ABSTRACT: Depositional microfacies controls on the pore characteristics in tight sandstone reservoirs: a case study from the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, Southwest Ordos Basin, China

Qian-you Wang, Wei Yang, Yan Song, Zhen-xue Jiang, Dan Liu, Ru-si Zuo

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

...ABSTRACT: Depositional microfacies controls on the pore characteristics in tight sandstone reservoirs: a case study from the Upper Triassic Yanchang...

Depositional Significance of Siliciclastic Component of the Lower Cretaceous Pearsall Cow Creek Limestone Member in the Western Maverick Basin, South Texas

Robert G. Loucks, David C. Hull

GCAGS Transactions

... worm tubes, and echinoid fragments). Much of the calcareous sandstone is bioturbated, but several intervals display well-developed crossbedding...

Extended Abstract: Gulf of Mexico Salt Structures and their Impact on Reservoir Quality—An Evaluation Methodology

Zehui Tim Huang, Ursula Edwards, Steve Carson, David Eickhoff, Tobi Kosanke

GCAGS Transactions

... at the prospect locations using end-member reservoir rock composition and texture and temperature/pressure histories of geological scenarios. Our 3D...

Stratigraphic Analysis of the Navajo Sandstone: DISCUSSION

R. L. Folk

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Stratigraphic Analysis of the Navajo Sandstone: DISCUSSION R. L. Folk 1977 Vol. 47 No. 1. (March), FOLK, R. L., 1968, Bimodal supermature sandstones...

Stratigraphic Concepts: DISCUSSION

R. M. Stainforth

AAPG Bulletin

.... Such surfaces might be defined on many bases such as their chemistry, texture, fauna, flora, temperature, or fluid content. The sea-floor (or land surface...

Compaction and Porosity Evolution of Pliocene Sandstones, Ventura Basin, California: REPLY

John C. Wilson, Earle F. Mcbride

AAPG Bulletin

... Louisiana (abs.): AAPG Bulletin, v. 49, p. 334. Beard, D. C., and P. K. Weyl, 1973, Influence of texture on porosity and permeability...

Abstract: Study of Calcite Cement in Submarine Fan Complex, South Wells Member of the Cherry Canyon Formation, Delaware Mountain Group, Western Delaware Basin, by Saswati Chakraborty and Robert Trentham; #90089 (2009)

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Petroleum Geology of the Lake Kickapoo East (Caddo) Field Archer County, Texas; #11372 (2023)

Dennis W. Browning

Search and Discovery.com

... Limestone, Strawn Sandstone and Gunsight Sandstone reservoirs. The Caddo Limestone is the focus of this presentation and provides an example...

Piper Oil Field

C. E. Maher

AAPG Special Volumes

... a fine-grained homogeneous and bioturbated (offshore marine bar) sandstone. Texture Sphericity and Roundness Grains range from subangular to well...

Chapter 34: Deep-water Channel Margin Architecture, Cerro Toro Formation, Cerro Mocho, Chile

Stephen M. Hubbard, Brian W. Romans, Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Special Volumes

... ft) (conglomerate); 0.5–1 m (1.5–3 ft) (sandstone) Texture — grain-size range; average; sorting Lower fine-grained sand to cobble; medium-grained...

Chapter 100: Distal-basin-floor-fan Deposits of the Middle Eocene Tyee Formation, Oregon, USA

M. L. Sweet, R. T. Beaubouef, John Beuhler, Matt Grove, Margie Kloska, Steve Mitchell

AAPG Special Volumes

...% Texture — grain-size range; average; sorting Mudstone to lower medium-grained sandstone; average lower fine-grained sand, NA Mudstone to lower...

Geology of Devonian Areas of Parana Basin in Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay

Victor Oppenheim

AAPG Bulletin

... and Anderson. Tibagy sandstone: These sandstones are generally of fine texture, micaceous, feldspathic, yellowish gray, and compact but friable. Until...

Geology of the Front Range Foothills, Boulder-Lyons-Loveland Area, Colorado - One-Day Field Trip via Colorado Highways 7 and 66 and U.S. Highways 34 and 287

Warren O. Thompson, Theodore R. Walker

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... as low ridge on right of road. 9.0 Low ridge on left is “Muddy” member of the Dakota sandstone, probable correlative of the “J” sand of the Denver...

Upper Paleozoic Rocks Exposed in Straight Wash Canyon, San Rafael Swell, Utah

Walter E. Hallgarth

AAPG Bulletin

.... These rocks are included in the Hermosa(?) Formation, Elephant Canyon Formation of Baars (1962), the Coconino Sandstone, and the Kaibab Limestone. Baars...

Sedimentary Structures and Depositional Environments, Potsdam Formation, Upper Cambrian: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Ervin G. Otvos, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

..., Building stones of Ontario, Pt. IV, Sandstone: Ontario Dept. Mines Indust. Min. Rept. 17, p. 4-18. Keith, M. L., 1949, Sandstone as a source...

Catalog of Formations for Green River Basin and Adjacent Areas

Eugene C. Eaton

Wyoming Geological Association

..., Wyoming. Yellow, black, and grey carbonaceous shale interbedded with brown and buff sandstone, with many seams of coal. Unconformably overlies...

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Sag River Formation, Northern NPR … Alaska

David A. Barnes

Special Publications of SEPM

... are subdivided into heterolithic; sandstone; and argillaceous, silty sandstone facies. These facies occur in a generally coarsening upwards succession...

Distribution and Geometry of an Oolite-Shoal Complex--Lower Cretaceous Sligo Formation, South Texas (1)

D. G. Bebout, R. A. Schatzinger

GCAGS Transactions

... limestone; locally fine sandstone. Color: Medium to dark gray. Texture: Mudstone, locally wackestone with up to 20% pellets. This facies...

Textures in Layered Silicates: Progressive Changes Through Diagenesis and Low-Temperature Metamorphism

Jung Hoo Lee, Jung Ho Ahn, Donald R. Peacor

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., AND FRANKS, S. G., 1979, Clay diagenesis in Wilcox sandstones of southwest Texas: implications of smectite diagenesis on sandstone cementation: Jour. Sod...

Deltaic Sedimentation on a Carbonate Shelf: Stanton Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian), Southeastern Kansas

Reza Moussavi-Harami , Robert L. Brenner

AAPG Bulletin

... these siliciclastics show that deltaic systems prograded into the cratonic sea from Ouachita sources. Analyses of texture and sedimentary structures in lithic...

THE THREE FORKS GROUP (UPPER DEVONIAN-KINDERHOOKIAN) OF SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN

JAMES E. CHRISTOPHER

Montana Geological Society

... portion of Peale's "upper shales" and the superjacent sandstone member; i.e., the Sappington sandstone of Berry (1943) as redefined...

Chapter Nine: Characterization of Thin-Bedded Turbidites in the North Brae Field, South Viking Graben, North Sea

Bayonle A. Omoniyi, Dorrik A. V. Stow, Andy R. Gardiner

AAPG Special Volumes

... used to characterize TBT–VTBT include facies and facies associations, sandstone/mudstone ratio, bed geometry, sand connectivity, sediment texture...

Codell Sandstone, New Exploration Play, Denver Basin

Robert J. Weimer, Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... the texture, biogenic and physical structures, body fossils and geometry of sandstone units. Type 1 sandstone was deposited as marine shelf or shoreline...

Introduction to the Economic Aspects of Wyoming's Sandstones

D. N. Miller Jr.

Wyoming Geological Association

... to the dollars and cents economy of the minerals industry of Wyoming than has sandstone (Table 1), and for this reason it is quite fitting that the Wyoming...

Genesis of Oligocene Sandstone Reservoir, Seeligson Field, Jim Wells and Kleberg Counties, Texas

Robert H. Nanz, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

..., composition and texture. In other words, sand grains of various kinds have been put together in a certain systematic way. Mass properties such as porosity...