In this paper, the authors practically distinguished the varieties of stratigraphic units and bearing economic resource deposit during filling process from the Fushun Basin, Liaoning Province, the Tongbai Basin, Henan Province, and the Greater Green River Basin, USA via the illustrative names of coal, oil shale and evaporite-bearing stratigraphic units. Tectonic and climate control the potential accumulation of terrestrial basins and eventual sediment plus water inflow into terrestrial basins, changing the basin filling status among over-compensation, balance-compensation, and under-compensation, eventually causing the alteration of lithological associations,  sedimentary architecture and paleontological assembles of different stratigraphic units,  which can reasonably interpret potential deposit of coal, oil shale and evaporite.