“…Computer modelling can help resolve this problem. The methodology is usually called forward stratigraphic modelling (FSM) (Griffiths and Hadler-Jacobsen, 1995;Dalman and Weltje, 2012;Sangster et al, 2019), although it was also called stratigraphic forward modelling (Burgess, 2006;Sacchi et al, 2015;2016;Ding et al, 2019), basin filling modelling (Syvitski and Hutton, 2001;Hutton and Syvitski, 2008;Li et al, 2020), and stratigraphic simulation (Rivenaes, 1992;1997;Lawrence et al, 40 1990), etc.…”