摘要
System tract, a basic unit of II-grade sequence, is a combination of the same-term depositional systems controlled bywater level changes (lacustrine level or sea level). Petroleum tends to being accumulated in the depositional sand bodies of differ-ent system tracts. The type and distribution of lithologic pools could be predicted by characterization of system tracts and analysisof depodtional systems. In southwestern Qaidam basin, the characterization of system tracts shows that there exist developedtransgressive system tract (TST) and various types of reservoirs such as sand body of deltaic front, lacustrine beach and dam aswell as local turbidite of semideep lake. Based on synthetically geologic and seismic analyses, using digital seismic processingtechniques (Jasons reservoir inversion, etc.), the sand body distribution could be described, hence predicting that in southwest-ern Qaidam basin mainly developed the lithologic pools of SB, TU, DT and SS types.