An Assessment of Stress States in Passive Margin Sediments: Iterative Hydro-Mechanical Simulations on Basin Models and Implications for Rock Failure Predictions
Laurent Langhi
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
interesting paper focused on coupling of basin and geomechanical modelling. I have made some comment on the PDF file.
I enjoyed reading he manuscript, looking forward for the finalised version.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear reviewer.
Many thanks for your time, your interest in our paper and your valuable advices to improve it. You will find attached a letter detailing how we followed your suggestions in the revised version. Yours faithfully.
Antoine BOUZIAT and co-authors.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
Review comments
A manuscript entitled "An Assessment of Stress States in Passive Margin Sediments: Iterative Hydro-mechanical Simulations on Basin Models and Implications for Rock Failure Predictions" by Dr. Antoine Bouziat and coauthors examines stress states within the sedimentary deposits in 2D synthetic modelling by especially focusing on the effects of sedimentation rate and basement tilting.
This attempt is interesting and useful in the related fields. I raised minor suggestions for improvement as below, and would recommend the acceptance of this manuscript after they are addressed.
Specific comments:
Line 205-208:
What is the definition for "Quite Shaly", "Shaly" and "Very Shaly". Please explain explicitly. It would be better to display a quantitative color bar for this measure in Figure 2.
Line 221-222
I was not sure what information the authors rely on to adjust the change in the absolute sea level and how it actually changes at each time step.
Line 231
What is the unit of the density 2.7? How do you assume this value and Poisson's ratio of 0.32 for sedimentary deposits. Need references.
Minor comments:
Please also edit the following:
Line131 "lagrangian" > "Lagrangian"
Line231 "poisson's" > "Poisson's"
Line326 "more shallow" > "shallower"
Line373 "more shallow" > "shallower"
Line536 Replace "2010" with "2011" and delete "January".
Line543 Journal and page info is missing.
Line563 Add the end page ("-57" after "33").
Line601 Add volume and page info.
Line605 Delete "(2004)".
Line642 Replace "2016" with "2017".
Line649 Add the end page ("-309" after "297").
Line652 Add page info.
Line671 Add page info.
Line724 Check if the page info is correct.
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Line795 Add page info.
Line803 Add brackets to "1999".
Line809 Delete "April".
Figure 1
The inset figure is not described well. Add scales and color legends and explain what "1", "2", "3", black lines with arrows represent.
Figures 3-10
Add a horizontal scale for cross sections.
Figure 4
The caption is same as that of Figure 3 and should be corrected accordingly.
Figures 8 and 10
Colors for "Base case scenario" and "Low tilt" are too similar to see the difference.
Figure 2 and Appendix figures
Again, colors are too difficult to tell ("Sandy" and "Intermediate", "Quite Shaly" and "Shaly", "Very Shaly" and "Stiff basis").
Author Response
Dear reviewer.
Many thanks for your time, your interest in our paper and your valuable advices to improve it. You will find attached a letter detailing how we followed your suggestions in the revised version. Yours faithfully.
Antoine BOUZIAT and co-authors.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
