By
Clyde H. Moore, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Recipient AAPG 2001 Distinguished Educator Award
Description
This comprehensive text and accompanying CD-ROM will provide the reader with an integrated overview of diagenesis and porosity evolution
in carbonate petroleum reservoirs and ancient carbonate rock sequences.
The initial chapters of this volume provide an overview of
the carbonate sedimentologic system and the application of sequence stratigraphic concepts to carbonate rock sequences. The nature of
carbonate porosity and its control by diagenesis is explored. Porosity classification schemes are detailed, compared, and their utility
examined. The nature and characteristics of diagenetic environments and tools for their recognition in the ancient record are specified.
The middle chapters of the book consist of a thorough examination of the major, surficial diagenetic environments, such as normal marine,
evaporative marine and meteoric environments, emphasising porosity modifying processes illustrated by numerous case histories. There
follows a summary of early diagenesis and porosity evolution couched in a sequence stratigraphic, climatic and tectonic framework. Predictive
porosity/diagenesis models are developed. The fate of early-formed porosity is explored in the burial diagenetic regimen in a tectonic
framework. Factors controlling porosity destruction, porosity preservation and porosity enhancement are outlined and illustrated by
case histories.
The final chapter consists of three well-constrained economically important case histories that serve to summarise
the concepts and exploration/production strategies developed earlier.
The epilogue gives the reader a sense of the legacy of important
earlier workers, the present state of the art and the author's sense of where the science of carbonate reservoirs needs to go in the
future.
The accompanying CD-ROM provides color versions of all diagrams/illustrations found in the text.
This book should be useful
to any geologist interested in carbonate sediments and rocks, and the porosity/diagenesis models will be particularly useful to exploration/production
geologists. The book will be a good text for advanced carbonate courses at graduate level, and an appropriate reference book for graduate
students working with, or interested in, carbonate rock sequences and sediments.
A limited number of inspection copies of this book
are available for qualified course instructors. Requests for an Examination Copy (please provide full course details) should be sent
via e-mail to:
j.kershaw@elsevier.nl
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