摘要
Advance on sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy were summed up in view of point from oil and gas exploration in petroliferous basins. It included as follows: the third order sequence and types of systems tract and its significance of petroleum geology; sequence stratigraphic application in unconventional oil and gas exploration; palaeo-soil and trace fossils and its significance in sequence identification; basin types and depositional systems including basin fills such as tectonic, climate and deposits, foreland basin deposits, faulted basin deposits, strip-slide basin deposits etc.. It also finally points out that future emphasis in oil and gas exploration focus on outcrops and modern deposits research, laboratory technique and sedimentary geochemistry, laboratory model and numerical simulation, and sequence stratigraphy and foreland basin analysis.