SEDPAK v.4.1 HELP SYSTEM

GENERAL HELP MENU

• Sedpak Basics

• The Sedpak Launch Menu

• The Sedpak Edit Menu

• The Sedpak Exec Menu

• The Sedpak Screen Dumps used to make movies

• The Sedpak Overlay utility

• The Sedpak Adobe Illustrator file conversion utility

• General notes for this version of Sedpak.

Miscellaneous information concerning the contents if the SEDPAK release, running SEDPAK and how to contact the SEDPAK Group.

• Technical Supplement for this version of Sedpak.

How to do things we haven't written the real interface for yet, or running Sedapk non-interactively. Also describes file formats for files used by Sedpak.

TABLE of CONTENTS

Enhancements to SEDPAK from Version 4.0 to 4.1

1.00 WELCOME TO SEDPAK
1.01 Objectives
1.02 Strategies/Methodologies of Sedimentary Simulation
1.03 Empirical Basin Simulations
1.04 Use of Sedimentary Simulations
1.05 Advantages of Sedimentary Simulations
1.06 Advantages of Using SEDPAK
1.07 Assumptions Used in SEDPAK Algorithm
1.08 Major Controls on Sedimentary Fill of Basins
1.09 General Description of the Software
1.10 General Description of the Basin Model
1.11 Getting Started: The Computer Environment
1.12 Getting Started: Some Practical Advice

2.00 SEDPAK BASICS
2.01 Functions and Variables
2.02 The Architecture of SEDPAK
2.03 The SEDPAK Graphical User Interface
2.04 Accelerators and Mnemonics
2.05 SEDPAK LAUNCH and Other Menus and the SEDPAK Window
2.06 The File Menu
2.07 Sedpak Files
2.08 The Option Menu Command
2.09 The Balloon Help and Help Menu.
2.10 The Plotter
2.11 The Data Sheet
2.12 The Calculator
2.13 Warning Dialogs
2.14 User Inputs versus Default Values in SEDPAK
2.15 Non-Interactive Execution of SEDPAK
2.16 Overlay
2.17 Adobe

3.00 THE SEDPAK EDIT MENU
3.01 Comments
3.02 Constants
3.03 Setup
3.04 Basin Surface
3.05 Sea Level
3.06 Subsidence
3.07 Clastic Supply
3.08 Depositional Distance
3.09 Winnowing
3.10 Depositional Parameters
3.11 Carbonate Rates
3.12 Hardgrounds
3.13 Lagoonal Damping
3.14 Wave Damping
3.15 Pelagic Deposition
3.16 Carbonate Parameters
3.17 Overburden
3.18 Time Boundaries
3.19 Pseudo Wells
3.20 Out of Plane Deposition
3.21 Thermal Gradients
3.22 Surface Temperatures
3.23 Maturation Parameters

4.00 THE SEDPAK EXEC Menu
4.02 Plotting Controls
4.03 Display Controls
4.04 Display Modes
4.05 View Controls

5.00 The SEDPAK Facies EDITOR

6.00 EXERCISING SEDPAK
6.01 Exercising the SEDPAK EXEC Menu - Open, Pause, Resume, and Load and Restart
6.02 Exercising the SEDPAK EXEC Menu - Zoom
6.03 Exercising the SEDPAK EXEC Menu - Plotting Controls
6.04 Exercising the SEDPAK EXEC Menu - Display Controls surface lines
6.05 Exercising the SEDPAK EXEC Menu - Display Modes
6.06 Exercising the SEDPAK EXEC Menu - View Controls
6.07 Exercising the SEDPAK EDIT Menu - 0pening a File to Edit
6.08 Comments
6.09 Constants
6.10 Setup
6.11 Understanding Shore Error
6.12 Basin Surface and Deus ex Machina Surfaces
6.13 Sea Level
6.14 Subsidence, Faulting, and Salt Tectonics
6.15 Clastic Supply
6.16 Depositional Distance
6.17 Depositional Parameters
6.18 Winnowing
6.19 Carbonate Rates
6.20 Hardgrounds
6.21 Lagoonal Damping
6.22 Wave Damping
6.23 Pelagic Deposition
6.24 Carbonate Parameters
6.25 Building Carbonate Geometry: Aggradation, Backstepping, and Progradation
6.26 Overburden
6.27 Time Boundaries
6.28 Pseudo Well
6.29 Out of Plane
6.30 Two Sided Basin Simulation
6.31 Maturation Modeling - Thermal Gradient and Surface Temperature
6.32 Exercising the SEDPAK FACIES Menu

7. Quick Time Movies of Sedpak output
7.01 Introduction to animated Sedpak output
7.02 QUICK TIME movies

8. Trouble Shooting
8.01 Shore Error
8.02 Aliasing
8.03 No Color Fill
8.04 Boundary Conditions/ Edge Effects
8.05 Inactive Menu Options (greyed out buttons)

APPENDIX A. TECHNICAL SUPPLEMENT
A.01 Format for a SEDPAK input file (.db)
A.02 Sample SEDPAK input file
A.03 Format for a SEDPAK surface file (.sur)
A.04 Sample SEDPAK surface file
A.05 Format for a SEDPAK solidity file (.sol)
A.06 Sample SEDPAK solidity file
A.07 Format for a SEDPAK layer thickness file (.thick)
A.08 Sample SEDPAK layer thickness file

9. REFERENCES

ABOUT the SEDPAK Group

	Dr. Christopher G.St.C. Kendall, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences
	Dr. Robert L. Cannon, Emeritus Professor
	Dr. Phil Moore, Manager Scientific Computing, Computational  Sciences Directorate, Savannah River National Laboratory

The Grad Students

• Link to Strat Mod Group

Copyright: This product was developed at the University of South Carolina (USC) by the Stratigraphic Modeling Group. The Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) is the owner of SEDPAK and is now the sole owner and distributor of the software.  All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form by any means without the written permission of the SEPM.