Isopach

An isopach is a contour that connects points of equal thickness. Commonly, the isopachs that make up an isopach map display the stratigraphic thickness of a rock unit as opposed to the true vertical thickness. This is an isopach map of the Union Springs Shale (thickness in feet).

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