Method for exploring a sedimentary basin with a stratigraphic simulation

摘要

The method involves breaking a sedimentary basin into geologic layers that are subdivided into climatic layers. Iterative stratigraphic simulation is performed. A sediment transport in a continental domain is modeled by a nonlinear diffusion equation under a maximum erosion rate constraint, and a suspended sediment transport in marine and lacustrine domain is modeled by an advection-diffusion equation. A sediment bottom layer transport is modeled by another diffusion equation. The climatic layers are homogenized, and the basin is explored from an image including the homogenized layers.