The diagram below shows the characteristic parasequence stacking patterns for the high-stand (HST), transgressive (TST), and lowstand (LST) systems tracts of a passive margin basin third-order depositional sequence.
[[:file:exploring-for-stratigraphic-traps_fig21-20.png|Figure 2]] shows the characteristic parasequence stacking patterns for the high-stand (HST), transgressive (TST), and lowstand (LST) systems tracts of a passive margin basin third-order depositional sequence.