Depocenter
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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 rocks. 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.