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New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones
Origin, Recognition, Initiation, and Reservoir Quality
- 1st Edition, Volume 9 - January 25, 2012
- Author: G. Shanmugam
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 6 3 3 5 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 6 3 5 5 - 2
This handbook is vital for understanding the origin of deep-water sandstones, emphasizing sandy-mass transport deposits (SMTDs) and bottom-current reworked sands (BCRSs) in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis handbook is vital for understanding the origin of deep-water sandstones, emphasizing sandy-mass transport deposits (SMTDs) and bottom-current reworked sands (BCRSs) in petroleum reservoirs. This cutting-edge perspective, a pragmatic alternative to the conventional turbidite concepts, is crucial because the turbidite paradigm is built on a dubious foundation without empirical data on sandy turbidity currents in modern oceans. In the absence of evidence for sandy turbidity currents in natural environments, elegant theoretical models and experimental observations of turbidity currents are irrelevant substitutes for explaining the origin of sandy deposits as "turbidites." In documenting modern and ancient SMTDs (sandy slides, sandy slumps, and sandy debrites) and BCRSs (deposits of thermohaline [contour] currents, wind-driven currents, and tidal currents), the author describes and interprets core and outcrop (1:20 to 1:50 scale) from 35 case studies worldwide (which include 32 petroleum reservoirs), totaling more than 10,000 m in cumulative thickness, carried out during the past 36 years (1974-2010). The book dispels myths about the importance of sea level lowstand and provides much-needed clarity on the triggering of sediment failures by earthquakes, meteorite impacts, tsunamis, and cyclones with implications for the distribution of deep-water sandstone petroleum reservoirs.
- 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
Undergraduate and graduate students, academics, researchers, and professional petroleum geoscientists
New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones
Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production, 9
New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 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
Chapter 2: Origin and Classification of Sandy Mass-Transport Deposits
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 LITERATURE
2.3 CLASSIFICATION
2.4 LANDSLIDE VERSUS 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
Chapter 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 ASSOCIATED WITH INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC SINUOUS GEOMETRY
3.9 SYNOPSIS
Chapter 4: Bottom-Current Reworked Sands
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 SURFACE CURRENTS, DEEP-WATER MASSES, AND BOTTOM CURRENTS
4.3 BOTTOM CURRENTS VERSUS TURBIDITY CURRENTS
4.4 GENETIC NOMENCLATURE
4.5 THERMOHALINE-INDUCED GEOSTROPHIC BOTTOM CURRENTS
4.6 WIND-DRIVEN BOTTOM CURRENTS
4.7 DEEPWATER 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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 VERSUS DEBRITES
6.5 TURBIDITES VERSUS 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
Chapter 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 U.K. NORTH SEA
7.6 KRISHNA–GODAVARI BASIN, BAY OF BENGAL
7.7 SYNOPSIS
Chapter 8: Epilogue
Appendix A: Concepts, Glossary, and Methodology
DEEP-WATER SYSTEMS
METHODOLOGY FOR RECOGNIZING MTD
References
Index
About the Author
- No. of pages: 544
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 9
- Published: January 25, 2012
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780444563354
- eBook ISBN: 9780444563552
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G. Shanmugam
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University of Texas, Arlington, TX, USARead New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones on ScienceDirect