Dissertations / Theses: 'Facies (Geology) Facies (Geology) Geology, Stratigraphic Geology Geology'

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Lichtblau, Andreas. "Stratigraphy and facies at the south margin of the Archean Noranda Caldera." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1989. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Moukhsil, Abdelali. "Géochimie, pétrologie structurale et mode de mise en place du pluton de Father, zone volcanique nord, sous-province de l'Abitibi, Canada /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1996. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Martin, Keithan. "Integrating depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy in characterizing carbonate reservoirs: Mississippian limestone, western Kansas." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20478.

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Master of Science
Geology
Matthew W. Totten
The Mississippian-aged St. Louis Limestone of Western Kansas is a carbonate resource play that has been producing oil, gas, and natural gas liquids (NGL) for over 50 years. The Mississippian Limestone is made up of heterogeneous limestones with interbedded layers of porous and non-porous units, abrupt facies changes, and diagenetic alterations. These factors combine to characterize the St. Louis Limestone's internal complexity, which complicates hydrocarbon exploration. This study focuses on improving the understanding of the geometry, distribution, and continuity of depositional facies within Kearny County, Kansas. Petrophysical analysis of a suite of geophysical logs integrated with core provided the basis for establishing facies successions, determining vertical stacking patterns within a sequence stratigraphic framework, and correlating areas of high porosity with a respective facies. The following depositional facies were identified; 1) porous ooid grainstone, 2) highly-cemented ooid grainstone, 3) quartz-carbonate grainstone, 4) peloidal grainstone, 5) micritic mudstone, and the 6) skeletal wackestone/packstone. The porous ooid grainstone is the chief reservoir facies, with log-derived porosity measurements between four and eighteen percent. In areas without available core, depositional facies were predicted and modeled using a neural network analysis tool (Kipling2.xla). Values derived from the evaluated core intervals and their respective geophysical logs served as the framework for the neural network model. This study illustrates the advantages of correlating depositional facies with reservoir quality and correlating those specific facies to geophysical logs, ultimately to create a greater understanding of the reservoir quality and potential within the St. Louis Limestone of western Kansas.

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Xu, Jingqi. "Facies and sequence stratigraphic analyses of the Upper Ordovician shales in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio." Thesis, Indiana University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10142334.

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The Upper Ordovician Maquoketa Group equivalent strata in Indiana and Ohio were part of a westward-thinning shale-dominant succession. Large amounts of fine-grained siliciclastics were shed from the eastern highlands during the Taconic Orogeny.

The detailed lithofacies analysis of the Upper Ordovician shales has yielded recognition of a series of genetically related sequences in a seemingly homogenous succession. The lower succession is pyritic laminated/banded organic-rich mudstone that accumulated after the onset of a major flooding event. Cryptobioturbation, bottom current ripples, graded silt/clay couplets and well preserved benthic fossils indicate an oxygen-depleted dysoxic condition. In addition, layers enriched in phosphatic fossils, phosphate and pyritic grains appear to mark flooding surfaces and sediment starvation. The maximum organic-matter enrichment mainly occurred within black homogenized mudstone in the middle succession. Upsection, more extensive bioturbation and carbonate production are observed. The intermittent yet frequent wave and current activity, suggested by cross-lamination, wavy-lenticular stratification and hummocky cross stratification, indicate a shallower and proximal settings with enhanced sediment influx.

The deposition of the Upper Ordovician shales in the Maquoketa Group reflects a complex interplay between storms, sediment supply, and eustatic sea-level changes. Nonetheless, with distinct characteristics of lithofacies, wireline logs, and organic carbon isotope data, a high-resolution sequence stratigraphic framework of the Upper Ordovician shales can be compiled for the study area. The whole studied interval comprises an entire 3rd order sequence, wherein the lower part appears to be a transgressive systems tract and the remaining overlying strata represent a highstand systems tract. This project is an example how integration of sedimentological observations, geophysical data, petrographical and geochemical data enable a better understanding of the accumulation of this mudstone succession in a regional sequence stratigraphic context.

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Klute, Margaret Anne. "Sedimentology, sandstone petrofacies, and tectonic setting of the Late Mesozoic Bisbee Basin, southeastern Arizona." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185723.

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The Late Mesozoic Bisbee basin of southeastern Arizona was an intracratonic back-arc rift basin. Extension was coupled with seafloor spreading in the Gulf of Mexico and back-arc extension behind a magmatic arc along the convergent Pacific continental margin. Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the basin occurred in three phases. Initial mid-Jurassic rifting of the basin, marked by eruption of the Canelo Hills Volcanics, may have been complicated by sinistral strike-slip motion along the Mojave-Sonora megashear. During continued rifting, from latest Jurassic to Early Cretaceous time, the Glance Conglomerate was deposited by alluvial fans and braided streams in grabens, half-grabens, and caldera-related depressions; locally interbedded volcanic rocks represent waning rift-related back-arc magmatism. The upper Bisbee Group was deposited during Early to earliest Late Cretaceous passive thermotectonic subsidence. The Bisbee Group and correlative strata occur in most mountain ranges in southeastern Arizona, and are subdivided into southeastern, northwestern, northern, and western facies. Southeastern facies were deposited in alluvial fan, meandering fluvial, estuarine, marginal marine and subtidal shelf environments as a transgressive-regressive sequence including a marine interval that was continuous with Gulf Coast assemblages during Aptian-Albian marine transgression. Northern facies were deposited in alluvial fan and braided stream environments along the northern rift shoulder of the basin. Southeastern and northern facies sandstones are dominantly quartzose, and were derived mainly from cratonic sources to the north. Subordinate volcaniclastic sandstones in the southeastern facies become more abundant to the west, proximal to eroding Jurassic and Cretaceous volcanic arcs. Basal northwestern facies arkosic strata deposited in alluvial fan, braided stream and lacustrine environments were derived from local basement uplifts, and were ponded in a northwestern depocenter by rift-related topography. A thin estuarine interval within overlying dominantly fluvial facies indicates integration of regional drainage networks by the time of maximum transgression. Transition upward to quartzose sandstone compositions reflects wearing down of local basement uplifts and increasing abundance of craton-derived sediment in the northwestern part of the basin. Western facies alluvial fan, braided stream and lacustrine intramontane deposits are composed of locally-derived arkose and lithic arkose.

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Dalton, Edward. "Sedimentary facies and diagenesis of the Lower Devonian Temiscouata and Fortin Formations, Northern Appalachians, Quebec and New Brunswick." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63856.

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Davis, Laurence H. M. "Allostratigraphic interpretation of a modern coarse clastic barrier complex : depositional facies, processes and relative sea level relationships /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,60897.

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Hill, Robert E. (Robert Einar). "Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Middle Proterozoic Waterton and Altyn Formations, Belt-Purcell Supergroup, southwest Alberta." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63330.

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Khodabakhsh, Saeed. "Pleistocene Laurentide Ice Sheet drainage into the Labrador Sea : sedimentary facies, depositional mechanisms, stratigraphy and significance of Heinrich events." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=42067.

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On the basis of sedimentary structures and textures, six depositional facies have been identified in Labrador Slope, Rise and Basin cores. They include: (1) turbid-surface plume sediments (facies P; plumites) comprising 4% of the total length of the slope cores; (2) hemipelagic sediments (facies HI and H) with and without ice-rafted debris (IRD) (48% and 20% on the slope/rise and basin centre, respectively); (3) nepheloid-layer deposits (facies N; 9% on the slope); (4) contourites (facies C; 4% on the slope); (5) turbidite facies (30% on the slope and $>$40% on the levees of the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, NAMOC) with three subfacies: thin-bedded silt and mud turbidites (T); turbidites with laminae of IRD (TI), and sand turbidites (MS); and (6) debris-flow facies (10% on the slope) with four subfacies: gravelly (D1), sandy silt (D2), thin bedded (D3) and sandy gravelly debris-flow deposits (D4).
Facies P occurs on high-relief slope sections, deposited by buoyantly rising meltwater plumes entrained by the south-flowing Labrador Current. The high relief was caused by retrograde canyon erosion after deposition. Facies N is best developed and thickest on the slope and upper rise. It was deposited when sediment-laden meltwater from the Laurentide Ice Sheet with high concentrations of suspended sediment spread out in mid-water or along the bottom. Facies T occurs on the levees of the NAMOC and its tributaries. It originated from the remobilization of detrital carbonate-rich sediments on the slope south of the Hudson Strait. Extensive sand turbidites occur on a braided floodplain east of NAMOC. Deposition of sand turbidites by high-density turbidity currents, probably of sheet-flow type, resulted from bedload-rich meltwater discharges on the low-relief slope sector off the Hudson Strait. They may have been caused by subglacial-lake outburst flooding, which might be linked to Heinrich events. Facies C occurs on the lower slope to upper rise. Facies H is present in all parts of the basin but most abundant on the slope; together with facies T, it is the major facies in the intercanyon regions. Facies D is found mainly on low-relief slope sectors, in front and north of major glacier outlets. Debris-flow tongues in the slope canyons merge downslope forming an extensive stacked megadebris-flow deposit on the floodplain west of NAMOC. Facies D makes up $>$75% of the sediment thickness in the western floodplain cores.
Four types of Heinrich layers (HL) were identified. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Cassle, Christopher F. "Petrographic Analyses of Late Pennsylvanian Limestones within the Northern Appalachian Basin, USA." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1121435271.

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Trueman, Jonathon David. "Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Burdekin Delta, Queensland and comparisons with Permian coastal facies in the Denison Trough, SW Bowen Basin, Australia /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17342.pdf.

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Guimarães, Saulo Pedrinha [UNESP]. "Análise estratigráfica em depósitos lacustres maastrichtianos da Formação Yacoraite (Bacia de Salta - Argentina): definição e rastreabilidade de sequências de alta resolução." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/131873.

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Programa Tecnológico para o Desenvolvimento dos Reservatórios do Pré-Sal (PROSAL)
As grandes descobertas de petróleo ocorridas nos últimos anos na província do Pré-Sal brasileiro levaram a necessidade de estudos em afloramentos análogos às rochas reservatório presentes na referida província. Neste âmbito, a Bacia de Salta com a Formação Yacoraite tem papel de alto destaque, pois apresentam diversas características semelhantes aos depósitos sedimentares do Pré-Sal. Localizada no noroeste argentino, a Bacia de Salta evoluiu a partir de um contexto tectônico de um rifte intracontinental durante o Cretáceo e início do Paleógeno, formando sub-bacias que foram preenchidas pelos sedimentos dos Sub-grupos Pirgua (sin-rifte), Balbuena e Santa Bárbara (ambos fase sag). De forma particular, o desenvolvimento do sag na Sub-bacia de Metán-Alemania durante o Maastrichtiano (Formação Yacoraite) permitiu a deposição de rochas carbonáticas em um ambiente dominantemente lacustre, onde fatores climáticos - associados aos ciclos de Milankovitch - desempenharam forte influência. As fácies carbonáticas presentes no intervalo estudado são constituídas principalmente por estromatólitos e grainstones a packstones oolíticos, que estão relacionados a períodos de clima seco em que a progressiva diminuição da lamina d'água do lago ocorreu de maneira expressiva. Com a aplicação das técnicas da estratigrafia de alta resolução, as sequências elementares individualizadas foram hierarquizadas em sequências de média e baixa frequência e correlacionadas ao longo de dezenas de quilômetros na bacia. Assim, a estratigrafia de alta resolução aplicada em sucessões carbonáticas lacustres permitiu uma melhor compreensão da evolução de seus depósitos e torna-se uma ferramenta importante de previsibilidade faciológica. Trata-se, portanto, de uma metodologia com aplicabilidade na indústria do petróleo, em que rochas de mesma natureza constituem reservatórios produtores
The large oil discoveries of the past few years in the Brazilian pre-salt province led to necessity of studies in outcrops analogous to reservoir rocks present in that province. In this context, the Salta Basin and Yacoraite formation have a remarkable importance because of the several characteristics similar to the pre-salt sedimentary deposits. Located in northwestern Argentina, the Salta Basin evolved from an intracontinental tectonic rift context during the Cretaceous and early Paleogene, forming sub-basins that were filled by sediments of Pirgua (syn-rift), Balbuena and Santa Bárbara (both sag phase) Sub-groups. In particular, the sag development in Metán-Alemania Sub-basin during the Maastrichtian (Yacoraite Formation) allowed the deposition of carbonate rocks in a typical lake environment, where climatic factors - associated with Milankovitch cycles - played strong influence. The carbonate facies present in the studied area consist mainly of stromatolites and oolitic grainstones to packstones, which are related to periods of dry weather where the progressive decrease of lake water depth was expressive. By applying highresolution stratigraphy techniques, elementary sequences individualized were ranked into medium and low frequency sequences and correlated over tens of kilometers in the basin. Thus, high-resolution stratigraphy applied to lacustrine carbonate successions allowed a better understanding of their depositional evolution and becomes an important tool for predictability and facies mapping. It is, therefore, a methodology with applicability in the oil industry, where rocks of the same nature are reservoirs

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Luca, Pedro Henrique Vieira de 1983. "Processos de transporte e deposição de material clástico em sistemas depocisionais costeiro e de plataforma marinha dominados por ondas (formações Lagarto e Palmares, Brasil e Formação Punta Negra, Argentina)." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/287329.

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Orientador: Giorgio Basilici
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências
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Resumo: As formações Lagarto e Palmares (Cambriano-Ordoviciano, Domínio Estância) e a Formação Punta Negra (Devoniano, Precordilheira Argentina) representam unidades sedimentares antigas desenvolvidas em ambientes marinhos costeiros e plataformais dominados pela ação de ondas de tempestades. Nesta tese de Doutorado, estudaram-se depósitos de tempestade formados em uma área de intermaré (formações Lagarto e Palmares) e depósitos de tempestade desenvolvidos abaixo da linha de tempo bom em uma área de prodelta (Formação Punta Negra). As formações Lagarto e Palmares se desenvolveram em uma área de planície de maré aberta em que os processos sedimentares de maré e de tempestade interagiram entre si na distribuição de sedimentos de áreas costeiras até antepraia. Um detalhado estudo de análise de fácies foi utilizado para reconhecer e caracterizar as litofácies e os elementos arquiteturais, gerar um modelo de deposição para estas unidades e para discutir os fatores de geração e preservação das HCS em água rasa. Baseando-se na organização arquitetural dos depósitos sedimentares, construiu-se um modelo de distribuição de sedimento em que há uma passagem gradativa das áreas proximais de intermaré superior, dominadas por processos de maré e predomínio de sedimentos nas frações silte e argila, para as porções distais de intermaré inferior, em que prevalecem sedimentos arenosos e depósitos de tempestade. A Formação Punta Negra constitui uma espessa unidade sedimentar formada pela intercalação entre camadas areníticas e pelíticas. Por muitos anos esta unidade foi interpretada como um sistema deposicional marinho profundo produto de uma sedimentação gerada por fluxos turbidíticos. Contudo, neste trabalho esta unidade foi reinterpretada como um sistema deposicional de prodelta dominado pela atividade de ondas de tempestade. Uma análise de detalhe dos depósitos sedimentares permitiu identificar as principais fácies sedimentares, icnofácies e elementos arquiteturais e gerar um novo modelo de deposição para esta unidade. Construiu-se um modelo de sedimentação para esta unidade em que os depósitos se desenvolveram a partir da interação entre fluxos hiperpicnais gerados à frente de um sistema deltaico e fluxos oscilatórios de alta energia decorrentes de eventos de tempestade. Estes fluxos combinados possuíam direção perpendicular à paleolinha de costa, e perdiam energia no tempo e no espaço (costa afora). Os depósitos com maior granulometria, representados por areia média média-fina, são encontrados nas porções mais proximais e os sedimentos mais finos, representados por corpos pelíticos-arenosos, se concentram principalmente nas áreas distais do sistema deposicional
Abstract: Lagarto and Palmares formations (Ordovician-Cambrian, Estância Domain) and the Punta Negra Formation (Devonian, Argentine Precordillera) represent ancient sedimentary units developed in costal and platform storm dominated marine environments. In this PHD thesis, it was studied shallow water storm deposits developed in an intertidal area (Lagarto and Palmares formations) and storm deposits developed below the fair water wave base in an prodelta area (Punta Negra Formation). Lagarto and Palmares formations have been developed in an open coast tidal flat where the tidal and storm sedimentary processes have interacted to distribute sediments from the coast till the shoreface. Detailed facies analysis was used to recognize and characterize the lithofacies and architectural elements, define a depositional model e the controlling factors that preserved HCS in shallow-water. Based in the depositional architectural organisation, it was proposed a sedimentary distribution model in which there is a gradational transition between the proximal areas of upper intertidal, dominated by tidal processes and silty and shaly sediments, and the distal areas of lower intertidal, in which prevails sandy sediments and storm deposits. Punta Negra Formation constitutes a thick unit composed of monotonous interbeds of sandstone and sandy mudstone. This unit was previously interpreted as a deep water depositional system, however in this research it was reinterpreted as a storm dominated prodeltaic system. Detailed analysis of the sedimentary deposits allowed identifying the main sedimentary facies, ichnofacies and architectural elements and propose a new depositional model for this unit. It was built a sedimentary model in which the Punta Negra Formation deposits have been produced by combined and oscillatory flows which resulted by the combination of hyperpicnal flows and storm waves. The generated combined flows had a direction perpendicular to the paleocoast and were characterized by losing energy in the time and space (seawards). Coarser grained sediments, represented by medium size sand, are found in the proximal area and the finer grained sediments are mainly found in the most distal areas of the sedimentary system
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Pickett, Clarence. "A sedimentary facies analysis of the >2.8 Ga Beniah and Bell Lake formations, Slave Province, Northwest Territories." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2002. http://theses.uqac.ca.

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Caetano, Filho Sergio [UNESP]. "Estudo microfaciológico e quimioestratigráfico de calcários do Grupo Macaé a partir de uma seção distal da Bacia de Campos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/144087.

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Calcários marinhos neoaptianos-eoalbianos das bacias da Margem Leste Brasileira registram as fases iniciais de instalação do primitivo Oceano Atlântico Sul (AS). Associações fossilíferas e assinaturas geoquímicas presentes nestas rochas apontam para influência de águas do paleoceano Tétis sobre este mar restrito, com preservação de matéria orgânica e bioeventos de foraminíferos planctônicos associados. O intervalo Aptiano superior-Albiano inferior é marcado por mudanças climáticas e paleoceanográficas responsáveis por perturbações no ciclo global do carbono e sua investigação no AS e correlação com seções contemporâneas possibilitam melhor compreensão e definição temporal dos processos atuantes neste contexto, fundamentais para exploração petrolífera. Este trabalho apresenta o estudo quimioestratigráfico e microfaciológico de uma seção distal do Grupo Macaé (Neoaptiano-Cenomaniano), Bacia de Campos, visando à caracterização paleoambiental e correlações globais para a base desta unidade. O estudo microfaciológico envolveu petrografia e catodoluminescência óptica, análises em MEV/EDS, enquanto a quimioestratigrafia utilizou isótopos de C, O e Sr, elementos maiores, menores e traços, COT e pirólise. Os resultados permitiram a divisão da seção em seis unidades informais, I-VI (base para o topo), associadas às formações Quissamã e Outeiro, que registram o progressivo afogamento da plataforma e clima mais úmido. O estudo microfaciológico das unidades I e III identificou seis microfácies, agrupadas em cinco associações microfaciológicas dispostas em modelo de rampa carbonática. As microfácies correspondentes à Unidade I (CCB e C*CB), compostas por wackestones e packstones bioclásticos ricos em organismos bentônicos, foram dispostas em rampa protegida/interbanco e flancos de banco (AM-1 e AM-2, respectivamente), como ambiente mais proximal e oxigenado. As microfácies da Unidade III...
Late Aptian-Early Albian marine limestones from the basins of eastern Brazilian Continental Margin record the early stages of the South Atlantic Ocean (SA). Fossil assemblages and geochemical signatures of these rocks indicate marine incursions from Tethys paleocean in this restricted sea, with organic-rich sediments and planktic foraminiferal bioevents registered. The Late Aptian-Early Albian transition is marked by paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic changes which resulted in global carbon cycle perturbations. The investigation of this interval at the SA and its stratigraphic correlation with coeval sections promote a better understanding and temporal definition of the geological processes that occurred in this setting, which are fundamental to petroleum exploration. This work presents the chemostratigraphy and microfacies analysis of a distal section of the Macaé Group (Late Aptian-Cenomanian), in Campos Basin, focusing on the paleoenvironmental characterization and global correlations to the base of this unit. The study of microfacies was carried out by petrography, cathodoluminescence and SEM/EDS analysis. The chemostratigraphy encompassed C, O and Sr isotopes, major, minor and trace elements, TOC and pyrolysis analysis. The results allowed the section division into six informal units, I to IV (bottom to the top), and its association with Quissamã and Outeiro formations, which record a gradual platform drowning and more humid climate conditions. Six microfacies were identified in units I and III, which were grouped in five microfaciological associations in a carbonate ramp model. In unit I, the microfacies are composed by benthic-dominated wackestones and packstones (CCB and C*CB) deposited on the inner-ramp/inter-bank and its flanks (AM-1 and AM-2, respectively), in a proximal and oxygenated environment. The microfacies from unit III (CPP, C*PP and C*RP) are composed by planktic-dominated mudstones and wackestones, deposited on the...

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Lathrop, Erin C. "Understanding the Late Mesoproterozoic Earth System from the Oldest Strata in Grand Canyon: C-Isotope Stratigraphy and Facies Analysis of the 1254 Ma Bass Formation, Grand Canyon Supergroup, AZ., USA." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7046.

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Rocks provide insight into ancient times before complex animals existed. The oldest sedimentary rocks in Grand Canyon (the Bass Formation) allow us to glimpse into what things might have been like over a billion years ago. These rocks record the time known as the Mesoproterozoic Era (1.6 to 1.0 billion years ago), otherwise known as the ‘boring billion’. These rocks are thought to be the right age to indicate the end of an oddly stable world when continents were quiet and life was calm, yet they predate younger rocks that record extreme events. The Bass Formation, some of the only rock of this age in the world, contains evidence for life and the carbon cycle, and yields information about Earth’s environments 1.2 billion years ago. The carbon cycle can be studied using carbonate rocks. Assuming that the rock has the same chemistry as the water it formed in, we can measure the relative abundance of carbon isotopes to see a ‘fingerprint’ of the system during the time the rock was deposited. During the boring billion, it is thought that very little variation occurs in this fingerprint. However, as more studies are completed, we see a modest variation in units around the age of the Bass Formation. The fingerprint results from this study can be added to the growing collection of Mesoproterozoic studies and help to further our knowledge about the world from this not-so-boring period of time.

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Ball, Nathaniel H. Atchley Stacy C. "Depositional and diagenetic controls on reservoir quality and their petrophysical predictors within the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Doe Creek Member of the Kaskapau Formation at Valhalla Field, Northwest Alberta." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5296.

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Kaylor, Donald Charles. "Facies and diagenesis of the upper Devonian Palliser formation, front ranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains, Alberta and British Columbia." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64029.

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Favoreto, Julia [UNESP]. "Modelo deposicional de carbonatos albianos da Formação Quissamã: análise faciológica, diagenética e estratigráfica de um campo de óleo na porção meridional da Bacia de Campos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132048.

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Rochas carbonáticas albianas das formações Quissamã e Outeiro foram estudadas num campo de petróleo de 16 km2 do Reservatório Quissamã, Bacia de Campos (RJ). De acordo com diversos procedimentos petrográficos e estratigráficos integrados (redes neurais) aplicados a testemunhos de quatro poços e perfis geofísicos de outros 24 poços, incluindo a utilização do software Petrel® 2012 (Schlumberger), foram reconhecidas litofácies (abrangendo também características diagenéticas e de permo-porosidade), eletrofácies, sucessões cíclicas, dando suporte para correlações estratigráficas, análises no âmbito da estratigrafia de sequências, confecção de mapas de proporção de fácies referentes a cada sequência e, finalmente, modelos dos respectivos paleoambientes da área de estudo. Para a Formação Quissamã foram definidas seis litofácies, principalmente grainstones e packstones (raros wackestones) com grãos carbonáticos compostos por ooides, oncoides, peloides e alguns bioclastos (moluscos, equinoides, microfósseis bentônicos). Sucessões de packstones peloidais/bioclásticos para grainstones representam típicos ciclos de alta frequência da passagem de paleoambientes deposicionais relativamente profundos/calmos para rasos/com maior energia. A Formação Outeiro apresenta três litofácies compostas por mudstones e wackestones, com gradual aumento de microfósseis de organismos planctônicos marinhos mais distais (principalmente foraminíferos). A história diagenética das rochas envolveu, na eodiagênese, processos de micritização, compactação mecânica, dissolução, cimentação (franja, mosaico e sintaxial) e, na mesodiagênese, compactação química e cimentação blocosa em fraturas. Todo o intervalo estudado apresenta superfícies de inundação máxima e de regressão máxima, as quais foram definidas como limites, respectivamente, para sucessões de média e baixa frequência, as últimas equivalentes...
Albian carbonate rocks of the Quissamã and Outeiro formations were analysed in an oil field (16 km2) of the Quissamã Reservoir, Campos Basin (Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil). According to several integrated petrographic and stratigraphic procedures (neural network) applied to cores of four wells and geophysical profiles of other 24 wells, including the software Petrel® 2012 (Schlumberger), it was possible to recognize lithofacies (along with diagenetic and permo-porosity properties), electrofacies, cyclic successions, giving support for stratigraphic correlations, stratigraphic sequences analysis, maps of facies proportions for each sequence and respective paleoenvironmental models. Six lithofacies were defined for the Quissamã Formation, mainly grainstones and packstones (rare wackestones) with carbonate grains such as ooids, oncoids, peloids and some bioclasts (mollusks, echinoids and benthonic microfossils). Successions of peloidal/bioclastic packstones to grainstones correspond to typical shallowing upwards high frequency cycles. The Outeiro Formation has three lithofacies composed of mudstones and wackestones, with gradual increase of more distal planktonic microfossils (mainly foraminifers). The diagenetic history of the rocks encompassed, during the eodiagenesis, micritization, mechanic compactation, dissolution, cementation (fringe, mosaic and sintaxial) and, during the mesodiagenesis, chemical compactation and blocky cementation in fractures. The whole studied interval presents some maximum flooding and maximum regressive surfaces, which were defined as boundaries, respectively, for the medium and low frequency successions, the latter equivalent to five stratigraphic sequences. The present work corroborates previous interpretations that the Quissamã Formation was originated in a shallow carbonate ramp-like platform with several ooids bars parallel to the coast. Therefore, the other facies of the formation (mainly...

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Anderson, Arlene Verona. "Provenance and Petrofacies, Upper Devonian Sandstones, Philip Smith Mountains and Arctic Quadrangles Brooks Range, Alaska." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/236072.

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A petrographic study of upper Devonian sandstones (Endicott and Hammond Terranes), Philip Smith Mountains and Arctic quadrangles, Brooks Range, Alaska, shows that the sand-sized detritus was derived from two petrographic provenances. Detrital modes, calculated from point counts of thin sections, show that the provenance for the Devonian clastic wedge (Endicott Terrane) was a recycled orogenic belt with major components of quartz, chert, and lithic fragments. Three petrofacies are distinguished. Their distribution indicates compositional changes vertically and laterally which reflect changing compositions in the source area. A petrographically different provenance supplied the sandstones that overlie the Skajit Limestone (Hammond Terrane). Characterized by high feldspar and abundant volcanic rock fragments, this petrofacies indicates first-cycle deposition close to the source area. A magmatica arc provenance is suggested.

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Koch, Jesse. "Sequence stratigraphy and facies analyses of the Dakota Formation, Jefferson County, Nebraska and Washington County, Kansas." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2007. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/175.

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The estuarine to fluvial sediments of the mid-Cretaceous (Late Albian/Early Cenomanian) Dakota Formation of Jefferson Co., Nebraska (NE) and Washington Co., Kansas (KS) were deposited in a marginal marine setting along the eastern margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway. Three depositional facies based on various lithic content are recognized in the study area: Facies 1: Fluvial Channel Facies, Facies 2: Paleosol/Interfluve Facies, and Facies 3: Bay Head Delta/Estuarine Facies. The facies interpretation helped confirm that the Dakota Formation was deposited in a marginal marine setting in which low-gradient fluvial systems supplied a wave-dominated, estuary system. Petrographic analysis of the Fluvial Channel Facies concluded that the sandstones can be classified as quartz-rich lithic arkose. These findings differ slightly from previous studies on Cenomanian Dakota Formation strata in Thurston Co., NE. Palynostratigraphic, subsurface, and sedimentologic evidence helped to delineate a more accurate sequence stratigraphic framework for the Dakota Formation in the study area. Three large-scale, unconformity-bounded, sequences (D0, D1, and D2) are recognized, within which deposits of the transgressive and falling stage systems tracts are preserved in the Dakota Formation in the study area. While no physical deposits exist for the falling stage and lowstand systems tracts, evidence for their past occurrence can be observed by the erosional nature of the sequence boundaries. Detailed analysis of the systems tracts framework allows delineation of a generalized sea-level curve for the Dakota Formation in the study area. Analysis of the sequence stratigraphic framework revealed a Late Albian/Early Cenomanian sea-level fall that subsequently created valley incisions of over 25 m into the Late Albian D1 sequence. A careful literature review combined with sequence stratigraphic evidence suggests that a geologically fast-acting eustatic sea-level mechanism lowered worldwide sea-levels by more than 25 m from Late Albian into Early Cenomanian time. A reevaluation of the mid-Cretaceous "greenhouse" world suggests that a glacioeustatic component to the observed sea-level changes may have occurred. A Southern Hemispheric polar ice sheet with limited extent and volume compared to "icehouse" continental ice sheets, along with global alpine glaciers fed by wet climate cycles are hypothesized to account for sea-level fluctuations that resulted in valley incision and subsequent filling in the study area.

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Mason, Elizabeth Lane. "Internal facies architecture of a sand-rich, deep-sea depositional system: the rocks sandstone, Reliz Canyon formation, Northern Santa Lucia Range, Monterey County, California /." May be available electronically:, 1998. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Stouten, Craig A. "Subsurface Facies Analysis of the Clinton Sandstone, Located in Perry, Fairfield, and Vinton Counties." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1416147053.

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Hanson, Lindley S. "Stratigraphy of the Jo-Mary Mountain area: with emphasis on the sedimentary facies and tectonic interpretation of the Carrabassett Formation." Thesis, Boston University, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/37160.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University
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The sedimentary facies of the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian Madrid, Carrabassett, and Seboomook Formations, exposed on the northwestern limb of the Kearsarge-Central Maine Synclinorium, belong the following facies categories: (1) sandstone-rich turbidites, (2) pelitic turbidites and related hemipelagites, and (3) disrupted facies. Lithofacies within each formation are organized into one or more descriptive facies associations--these are the: (1) massive sandstone, (2) thickbedded turbidite, (3) thin-bedded turbidite, (4} chaotic, (5) massive-pelite, and (6) laminated-pelite facies associations. Where strata are well exposed, and sedimentary structures and bed geometries are discernible, these descriptive facies can be discussed in terms of one or more interpretive associations (e .g. channel and channel-margin facies associations.) The Devonian Carrabassett Formation is the youngest widespread formation exposed in the Kearsarge - Central Maine Synclinorium. In the Jo-Mary Mountain quadrangle and surrounding area, the Carrabassett Formation is a complex facies assemblage dominated by fine-grained turbidite and chaotic facies. The underlying Upper Silurian Madrid Formation is composed largely of sandstone- and siltstone-rich turbidites. The younger Seboomook Formation is characterized by pelitic turbidite and related hemipelagic facies. A facies analysis of the Carrabassett and underlying Madrid Formations indicates that sediments were derived from eastern sources and deposited in northwesterly-migrating slope and foredeep environments during the Late Silurian and Early Devonian. Sedimentation is believed to have been partly diachronous, becoming progressively younger toward the northwest. Short term penecontemporaneous deposition probably occurred in different settings, such as along the axis of the foredeep basin (Madrid Fm.) and lower- to base-of-slope environment (Carrabassett Fm.). Olistostromes, shed from the lower slope, and thir bedded turbidites dominated later stages of basin sedimentation when the source of coarse clastics, supplied from the northeast, was shut off during the Early Devonian. These environments are interpreted in terms of an accretionary complex contemporaneous with initial stages of compression during the Acadian orogeny.
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Megner-Allogo, Alain-Cedrique. "Sedimentology and stratigraphy of deep-water reservoirs in the 9A to 14A Sequences of the central Bredasdorp Basin, offshore South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17400.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Barremian to Albian siliciclastic deep-water deposits of the central Bredasdorp Basin were investigated primarily in terms of their stratigraphic evolution, depositional characteristics and facies distribution. Cores from the deep-water deposits reveal that the facies successions are composed of massive, ripple cross- to parallel-laminated sandstones, conglomerate, massive claystone, alternating laminated to interbedded sandstone/siltstone and claystone, laminated and clay-rich siltstone. These facies are grouped into channel-fill, sheet-lobe, overbank and basin plain deposits, by inference. The application of sequence stratigraphy, based on gamma ray and resistivity log patterns, reveals that all 3rd-order depositional sequences comprise 4thorder cycles. The latter are subdivided into three components (lowstand, transgressive and highstand systems tracts), based on vertical facies changes and internal stratigraphic key surfaces. Taking the 13Amfs as the stratigraphic datum for each well, correlation was possible on a regional basis. Lowstand deposits, comprising thick amalgamated massive sandstones, were interpreted to represent channelfills. Their vertical and horizontal stacking forms channel-fill complexes above Type 1 unconformities. Adjacent thin-bedded intervals, comprising parallel- to ripple cross-laminated sandstones, were interpreted as levee/overbank deposits, whereas clay-rich intervals were interpreted to represent basin plain deposits of hemipelagic origin. Facies associations and their distribution have revealed that channel-fills are associated with overflow deposits and sheet sand units. These deposits, as well as downdip sheet sands associated with small channel-fills within the 9A, 11A/12A, 13A Sequences and the 14A Sequence were interpreted to have been deposited in a middle fan to upper fan setting. A similar association occurs in the 10A Sequence, except that thick conglomerate units are present at the base of proximal channel-fills. This led to interpret the 10A Sequence as being deposited in a base-of-slope to upper fan setting. The thickness of each sequence, as revealed by isochore maps, shows sinuous axial flow path which corresponds to channel-fill conduit. The continuous decrease of this sinuosity upward in the succession was interpreted as being related to basin floor control along the main sand fairways. Successive flows result in erosion-fill-spill processes, which locally favour connectivity of reservoirs over large areas. Recognition of higher-order sequences and key stratigraphic surfaces helps to understand internal stratigraphic relationships and reveals a complex and dynamic depositional history for 3rd-order sequences. However, sparse well control and uneven distribution of boreholes, as well as lack of seismic and other data, limited the models derived for this study.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Barremiaanse tot Albiaanse silisiklastiese diepwater afsettings van die sentrale Bredasdorp Kom is hoofsaaklik in terme van stratigrafiese evolusie, afsettingskarakteristieke en fasies distribusie ondersoek. Kerne van die diepwater afsettings toon dat die fasies opeenvolgings uit massiewe, riffelkruis- tot parallel-gelamineerde sandstene, konglomerate, massiewe kleistene, afwisselende gelamineerde tot intergelaagde sandstene/slikstene en kleistene, sowel as gelamineerde en klei-ryke slikstene bestaan. Hierdie fasies word onderverdeel in kanaalopvulsel, plaatlob, oewerwal en komvlakte afsettings. Die toepassing van opeenvolgingsstratigrafie gebaseer op gammastraal en resistiwiteit log patrone toon dat alle 3de-orde afsettingsopeenvolgings uit 4deorde siklusse bestaan. Laasgenoemde word onderverdeel in drie komponente (lae-stand, transgressie en hoë-stand sisteemgedeeltes), gebaseer op vertikale fasies veranderinge en interne stratigrafiese sleutel vlakke. Korrelasie op ‘n regionale basis is moontlik gemaak deur die 13Amfs as die stratigrafiese verwysing vir elke boorgat te neem. Lae-stand afsettings, wat uit dik saamgevoegde massiewe sandstene bestaan, word geïnterpreteer as kanaalopvulsels. Die vertikale en horisontale stapeling van die sandstene vorm kanaalopvulsel komplekse bo Tipe 1 diskordansies. Naasliggende dungelaagde intervalle, wat uit parallel- tot kruisgelaagde sandstene bestaan, word geïnterpreteer as oewerwal afsettings, terwyl klei-ryke intervalle geïnterpreteer word as verteenwoordigend van komvlakte afsettings van hemipelagiese oorsprong. Fasies assosiasies en hul verspreiding toon dat kanaalvul geassosieër word met oorvloei afsettings en plaatsand eenhede. Hierdie afsettings, sowel as distale plaatsande geassosieër met klein kanaalopvulsels binne die 9A, 11A/12A, 13A en die 14A Opeenvolgings, word geïnterpreteer as afgeset in ‘n middelwaaier tot bo-waaier omgewing. ‘n Soortgelyke assosiasie bestaan in die 10A Opeenvolging, behalwe dat dik konglomeraat eenhede teenwoordig is by die basis van proksimale kanaalopvullings. Dit het gelei tot die interpretasie van die 10A Opeenvolging as afgeset in ‘n basis-van-helling tot bo-waaier omgewing. Die dikte van elke opeenvolging, soos verkry vanaf isochoor kaarte, toon ‘n kronkelende aksiale vloeipad wat ooreenkom met ‘n kanaalopvulling toevoerkanaal. Die aaneenlopende afname van hierdie kronkeling na bo in die opeenvolging word geïnterpreteer as verwant aan komvloer-beheer langs die hoof sand roetes. Opeenvolgende vloeie veroorsaak erosie-opvul-oorspoel prosesse, wat lokaal die konnektiwiteit van reservoirs oor groot areas bevoordeel. Herkenning van hoër-orde opeenvolgings en sleutel stratigrafiese vlakke dra by tot ‘n goeie begrip van die interne stratigrafiese verhoudings en ontbloot ‘n komplekse en dinamiese afsettingsgeskiedenis vir 3de-orde opeenvolgings. Beperkte boorgatbeheer en ‘n tekort aan seismiese en ander data het egter ‘n beperkende rol gespeel in die daarstel van modelle vir hierdie studie.

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Maurer, Joshua Thomas. "Reinterpretation of the Ignacio and Elbert Formations as an Incised Valley Fill Using Facies Analysis and Sequence Stratigraphy; San Juan Basin, Southwest Colorado." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1342967247.

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Udgata, Devi Bhagabati Prasad. "DEPOSITIONAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MARINE, GREEN-CLAY, MINERAL FACIES IN THE LOWER-MIDDLE MISSISSIPPIAN BORDEN AND FORT PAYNE FORMATIONS, WESTERN APPALACHIAN AND EASTERN ILLINOIS BASINS, KENTUCKY." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/808.

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Detailed study of strata associated with the glauconite-rich Floyds Knob Bed in the western Appalachian and eastern Illinois basins have corroborated previous interpretations that the unit is a widespread, largely synchronous marker horizon. However, in some areas there are multiple glauconite beds; in others a distinct bed is lacking, but the glauconite is dispersed throughout many beds, forming an interval rather than a distinct bed. In Kentucky and adjacent states, the Floyds Knob interval, in upper parts of the Lower-Middle Mississippian Borden-Grainger delta sequence and in lower parts of the Fort Payne carbonate sequence, was deposited at the end of loading-type relaxation during a flexural cycle in the Neoacadian (final) tectophase of the Acadian Orogeny. Tectonic influence, combined with a major late Osagean sea-level lowstand, created conditions that generated sediment starvation and shallower seas across widespread parts of the western Appalachian and eastern Illinois basins. In the absence of major sediment influx, glauconite was deposited uniformly across many major depositional settings, ranging from delta-platform to basinal environments. Especially important, however, is the newly reported occurrence of the Floyds Knob interval in basinal Fort Payne environments from south-central Kentucky, where it is represented by a thick, pelletal, glauconite-rich horizon that separates clastics at the base of the Fort. Payne Formation from carbonates at top. The study also provides the first-ever radiometric dating of the Floyds Knob glauconites, which suggests a late Osagean origin. These results support the existing biostratigraphic studies that point to a late Osagean origin for the Floyds Knob interval.

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Powell, Kristopher Michael. "Facies Analysis, Sedimentary Petrology, and Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Triassic Sinbad Limestone Member of the Moenkopi Formation, Central Utah: A Synthesis of Surface and Subsurface Data." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6672.

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Lower Triassic strata in the Wellington Flat and Tully cores reflect a lateral transition from shallow water strata (Wellington Flats core) to strata that indicate deposition on a relatively more distal, storm-dominated ramp (Tully core). The Sinbad Member, along with the upper part of the underlying Black Dragon Member and the lower part of the overlying Torrey Member (Moenkopi Formation), are composed of ten carbonate, siliciclastic and mixed carbonate/siliciclastic facies deposited on a west-facing ramp/shelf that reached maximum flooding during Smithian time. Individual beds and facies display a large degree of lateral homogeneity and regional persistence in the study area. The Wellington Flats core contains the three units characteristic of outcropping Sinbad Limestone: a basal skeletal unit, a middle peloidal unit, and an upper, oolitic dolomite unit. The more offshore Tully core is composed of skeletal grainstone, with fewer shallow-water carbonate and siliciclastic deposits. Discontinuity surfaces (hardgrounds, firmgrounds, and change surfaces) are common and indicate that sedimentation was punctuated by short-lived hiatuses accompanied by cementation, scour, and/or encrustation of the sediment-water interface. The Black Dragon, Sinbad, and lower Torrey Members represent at least one 3rd-order depositional sequence bounded below by the Tr-1 unconformity and above by lowstand deposits in the middle Torrey Member. Amalgamated fluvial channels in the middle of the Black Dragon Member may represent an additional 3rd-order sequence boundary that separates a Greisbachian sequence (lower Black Dragon Member) from the Smithian sequence (upper Black Dragon through lower Torrey members), but this is unsubstantiated by biostratigraphic data at present. Diagenesis is strongly controlled by facies. Diagenetic elements include marine fibrous calcite cements, micritized grains, compaction, dissolution and neomorphism of aragonite grains, meteoric cements, pressure dissolution, and dolomitization. The paragenetic sequence progresses from marine to meteoric to burial. Marine and meteoric cements occlude much of the depositional porosity, which ranges from 0 to 10 % in the sample interval. The best reservoir qualities in core (1.0 md) occur in grainstones and quartz-siltstones. Although its relative thinness precludes it from being a major producer, the Sinbad Limestone Member of the Moenkopi Formation bears potential for modest future oil production.

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Payne, Danielle Sarah. "Shelf-to-slope sedimentation on the north Kaipara continental margin, northwestern North Island, New Zealand." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2413.

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Temperate mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments and authigenic minerals are the current surficial deposits at shelf and slope depths (30-1015 m water depth) on the north Kaipara continental margin (NKCM) in northern New Zealand. This is the first detailed study of these NKCM deposits which are described and mapped from the analysis of 54 surficial sediment samples collected along seven shorenormal transects and from three short piston cores. Five surficial sediment facies are defined from the textural and compositional characteristics of this sediment involving relict, modern or mixed relict-modern components. Facies 1 (siliciclastic sand) forms a modern sand prism that extends out to outer shelf depths and contains three subfacies. Subfacies 1a (quartzofeldspathic sand) is an extensive North Island volcanic and basement rock derived sand deposit that occurs at less than 100-200 m water depth across the entire NKCM. Subfacies 1b (heavy mineral sand) occurs at less than 50 m water depth along only two transects and consists of predominantly local basaltic to basaltic andesite derived heavy mineral rich (gt30%) deposits. Subfacies 1c (mica rich sand) occurs at one sample site at 300 m water depth and contains 20-30% mica grains, probably sourced from South Island schists and granites. Facies 2 (glauconitic sand) comprises medium to fine sand with over 30% and up to 95% authigenic glauconite grains occurring in areas of low sedimentation on the outer shelf and upper slope (150-400 m water depth) in central NKCM. Facies 3 (mixed bryozoan-siliciclastic sand) consists of greater than 40% bryozoan skeletal material and occurs only in the northern half of the NKCM. Facies 4 (pelletal mud) occurs on the mid shelf (100-150 m water depth) in northern NKCM and comprises muddy sediment dominated by greater than c. 30% mixed carbonatesiliciclastic pellets. Facies 5 (foraminiferal mud and sand) contains at least 30% foraminifera tests and comprises two subfacies. Subfacies 5a consists of at least 50% mud sized sediment and occurs at gt400 m water depth in southern NKCM while subfacies 5b comprises gt70% sand sized sediment and occurs at mid to outer shelf and slope depths in the northern NKCM. vi A number of environmental controls affect the composition and distribution of NKCM sediments and these include: (1) variable sediment inputs to the NKCM dominated by inshore bedload sources from the south; (2) northerly directed nearshore littoral and combined storm-current sediment transport on the beach and shelf, respectively; (3) offshore suspended sediment bypassing allowing deposition of authigenic minerals and skeletal grains; (4) exchange between the beach and shelf producing similar compositions and grain sizes at less than 150 m water depth; and (5) the episodic rise of sea level since the Last Glaciation maximum approximately 20 000 years ago which has resulted in much sediment being left stranded at greater depths than would otherwise be anticipated. Sedimentation models developed from other wave-dominated shelves generally do not appear to apply to the NKCM sediments due to their overall relative coarseness and their mosaic textural characteristics. In particular, the NKCM sediments do not show the expected fining offshore trends of most wavedominated shelf models. Consequently, sandy sediments (both siliciclastic and authigenic) are most typical with mud becoming a dominant component in southern NKCM sediments only at greater than 400 m water depth, over 350 m deeper than most models suggest, a situation accentuated by the very low mud sediment supply to the NKCM from the bordering Northland landmass.

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Perkes, Tyson L. "Integrating Facies Analysis, Terrestrial Sequence Stratigraphy, and the First Detrital Zircon (U-Pb) Ages of the Twist Gulch Formation, Utah, USA: Constraining Paleogeography and Chronostratigraphy." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3409.pdf.

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Smith, Douglas D. "Sequence Stratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian Marjum Formation: Response of Sedimentary Facies and Biota to Sea-level Changes." DigitalCommons@USU, 2007. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6744.

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Research on the Marjum Formation provides insight into facies transitions in the House Range embayment of southwestern Utah during the Middle Cambrian. Sections of the Marjum Formation and equivalents were measured in strata representing shallow- (Drum Mountains), intermediate- (Wheeler Amphitheater), and deep-ramp (Marjum Pass) environments. This traverse across the embayment reveals strong litho- and biofacies changes. The Drum Mountains strata (343 m thick) are dominated by thickbedded shallow-water limestone facies containing polymerid trilobites and stromatolites. The Wheeler Amphitheater locality (392 m thick) provides an example of intermediate deposits between deep-water and shallow-water environments and is characterized by limestone and subordinate shale facies containing polymerid and agnostid trilobites, brachiopods, and sponge spicules. The Marjum Pass locality (424 m thick) contains equal parts shale and limestone facies with abundant fossils that include polymerid and agnostid trilobites, sponge spicules and soft bodied algae, representing deep-water environments. Migration of litho- and biofacies observed within Marjum Formation sections across the embayment shows carbonate ramp build-up and progradation from the Drum Mountains to the Swasey Peak, Wheeler Amphitheater area. Lateral migration of deepwater shale and rhythmite-producing turbidite facies can also be observed on a larger timescale from the Drum Mountains, during the early Bolaspidella time (Wheeler Formation deposits), to the Marjum Pass area (Marjum Formation deposits) by late Bolaspidella time. The Marjum Formation records two, third order shoaling-upward sequences. Fourth, fifth, and higher-frequency (rhythmite) cycles superimposed on these third order sequences can also be identified within the formation and are best preserved within the relatively deep-water deposits at Marjum Pass. Identification of sampled trilobites allowed correlation of known fauna! turnovers found by Robison and Vorwald with observed strata and systems tracts from this study. Stratigraphic locations of trilobite fauna! turnovers were found to be associated with transgressive systems tracts in the Drum Mountains and Marjum Pass localities. Fauna! turnover associated with significant sea-level events within these systems tracts suggests change in water depth altered the local environment forcing extinction and/or migration of organisms. Peak values of total organic carbon (TOC) at each measured section were also found to have a close relationship with maximum flooding zones. Associations of peak TOC values and fauna! turnovers with significant sea-level events demonstrate the value of these tools for correlation across the embayment.

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Babikir, Adil Elsiddik. "Significance of the palynology and organic facies of the Abu Gabra no.1 well with respect to the petroleum geology of the Abu Gabra Field, Sudan." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242722.

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Philip, Charlotte Conwell. "3D seismic attributes analysis to outline channel facies and reveal heterogeneous reservoir stratigraphy; Weirman Field, Ness County, Kansas, USA." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8767.

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Master of Science
Department of Geology
Abdelmoneam Raef
This research presents a workflow integrating several post-stack seismic attributes to assist in understanding the development history of Weirman Field, Ness County, KS. This study contributes to shaping future drilling plans by establishing a workflow combining analysis of seismic attributes and well cuttings to locate a channel fill zone of better reservoir quality, and to highlight reservoir boundaries due to compartmentalization. In this study, I have successfully outlined a fluvial channel, which is expected to be significantly different in terms of petrophysical properties. The Pennsylvanian aged Cherokee sandstones that potentially comprise channel fill lithofacies, in this study, have been linked to oil production throughout the state of Kansas. It is important to understand channel sandstones when evaluating drilling prospects, because of their potential as an oil reservoir and unpredictable shapes and locations. Since their introduction in the 1970s, seismic attributes have become an essential part of lithological and petrophysical characterization of hydrocarbon reservoirs. Seismic attributes can correlate to and help reveal certain subsurface characteristics and specific geobodies that cannot be distinguished otherwise. Extracting and analyzing acoustic impedance, root-mean-square amplitude and amplitude attenuation, guided by a time window focused on the top of the Mississippian formation, resulted in an understanding of the key seismic channel-facies framework and helped to explain some of the disappointing drilling results at Weirman Field. To form a better understanding of these seismic attributes, this study combined certain attributes and overlayed them in partially transparent states in order to summarize and better visualize the resulting data. A preliminary study of spectral decomposition, which was introduced in the late 1990s, was preformed, and a more in-depth study of this multi-resolution attribute is recommended for future study of this particular field. This study also recommends integrating the revealed compartmentalization boundary and the seismic channel-facies framework in future drilling plans of Weirman Field.

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Ranson, Andrew M. "Transitional Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic Complexity of Shallow-Marine Star Point Formation to Coastal-Plain Blackhawk Formation Along Depositional-Strike, Wasatch Plateau, Utah." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1476.

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Facies and stratigraphic architecture right at the transition from marine to non-marine environments is poorly documented. In the Cretaceous outcrops of Utah, Star Point and Blackhawk Formations are well studied. The nature of spatio-temporal transition of these two Formations, in the deposition-strike orientation, remains undocumented. This study characterizes facies and stratigraphic complexity at the transition of the two Formations that crop out in depositional-strike orientation in the Wasatch Plateau. Data from outcrop including photomosiacs and measured sections demonstrate this complexity at a range of scales. The Star Point constitutes a shoreface environment. The Blackhawk constitutes a coastal-fluvial environment. In the northern part of study area, the transition from marine to continental strata is expressed by intertonguing succession. The dip-oriented outcrops show pinch-outs of two parasequences into coastal-plain deposits. This complexity decreases southward, the southern outcrops show a simple transition. At least two sequence boundaries are correlated across the outcrop belt.

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Anderson, Alvin D. "Geology of the Phil Pico Mountain Quadrangle, Daggett County, Utah, and Sweetwater County, Wyoming." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2384.pdf.

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Taylor, Andrew W. "Sedimentology, Facies Architecture, and Reservoir Characterization of Lacustrine Rocks, Eocene Green River and Colton Formations, Uinta Basin, Utah." DigitalCommons@USU, 2002. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6780.

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Outcrop and petrographic studies of the Eocene Green River and Colton formations in the Uinta basin, Utah, document the facies architecture and heterogeneity characteristic of lacustrine reservoirs. A southwest-northeast transect of Eocene strata in the Uinta basin records three main marginal lacustrine depositional environments: fluvial, deltaic, and wave-dominated. Heterogeneity exists between and within individual depositional systems. Reservoir rocks of Outcrops One and Two (the flu vial facies of the Colton Formation and the deltaic facies of the Green River Formation, respectively) consist of 2 to 18 m thick lenticular, tabular, or undulatory channel-fill, distributary channel, and distributary mouth bar deposits that are partially to entirely compartmentalized, or encased, by mudstone units. These reservoir analog intervals are dominated by large scale heterogeneity, in that sand bodies show a variety of connectivity and lateral continuity. Small-scale heterogeneity exists within these sand bodies in the form of mud chip lag surfaces, large mud clast horizons, and discontinuous finer-grained beds. These features add complexity to the systems by reducing flow transmissibility or acting as flow baffles. The complex heterogeneity characteristic of these reservoir analogs confirms the need for detailed reservoir characterization studies on all scales in order to improve exploration and production efficiency in such systems. Outcrop Three (the wave-dominated facies of the Green River Formation) is dominated by thinner (2 to 4 m) tabular and laterally extensive offshore bar deposits that are compartmentalized by mudstone units. Large-scale heterogeneity is minimized in these reservoir analogs, in that sand bodies exhibit excellent lateral continuity and less complex amalgamation. Therefore, documentation of the smaller-scale heterogeneities (similar to those mentioned in the previous two outcrops) is necessary to better address exploration and production potential in these types of reservoirs. Data collected in this study were utilized in geostatistical simulations and fluid flow models in an attempt to document the effects of reservoir heterogeneity on hydrocarbon exploration and production efficiency in lacustrine basins. Further studies of this type are necessary if predictable classification systems and hierarchies of bounding surfaces are to be derived for lacustrine reservoirs. (152 pages)

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Mansurbeg, Howri. "Diagenesis and Reservoir-Quality Evolution of Deep-Water Turbidites: Links to Basin Setting, Depositional Facies, and Sequence Stratigraphy." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Berggrundsgeologi, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7634.

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A study of the distribution of diagenetic alterations and their impact on reservoir-quality evolution in four deep-water turbidite successions (Cretaceous to Eocene) from basins in active (foreland) and passive margins revealed the impact of tectonic setting, depositional facies, and changes in the relative sea level. Diagenetic modiﬁcations encountered in the turbiditic sandstones from the passive margin basins include dissolution and kaolinitization (kaolin has δ18OV-SMOW = +13.3‰ to +15.2‰; δDV-SMOW = -96.6‰ to -79.6‰) of framework silicates, formation of grain coating chloritic and illitic clays, cementation by carbonates and quartz, as well as the mechanical and chemical compaction of detrital quartz. Kaolinitization, which is most extensive in the lowstand systems tracts, is attributed to meteoric-water ﬂux during major fall in the relative sea level. Preservation of porosity and permeability in sandstones from the passive margin basins (up to 30% and 1 Darcy, respectively) is attributed to the presence of abundant rigid quartz and feldspar grains and to dissolution of carbonate cement as well as mica and feldspars. Diagenetic modiﬁcations in turbidites from the foreland basins include carbonate cementation and mechanical compaction of the abundant ductile rock fragments, which were derived from fold-thrust belts. These diagenetic alterations resulted in nearly total elimination of depositional porosity and permeability. The wide range of δ13CV−PDB values of these cements (about -18‰ to +22‰) in passive margin basins is attributed to input of dissolved carbon from various processes of organic matter alterations, including microbial methanogenesis and thermal decarboxylation of kerogen. The narrower range of δ13CV−PDB values of these cements (about -2‰ to +7‰) in the foreland basins suggests the importance of carbon derivation from the dissolution of carbonate grains. The generally wide range of δ18O values (about -17‰ to -1‰) of the carbonate cements reﬂect the impact of oxygen isotopic composition of the various ﬂuid involved (including marine depositional waters, ﬂuxed meteoric waters, evolved formation waters) and the wide ranges of precipitation temperatures. Results of this study are anticipated to have important implication for hydrocarbon exploration in deep-water turbidites from passive and active margin basins and for pre-drilling assessment of the spatial and temporal distribution of reservoir quality in such deposits.

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Klopfenstein, Trey. "High-frequency Sequences within the Lower Mississippian Allensville Member, Logan Formation, South-central Ohio." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1525864536290455.

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Al-Ramadan, Khalid. "Impact of Diagenetic Alterations on Reservoir Quality and Heterogeneity of Paralic and Shallow Marine Sandstones : Links to Depositional Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-6928.

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This thesis constrains the distribution of diagenetic alterations and their impact on reservoir-quality and heterogeneity evolution pathways in relation to depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy (systems tracts and key sequence stratigraphic surfaces) of four selected paralic and shallow marine siliciclastic successions.

Typical eogenetic alterations encountered include the dissolution and kaolinitization of framework silicates, which are closely associated to shoreface facies of forced regressive systems tract (FRWST), lowstand systems tract (LST), upper part of the highstand systems tract (HST), and below the sequence boundary (SB). These alterations are attributed to incursion of meteoric water owing to rapid and considerable fall in the relative sea level. Extensive carbonate cementation is most evident below marine and maximum flooding surfaces (MFS), whereas dissolution of carbonate cement and detrital dolomite occur in LST, HST and below SB. Parameters controlling the patterns and texture (microcrystalline vs. poikilotopic) of calcite cement have been constrained within sequence stratigraphic framework of the sandstones. Coarse crystalline to poikilotopic calcite textures of meteoric water origin are thus closely linked to the FRWST, LST and upper part of the HST sandstones and occur mainly as stratabound concretions, whereas microcrystalline calcite, which was precipitated from marine porewaters, occurs as continuously cemented layers in the transgressive systems tract (TST) and lower part of the HST sandstones.

Eogenetic alterations impose, in turn, profound control on the distribution pattern of mesogenetic alterations, and hence on reservoir quality evolution (destruction vs. preservation) pathways of sandstones. Eogenetic infiltrated clays, which occur in the tidal estuarine TST and HST sandstones, have helped preserving porosity in deeply buried sandstone reservoirs (≈ 5 km) through inhibition of extensive cementation by quartz overgrowths. Other essential findings of this thesis include deciphering the control on the formation of authigenic illite and chlorite by ultra-thin (≤ 1 µm thick), grain-coating clay mineral substrate.

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Van, der Merwe Willem C. "Stratigraphy and facies architecture of the uppermost fan system in the Tanqua sub-basin, Permian Ecca Group, South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50454.

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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Fan System 5 forms the uppermost submarine fan system of the Permian-age Tanqua Fan Complex (Ecca Group) of the southwestern Karoo Basin. It is the most widespread system and represents the final phase of fan deposition in the Tanqua sub-basin. Depositional characteristics differ markedly from the rest of the fan systems, mainly because it lacks sedimentary features indicative of a single point source basin floor fan. The entire system consists of six different stages of fan growth and development in the lower slope settings. A hypothetical model was composed for Fan System 5 to understand the spatial/temporal distribution of reservoir and seal facies in slope turbidite settings. The facies vary from massive amalgamated sandstone beds to thin-bedded, ripple cross-laminated sand and siltstone beds. A thick shale unit identified as a regional marker layer overlies Fan System 5. lts base is defined by the presence of a regionally developed 20 cm thick hemipelagic shale unit. Six sand-rich units with channel-complexes are present in the Klein Hangklip, Groot Hangklip, Kalkgat, Tongberg, Skoorsteenberg and Blauwkop localities. The facies characteristics in the southernmost outcrops of Fan System 5 (Groot Hangklip, Tongberg and Kalkgat) reflect deposition in a lower slope setting where local structural control seems to have played a major role in the distribution and regional development of channel-fill and overbank depositional elements. The channel-fills are arranged in vertical to off-set stacking patterns and are comprised of massive, amalgamated [me to very fine-grained sandstone units up to 30 m in thickness. They are separated by thinner sandstone/siltstone units of varying thickness. The channelization displayed by the more proximal outcrops are interpreted to represent an upper fan, deposited in a lower- to mid-slope setting. In contrast to the channel-fill deposits at Skoorsteenberg, Klein Hangklip and Groot Hangklip, ripple cross-laminated overbank deposits, associated with smaller channel-fill units, predominate in the northeastern and eastern parts of the outcrop area. Massive- and thinbedded frontal sheet sandstones constitute the down-dip extensions to the most northern outcrops of Fan System 5. Highly erosive, stacked base-of-slope channel complexes, seemingly controlled by subtle early structural features, were able to construct significant thicknesses of regionally well-developed overbank deposits, marginal to the channel complexes. These facies changes occur over relatively short distances, which hold significant implications for the prediction of and the heterogeneity of reservoir facies in slope settings. Gradients are much steeper in the lower slope to mid-slope area than on the proximal basin floor. The occurrence of soft-sediment deformation in the overbank and upper parts of the channel-fill deposits supports a slope origin. Weakly developed wave-ripple marks in the uppermost layers of Fan System 5 further indicate that water depths approached wave base prior to deposition of the upper markerbed shales. Paleotransport for Fan System 5 was towards the north, northeast and east. The palaeocurrent directions of the channel-fill complexes in Klein- and Groot Hangklip seem to roughly correspond to the structural trend of synclinal depressions in this area. However, the effect and influences of basin floor topography and structural features on deposition were determined to be minimal on the regional development and local facies control of the fan.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Waaiersisteem 5 vorm die laaste submarine waaiersisteem van die Perm-ouderdom Tankwa Waaierkompleks (Ecca Groep) in die suidwestelike Karoo-kom. Dit vorm die mees wydverspreide sisteem en verteenwoordig ook die fmale fase van waaierafsetting in die Tankwa sub-kom. Afsettingseienskappe verskil aansienlik van die onderliggende waaiersisteme, omdat kenmerkende sedimentêre eienskappe van 'n enkele toevoer bron ontbreek. Die hele sisteem bestaan uit ses verskillende periodes van waaiergroei en ontwikkeling in die laer kornhelling omgewmgs. 'n Voorspellingsmodel is opgestel vir Waaiersisteem 5 om die ruimtelike/temporele verspreiding van die reservoir en seël fasies in kornhelling turbidiet omgewings te kan verstaan. Hierdie fasies varieer van massiewe, geamalgameerde sandsteen tot dun gelaagde riffel- lamineerde sand- en sliksteenlae. 'n Dik regionale skalie eenheid oorlê Waaiersisteem 5 en vorm die boonste merkerlaag. Die basis word onderlê deur 'n 20 cm dik regionaalontwikkelde hemipelagiese skalie laag wat die onderste merkerlaag vorm. Ses sandige eenhede met geassosieerde kanaalkomplekse is onderskeidelik teenwoordig in: Klein Hangklip, Groot Hangklip, Kalkgat, Tongberg, Skoorsteenberg en Blauwkop omgewings. Die fasies-eienskappe van die mees suidelike dagsome van Waaiersisteem 5 (Tongberg, Groot Hangklip en Kalkgat) toon afsetting in 'n laer kornhelling omgewing, waar plaaslike tektoniese effekte moontlik 'n groot rol gespeel het in die verspreiding en regionale ontwikkeling van die kanaalvulsels en geassosieerde oewerwal-afsettings. Die gestapelde, wegstand kanaalvulsels-afsettings bestaan uit massiewe, geamalgameerde fyn tot baie fynkorrelrige sandsteen eenhede, wat diktes tot ongeveer 30 m kan bereik. Dit word van mekaar geskei deur dun sandsteenlsliksteen eenhede van afwisselende diktes. Die kanaal komplekse in die mees proksimale dagsome word interpreteer as 'n bo-waaier, wat afgeset is in 'n laer- tot middel kornhelling omgewmg. In teenstelling met die kanaalvulsels in die Skoorsteenberg, Klein Hangklip en Groot Hangklip omgewings, domineer riffel kruisgelamineerde oewerwal-afsettings, geassoseer met klein kanaalvulsels, die noordoostelike en oostelike dagsome van Waaiersisteem 5. Massiewe en dungelaagde frontale plaat sandstene, kom voor in die distale helling-omgewings in die mees noordelike dagsome van Waaiersisteem 5. Hoogs eroderende, gestapelde kanaalkomplekse, aan die basis van die komhelling wat moontlik beheer is deur vroeë komvloer topografie, was die oorsaak vir regionaal goed-ontwikkelde oewerwalafsettings. Hierdie fasies-verandering vind plaas oor 'n baie kort afstand wat betekenisvolle gevolge inhou vir die voorspelling van heterogeniteit van petroleum reservoir fasies in komhelling afsetting-omgewings. Die gradiënt vir die laer komhelling tot mid-komhelling omgewings is baie steiler as die distale komvloer omgewings. Die voorkoms van sagte-sediment deformasies in die oewerwal en boliggende dele van die kanaalvulsels weerspeël 'n moontlike komhelling omgewing. Swakontwikkelde golfriffelmerke in die boonste lae van Waaiersisteem 5 dui 'n waterdiepte aan wat nabyaan golf-basis is, voordat dit deur diepmariene skalies oorlê word. Paleovloeirigtings vir Waaiersisteem 5 was in 'n noord, noordoostelike en oostelike rigting. Die paleovloeirigting vir die Klein- en Groot Hangklip kanaalkomplekse stem min of meer ooreen met die strukturele grein van die sinklinale laagtes in die omgewing. Die effek en beheer van komvloer topografie en ander strukturele faktore op afsetting was minimaalop die regionale ontwikkeling en plaaslike fasies verspreiding van die waaier.

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Souza, Pricilla. "Evolution and stratigraphic architecture of tidal point bars with and without fluvial input: influence of variable flow regimes on sediment and facies distribution, and lateral accretion." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2705.

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Tide-influenced point bars represent a significant proportion of shallow-marine deposits, commonly developed along meandering channels in most backbarrier and estuarine systems. However, sedimentological studies to characterize this type of deposit are still emerging. They often present very heterogeneous internal architectures which development is controlled by the complex flow patterns operating in tidal environments. The study of the sedimentological and morphological characteristics of these features provides better understanding of the hydrodynamic processes that shape coastal systems and control their evolution as well as it contributes to better reservoir potential prediction and production strategy optimization, as tidal point bars may represent hydrocarbon reservoirs in subsurface and their heterogeneous characteristics directly impact reservoir quality. In this study, we investigated six modern tidal point bars located along distinct estuarine tidal channels in Georgia. Using core data, 2D shallow seismic data and current measurements and flow velocity profiles, we discussed the main hydrodynamic controls on sediment transport and distribution, and determined how they affect the morphology, the internal architecture and the sediment distribution within these bars. We confirmed that the influence of fluvial input in tidal channels plays an important role on the development of the morphology and the heterogeneous architecture of point bars as it adds more complexity to the system hydrodynamics, promoting more asymmetric variations in water level fluctuations and huge variations of current velocities. We proved that point bars developed in distinct tide-influenced channels and estuaries, although present very different sedimentary facies distribution, may have sedimentary facies in common, which organization is analogous to surface processes operating at each environment. We demonstrated that differences in tidal asymmetries between the ebb and flood channels produce sedimentological differences between the different parts of the bar. This study showed that tidal point bars present distinct heterogeneous sediment distributions, morphologies and internal architectures that do not conform to the existing theoretical models of fluvial point bars and highlighted that, despite the differences in local hydrodynamic conditions, similarities identified between the different bars permitted us to distinguish the sedimentological responses to regional allogenic events, which can be mistakenly interpreted as sedimentological responses to local autogenic events.

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Jennings, George R. III. "Facies Analysis, Sequence Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Entrada Sandstone: Traps, Tectonics, and Analog." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4083.

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The late Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Entrada Sandstone has been divided into two general facies associations consisting primarily of eolian sandstones in eastern Utah and "muddy" redbeds in central Utah. Sedimentary structures within the redbed portion are explained by the interfingering of inland sabkha, alluvial, and eolian depositional systems. A complete succession from the most basinward facies to the most terrestrial facies in the Entrada Sandstone consists of inland sabkha facies overlain by either alluvial or eolian facies. Where both alluvial and eolian facies interfinger, alluvial facies overlain by eolian facies is considered a normal succession. Sequence boundaries, often identified by more basinward facies overlying more landward facies, are observed in the Entrada Sandstone and are extrapolated for the first time across much of Utah, including both the eolian-dominated and redbed-dominated areas. Using these sequence boundaries as well as recent tephrochronologic studies, three time correlative surfaces have been identified in the Entrada. Based on the facies interpretations at each surface, five paleogeographic reconstructions and five isopach maps have been created, illustrating two major intervals of erg expansion and the location of the Jurassic retroarc foreland basin's potential forebulge. Eolian (erg-margin) sandstones pinch-out into muddy redbeds creating combination traps, as evidenced by dead oil (tar) and bleached eolian sandstone bodies within the Entrada. The Entrada Sandstone is a world-class analog for similar systems, such as the Gulf of Mexico's Norphlet Sandstone, where eolian facies grade into muddy redbed facies.

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Hlal, Osama Ahmed. "Diagenesis and Reservoir-Quality Evolution of Paralic, Shallow Marine and Fluvio-lacustrine Deposits : Links to Depositional Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Berggrundsgeologi, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8986.

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Linking diagenesis to depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy enables better prediction of spatial and temporal distribution of diagenetic alterations, and thus of evolution of reservoir quality in sandstones. This thesis demonstrates that employing this approach is possible because depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy can provide useful information on parameters controlling the near-surface diagenesis, such as changes in: (i) pore-water chemistry, (ii) residence time of sediments under certain geochemical conditions, (iii) detrital composition and proportion of extra- and intra-basinal grains, and (iv) types and amounts of organic matter. Evidence from four case studies enabled the development of conceptual models for distribution of diagenetic alterations and of their impact on evolution of reservoir quality in sandstones deposited in paralic, shallow marine and fluvio-lacustrine environments. Diagenetic alterations that have been constrained within the context of depositional facies and sequence stratigraphy include: (i) carbonate cement (microcrystalline and equant calcite spars dolomite over poikilotopic calcite), pyrite and glaucony are most abundant in progradational braid-delta fan sequences, particularly along the topsets (i.e. maxiumum flooding surface, MFS) and along parasequences boundaries in the deltaic facies of the early highstand systems tract HST, (ii) cementation by coarse spar calcite, dolomite, and the formation of moldic porosity by the dissolution of framework carbonate grains are most abundant in the aggradational fan deltas sequences, (iii) eogenetic kaolinitization of framework silicates is largely restricted to the fluvial and paralic HST sandstones, whereas telogenetic kaolinite may occur in the transgressive systems tract TST sandstones too, (iv) formation of goethite ooids in the TST sediments, (v) formation of glaucony, siderite spherules, and extensive grain-coatings, grain-replacing and ooidal berthierine, more in the TST than in the HST sediments, particularly below the transgressive surface TS and MFS, (vi) cementation by calcite with (δ18OV-PDB = -11.5‰ to -5.4‰) and Fe-dolomite/ankerite (δ18OV-PDB = -10.8‰ to -9.6‰) occurs in both TST and HST sandstones, (vii) syntaxial quartz overgrowths are most extensive in the HST sandstones owing to the presence of incomplete grain-coating berthierine/chlorite, (viii) greater amounts of micro-porosity in the TST sandstones than in the HST sandstones are related to the greater amounts of berthierine/chlorite in the former sandstones, and (ix) chlorite rims around quartz grains retarded the precipitation of quartz overgrowths, and hence prevented a greater loss of primary intergranular porosity in fluvio-lacustrine sandstones. Therefore, constraining the distribution of diagenetic alterations in the contexts of depositional facies and sequence stratigraphic context is a powerful approach to be used in hydrocarbon exploration.

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Gournay, Jonas Paul. "Phylloid algal bioherms and ooid grainstones : characterization of reservoir facies utilizing subsurface data from the Aneth Platform and outcrop data along the San Juan River, Paradox Basin, southeastern Utah /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Kattah, Senira da Silva. "Controls on deposition and resulting stratal architecture of coarse-grained alluvial and near-shore facies associations /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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AlShammary, Nawaf S. "Hetergenerous oil saturation in submarine channel and adjacent facies, monterey formation, point fermin, Palos Verdes, California." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527300.

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Extreme heterogeneity in oil saturation between closely adjacent sandstone beds reflects different timing and degree of diagenesis. Understanding the distribution and origin of such heterogeneity is critical to effectively exploiting intercalated sandstone deposits within fine-grained unconventional reservoirs and in unraveling subtleties of stratigraphic traps. Sea cliff exposures at Point Fermin, California, expose a submarine channel facies within the largely hemipelagic facies. Separated by only meters, Point Fermin Sandstone is oil-saturated, whereas Altamira Shale sandstone is not. Samples were analyzed for porosity, permeability and fluid saturation in conjunction with thinsection petrographic analysis. Sandstones are primarily schist- bearing lithic arenites and the grains are cemented mostly by rhombic dolomite. Data show that both units have the same provenance but differ in the timing and type of diagenesis with shale-hosted sandstones generally showing earlier cementation. The degree and type of cementation occluded pore spaces to prevent hydrocarbon charging in the non-saturated sandstone.

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Cook, Preston Scott. "Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Middle Jurassic Preuss Sandstonein Northern Utah and Eastern Idaho." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6206.

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Middle Jurassic Preuss Sandstone and re-evaluate past sedimentological interpretations. The Preuss is located in northern Utah, western Wyoming and eastern Idaho and is stratigraphically equivalent to the Entrada Sandstone, which is Callovian in age (Dossett et al., 2014). This study is the first attempt at 1) a sequence stratigraphic framework, 2) a petroleum system analysis and 3) an extraterrestrial analog study for the Preuss. This study frames the Preuss within three broad facies groups: marine, coastal and terrestrial. The marine group includes the open marine and restricted marine facies with associated subfacies, the coastal group includes coastal sabkha and associated subfacies, and the terrestrial group includes alluvial, inland sabkha and eolian facies with associated subfacies. Three sections in northern Utah and one section in eastern Idaho compromise the focus of this study. The three Utah sections were measured and described, and samples were collected from two Utah sections and the Idaho section. The Preuss Sandstone was deposited in an asymmetrical retroarc basin, consequently the Preuss thickens from the east towards west-central Utah and the Jurassic Elko highlands. The deposits are mostly terrestrial, which is in accord with recent sedimentological interpretations, but at odds with the old paradigm, which postulates that the Entrada and Preuss were largely tidal in origin. There are marine transgressions within the trough of the retroarc basin, and the transgressions affect terrestrial sedimentary patterns. During marine incurstions, alluvium shed off the highlands is confined west of the seaway, and does not prograde east of the trough until all the available accommodation is filled. The Preuss was deposited during a complete third-order sequence-stratigraphic cycle that lies within the Lower Zuni II second-order lowstand. The Preuss Sandstone can be used as an outcrop analog for ancient and modern environments both here on Earth and on other planetary bodies. The petroliferous Norphlet Formation along the U.S. Gulf Coast was deposited in an environment very similar to the Preuss, but the Waltherian succession of facies might be slightly different. Likewise, the facies present in the Preuss are analogous to modern arid environments, such as the Persian Gulf. Furthermore, the alluvial, sabkha, eolian and shallow marine facies of the Preuss are highly similar to facies observed in ancient Martian environments and modern environments on Saturn's moon, Titan.

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Elwerfalli, Hamed Omar. "Facies analysis of early Tertiary carbonates of northeast Libya." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242780.

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Lanners, Rebecca K. "Chemostratigraphy of hemipelagic facies of the montery formation and equivalent semimentary rocks, Los Angeles basin, California." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527388.

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The submarine-fan-dominated, proximal Los Angeles basin contains interstratified hemipelagic strata coeval with the widespread Miocene Monterey Formation that accumulated in other California margin basins. Although more detritalrich and containing greater abundance of plagioclase and muscovite than more distal, outboard basins, a four-part compositional zonation is recognized in the fine-grained facies, similar to the stratigraphic succession of the Santa Barbara coastal area. In ascending stratigraphic order, these include a basal interbedded calcareous-siliceous zone, a phosphatic zone, a calcareous-siliceous zone, and an uppermost siliceous zone. To establish these zonations, 125 samples from five wells in a north-south transect across the western basin from East and West Beverly Hills, Inglewood, and Wilmington oil fields were analyzed for bulk chemical composition by XRF and quantitative mineralogy by XRD and FTIR. The mineralogic composition of the fine-grained detrital fraction makes use of geochemical equations for sedimentary components developed elsewhere unsuitable to the Los Angeles basin.

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Lee, Mui-fa Alison. "Sedimentary facies of fluvial-marine transition environments in Hong Kong : Ting Kok and Pak Nai Deltas /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21021211.

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