Depositional Facies of High-Energy Beach-to-Offshore Sequence: Comparison with Low-Energy Sequence

James D. Howard , Hans-Erich Reineck

AAPG Bulletin

... depositional units. Results of this examination indicated 28 individual sequences that could be traced over variable distances (Fig. 13). Of these 28...

SEDIMENTOLOGY AND FACIES RELATIONSHIPS OF THE BELFRY MEMBER, FORT UNION FORMATION, NORTHERN BIGHORN BASIN

Richard F. Yuretich, Jason F. Hicks

Montana Geological Society

..., giving rise to the rapidly changing stratigraphy and ultimately, return to a fluvial depositional system. CITED Beaumont, E.A., 1979...

1-D Stratigraphic Analysis

Charles Kerans, Scott W. Tinker

Special Publications of SEPM

... interpretation. A sequence-stratigraphic interpretation, with or without seismic data, must be made within the context of a reasonable depositional model...

Abstract: Advances in Stratigraphic Trap Identification

S. C. Lang

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... Most stratigraphic traps have a structural aspect to their success, and in some cases the relationship between depositional setting and evolving...

The Influence of Explosive Volcanism on Fluvial Sedimentation: The Deschutes Formation (Neogene) in Central Oregon

Gary A. Smith

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by erosion surfaces. Debris-flow and hyperconcentrated flood-flow facies occur as single depositional units or in multistory sequences up to 25 m thick...

Quantifying the origin and geometry of circular sag structures in northern Fort Worth Basin, Texas: Paleocave collapse, pull-apart fault systems, or hydrothermal alteration?

Angela McDonnell, Robert G. Loucks, Tim Dooley

AAPG Bulletin

..., in recognizing this contractional zone on seismic data, at the scale of the observed features. The detailed internal architecture is generally below...

Origin of Lacustrine Rocks of Wilkins Peak Member, Wyoming

Raymond Sullivan

AAPG Bulletin

... sequences of the remainder of the succession. Much discussion has centered on the origin of these lacustrine rocks. A perennial meromictic (stratified) lake...

Significance of Lignites in Paleocene Middle Wilcox Stratigraphy in East Central Louisiana

Donald Goddard , John Echols , Paul Comet

GCAGS Transactions

... (1992), Lignites are a ubiquitous component of the stratigraphic sequence in the deltaic depositional environment of the Wilcox Group. In the Middle...

Chapter 12: Mowry Shale–Belle Fourche Shale, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA—A Mesozoic Clastic-Biosiliceous Shelf System: A Prolific Source Rock with Associated Mudstone Reservoir Potential

K. M. Bohacs, O. R. Lazar, R. D. Wilson, J. H. S. Macquaker

AAPG Special Volumes

... Geological Society 50th Anniversary Guidebook, p. 125–135. Bohacs, K. M., 1998, Contrasting expressions of depositional sequences in mudrocks from marine...

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture of a Mid-Continent Mississippian Outcrop in Southwest Missouri

Miranda Childress, G. Michael Grammer

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, No. 33, p. 79–96. Handford, C.R. and Loucks, R.G., 1993, Carbonate depositional sequences and systems...

Miocene Sequence Biostratigraphy of the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Mark M. Jiang

GCAGS Transactions

... of the floral pulse model. PRINCIPLE, TECHNIQUE, AND PROCEDURE The principle of how to relate the floral and/or faunal pulses to depositional sequences has been...

Structure of the Outer Zone of the Turkmenistan Shelf of the South Caspian Based on Common Depth Point Seismic Data

A. Yu. Yunov, B. N. Martirosyan

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Structure of the Outer Zone of the Turkmenistan Shelf of the South Caspian Based on Common Depth Point Seismic Data A. Yu. Yunov, B. N. Martirosyan...

2011 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Milan, Italy, 23-26 October 2011., - Abstracts, #90135 (2011).

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Chapter 4: Adding New Reserves and Production in Giant Fields

John S. Sneider, Michael A. Rosen, Dorothy E. Ballentine

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Penney, P. Spaak, G. Williams, F. Al-Zadjali, N. Jones, et al., 2004, Depositional sequences of the Al Khlata Formation, subsurface Interior Oman...

Reservoir Description for Exploration and Development: What is Needed and When?: ABSTRACT

Robert M. Sneider

AAPG Bulletin

... in the reservoir description process is recognizing any correlative reservoir subzones or layers and any intervening dense, impermeable, or low-permeability strata...

Field Conference: Thick-Bedded, Coarse-Grained, Deep-Water Deposits, Cretaceous and Paleogene, Central California; The Paleogene Cantua Sandstone, Southern Diablo Range, California: Facies Architecture of a Sand-Rich, Structurally Controlled, Deep-Sea Depositional System; The Juniper Ridge Conglomerate, Coalinga, California: Sedimentology and Facies Architecture of a Submarine Fan Channel and Levee Complex

Stephan A. Graham, Donald R. Lowe, Kai S. Anderson, Thomas Hickson

Pacific Section SEPM

... sequences and placed them in the depositional context of submarine fan models available at that time (Mansfield, 1971; Nilsen and others, 1974; Ingersoll...

Comparative Ichnological Analysis of Late Albian Estuarine Valley-Fill and Shelf-Shoreface Deposits, Crystal Viking Field, Alberta

S. George Pemberton, Gerry E. Reinson, James A. MacEachern

Special Publications of SEPM

... are important in recognizing this distinction. DEPOSITIONAL MODEL The depositional model for the Crystal valley-fill deposit is summarized in a sequence...

Abstract: Tectonic Controls from Reservoir Architecture: The Cretaceous Pinda FM; Block 0, Angola, by Peter Sixsmith, Bryan Bracken, Sunday Shepherd, Jessica M. Ali-Adeeb, Robert Scamman, and Art Bradley; #90082 (2008)

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Stratigraphic analysis of XES02: Implications for the sequence stratigraphic paradigm

Bradford E. Prather, Oriol Falivene, Peter M. Burgess

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... reflection patterns in depositional sequences, in Payton, C.E., ed., Seismic Stratigraphy: Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration: American Association...

Stratigraphic Record of River-Dominated Crevasse Subdeltas With Tidal Influence (Lajas Formation, Argentina)

Marcello GugliottA, Stephen S. Flint, David M. Hodgson, Gonzalo D. Veiga

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... constrained, leading to simplistic depositional models of delta-plain systems in the ancient record. Extensive exposures of the Middle Jurassic Lajas...

Making Outcrops Relevant to the Subsurface: Learnings From the Eagle Ford Outcrops of West Texas

Arthur D. Donovan, Scott Staerker, Rand Gardner, Michael C. Pope, Matthew Wehner

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... (depositional sequences) more suitable for regional subsurface correlations can also be defined. The Lower (Lozier Canyon) Member of the Lower Eagle Ford...

The influence of topography on subaqueous gravity flows: a case study from the Jurassic Los Molles Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Gabriel Giacomone, Cornel Olariu, Eugen Tudor, Ronald J. Steel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... morphology as a control on the development of sand-rich turbidite depositional systems: 3-D seismic analysis of the Kyrre Fm (Upper Cretaceous), Måløy...

Cenozoic Qaidam basin, China: A stronger tectonic inversed, extensional rifted basin

Wenchen Xia, Ning Zhang, Xiaoping Yuan, Lianshun Fan, Bingshan Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... sequences in the marginal basin (Figure 6). Recognizing these basic sequences in the central basin, however, is difficult. Sequence set 4, consisting...

Modern internal waves and internal tides along oceanic pycnoclines: Challenges and implications for ancient deep-marine baroclinic sands: Reply

G. Shanmugam

AAPG Bulletin

... and canyons, Pleistocene, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, in L. J. Wood, T. T. Simo, and N. C. Rosen, eds. Seismic imaging of depositional and geomorphic...

Why Study Cores?

J.C. Harms

Saskatchewan Geological Society

... characteristics are in a valley-fill reservoir as compared to a marine-bar reservoir. Stratification, grain-size sequences, and biogenic structures are distinctive...