A Review of Fundamental Concepts of Hydrocarbon Exploration in Unconformity Related Traps

John C. Dolson, Keith W. Shanley, Michael L. Hendricks, William A. Wescott

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... TransgressiveSurface of Eroslon Condensed Section Sequences and Surfaces Concentrated on, This Book Figure 1. Schematic depositional sequence...

Climate Controls on Petroleum Systems: The Pennsylvanian of Eastern Wyoming and the "Sinking Reservoir" Model

T. S. Ahlbrandt, J. L. Clayton, C. J. Schenk

Special Publications of SEPM

... “disjunctive” (growth) faults created during subsidence, has important implications for interpreting sediment sequences. INTRODUCTION The premise...

Gravity-Driven Structures and Rift Basin Evolution: Rio Muni Basin, Offshore Equatorial West Africa

Jonathan P. Turner

AAPG Bulletin

... platform successions and the condensed muddy sequences that typify the inner basin. The Rio Muni Basin, offshore Equatorial Guinea, is one of a few...

Sedimentologic and diagenetic controls on pore-network characteristics of OligoceneMiocene ramp carbonates (Majella Mountain, central Italy)

Andrea Rustichelli, Emanuele Tondi, Fabrizio Agosta, Claudio Di Celma, Maurizio Giorgioni

AAPG Bulletin

... supersequence, which is subdivided into four third-order sequences individually made up of both relatively shallow-water and deep-water carbonates (Vecsei...

2000 AAPG Annual Convention, April 16-19, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana, - Abstracts, #90914 (2000).

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Distinction of Marine from Alluvial Facies in the Paleoproterozoic (1.9 Ga) Burnside Formation, Kilohigok Basin, N.W.T., Canada

David S. McCormick , John P. Grotzinger

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-wave influence to siltstones deposited under storm and fair-weather wave conditions. Mixed siltstone-sandstone facies form coarsening-upward sequences...

Fluid Heterogeneity on a Well-Box Scale in Tight Unconventional Reservoirs

Curtis H. Whitson, Fahd Alqahtani, Ellie Chuparova

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., it would appear that the most likely scenario of fluid heterogeneity is vertical variation due to TOC variation shown by the parasequences making up...

Grain Association, Petrography, and Lithofacies

Diego A. Kietzmann, Federico González Tomassini, Taury Smith

AAPG Special Volumes

... Formation and other organic-rich units: SEPM Pacific Section, v. 41, p. 87–101. Goldhammer, R. K., 1998, Second-order accommodation cycles and points...

Do Meter Scale Cycles Exist? A Statistical Evaluation from Vertical (1-D) and Lateral (2-D) Patterns in Shallow-Marine Carbonates-Siliciclastics of the "Fall In" Strata of the Capitan Reef, Seven Rivers Formation, Slaughter Canyon, New Mexico

Daniel J. Lehrmann, Eugene C. Rankey

Special Publications of SEPM

... The of GOLDHAMMER R K LEHMANN P J., and DUNN P A GOLDHAMMER, R. K., LEHMANN, P. J and DUNN, P. A., 1993, The origin of third order sequences frequency...

Two-Dimensional Paleoslope Modeling: A New Method for Estimating Water Depths of Benthic Foraminiferal Biofacies and Paleoshelf Margins

Stephen F. Pekar , Michelle A. Kominz

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... biofacies. This enabled paleobathymetry to be determined for the reconstructed New Jersey margin as well as significant stratal surfaces within sequences...

Interplay of Structural, Climatic, and Volcanic Controls On Late Quaternary Lacustrine–Deltaic Sedimentation Patterns In the Western Branch of the East African Rift System, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania

Cassy Mtelela, Eric M. Roberts, Robert Downie, Marc S. Hendrix

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... stratigraphic sequences (A–F), ranging from ∼ 2 to 17 m thick, were identified based on stratal stacking patterns and the development of sequence...

Carbonate Platform to Basin Transitions on Seismic Data and in Outcrops: Great Bahama Bank and the Maiella Platform Margin, Italy

Gregor P. Eberli, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Christian Betzler, Jan-Henk Van Konijnenburg, Daniel Bernoulli

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the northern Apennines, in M. E. Tucker, J. L. Wilson, P. D. Crevello, J. F. Sarg, and J. F. Read, eds., Carbonate platforms: Facies, sequences and evolution...

Sedimentological, Petrophysical, and Seismic Characterization of an Upper Jurassic Shoreface-Dominated Shelf Margin (the Boulonnais, Northern France)

H. Braaksma, J.N. Proust, J.A.M. Kenter, G.G. Drijkoningen, N. Filippidou

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the downcutting of forestepping sets of higher-order sandy sequences into relatively finer-grained HST deposits during relative sea-level fall...

The Sequence Stratigraphy of the Mesozoic Reservoirs of the Gobe Anticline, Papuan Thrust Belt

Gary D. Powis

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... progressively deeper parasequences which ultimately bring the distal lower shoreface to offshore environments over the estuarine sands...

Ichnology of the Bridge Creek Limestone: Evidence for Temporal and Spatial Variations in Paleo-Oxygenation in the Western Interior Seaway

Charles E. Savrda

Special Publications of SEPM

... unbranched burrows referred to here as large Planolites (Fig. 2E). Diameters of these burrows are typically on the order of 8 mm but range from 6 to 10 mm...

Application of Sequence Stratigraphy to the Prioritization of Incremental Growth Opportunities in Mature Reservoirs: An Example from Frio Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstones, T-C-B Field, South Texas

Paul R. Knox, Lee E. McRae

GCAGS Transactions

... prepared for 1991 field trips, p. 4-55. Mitchum, R. M., and J. C. Van Wagoner, 1991, High-frequency sequences and their stacking patterns: sequence...

Detrital-Zircon U-Pb Paleodrainage Reconstruction and Geochronology of the Campanian Blackhawk–Castlegate Succession, Wasatch Plateau and Book Cliffs, Utah, U.S.A.

Bridget S. Pettit,, Mike Blum, Mark Pecha, Noah McLean, Nicolas C. Bartschi, Joel E. Saylor

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., and Steel, R.J., 2000, Fourth-order nonmarine to marine sequences, middle Castlegate Formation, Book Cliffs, Utah: Geology, v. 28, p. 359–362...

Early…Middle Ordovician seascape-scale aggregation pattern of sponge-rich reefs across the Laurentia paleocontinent

Björn Kröger, Amelia Penny

PALAIOS

... member, middle burrowed carbonategrainstone member, and an upper mound member representing two depositional sequences of an open subtidal-peritidal setting...

Controls on a Shallow-Water Hemipelagic Carbonate System Adjacent to a Siliciclastic Margin: Example from Late Turonian of Central Europe

Jiri Laurin, David Ulicny

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... regressive and transgressive systems tracts of first-order and second-order composite sequences. The second-order composite sequences are labeled TUR 4/1...

AAPG Archie Series, No. 1, Chapter 3: Definitions and Geologic Occurrence of Thin Beds in Clastics

Q. R. Passey, K. E. Dahlberg, K. B. Sullivan, H. Yin, R. A. Brackett, Y. H. Xiao, and A. G. Guzmán-Garcia

AAPG Special Volumes

... et al., 1990]. End_Page 35------------------------ Tidal/estuarine environment The types of parasequences in Figure 3.6 form in a tidal...

Tectono-Stratigraphic Controls on Deltaic Reservoir Architecture and Recovery Response in Foreland Basins

Noel Tyler

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... genetic units (the tectono-depositional episodes of da Silva, 1993; or parasequences of Van Wagoner and others, 1990) are seaward stepping during...

Preliminary Results of Coal Cleat Studies, Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale, Emery and Sevier Counties, Utah

Steven M. Condon

Four Corners Geological Society

... the outcrops. The structural dip is three to five degrees northwest. Ryer (1981a, b) identified several stacked fluvial-deltaic cycles, or parasequences...

The Sunset Prairie Formation: Designation of a New Middle Triassic Formation between the Lower Triassic Montney Formation and Middle Triassic Doig Formation in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Northeast British Columbia

Carolyn M. Furlong, Murray K. Gingras, Thomas F. Moslow, John-Paul Zonneveld

CSPG Bulletin

... the formation on a regional scale. Up to four progradational parasequences can be identified within the Sunset Prairie Formation. This is best exemplified within...

1995 Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, July 16-19, 1995, Reno, Nevada, - Abstracts, #90959 (1995).

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ABSTRACT: Ultra-High Resolution 3-D Characterization of Deep-Water Deposits- II: Insights into the Evolution of a Submarine Fan; #90013 (2003)

R. T. BEAUBOUEF, J. C. VAN WAGONER, N. L. ADAIR

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... are considered analogous to parasequences in a deep-water setting. Sediment was supplied to the fan from a fixed inlet channel to the northeast. The inlet...