Bulletin of Geology
Vol 6 No 2 (2022): Bulletin of Geology Special Issue: International Seminar on Earth Sciences and Te

Linear Regression for Flooding Surface Identification in Well Log, and Outcrop Image

Epo Prasetya Kusumah (Universitas Pertamina)
Ridha Santika Riadi (Pertamina Hulu Sanga-sanga)
Teguh Surino Setiawan (Pertamina Hulu Sanga-sanga)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Jul 2022

Abstract

Defining parasequences manually would take a huge amount of time. Interpretation subjectivity has also become an issue among stratigrapher when they are dealing with parasequence boundary identification which may resulting in inconsistency of parasequence identification. This paper means to present the use of automation in parasequence boundary identification using simple linear regression method in synthetic data, well log data, as well as outcrop image data. In stratigraphy, vertical succession of lithology holds a very important meaning. Vertical succession of lithology in paralic setting where deposition occurred in a certain sea level might shows coarsening upward vertical succession. In the event where flooding occurred and sea level abruptly rise, the coarsening vertical succession might be disturbed by sharp change of lithology into finer particle, or simply called vertical discontinuity. Stratigaphers may use vertical discontinuity to identify the presence of flooding surfaces or parasequence boundaries. Linear regression can be used to identify vertical discontinuity by measuring error occurred due to linear regression prediction. Vertical succession that showing deposition continuity might show small error number in the data where vertical disturbance occurred. The error value might increase significantly. Thus, it would be possible to determine flooding surface using linear regression by applying some threshold. This method has been proven to work using both well log data and outcrop image data which might ease stratigraphy analysis workflow in general.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

buletin-geologi

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Subject

Earth & Planetary Sciences Energy Engineering

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Bulletin of Geology is a research-based periodical scientific open access journal published by Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). The published article in Bulletin of Geology covers all geoscience and technology fields including Geology, Geophysics, Geodesy, ...