title: Stratigraphic sections, bedding sequences, and random processes.
abstract: Both dependent and independent random processes can be used to study and synthesize stratigraphic sections and bedding sequences. Synthetic stratigraphic sections can be modeled to fit any geologic problem with a good correspondence between the synthetic and actual stratigraphic sections. To synthesize a sedimentary sequence, one needs only a transition procedure to go from one lithology or bedding type to another, and frequency distributions of thickness for the various lithologies. A sedimentation process with a "memory" is termed Markovian; if the past has no influence on either present or future sedimentation, it is called an independent trials process.
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authors.lastname: Ridge
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