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1 online resource. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Handbook of petroleum exploration and production ; 9 |
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Handbook of petroleum exploration and production ; 9.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Origin and classification of sandy mass-transport deposits -- 3. Recognition of sandy mass-transport deposits -- 4. Bottom-current reworked sands -- 5. Initiation of deep-water sediment failures -- 6. Implications for deep-water sandstone reservoirs -- 7. Reservoir quality -- global examples -- 8. Epilogue. |
| Summary |
This handbook is vital for understanding the origin of deep-water sandstones, emphasizing sandy-mass transport deposits (SMTD) and bottom-current reworked sands (BCRS) in petroleum reservoirs. This cutting-edge perspective, a pragmatic alternative to the conventional turbidite concepts, is crucial because the turbidite paradigm is built on a dubious foundation without empirical data on sandy turbidity currents in modern oceans. In the absence of evidence for sandy turbidity currents in natural environments, elegant theoretical models and experimental observations of turbidity currents are irrelevant substitutes for explaining the origin of sandy deposits as 'turbidites'. In documenting modern and ancient SMTDs (sandy slides, sandy slumps, and sandy debrites) and BCRS (deposits of thermohaline [contour] currents, wind-driven currents, and tidal currents), the author describes and interprets core and outcrop (1:20 to 1:50 scale) from 35 case studies worldwide (which include 32 petroleum reservoirs), totaling more than 10,000 m in cumulative thickness, carried out during the past 36 years (1974-2010). The book dispels myths about the importance of sea level lowstand and provides much-needed clarity on the triggering of sediment failures by earthquakes, meteorite impacts, tsunamis, and cyclones with implications for the distribution of deep-water sandstone petroleum reservoirs. |
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Sandstone.
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Grès.
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NATURE -- Natural Resources.
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NATURE -- Rocks & Minerals.
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Sandstone
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| Added Author |
Shanmugam, G. (Ganapathy), 1944-
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| Added Title |
Deep-water sandstones |
| Other Form: |
Print version: New perspectives on deep-water sandstones. |
| ISBN |
9780444563552 (electronic bk.) |
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0444563555 (electronic bk.) |
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9780444563354 (electronic bk.) |
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0444563350 (electronic bk.) |
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9780444563354 |
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0444563350 |
| Standard No. |
9786613396310 |
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AU@ 000049065119 |
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AU@ 000050105226 |
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CHBIS 009942926 |
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CHVBK 302908390 |
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DEBBG BV041056379 |
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DEBBG BV042308381 |
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DEBSZ 367775190 |
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DEBSZ 482464682 |
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NZ1 14258183 |
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NZ1 15190829 |
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