By G. Shanmugam
ISBN-10: 0444563350
ISBN-13: 9780444563354
This instruction manual is essential for knowing the foundation of deep-water sandstones, emphasizing sandy-mass shipping deposits (SMTDs) and bottom-current remodeled sands (BCRSs) in petroleum reservoirs. This state-of-the-art viewpoint, a realistic replacement to the normal turbidite thoughts, is essential as the turbidite paradigm is outfitted on a doubtful beginning with out empirical information on sandy turbidity currents in sleek oceans. within the absence of facts for sandy turbidity currents in common environments, dependent theoretical types and experimental observations of turbidity currents are inappropriate substitutes for explaining the starting place of sandy deposits as "turbidites." In documenting sleek and historic SMTDs (sandy slides, sandy slumps, and sandy debrites) and BCRSs (deposits of thermohaline [contour] currents, wind-driven currents, and tidal currents), the writer describes and translates center and outcrop (1:20 to 1:50 scale) from 35 case reports all over the world (which comprise 32 petroleum reservoirs), totaling greater than 10,000 m in cumulative thickness, performed up to now 36 years (1974-2010). The booklet dispels myths in regards to the significance of sea point lowstand and gives much-needed readability at the triggering of sediment mess ups by way of earthquakes, meteorite affects, tsunamis, and cyclones with implications for the distribution of deep-water sandstone petroleum reservoirs.
- Promotes pragmatic interpretation of deep-water sands utilizing replacement possibilities
- Validates the industrial value of SMTDs and BCRS in deep-water exploration and production
- Rich in empirical information and well timed new views
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New Perspectives on Deep-water Sandstones: Origin, Recognition, Initiation, and Reservoir Quality: 9 (Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production) by G. Shanmugam
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