Basin Mapping Methods

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter, as for this book as a whole, is not to provide a comprehensive textbook on basin analysis methods as applied to fluvial deposits, but to review recent developments, largely those that have taken place since the publication of “The geology of fluvial deposits” in 1996. Formal description, explanation and documentation of methods of facies analysis and architectural analysis and basic subsurface methods (e.g., use of wireline logs) are treated at length in that book, and do not require repetition here. Older, or traditional methods, are discussed in Chaps. 2 and 3 of the present book against the background of our developing understanding of fluvial depositional systems, and how useful these methods are in this evolving context.