Stratigraphy

{
  "id": "MLC-T-OAG-003642",
  "term": "Stratigraphy",
  "field": "Oil and gas",
  "definition": "The geological study of rock layers (strata) and their arrangement, succession, and interpretation. It involves describing and correlating rock units to understand the Earth's history, including the depositional environments and tectonic events that formed them. Sequence stratigraphy, a subdiscipline, is widely used in petroleum exploration to identify potential reservoir, source, and seal rocks within a depositional sequence.",
  "subject": "Geology",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oil-and-gas/stratigraphy/"
}