Publisher's Synopsis
The sandstones are interpreted as having been deposited in a channel-levee system that terminated in broad lobes; overbank splays filled topographically low interchannel areas. Injection wells located in splay sandstones apparently have poor communication with wells in channel sandstones, perhaps because communication is restricted through levee and channel-margin deposits. The study of deep-water systems evolved from several separate disciplines that eventually merged. As significance, different terminology was used to describe these features based on different data sets. In addition, different disciplines also used their own terms. The emerging new concepts of sandy mass-transport deposits (SMTD) and bottom-current reworked sands (BCRS) have made a big impact on conventional turbidite concepts. Sediment failures near the shelf edge are the common cause of gravity-driven downslope processes. Mass-transport processes, which include slide, slump, and debris flow, exhibit elastic and plastic behaviors due to high sediment concentration. New Perspectives on Deep-Water Sandstones Origin, Recognition, Initiation and Reservoirs Quality presents state of the art research and reviews on the origin of deep-water sandstones, emphasizing sandy-mass transport deposits (SMTDs) and bottom-current reworked sands (BCRSs) in petroleum reservoirs. This book covers state of the art topics intended to describe deep-water elements and their resolution; discuss how deep-water systems vary in grain size and sediment-delivery systems; describe the hierarchy of deep-water deposits and how these different elements stack stratigraphically through time; discuss shallow analog studies and their importance, and address how production from various elements varies between different basins, and within the same basin, in systems of differing age. This volume will be of valuable tool for students, academics, researchers, and professional petroleum geoscientists.
