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 * Discusses the link between deep-water process sedimentology and petroleum geology * Addresses criteria for recognizing deposits of gravity-driven, thermohaline-driven, wind-driven, and tide-driven processes in deep-water environments
Author(s): G. Shanmugam
Series: Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2006
Language: English
Commentary: 48215
Pages: 500
DEEP-WATER PROCESSES AND FACIES MODELS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SANDSTONE PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS......Page 3
DEEP-WATER PROCESSES AND FACIES MODELS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SANDSTONE PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Preface......Page 21
Introduction......Page 23
Process sedimentology......Page 31
Synopsis......Page 39
History......Page 41
Scientific revolutions......Page 58
A Philosophical retrospective......Page 63
Introduction......Page 69
Mass-transport processes......Page 70
Sediment flows......Page 77
Synopsis......Page 105
Introduction......Page 107
Thermohaline-induced geostrophic bottom currents......Page 108
Wind-driven bottom currents......Page 116
Deep-marine tidal bottom currents in submarine canyons......Page 133
Synopsis......Page 161
Liquidization......Page 163
Clastic injections......Page 164
Mud diapirism......Page 176
Sediment plumes, wind transport, ice rafting, nepheloid layers, and volcanism......Page 178
Pelagic and hemipelagic settling......Page 180
The phenomena of tsunamis......Page 182
Synopsis......Page 197
Deep-lacustrine environments......Page 199
Submarine slope environments......Page 203
Submarine canyon and gully environments......Page 219
Submarine fan environments......Page 229
Submarine non-fan environments......Page 251
Submarine basin-plain environments......Page 260
Synopsis......Page 261
Conflicting definitions of turbidity currents......Page 263
Conflicting definitions of turbidites......Page 264
Conflicting definitions of high-density turbidity currents......Page 266
Unknowable flow transformations......Page 278
Conflicting definitions of slurry flows......Page 280
Conflicting origins of flute structures......Page 282
Conflicting definitions of normal grading......Page 283
Problematic origin of traction structures......Page 285
Problematic origin of mud waves......Page 288
Problematic subaerial analogs......Page 289
Problematic origin of sinuous forms......Page 290
Problematic hyperpycnal flows......Page 294
Conflicting origins of massive sands......Page 297
Conflicting definitions of turbidite systems......Page 301
Synopsis......Page 302
The turbidite facies model......Page 305
Basal sedimentary features......Page 309
Upper Înormally gradedÌ intervals......Page 319
Inadequacy of the turbidite facies model......Page 332
Problems with other facies models......Page 334
Synopsis......Page 337
Ancient-fan model......Page 339
Turbidite facies association......Page 341
The Jackfork Group and the turbidite controversy......Page 344
The impermanence of submarine fan models......Page 360
Synopsis......Page 362
Basin-floor fans and slope fans......Page 363
Seismic geometries......Page 384
Wireline-log motifs......Page 385
Parasequence concept......Page 388
Abandonment of submarine fan models......Page 391
Synopsis......Page 394
Tectonic control......Page 395
Eustatic control......Page 400
Synopsis......Page 406
Spatial distribution of sand......Page 407
Dimensions and geometries......Page 413
Lateral changes in sediment thickness......Page 418
Reservoir heterogeneity......Page 420
Sand injection and reservoir communication......Page 421
Correlation of sandbodies......Page 425
Depositional mud matrix......Page 427
Reservoir quality......Page 429
Depositional models......Page 439
Epilogue......Page 440
References......Page 441
Index......Page 479
About the Author......Page 497
