Author: Ram S. SaxenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Sand Bodies and Sedimentary Environments of the Modern Mississippi Delta
Author: Ram S. SaxenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Deltaic Sand Bodies
Author: James M. ColemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deltas
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The areas covered include processes active during deposition of deltaic sequences; influence type of depositional basins has on geometry and orientation of sand bodies; sedimentary characteristics and log variability in deltic sequences; deltaic shelf and upper slope processes and resulting sedimentary deposits; development of growth faulting and relationship to deltaic wedge and vaiability of deltaic sequences under a wide range of depostitional environments. Included are 206 slides and 9 tapes. 1 projector is needed.
Sand Facies of Recent Mississippi Deltaic Deposits
Author: Harold N. FiskPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Coastal Sedimentary Environments
Author: R.A. Jr. DavisPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461250781
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The zone where land and sea meet is composed of a variety of complex environments. The coastal areas of the world contain a large percentage of its population and are therefore of extreme economic importance. Industrial, residential, and recreational developments, as well as large urban complexes, occupy much of the coastal margin of most highly developed countries. Undoubtedly future expansion in many undeveloped maritime countries will also be concentrated on coastal areas. Accompanying our occupation of coasts in this age of technology is a dependence on coastal environments for transportation, food, water, defense, and recreation. In order to utilize the coastal zone to its capacity, and yet not plunder its resources, we must have extensive knowledge of the complex environments contained along the coasts. The many environments within the coastal zone include bays, estuaries, deltas, marshes, dunes, and beaches. A tremendously broad range of conditions is represented by these environments. Salinity may range from essentially fresh water in estuaries, such as along the east coast of the United States, to extreme hypersaline lagoons, such as Laguna Madre in Texas. Coastal environments may be in excess of a hundred meters deep (fjords) or may extend several meters above sea level in the form of dunes. Some coastal environments are well protected and are not subjected to high physical energy except for occasional storms, whereas beaches and tidal inlets are continuously modified by waves and currents.
Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels
Author: G. Devries KleinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401097585
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The purpose of this monograph is to provide participants in my various short courses with a brief statement of the material I cover in my lectures. In addition, key illustrations are reproduced for guidance. A brief bibliography of reference material is appended to each chapter. The bibliographic material includes those references that I consider critical to my remarks. No claim is made of topical or bibliographic completeness. This monograph also is intended as a brief summary of depositional processes, Holocene sediments, ancient counterparts of depositional environments, and examples of oil- and gas-bearing stratigraphic traps in five depositional environments. This summary is intended to complement lecture and reading courses dealing with sedimentology, depositional systems, sedimentary facies, sedimentary environments, sandstone diagenesis, and sedimentary modelling as a predictive tool for exploration. The student is cautioned, however, that this monograph is merely an introduction and summary overview of the subject. More complete treatments appear in standard textbooks. Sedimentology has changed and advanced over the past twenty-five years, in part because the American oil industry needed to make predictions about the occurrence of the harder-to-find stratigraphic traps. In addition, the development of plate-tectonic theory, and supportive data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project, have caused sedimentology to change from an essentially descriptive science to a mature, predictive science. The 1960s and 1970s in particular witnessed an explosion of new insights and understanding of how sediments are deposited, and how sedimentary rocks are formed.
Modern Mississippi Delta Depositional Environments and Processes
Author: Ram S. SaxenaPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments
Author: Albert MatterPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444303708
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists The ebook entitled Modern and Ancient Lake Sediments provides the proceedings of a symposium held at the H.C. Orsted Institute at the University of Copenhagen in 1977. The work was sponsored by the International Association of Sedimentologists and the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae.
Sedimentary Environments
Author: Harold G. ReadingPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118687639
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1417
Book Description
Sedimentary Environments is one of the most distinguished and influential textbooks in the earth sciences published in the last 20 years. The first and second editions both won universal praise and became classic works in sedimentology. Since the publication of the last edition, the study of sedimentary environments and facies has made great strides, with major advances in facies modelling, sequence stratigraphy and basin modelling. The 3rd edition of this classic text will likely set the benchmark even higher, and needless to say, will continue being the textbook of choice for sedimentology students. The latest edition of a classic text. Incorporates all the latest advances in dynamic stratigraphy. Will remain the textbook of choice for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in sedimentology.
Shelf Sand and Sandstone Bodies
Author: D. SwiftPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444303945
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The last decade of study of the shallow-marine boundary layer has arrived at a synthesis of sediment dynamic principles that can begin to be transferred from the time scales of the rock record (years to millenia). At the same time, the technology of petroleum exploration has lead to a fundamentally new way of examining the deposits of sedimentary basins. This book applies these insights to continental shelf and continental margin deposits, providing an entirely new viewpoint to the subject.
Depositional Sedimentary Environments
Author: H.-E. ReineckPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642962912
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This book has been written with the aim of compiling from modern environments information that can be useful in the reconstruction of ancient environments. It is intended for all those interested in recognizing depositional environments. The study of sediments includes investigations of various aspects of sediments. This needs a study by standard methods. Methods of study have not been included, as many textbooks exist on the subject. However, the importance of various results obtained from such investigations has been discussed, as far as these results can be helpful in environ mental reconstruction. Special attention is given to information that has accumulated during the last decades on the mode of genesis of various sedimentary features and their distribution in present-day environments. As far as possible, existing terminology has been used. How ever, in several cases new simple groupings and classifications have been proposed. In making classification, generally, the form and shape of the features have been considered, so that they can be applied easily to ancient sediments. At the same time, the genesis of such features has been noted, and genetic names and their characteristics have been given for detailed work. The subject is so vast that several primary sedimentary features that have no direct bearing on environmental interpretation have been omitted. The subject is vast, and numerous publications are available.