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The role of computers in petroleum exploration is increasing. The large volume of micropaleontologic data in company files is much more efficiently utilized with the aid of computers. In the Gulf Coast, micropaleontology is especially helpful in correlating the very thick Cenozoic section of alternating sands and shales. Micropaleontology is also essential in the interpretation of depositional environments.
Computer applications to micropaleontologic data most commonly requested by geologists are: (1) indexes, listing wells containing paleontologic data, (2) biostratigraphic and paleoecologic summary reports for the wells, (3) base maps illustrating paleo control, (4) structure maps contoured on paleo-marker horizons, (5) isopachous maps on intervals between two paleo-marker horizons, and (6) paleoecologic maps illustrating depositional environments at the time of extinction of a paleo-marker species.
The applications quickly provide the geologist with a structural, stratigraphic, and paleoecologic framework.
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