• Apply geophysical fundamentals to uncovering the geological information embedded within seismic

• Understand the premises behind the Vail seismic sequence paradigm

• Construct and interpret chronostratigraphic charts, sea level curves, and seismic facies maps

• Interpret clastic and carbonate depositional system responses to allocyclic and autocyclic processes and the effects upon reservoir architecture and seal potential

1. Introduction: philosophy and history

2. Geophysical fundamentals

3. Breaking out operational sequences

4. Introduction to fault interpretation

5. Chronostratigraphy construction and interpretation

6. Sea level curves, accommodation space, and cycle orders

7. Vail sequence theory and sequence hierarchy

8. Carbonate sequences

9. Siliciclastic sequences

10. Seismic facies

11. Paleo-environmental analysis

12. Geohistory reconstruction

13. Optimizing exploration

Geophysicists, geologists, explorationists, and managers who are interested in an introduction or review of the theory and application of contemporary seismic stratigraphic techniques to exploration.