step restoration or in several intermediate stages (sequential restoration).‎<ref name=Vidalroyoetal_2015>Vidal-Royo, O., T. E. Hearon IV, C. D. Connors, S. Bland, F. Schaefer, O. Ferrer, I. Mora, et al., 2015, Introduction to special section: Balancing, restoration, and palinspastic reconstruction: Intrepretation, v. 3 no. 4, p. 1N-Y1</ref> Structural restoration is linked to structural balancing, which is the adjustment of geological interpretation – of a section or an area – so that mass conservation before and after the strain is maintained. Therefore, a balanced section should be:

# accurate,  

# geologically admissible,

# restorable (it should be possible to return the section to a pre-deformation geometry),

# balanced/valid (mass conservation is maintained).‎<ref name=Dahlstrom_1969>Dahlstrom, C. D. A., 1969, Balanced cross sections: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 6, no. 4, p. 743-757.</ref><ref name=Elliott_1983>‎Elliott, D., 1983, The construction of balanced cross-sections: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 5, no. 2, p. 101.</ref>  

Therefore, structural balancing represents a powerful tool to predict unseen, subsurface geometries based on input data (e.g., outcrop geometries, well-imaged seismic sections/volumes, etc.)

==History==

==History==