Must-read geology

An informal and opinionated list of articles, papers, books, blogs, that all exploration and reservoir geologists should read. It's highly subjective, but it may be best to favour more useful, readable treatments over earlier, more original ones. The list should probably not be longer than about 100 papers. Not at all sure how to organize it... we will see what happens. Please include a DOI when you can. You can just add http://dx.doi.org/ in front of any DOI to get a permalink to the resource.

Sequence stratigraphy

 * Haq 1988. In Wilgus et al, eds, Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach. SEPM Special Publication 42.
 * Posamentier & Allen. Variaiblity of the sequence stratigraphic model. Sed Geol 86.
 * Sarg, JF 1988. Carbonate sequence stratigraphy. In Wilgus et al, eds, Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach. SEPM Special Publication 42.
 * Schlager 1993. Accommodation and supply: a dual control on stratigraphic sequences. Sed Geol 86.
 * Vail, P & R Wilbur 1966, Onlap, key to worldwide unconformities and depositional cycles. AAPG Bulletin 50, 638–639.
 * Van Wagoner, JC et al 1988.An overview of the fundamentals of sequence stratigraphy and key definitions. In Wilgus et al, eds, Sea-Level Changes: An Integrated Approach. SEPM Special Publication 42.

Books

 * Schum, To Interpret The Earth. Cambridge.
 * Rider & Kennedy. The Geological Interpretation of Well Logs. Rider-French. ISBN 978-0954190682.
 * Catuneanu, Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy. On Amazon.