This demands a much deeper insight into the process of wave propagation in realistic models of sedimentary rocks in the crust.
Comprehensive modeling of sedimentary basins should integrate the coupled nature of different phenomena such as sediment compaction, pore-fluid flow and heat transport.
The successful generation of depositional maps represents a crucial step in the ongoing development of a new technique designed to generate 3D static geological models of sedimentary successions.
The main difficulty raised by 3D geological modeling of sedimentary system is determining the geological genesis and geometrical boundaries of missing strata.
A formal method for describing data collected from field studies is used to generate stochastic geological models of sedimentary successions using a method based on syntactic pattern recognition.
In addition to the major benefits compared to conventional continuum numerical models of sedimentary rock, this software is able to simulate rock breakage and slip efficiently as well as separation along bedding planes (Guo et al. 2004).
In order to construct the discontinuous geological surfaces induced by missing strata, an adapted and automatic approach for generating 3D solid models of sedimentary stratigraphic systems from borehole data, called the Borehole Surface Solid method, is presented.
