Applying depositional sequence stratigraphic concepts to the interpretation of siliciclastic depositional systems is becoming an increasingly important tool in petroleum geology. After a succession of breakthroughs during the 1970s and 1980s, sequence stratigraphic concepts now have entered a phase of intense application and documentation, especially with regard to successful implementation in the field of petroleum geology. Workers have applied these concepts to a variety of data bases ranging from outcrop to cores to electric logs to multifold seismic data. Clearly, sequence stratigraphic concepts embody not a rigid model or template, but rather a way of looking at geology.

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As the search for oil and gas becomes more sophisticated and producing basins and fields become more intensely developed, geoscientists need correspondingly  more accurate techniques for stratigraphic analysis. To achieve this accuracy, companies are shooting higher-resolution seismic lines, acquiring 3-D seismic surveys over fields, and coring more to quantify reservoir properties.