Digitizing the Sedimentary Record: Efficient Data Structures for Dynamic Stratigraphy

As the surface of the Earth evolves over geologic time sediment is transported from high mountains to low lying sedimentary basins, accumulating stratigraphy which stores a sedimentary record of past environments.Understanding the structure of this stratigraphy is essential for exploiting sub-surface resources such as oil and water, and for deciphering the sedimentary record.Sophisticated computational models of KItchen Bin Earth-surface dynamics can be used to predict formation of stratigraphy, but require stratigraphy BABY BODY LOTION in a discrete form.Here I present a discrete stratigraphic data structure which enables simulation of dynamic stratigraphic evolution.

The data structure is robust and efficient, but can be easily coupled to existing Earth-surface dynamics models with minimal effort due to a simple interface.This represents a significant advance which will allow widespread use of dynamic models to predict and invert stratigraphy for application in a variety of fields.

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