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Figure 8.17Sequence stratigraphy can be used to understand how sedimentary bedding patterns were created. (a) A seismic profile reveals individual sedimentary beds. (b) Geologists can group these beds into sedimentary sequences. (c) and (d) In this case, seismic imaging reveals a stratigraphic succession that is characteristic of a series of deltaic sequences.