📄️ Ancient analogue data
Ancient architectural mapping is based on carefully selected detailed outcrop case studies (cross sections). The information from ancient data is thus 2D, or only partially 3D, depending on outcrop exposure. The data in the database describes the lateral extent of units as well as their thickness. Depending on outcrop orientation, cross-sectional data can be dip-oriented, strike-oriented, or oblique to the regional paleo-shoreline trend.