Description This rock-based book is an attempt to link deep-water process sedimentology with sandstone petroleum reservoirs. In presenting a consistent
process interpretation, the author has relied on his description and interpretation of core and outcrop (1:20 to 1:50 scale) from 35
case studies (which include 32 petroleum reservoirs), totaling more than 30,000 feet (9,145 m), carried out during the past 30 years
(1974-2004). This book should serve as an important source of information for students on history, methodology, first principles, advanced
concepts, controversies, and practical applications on deep-water sedimentology and petroleum geology
Audience
Graduate and undergratuate students, and researchers of deep-water sedimentology and petroleum geology, professional petroleum explorationists
(geologists and geophysicists), production technologists (geologists, petrophysicists, and engineers), and petroleum industry managers
Contents Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction and Process Sedimentology.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Process Sedimentology.
1.3
Synopsis.
2. History of Deep-water Research (1885-2005).
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 History.
2.3 Scientific Revolutions.
2.4 A Philosophical Retrospective.
2.5 Synopsis.
5. Other Processes and the Phenomena of Tsunamis.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2
Liquidization.
5.3 Clastic Injections.
5.4 Mud Diapirism.
5.5 Sediment Plumes, Wind Transport, Ice Rafting, and Volcanism.
5.6 Pelagic
and Hemipelagic Settling.
5.7 The Phenomena of Tsunamis.
5.8 Synopsis.
7. Process-related Problems.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Conflicting Definitions of Turbidity Currents.
7.3 Conflicting Definitions of Turbidites.
7.4 Conflicting Definitions
of High-Density Turbidity Currents.
7.5 Unknowable Flow Transformations.
7.6 Conflicting Definitions of Slurry Flows.
7.7 Conflicting
Origins of Flute Structures.
7.8 Conflicting Definitions of Normal Grading.
7.9 Problematic Origin of Traction Structures.
7.10 Problematic
Origin of Mud Waves.
7.11 Problematic Subaerial Analogs.
7.12 Problematic Origin of Sinuous Forms.
7.13 Problematic Hyperpycnal Flows.
7.14 Conflicting Origins of Massive Sands.
7.15 Conflicting Definitions of Turbidite Systems.
7.16 Inadequate Seismic Resolution.
7.17
Synopsis.
8. The Turbidite Facies Model.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 The Turbidite Facies Model.
8.3 The Annot Sandstone.
8.4 Basal Sedimentary Features.
8.5 Upper "Normally Graded" Intervals.
8.6 Origin of Inverse to Normally Graded Intervals.
8.7 Inadequacy
of the Turbidite Facies Model.
8.8 Problems with Other Facies Models.
8.9 Synopsis.
9. Submarine Fan Models.
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 Modern-Fan Model.
9.3 Ancient-Fan Model.
9.4 General-Fan Model.
9.5 Turbidite Facies Association.
9.6 The Jackfork Group and the
Turbidite Controversy.
9.7 The Impermanence of Submarine Fan Models.
9.8 Synopsis.
10. Sequence-stratigraphic Fan Models.
10.1 Introduction.
10.2 Basin-Floor Fans and Slope Fans.
10.3 Seismic Geometries.
10.4 Wireline-Log Motifs.
10.5 Parasequence Concept.
10.6 Abandonment of Submarine Fan Models.
10.7 Synopsis.
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