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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-03-2012
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 09-1997
DOI: 10.1190/1.1437792
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.1306/02071210123
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 19-08-2015
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 10-08-2019
Publisher: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 11-1998
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444480
Abstract: In part I of this paper, we discussed the rock‐fabric etrophysical classes for dolomitized carbonate‐r rocks, the effects of rock fabric and pore type on petrophysical properties, petrophysical models for analyzing wireline logs, the critical scales for defining geologic framework, and 3-D geologic modeling. Part II focuses on geophysical and engineering characterizations, including seismic modeling, reservoir geostatistics, stochastic modeling, and reservoir simulation. Synthetic seismograms of 30 to 200 Hz were generated to study the level of seismic resolution required to capture the high‐frequency geologic features in dolomitized carbonate‐r reservoirs. At frequencies Hz, neither the high‐frequency cycles nor the rock‐fabric units can be identified in seismic data because the tuning thickness of seismic data is much greater than the average thickness of high‐frequency cycles of 6 m. At frequencies Hz, major high‐porosity and dense mudstone units can be better differentiated, while the rock‐fabric units within high‐frequency cycles can be captured at frequencies higher than 200 Hz. Seismic inversion was performed on the 30- to 200-Hz synthetic seismograms to investigate the level of seismic resolution required to recover the high‐resolution inverted impedance logs. When seismic data were noise free, wavelets were known and s ling rates were high deconvolution techniques yielded perfect inversion results. When the seismic data were noisy, the inverted reflectivity profiles were poor and complicated by numerous high‐frequency spikes, which can be significantly removed using the moving averaging techniques. When wavelets were not known, the predictive deconvolution gave satisfactory inversion results. These results suggest that interwell information required for reservoir characterization can be recovered from low‐frequency seismic data by inversion. Outcrop data were collected to investigate effects of s ling interval and scale‐up of block size on geostatistical parameters. Semivariogram analysis of outcrop data showed that the sill of log permeability decreases and the correlation length increases with an increase of horizontal block size. Permeability models were generated using conventional linear interpolation, stochastic realizations without stratigraphic constraints, and stochastic realizations with stratigraphic constraints. The stratigraphic feature of upward‐shoaling sequences can be modeled in stochastic realizations constrained by the high‐frequency cycles and rock‐fabric flow units. Simulations of a fine‐scale Lawyer Canyon outcrop model were used to study the factors affecting waterflooding performance. Simulation results show that waterflooding performance depends strongly on the geometry and stacking pattern of the rock‐fabric units and on the location of production and injection wells.
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 05-2005
DOI: 10.1306/12070404093
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Publisher: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Date: 1989
Publisher: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Date: 1995
DOI: 10.2110/SCN.95.35
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Date: 04-1998
DOI: 10.2118/36515-PA
Abstract: One of the important issues in constructing geologic and reservoir models is to define geologic frameworks. A geologic framework is fundamental to defining flow units, to interpolating well data, and thereby to modeling fluid flow. For the Seminole San Andres Unit (SSAU), the high-frequency cycles (HFC's) and rock-fabric facies identified on outcrop analogs and cores were used to correlate wireline logs. Reservoir and simulation models of the outcrop and a two-section area of SSAU were constructed with rock-fabric units within the HFC's as a geologic framework. Simulations were performed using these models to investigate critical factors affecting recovery. HFC's and rock-fabric units are the two critical scales for modeling shallow-water carbonate r reservoirs. Descriptions of rock-fabric facies stacked within HFC's provide the most accurate framework for constructing geologic and reservoir models, because discrete petrophysical functions can be fit to rock fabrics and fluid flow can be approximated by the kh ratios among rock-fabric flow units. Permeability is calculated using rock-fabric-specific transforms between interparticle porosity and permeability. Core analysis data showed that separate-vug porosity has a very strong effect on relative permeability and capillary pressure measurements. The effect of stratigraphic constraints on stochastic simulation was studied. Geologic models generated by a conventional linear interpolation, a stochastic simulation with stratigraphic constraints, and a stochastic simulation without stratigraphic constraints were compared. The stratigraphic features of carbonates can be observed in stochastic realizations only when they are constrained by rock-fabric flow units. Simulation results from these realizations are similar in recovery but different in production and injection rates. Scale-up of permeability in the vertical direction was investigated in terms of the ratio of vertical permeability to horizontal permeability (kvh). This ratio decreases exponentially with the vertical gridblock size up to the average cycle size of 20 ft (6.1 m) and remains at a value of 0.06 for a gridblock size of more than 20 ft (& .1 m), which is the average thickness of HFC's. Simulation results showed that the critical factors affecting recovery efficiency are stacking patterns of rock-fabric flow units, kvh ratio, and dense mudstone distribution.
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 13-02-2012
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2012.74
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Date: 05-1983
DOI: 10.1139/E83-061
Abstract: The Muskox intrusion is a Middle Proterozoic shallow-level mafic–ultramafic layered intrusion in the northwest corner of the Bear Province of the Canadian Shield. The intrusion was emplaced into the Lower Proterozoic Akaitcho Group and Hepburn metamorphic–plutonic complex of the Wopmay orogen and overlying Middle Proterozoic Coppermine homocline strata. To date, radiometric, paleomagnetic, and geochemical evidence has produced only equivocal results concerning the age of the Muskox intrusion relative to overlying Coppermine River Group basalts and Mackenzie diabase dykes. Stratigraphic redefinition of and structural relationships to the cover sequence of the intrusion provide the best available evidence for the age of the Muskox intrusion.Although previously inferred to be a pre-Dismal Lakes Group structure, the Canoe Lake Fault is here shown to cross-cut Dismal Lakes strata with west-side-down displacement equivalent to that documented to the south where it offsets the intrusion. This relationship, supported by detailed mapping that shows that the Muskox intrusion intrudes units 11 and 12 of the Dismal Lakes Group, demonstrates a post-Dismal Lakes age for the intrusion. This conclusion strongly supports the contention that the Muskox intrusion and Coppermine River Group are coeval and comagmatic.Syndepositional uplift and normal faulting within uppermost Dismal Lakes Group strata were most pronounced near the exposed roof of the intrusion, and are interpreted to have been related to emplacement of a small sill-like body that probably was the precursor to the main intrusive event. At least 70 m of sediments was deposited after this initial disturbance, but before extrusion of the Coppermine River Group basalts (which heralded the main emplacement event). This thickness of sedimentary strata implies a period of several hundred thousand years between the two igneous events.These results support earlier contentions that the Mackenzie igneous event, comprising emplacement of Mackenzie dykes, Coppermine River Group basalts, and the Muskox intrusion, was a coherent mafic igneous event that occurred approximately 1200 Ma ago, with the Muskox intrusion as a locus.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 19-08-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2019
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12615
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 2004
DOI: 10.1190/1.1845173
Publisher: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Date: 08-09-2016
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1306/06101616034
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 02-2020
Abstract: We tested the validity of tracking seismic events as representations of chronostratigraphic surfaces at the subseismic, high-frequency-cycle level. A high-resolution geocellular model was generated from approximately 400 m of mixed clastic-carbonate sequences in the San Andres and Grayburg Formations in the Permian Basin, with 0.3–0.6 m layering and minimal upscaling. Realistic stratigraphic framework, facies, and velocity volumes were created by geostatistically mapping data from outcrop and subsurface sources while honoring state-of-the-art principles of stratigraphic and sedimentary analyses. Using the synthetic seismic data of different frequencies, the potential and pitfalls of using autotracked seismic horizons in building high-resolution reservoir models were tested. At the reservoir (meter) scale, the seismic reflections from flatter and thicker sediments with less facies and velocity heterogeneities tend to follow geologic-time surfaces on the contrary, reflections from where thin sediments dip against flat strata with more facies and velocity heterogeneities tend to follow lithostratigraphy. For the latter seismic-guided reservoir modeling is not very precise, even with data as high as 140 Hz frequency. Therefore, for seismic-assisted reservoir prediction and modeling, the interpretation of seismic events is useful, but well calibration is critical.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2016.40
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 10-04-2018
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2018.20
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 2005
DOI: 10.1190/1.2148007
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2007.085
Publisher: Micropaleontology Press
Date: 31-07-2018
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 08-2015
Abstract: Rudist buildups are important reservoirs in many Cretaceous fields in the Middle East, but they are generally near or below seismic resolution. The dimension, shape, and architecture of rudist buildups can be assessed using outcrop, although only partly so because of pseudo-2D observations of geobodies intersecting with the outcrop. We used ground-penetrating radar to enhance our understanding of the shape, dimension, and architecture of Albian rudist buildups in two outcrops in Texas. In the Lake Georgetown spillway, caprinid rudist buildups are 10–30 m wide and 2–7 m high. They are elliptical with an aspect ratio of as much as 1.7. They show no or very little flank development. The older buildup exposed in the Red Bluff Creek area displays 10- to 25-m-wide and 5- to 10-m-high in situ caprinid rudist mound core accumulations with as much as 100-m-wide reworked flanks in the shallower part of the depositional profile. Downdip along the depositional profile, caprinid buildups are 5–20 m wide and 3–7 m high with no flank debris. The buildups in the Lake Georgetown area have similar architecture and comparable size with the downdip buildups exposed in Red Bluff Creek. These buildups were compared with other outcropping Albian buildups in Texas that have different sizes, shapes, and stratigraphic architecture to provide dimensional data that could be used in subsurface reservoir modeling, either for calibrating variogram ranges or to build training images. The rudist buildups exposed in Texas are an order of magnitude smaller than those present in the subsurface in the Middle East, but they have comparable stratigraphic architecture. The size difference might be the result of subsurface buildups being mapped using well-log or core correlations or seismic extractions that cannot resolved at that scale of heterogeneity.
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 04-2017
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-08-2020
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12768
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-03-2021
DOI: 10.1002/ESP.5114
Abstract: Flank margin caves are extreme endmembers of vuggy porosity that form as diagenesis drives the progressive coalescence of smaller solutional pore spaces. Due to their morphological isolation during formation, the prevailing hypothesis has been that fluid flow in and out of flank margin caves occurs via the matrix permeability and that adjacent chambers only become hydraulically connected through nonmatrix porosity during burial, collapse, and fracturing. To our knowledge, however, no studies have evaluated how flank margin caves are connected to regional flow systems in modern carbonate platforms. In this study, we evaluate the connectivity of wells, boreholes, blue holes, and flank margin caves in increasingly older bedrock on San Salvador Island, Bahamas, using tidal attenuation analysis. Phreatic karst features are not reported in Holocene bedrock, and permeability magnitudes from wells suggest Holocene deposits connect to the ocean along matrix‐dominated flow paths. Permeability magnitudes in bedrock surrounding wells, boreholes, and karst features deposited during Marine Isotope Substage (MIS) 5e suggest connection to the ocean through matrix and touching vug porosity. Boreholes, blue holes, and flank margin caves in pre‐MIS5 bedrock connect to the ocean via touching vugs. We suggest that increasing bedrock permeability, cave number, and cave size observed within progressively older bedrock on San Salvador is a function of the cumulative number of freshwater lenses emplaced over successive sea‐level stillstands. We suggest that the morphologies of the two largest caves are consistent with dissolution in multiple lenses occupying lower elevations, collapse resulting in breakout domes, and overprinting of collapse chambers during subsequent highstands. As a result, some caves may not reflect connectivity of the bedrock surrounding the main chambers but may reflect connectivity of more diagenetically mature bedrock at lower elevations where their antecedent chambers formed.
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Date: 09-1980
DOI: 10.1139/E80-123
Abstract: An assemblage of filamentous microfossils is preserved in black shales of the approximately 1.2 Ga old Dismal Lakes Group from a locality about 110 km west-southwest of Coppermine, Northwest Territories, Canada. These microfossils occur as empty, 1–13 μm wide, tubular structures which are compressed parallel to lamination. The wider filaments probably represent the empty sheaths of Lyngbya-like oscillatoriacean cyanophytes, whereas the narrower filaments could represent either oscillatoriacean filaments or bacterial filaments. Filaments 3.0–7.0 μm wide are comparable to Siphonophycus crassiusculum and rare filaments 10.5–13.0 μm wide are comparable to Siphonophycus beltensis, both from shales of the Middle Proterozoic Belt Supergroup, Montana. Sphaeromorphs are rare and lack distinctive surface features which would permit their assignment to particular taxa.This shale-facies microbiota appears to consist entirely of organisms that had relatively thick sheaths which were highly resistant to degradation and diagenetic alteration. This microfossil assemblage, as well as other Proterozoic shale-facies assemblages, probably are biased toward degradation-resistant taxa and may not be representative of the original microbial communities from which they were derived, nor of the Proterozoic biosphere. Nevertheless, such microfossils offer promise for intercontinental biostratigraphic correlation and provide data useful in understanding the evolution of Precambrian life.
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1306/06301009107
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1992
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-12-2016
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12324
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1306/06281615248
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 04-2017
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.1130/GES00097.1
Publisher: EAGE Publications BV
Date: 11-06-2018
Publisher: SPE
Date: 04-10-1992
DOI: 10.2118/24702-MS
Abstract: The problem of defining flow units in carbonate reservoirs has been investigated by integrated geological, petrophysical, and geostatistical outcrop studies. Results show that flow units (mappable intervals with similar petrophysical properties) can best be defined in terms of rock-fabric fades. Geostatistical analysis indicates that the different rock-fabric facies defined are significantly different but that within rock-fabric facies the petrophysical properties are near random. Detailed outcrop mapping shows that rock-fabric units are systematically arranged within genetic packages that have predictable stacking patterns within a sequence stratigraphie framework.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 19-08-2020
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2020.42
Abstract: Oligocene–Miocene carbonates are prolific hydrocarbon reservoirs in Southeast Asia. Extensive subsurface data for this stratigraphic section has become available through exploration and production activities. A carbonate shelf in the study area showed an evolution in shelf architecture and lithofacies during this period. Despite the economic importance, complexity, and data availability, there have been few published studies on a comprehensive description and interpretation of carbonate-shelf evolution in the region. We utilized data from nineteen wells and 1,300 km2 of 3D seismic data from offshore East Java to study the Oligocene–Miocene Kujung Formation. An average of 700 m stratigraphic sections from this formation were analyzed. This interval spans 13.5 million years (My) from the Rupelian, Chattian, through Aquitanian constrained by numerical ages from 87Sr/86Sr. The Kujung Formation is sub ided into the Rupelian–Chattian mixed-siliciclastic–carbonate shelf (MSCS) and the Aquitanian carbonate-buildups shelf (CBS) based on shelf architecture and lithofacies. The boundary between the MSCS and CBS is interpreted to be near the Oligocene–Miocene boundary at 23 Ma. Accumulation rates in the CBS are up to three times greater than that of the MSCS. We propose new depositional models for the Kujung Formation, which was used to discuss the dominant controls on shelf evolution. This study suggests that although climate played a role in dictating environmental conditions during the Oligocene–Miocene, the dominant factors controlling carbonate-shelf evolution in the study area appear to have been antecedent topography, routing of siliciclastic sediment, and patterns of sea-level fluctuation.
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 05-08-2010
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2010.073
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 03-2005
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2005.013
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 17-12-2019
Abstract: Fossilized reefs can preserve critical information about changes in marine environments over a relatively short period of time. The interpretation of these changes is often hindered by the complexity of reef growth with respect to architecture, biotic zonation, and time. High-resolution mapping and data collection incorporating both sequence stratigraphical and paleoecological principles are needed to document the architectural complexity of reef development. To demonstrate this, we present a case study in which both principles are integrated to build a new stratigraphic framework for an Albian-aged rudist-coral patch reef outcrop (Paul Spur, Bisbee, AZ, USA). The dataset reveals that the outcrop preserves five stages of development: (1) initial shoal deposition (2) pioneer reef growth (3) reef ersification (4) reef hiatus and (5) rudist shoal development. These stages represent periods of deposition and reef growth within high-frequency transgressive-regressive sequences. Interpretations of sedimentological and paleoecological data are then used to demonstrate the variable influence of different environmental controls on reef growth. Prevailing wind and current direction act as higher order controls on overall reef architecture by influencing windward-leeward asymmetry. Fluctuations in relative water depth as well as sedimentation rate, source, and type is an important influence on reef community and growth habit. Though corals and rudists cohabited during much of the reef's history, corals dominated when water depth was greater and external sediment influx lesser, whereas rudists dominated in shallow water depths and during periods of high external sediment influx. This work demonstrates that detailed evaluation of stratigraphy and paleoecology, as well as careful consideration of timelines and heterogeneity, is essential for building an accurate stratigraphic framework that allows a more thorough understanding of processes driving reef growth.
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1190/1.2369687
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 16-11-2015
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2015.84
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 16-11-2015
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2015.85
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-09-2018
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12518
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.2118/178625-MS
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1190/1.1816170
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 08-2019
DOI: 10.1306/11211817244
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-11-2008
Publisher: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology)
Date: 09-2014
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 11-1998
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444479
Abstract: Major issues in characterizing carbonate‐r reservoirs include geologic framework, seismic stratigraphy, interwell heterogeneity including rock fabric facies and permeability structure, and factors affecting petrophysical properties and reservoir simulation. The Seminole San Andres unit, Gaines County, West Texas, and the San Andres outcrop of Permian age in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, were selected for an integrated reservoir characterization to address these issues. The paper is ided into two parts. Part I covers petrophysical and geologic characterization, and part II describes seismic modeling, reservoir geostatistics, stochastic modeling, and reservoir simulation. In dolomitic carbonates, two major pore types are interparticle (includes intergranular and intercrystalline) and vuggy. For nonvuggy carbonates the three important petrophysical/rock fabric classes are (I) grainstone, (II) grain‐dominated packstone and medium crystalline dolostone, and (III) mud‐dominated packstone, wackestone, mudstone, and fine crystalline dolostone. Core data from Seminole showed that rock fabric and pore type have strong positive correlations with absolute and relative permeabilities, residual oil saturation, waterflood recovery, acoustic velocity, and Archie cementation exponent. Petrophysical models were developed to estimate total porosity, separate‐vug porosity, permeability, and Archie cementation exponent from wireline logs to account for effects of rock fabric and separate‐vug porosity. The detailed and regional stratigraphic models were established from outcrop analogs and applied to seismic interpretation and wireline logs and cores. The aggradational seismic character of the San Andres Formation at Seminole is consistent with the cycle stacking pattern within the reservoir. In particular, the frequent preservation of cycle‐based mudstone units in the Seminole San Andres unit is taken to indicate high accommodation associated with greater subsidence rates in this region. A model for the style of high‐frequency cyclicity and the distribution of rock‐fabric facies within cycles was developed using continuous outcrop exposures at Lawyer Canyon. This outcrop model was applied during detailed core descriptions. These, together with detailed analysis of wireline log signatures, allowed construction of the reservoir framework based on genetically and petrophysically significant high‐frequency cycles. Petrophysical properties of total and separate‐vug porosities, permeability, water saturation, and rock fabrics were calculated from wireline log data. High‐frequency cycles and rock‐fabric units are the two critical scales for modeling carbonate‐r reservoirs. Descriptions of rock‐fabric facies stacked within high‐frequency cycles provide the most accurate framework for constructing geologic and reservoir models. This is because petrophysical properties can be better grouped by rock fabrics than depositional facies. The permeability‐thickness ratios among these rock fabric units can then be used to approximate fluid flow and recovery efficiency.
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 05-2015
Abstract: We have developed a statistical modeling method to quantify the chronostratigraphic meaning of primary seismic reflections, with an emphasis on applications at reservoir scale ([Formula: see text]). The time-correlation error (TCE) is defined as the difference between seismic events and relative geologic time (RGT). A series of statistically simulated impedance models with flat chronostratigraphic surfaces was generated from a subsurface data set to describe gradual lithofacies changes in contemporaneous strata and to account for vertical cyclicity from seed wireline logs. We converted these models to realistic seismic records using an exploding-reflector algorithm. The TCE from the seismic models was positively correlated to the lateral impedance variation, in which the TCE magnitude for a model of complex impedance variation could be quite significant. For ex le, a maximum, two-event, 32.5-m TCE had been observed in a small [Formula: see text] model. An increase in wavelet frequency in general reduced the TCE and improved the seismic chronostratigraphic correlation. In addition, a preliminary test confirmed that litude variance in the seismic model was related to lateral impedance variation and could be used to predict TCE. Therefore, certain attributes (such as litude variance) were useful in developing tools for generating TCE-based, hybrid, and RGT volumes from field seismic data. This strategy integrated the advantages, and avoided the disadvantages, of the present methods.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-1991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-09-2013
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12062
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 02-2009
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2009.014
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 10-2007
DOI: 10.1306/05210705188
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 09-2018
DOI: 10.1306/02061817121
Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology
Date: 04-2016
DOI: 10.2110/JSR.2016.25
Publisher: International Association of Sedimentologists
Date: 31-12-2021
DOI: 10.54780/IASFG3/03
Abstract: The Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and south-eastern New Mexico offer impressive seismic-scale outcrops that are readily accessible for study, through spectacular vistas and well-maintained public trails. The Guadalupe Mountains exposures provide valuable insight into the depositional patterns and profiles of shelf-to-slope clinoforms, the width of facies tracts on r s and rimmed platforms, the distribution and internal composition of reef complexes, the link between reef development and slope depositional patterns, styles of early and late diagenesis, structural patterns, and the scale and continuity of analogous reservoir facies. Superb exposures of this carbonate system, in sight of actively drilling hydrocarbon wells in the same stratigraphic intervals found throughout the adjacent Permian Basin, demonstrate the value of outcrop analogues in the discovery and development of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Field excursions recommended and detailed herein include: 1) the Western Escarpment, Shumard Canyon and Bone Canyon 2) Permian San Andres R , Algerita Escarpment 3) Permian Reef Geology Trail, McKittrick Canyon and 4) Rattlesnake and Walnut Canyons, Carlsbad Cavern.
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 10-08-2019
Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists AAPG/Datapages
Date: 02-2003
DOI: 10.1306/08270201023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Date: 2000
DOI: 10.1190/1.1816169
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-09-2020
DOI: 10.1111/SED.12786
Location: Australia
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