Accommodation is a fundamental concept in sequence stratigraphy, a subdiscipline of geology.
[1][2] Accommodation space can be pictured as the volume between the actual surface and the theoretical equilibrium surface where deposition and erosion are in balance at every point.
In fluvial environments, changes in accommodation are controlled by the gradient, discharge and sediment supply.
In the lower parts of river systems, the change of accommodation in the fluvial system is controlled by the changes in marine accommodation.
[2] The term is also sometimes used to describe processes by which room is made for plutons to intrude country rock.