USC Sequence Stratigraphy Web - Industrial Associates

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATES

USC website on Sequence Stratigraphy is proud to be supported by an Industrial Association of the following companies:-

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
British Petroleum
Chevron Corporation
Norsk Hydro

Petroleum companies have joined the industrial association to support the extension and further development of this educational website. Lately they have supported field work by Peter Haughton, of UCD, and Christopher Kendall, of USC, to build a “public-domain on-line” photographic gallery capturing the classic Carboniferous delta, slope and deepwater outcrops from Loop Head north to the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare, Ireland. This gallery is being incorporated into exercises that involve the interpretation of the outcrops, basin fill history and concepts of dynamic stratigraphy using movies, maps and cross sections.

Part of the justification for this support is the provision to industrial associate employees to:

Access to depositional analogues of hydrocarbon fields and plays in a sequence stratigraphic framework explained with text, movies, and exercises
Enhance the training in sequence stratigraphy of employees and USC and other students worldwide
Gain familiarity with new concepts of sequence stratigraphy
Motivate learning new ways to study sequence stratigraphy and geology
Choice of pace and particular interest in the web exercises and courses
Ready access to web site anytime/anywhere
Access easily downloadable published and unpublished sequence stratigraphic contributions, particularly exercises
No longer spend long periods away from the office to attend classes in sequence stratigraphy
Enable instructors to use less time in classroom and more preparing and organizing data from web
Provide a medium for sequence stratigraphers employed by associate member companies to collaborate internally and communicate externally
Effectively teach the use of new technology and media (VR Quick Time movies, Real Media, etc) to pass on new information to fellow workers and instructors

The USC sequence stratigraphy web site provides global learning materials and is constantly updated as a sequence stratigraphy repository. Gifts of sequence stratigraphic data from associate company provides teaching materials that enhance the reputation of the doners as the originators of this geological discipline, while showcasing and further developing this burgeoning discipline of earth sciences.

Last Revised: April 26, 2007