AN APPLICATION OF TTI IN RECONSTRUCTION OF ORIGINAL THICKNESS OF SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES-A CASE STUDY OF THE WEST SHANXI AND NORTH HENAN AREAS

The maturity of organic matter in sedimentary rocks is the accumulating effects of thermal evolution in burial history. Such an accumulated effect could be expressed by time-temperature-index (TTI) or vitrinite reflectance (R°), The greatest burial depth and the original thickness of sedimentary sequences can be obtained by the method of reversion, once the TTI (or R°) and the burial history in certain areas are available. The precision of this method depends on the parameters, such as geothermics and thickness of sedimentary sequences, TTI,R°,etc.. If upliftings and sudsidings take place,you should make corrections both on the depth and the thermal effects of time-temperature.