A Conceptual Model for the Sequence Stratigraphy of the Smackover Formation in North-Central U.S. Gulf Coast

Ezat Heydari, Lawrence Baria

GCAGS Transactions

... depositional sequences and systems tracts-Response of carbonate platform to relative sea-level changes, in R. G. Loucks, and C. R. Handford, eds. Carbonate...

Sequence Stratigraphy, Basin Dynamics, and Petroleum Geology of the Miocene from Eastern Tunisia

Mourad Bedir , Said Tlig , Claude Bobier , Naceur Aissaoui

AAPG Bulletin

... traps (progradational and retrogradational sequences), and fault-sealed traps. The first and second trap types frequently overlap en echelon folds...

Eustatic and Tectonic Controls on Cyclic Deposition in Lower Permian Ramp Facies (Chase Group and Basal Wellington Formation) in the U.S. Midcontinent

S. J. Mazzullo

Special Publications of SEPM

... forcing parameters and activity are regarded systems tracts and as whereas sequence stacking patterns fourth and fifth order periodic...

Impact of Longer-Term Modest Climate Shifts on Architecture of High-Frequency Sequences (Cyclothems), Pennsylvanian of Midcontinent U.S.A.

Howard R. Feldman, Evan K. Franseen, R.M. Joeckel, Philip H. Heckel

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... fills. Circles indicate types of climate indicators from highstand systems tracts. Note that sequences from late 2 (HST) through early 6 (LST) show...

ABSTRACT The Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Evolution of the Mahim, Daman and Mahuva Formation Reservoirs of the Tapti Fields: Tidally-Influenced Deposition in an Oligo-Miocene Tropical Estuarine Embayment on the Continental Shelf of Western India, #90102 (2010)

Sourav Saha, Stuart D Burley, Stuart Gowland, Andy Thurlow, Andy Taylor

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... (A) and outer gulf (B) of the Tapti Fields. Lowstand systems tracts These deposits appear confined to incised valley fills developed at various levels...

Abstract: Petroleum Prospectivity of the Houtman Sub-Basin, Offshore Perth Basin, Australia; #90310 (2017)

Lisa S. Hall, Irina Borissova, Emmanuelle Grosjean, Chris Southby, Ryan Owens, George Bernardel, Cameron Mitchell

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... the regionally extensive late Permian–Early Triassic Kockatea Shale. Multiple possible play types have been identified, including Permian– Early Triassic...

Upper Cretaceous Marine Depositional Sequences in Alabama and Their Probable Correlation with the Western Interior Seaway

David T. King, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... is composed of transgressive and/or high-stand systems tracts (terminology of Vail et al., 1977). Both paralic (i.e., lagoonal, barrier-island, and lower...

Quantitative Biostratigraphy: A Key to Sequence Stratigraphy

R. W. Scott

Tulsa Geological Society

... in continental margin settings consist of facies sets deposited during the rise and fall of a major sea-level cycle, depositional systems tracts...

Development of An Incised-Valley Fill Under the Influence of Tectonism and Glacio-Eustatic Sea-Level Change: Valley Morphology, Fluvial Style, and Lithology

Erik S. Rasmussen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... event. The development of systems tracts also follows the standard sequence stratigraphic model. However, inversion tectonism and continued uplift...

ABSTRACT: Petroleum Systems Analysis in Frontier Basins: Application of New Technology, by Mark Lisk, J. Ostby, D. Hall, G. W. O'Brien, T. E. Ruble, M. B. Brincat, and N. J. Russell; #90906(2001)

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Stratigraphic-Trap Classification: Geologic Exploration Methods

Gordon Rittenhouse

AAPG Special Volumes

...Stratigraphic-Trap Classification: Geologic Exploration Methods Gordon Rittenhouse 1972 14 28 M 16: Stratigraphic Oil and Gas Fields--Classification...

ABSTRACT: Exploration Matrix Evaluation of Sedimentary Basins of Colombia, by W. H. Kanes and R. Bueno; #91022 (1989)

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Abstract: Outcrop and Subsurface Stratigraphic Models and Exploration Plays of Slope and Basin Floor Carbonates, by Xavier Janson, Charles Kerans, Ted Playton, Jason Clayton, Peter Winefield, and Peter Burgess; #90082 (2008)

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ABSTRACT: Stratigraphic Models and Exploration Plays of Slope and Basin-Floor Carbonates, by Janson, Xavier; Kerans, Charles ; Playton, Ted; Clayton, Jason; Winefield, Peter ; Burgess, Pete; #90142 (2012)

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Sequence-stratigraphic analysis using well cuttings, Mississippian Greenbrier Group, West Virginia

Thomas C. Wynn, J. Fred Read

AAPG Bulletin

... and the distribution of major facies within systems tracts. This approach generated a rock-based, high-resolution sequence framework for the reservoir...

The northern Gulf of Mexico offshore super basin: Reservoirs, source rocks, seals, traps, and successes

John W. Snedden, Robert C. Cunningham, and Jon W. Virdell

AAPG Bulletin

.... Kilsdonk, and J. Trude, 2011, Primary basins and their boundaries in the deep-water northern Gulf of Mexico: Origin, trap types, and petroleum system...

Influence of Sediment Type and Depositional Processes on Stratal Patterns in the Permian Basin-Margin Lamar Limestone, McKittrick Canyon, Texas: Chapter 5

A. A. Brown, R. G. Loucks

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Abstract): AAPG Bulletin, v. 75, no. 3, p. 588-589. Handford, C. R., and R. G. Loucks, 1993, Carbonate depositional sequences and systems tracts...

Exploration of the North Madura Platform, Offshore East Java, Indonesia

Rachmat Mudjiono, Gadjah Eko Pireno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Formations. Many trap types are available. The northern and northwestern margins of the North Madura Platform have endured multiple stages of faulting...

Early and middle Miocene depositional history of the Maracaibo Basin, western Venezuela

Jos I. Guzmn, William L. Fisher

AAPG Bulletin

... stratigraphic sequences are bounded by unconformities and their correlative conformities. Depositional systems tracts were defined between flooding surfaces...

Waterflooding the Parks (Caddo) Field, Stephens County, Texas; #20127 (2012)

David J. Entzminger, Lyn Canter, Mark Sonnenfeld, and Steve Gardner

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..., and D.A. Johns, 1990, Regional Depositional Systems Tracts, Paleogeography, and Sequence Stratigraphy, Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Strata...

Abstract: The Studies of Modern Fluvial/Alluvial Depositional Systems as Analogues for Interpreting the Rock Record; #90235 (2015)

John G. McPherson

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... the depositional facies and facies tracts across the full range of depositional systems. Outcrops provide high-quality data concerning the vertical succession...

Scope and Construction of a Gas and Oil Atlas Series of the Gulf of Mexico: Examples from Texas Offshore Lower Miocene Plays

Steven J. Seni, Bruce A. Desselle, Allan Standen

GCAGS Transactions

... styles instead of depositional facies or systems tracts because styles (1) capture the appropriate scale of geologic variability for a basinwide resource...

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene and Miocene Fluvial Systems in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.

Lesli J. Wood

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... simply into three distinct types: bedload, mixed-load, and suspended-load systems. Each has its own range of geomorphic characteristics, fill...

Chile Vieja Field: 3D Seismic Data Adds over 70 BCF of Reserves by Revealing that a ‘Bald‘ Structural High is Actually a Small, Shale-Filled Canyon

Richard E. Paige

GCAGS Transactions

... Richard E. Paige 2016 431 450 Vol. 66 (2016) Chile Vieja Field in Willacy County is a combination structural/stratigraphic trap that produces from...

ABSTRACT: Petroleum System Risk Assessment of the Scotian Slope , Eastern Canada and its Signifi cance to East Coast Energy Prospects Beyond 2010

Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay (Muki)

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... of hydrocarbons) have controlled the variations within the major components (play types, hydrocarbon charge and drainage systems, and hydrocarbon sustainability...