Biostratigraphic applications

Exploring for Oil and Gas Traps
Series	Treatise in Petroleum Geology
Part	Predicting the occurrence of oil and gas traps
Chapter	Applied paleontology
Author	Robert L. Fleisher, H. Richard Lane
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Paleontologists have traditionally used fossil data to provide information about the relative age, stratigraphic correlation, and paleoenvironment (notably paleobathymetry) of sedimentary strata. The importance of these tasks remains high, but new approaches and technology have extended the applicability of biostratigraphic data to analyzing thermal maturation and sequence stratigraphy.

See also

• Biostratigraphic correlation and age determination
• Paleoenvironmental analysis
• Paleobathymetry
• Quantitative paleoenvironmental analysis
• Palynofacies and kerogen analysis
• Thermal maturation
• Biostratigraphy in sequence stratigraphy

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