Lanman, as usual some great posts on the complexity and huge potential of our Mako Trough. I think that if I knew what the following meant that I wouldn't be hoping for my Falcon investment to payoff big as I would already be making great money interpreting technical journals :) Regards Paul

"Based on our observations in the Makó Trough, it seems safe to say that neither third nor fourth-order sequences built up of LST, TST and HST as “traditional” models predict can be designated. Instead, the shelf-margin is constructed of alternating aggradational and progradational units. The sequence boundaries are represented by surfaces of maximum regression, these overlain by 1-2 reflections thick transgressive units, thick aggradational early highstand, and progradational late highstand reflections. The relative lake level rose continuously at varying rates. Relative level drops larger in amplitude than the seismic resolution did not occur, thus lowstand fans and wedges did not develop either. Sand delivery to the basin center is characteristic during the early highstand, while the slope-toe becomes the main locus of deposition during the late highstand and maximum regression."

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