Volume 9: New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones, 1st Edition

Key Features

• Promotes pragmatic interpretation of deep-water sands using alternative possibilities
• Validates the economic importance of  SMTDs and BCRS in deep-water exploration and production
• Rich in empirical data and timely new perspectives 
  
  

New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones, 1st Edition

1 Introduction
1.1 What is deep water?
1.2 Flawed turbidite paradigm
1.3 New perspectives: SMTDs and BCRS
1.4 Database
1.5 Scope and organization
1.6 Process sedimentology
1.7 Synopsis
2 Origin and classification of sandy mass-transport deposits
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Literature
2.3 Classification
2.4 Landslide vs. mass transport
2.5 Subaerial processes based on types of movement and material
2.6 Subaqueous processes based on mechanical behaviour
2.7 Subaqueous processes based on sediment-support mechanism
2.8 Subaqueous processes based on process continuum
2.9 Subaqueous processes based on transport velocity
2.10 Synopsis
3 Recognition of sandy mass-transport deposits
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Sandy slide
3.3 Sandy slump
3.4 Sandy debrite
3.5 Origin of massive sandstone
3.6 Problems with interpretation of wireline logs
3.7 Problems with interpretation of seismic facies
3.8 Problems with interpretation of seismic sinuous geometry
3.9 Synopsis
4 Bottom-current reworked sands
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Surface currents, deep-water masses, and bottom currents
4.3 Bottom currents vs. turbidity currents
4.4 Genetic nomenclature 
4.5 Thermohaline-induced geostrophic bottom currents
4.6 Wind-driven bottom currents
4.7 Deep-water tidal bottom currents
4.8 Baroclinic Currents (Internal tides)
4.9 Problematic bedform-velocity matrix for deep-water bottom currents
4.10 Problems with interpretation of seismic facies and geometries
4.11 Synopsis
5 Initiation of deep-water sediment failures
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Short-term triggering events
5.3 Intermediate-term triggering events
5.4 Long-term triggering events
5.5 Synopsis
6 Implications for deep-water sandstone reservoirs
6.1 Grain-size distribution
6.2 Dimensions and geometries
6.3 Long-runout MTD
6.4 Turbidites vs. Debrites
6.5 Turbidites vs. Tidalites
6.6 SMTD and BCRS, Gulf of Mexico
6.7 Chicxulub meteorite impact, Gulf of Mexico
6.8 Sand injection
6.9 Sequence Stratigraphy
6.10 Synopsis
7  Reservoir quality: Global examples
7.1 Offshore California
7.2 Offshore Nigeria
7.3 Gulf of Mexico
7.4 Straits of Florida
7.5 UK North Sea
7.6 Krishna-Godavari Basin, Bay of Bengal
7.7 Synopsis
8 Epilogue
Appendix A: Concepts, Glossary, and Methodology
Index