Basin-to-Deposit Intelligence Models

Abstract

Many exploration programs focus on individual targets while overlooking the larger systems that created them.

This paper evaluates intelligence models that connect basin-scale organization to deposit-scale opportunity.

The objective is to understand how large systems generate local discoveries.

Scale Hierarchy

• Planetary systems
• Continental systems
• Basin systems
• District systems
• Structural corridors
• Deposit systems
• Reservoir systems
• Production systems

Model Principle

The most valuable targets often become understandable only when viewed within the larger systems that produced them.

SiteIQ Relevance

Basin-to-deposit models allow geological intelligence systems to evaluate opportunity at multiple scales simultaneously.