Downslope Variability in Deep-Water Slope Channel Fill and Stacking Patterns: Insights From Outcrop and Shallow Seismic Analogs

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Westward-Ho: Why Do Most Turbidite Reservoirs Offshore Ghana Stack to the West, and What Impact Does This Have on Reservoir Heterogeneity, Modeling, Connected Volume, Well Placement and on Exploration?

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Abstract: An Integrative Approach to Characterize Deepwater Reservoir Architectures; #90273 (2017)

Henry Posamentier, Morgan Sullivan, Mike Roberts, Tom Mooney, Larry Zara, Riyad Ali-Adeeb

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.... These systems exhibit sand body architectures that vary from seemingly random stacking of elements to a highly systematic vertical and lateral stacking...

Pennsylvanian Cycles in East-Central Idaho: A Record of Sea-Level Fluctuations on the Western Margin of Laurentia

Bonny J. Archuleta, Michael C. Pope, Peter E. Isaacson, Matthew L. Tremblay, Gary D. Webster

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in relative sea level through Unit 2, followed by a long-term sea level fall through Units 3 and 4. Facies stacking patterns within the 2nd-order megasequence...

The impact of fine-scale turbidite channel architecture on deep-water reservoir performance

Faruk O. Alpak, Mark D. Barton, Stephen J. Naruk

AAPG Bulletin

... of beds or bed sets bounded at the base by an erosion surface. Based on bed stacking patterns, two types of channel story elements are recognized...

Abstract: Impact of Local Accommodation on the Architecture and Stacking Patterns of Three Capistrano Formation Slope Channel Outcrops: ; #90063 (2007)

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Depositional system and lake-stage control on microbialite morphology, Green River Formation, eastern Uinta Basin, Colorado and Utah, U.S.A.

Abdulah Eljalafi, J. Frederick Sarg

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... et al. 2017). However, detailed documentation of microbial and non-microbial carbonates and their depositional stacking through the entire GRF...

Sedimentology, facies architecture, and sequence stratigraphy of a Mississippian black mudstone succession—The upper member of the Bakken Formation, North Dakota, United States

D. Borcovsky, S. Egenhoff, N. Fishman, J. Maletz, A. Boehlke, and H. Lowers

AAPG Bulletin

...-event laminae are sparse to ubiquitous. Repeated stacking of FAs defines up to 10 coarsening-upward parasequences mostly 0.15–0.60 m (0.49–1.97 ft...

Parameterizing parasequences: Importance of shelf gradient, shoreline trajectory, sediment supply, and autoretreat

R. Bruce Ainsworth, Jamie B. McArthur, Simon C. Lang, and Adam J. Vonk

AAPG Bulletin

... observations of lithofacies and stacking patterns, and conceptual link to modern depositional regimes: Geology, v. 42, no. 2, p. 131–134, doi...

The Middle Cretaceous Urgonian Platform of Southeastern France: Chapter 32

Dave Hunt , Maurice E. Tucker

AAPG Special Volumes

... cycles, composite sea level changes, cycle stacking patterns, and the hierarchy of stratigraphic forcing--examples from Alpine Triassic platform...

Interactions between the Ebb-Tidal Delta and Landward Shoreline: Price Inlet, South Carolina

Duncan M. Fitzgerald

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Historical analysis of the Price Inlet region utilized vertical aerial photographs, dating to 1941, and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey coastal charts...

Chapter 3: Tools and Techniques for Studying Mudstones

O. R. Lazar, K. M. Bohacs, J. Schieber, J. H. S. Macquaker, T. M. Demko

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and T. M. Demko, 2014, Parasequence types in shelfal mudstone strata—quantitative observations, lithofacies stacking patterns, and a conceptual link...

Relative Sea-Level Changes Recorded on an Isolated Carbonate Platform: Tithonian to Cenomanian Succession, Southern Croatia

Antun Husinec, Vladimir Jelaska

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... was tectonically quiet during the Tithonian through Aptian; sea-level oscillations appear to have been the primary control on facies stacking. Some...

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

..., and sonic) and core data, showing sediment stacking pattern along the main conduit, that is, central channel (line C–C1). Core locations are shown...

Lower Tertiary Stratigraphy and Exploration Plays of the Western Side of the Maracaibo Basin, Western Venezuela

Isabel C. Serrano, Barbara L. Faulkner

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... the sequence boundary interpretations to Exxon's sea level charts (Haq et al., 1987 and 1988). Paleocene (66.5 - 55 Ma) The Paleocene comprises...

Non-Tectonic Structures Caused by Drape and Differential Compaction Over Lenticular Sand Bodies, Southern Sacramento Basin

Victor B. Cherven, Peter J. Fischer

Pacific Section of AAPG

... and Paleontology, v. 3, p. 296-309. Cherven, V. B. and P. J. Fischer, 1989, Fan growth by offset stacking of elongate lobes: examples from modern and ancient...

Simple is better when it comes to sequence stratigraphy: The Clearwater Formation of the Mannville Group reinterpreted using a genetic body approach

Robert W. Wellner, Bogdan L. Varban, Xavier Roca, Jason A. Flaum, Esther K. Stewart, and Michael D. Blum

AAPG Bulletin

... of the vertical stacking of high-energy fluvial to fluvial–estuarine deposits that are scour based. The composite sequence boundary identified here...

Static connectivity of stacked deep-water channel elements constrained by high-resolution digital outcrop models

Allie Jackson, Lisa Stright, Stephen M. Hubbard, and Brian W. Romans

AAPG Bulletin

... consistently increases channel element contact (up to 10%) but decreases sandstone connectivity (up to 2%–3%). Channel element stacking patterns...

Origins of Bimodal Stratigraphy In Fluvial Deposits: An Example From the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Western U.S.A.

Paul L. Heller, Deidre Ratigan, Sheila Trampush,, Atsushi Noda, Brandon McElroy, James Drever, Snehalata Huzurbazar

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in stacking density of fluvial channel-belt sand bodies are one of the most obvious aspects of alluvial architecture. The proximity of sand bodies...

Sensitivity analysis of geological rule-based subsurface model parameters on fluid flow

Honggeun Jo, Michael J. Pyrcz, Fabien Laugier, and Morgan Sullivan

AAPG Bulletin

... stacking of geobodies, described as a compensation index; (2) lobe geometry/size; and (3) permeability heterogeneity. Regression analysis...

Relating Sequence Stratigraphy to Lithostratigraphy in Siliciclastic-Dominated Shelf Settings, Paleogene, Central-East Texas.

Andrew J. Davidoff, Thomas E. Yancey

GCAGS Transactions

... on seismic profiles. Parasequences within the highstand systems tract also show a coarsening upward stacking pattern in which each successive parasequence...

Evolution of the Late Pleistocene–Holocene Dead Sea Basin from Sequence Statigraphy of Fan Deltas and Lake-Level Reconstruction

Yuval Bartov, Yehouda Enzel, Naomi Porat, Mordechai Stein

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the relationship between sediment supply and water supply to the lake basin. The sequence stratigraphic stacking patterns of several fan deltas exposed...

Time Variations of Natural Gamma Radiation

Robert S. Foote, Nathan E. Frick

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... provides the eTh gamma radiation standard. 40K Gamma Radiation Standard The 40K decay gamma radiation standard was obtained by stacking sacks...

Quantitative Biostratigraphy: A Key to Sequence Stratigraphy

R. W. Scott

Tulsa Geological Society

.... Within mixed siliciclastic and carbonate facies successions, the subtle changes in biotic associations define the stacking pattern of bed sets and aid...

Gas Isotope Analysis: A Cost Effective Method to Improve Understanding of Vertical Drainage in the Delaware Basin

Mindy Goldsmith, Michael A. Abrams

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The main driver behind completing this study was to understand how stacking and staggering wells in development affected one another. The specific...