Depositional environments supported by Sedbase

Sedbase is designed specifically for use with siliciclastic shallow marine, delta plain, and alluvial plain depositional environments.

Use the TABS below to explore details for each environment type.

Shallow marine environments

• Sedbase is purpose-built to address the complexities of shallow marine environment architecture.
• Work with both local- and regional-scale architectural units, depending on the questions being addressed.
• Use the Characterize Environments application to interpret and make predictions for shallow marine subsurface intervals.
• Use the View Analog and Dimensional Data application to explore hundreds of geomorphologically mapped depositional system analogues and to obtain dimensional data from thousands of feeder channel belts, channels, and mouth bar sediment bodies.
• Access dimensional data for a wide range of depositional architectural units from both modern and ancient systems.

Delta plain and alluvial environments

• Sedbase includes extensive datasets of channel belts and channels from modern environments.
• Extract data for object-based modeling and obtain plan view training images for multiple-point statistics (MPS).
• Use regional geomorphological maps to study how channel belt characteristics evolve and where they tend to cluster across different depositional systems.
• Use the View Analog and Dimensional Data application to explore hundreds of mapped systems, thousands of channel belt polygons, and tens of thousands of channel-dimensional data points.