Sequence stratigraphic concepts have a variety of applications well beyond hydrocarbon exploration. Through coastal plain-to-shelf stratigraphic correlation of Last Glacial Maximum deposits from the Central Adriatic area, we tested a source-to-sink approach for exploring offshore groundwater reserves stored within the lowstand systems tract. Above an erosional unconformity (sequence boundary) formed at the Marine Isotope Stage 3–2 transition in response to sea-level fall, lowstand fluvial gravel-sand bodies, up to 20 m thick, can be tracked continuously downstream, from the coastal-plain paleovalleys to the shelf, 30 km away from the modern shoreline. The LST is overlain by a mud-dominated wedge (TST + HST) made up of alluvial, estuarine and delta plain deposits in lateral transition to thick shallow-marine and prodelta clay successions.

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通过综合层序地层学和源汇分析对近海地下水勘探的新视角：来自意大利中亚得里亚海系统西部晚第四纪演替的见解


层序地层学概念的应用范围远远超出碳氢化合物勘探。通过中亚得里亚海地区末次盛冰期沉积物的沿海平原到陆架地层对比，我们测试了一种从源到汇的方法来勘探低位体系域内储存的近海地下水储量。在海洋同位素第 3-2 阶段因海平面下降而形成的侵蚀不整合面（层序边界）之上，可以从沿海平原向下游连续追踪厚度达 20 m 的低位河流砾石砂体。古山谷到陆架，距现代海岸线 30 公里。 LST 上覆盖着一个以泥为主的楔形物（TST + HST），该楔形物由冲积物、河口和三角洲平原沉积物组成，横向过渡到厚的浅海和前三角洲粘土层序。