A Method for Defining Sedimentary Characteristics and Distributions and Its Application in Qinnan Depression, Bohai Bay Basin
, Chunqiang Xu 2, Chenjie Wang 2, Hong Li 2, Wensen Zhu 2, Hongliang Wang 1,*, Kaixuan Liang 1 and Yong Su 1
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper presented a new method incorporating geophysical analysis and geological analysis to define sedimentary characteristics and distributions, whose application is analyzed further. The topic is relevant. I have following concerns which are not clear to me:
1. What significant advancements does this study bring to the field of geophysics and geological analysis for reservoir exploration?
2. How does the proposed method differ from existing techniques, and what makes it unique or innovative?
3. The abstract is in lack of certain quantitative conclusions.
4. What are the assumptions of the compatible model?
5. What criteria were used for interpreting seismic data to define sedimentary characteristics?
Author Response
We are truly grateful for all the constructive suggestions. We have carefully analyzed all of your suggestions, made thorough revisions accordingly and indicated the changes in the point-by-point responses. Please see the attachment.
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Reviewer 2 Report
I appreciate
Dear Authors,
I really appreciated your work and I think it is important to better recognize textural and indirect data sedimentological characters. Even where direct investigations and wells are absent or few.
I consider the method and the work well articulated and my suggestions can be found on the attached file.
Some questions: why is there no comparison with onshore data? For example of the Qinnan bulge? What's the role of the F1 major Fault in the architecture of recognized facies and sequence stratigraphy? There appear to be growth structures on this fault and it drives the evolution of the basin. Faults develop pre-sin or post sequences? I would stress this aspect.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
We are truly grateful for all the constructive suggestions. We have carefully analyzed all of your suggestions, made thorough revisions accordingly and indicated the changes in the point-by-point responses. Please see the attachment.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
All my concerns are well addressed.
Thanks to authors for the great work.
