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  • ...Log D has a “classic” coarsening-upward pattern. Log E has incised valley sands.
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  • .... Courtesy of the [http://www.earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA Web site]. The delta is about 200 km (124 mi) across in this view. The photograph has been rotat ...or petroleum provinces include the Niger Delta in west Africa, the Mahakam Delta in Borneo, the Caspian Sea, and the Maracaibo Basin in Venezuela.
    34 KB (4,776 words) - 18:18, 5 January 2024
  • ...m-associated reflection amplitude pattern is in contrast to that for sheet sands that would drape over the entire structure and show four-way downdip struct ...stones are well developed in this well. The depositional model for a delta-front sheet sand extending over the entire postdepositional anticline is likely t
    8 KB (1,015 words) - 16:59, 23 March 2022
  • ...of competence. Their characteristics are the structure of stratified fine sands overlain by laminated mud. ==Sheet Sands==
    26 KB (3,851 words) - 20:38, 28 February 2019
  • ...and other glacier deposits); and Deep-sea sediments, including contourite sands formed by ocean-bottom currents, turbidites and submarine fan deposits, for ...and other glacier deposits); and Deep-sea sediments, including contourite sands formed by ocean-bottom currents, turbidites and submarine fan deposits, for
    27 KB (3,802 words) - 19:32, 9 January 2024
  • ...fan'' is a wedge of clastic detritus that forms at the base of a mountain front as sediments eroding from the mountains are transported downslope by stream ...use of different sand body trends between these different parts of the fan delta.
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  • ...wnslope mass-movement processes. The seawardmost section of the subaqueous delta is commonly referred to as the prodelta environment and is composed of the ...ll overlie the uppermost parts of the subaqueous delta, forming a complete delta sequence.
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  • ...surface-based three-dimensional reservoir models of (1) fluvial-dominated delta-lobe deposits exposed at the outcrop (Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone Member, U ...) Corresponding outcrop interpretation showing clinoforms within the delta-front deposits. (C) Corresponding line drawing highlighting approximately 25 clin
    113 KB (16,689 words) - 22:11, 15 January 2024
  • ...Late Eocene, reefal carbonates of Middle Eocene-Early Oligocene, prodelta sands of Late Eocene-Oligocene, Deltaic sandstone of Oligocene, and some sandy le ...ands of Oligocene have 10–25% porosity and 0.1–10 md permeability. Deltaic sands of Oligocene-Early Miocene have 10–23% porosity and 0.1–10 md permeabil
    52 KB (7,769 words) - 20:28, 18 January 2017
  • ...996, Guide to the petroleum geology and Laramide Orogeny, Denver Basin and Front Range, Colorado: Colorado Geological Survey Bulletin, v. 51, 127 p.</ref>; ...6 /><ref name=Sonnenberg2013 />, the Terry and Hygiene sandstones as shelf sands<ref name=Weimer1996 /><ref name=Porter1989>Porter, K. W., 1989, Structurall
    72 KB (10,249 words) - 20:06, 15 January 2024
  • ...complex basis facies, in D. W. Woodrow and W. D. Sevon, eds., The Catskill delta: Geological Society of America Special Paper 201, p. 65–77.</ref><ref nam ...w and Sevon,<ref>Woodrow, D. L., and W. D. Sevon, eds., 1985, The Catskill delta: Geological Society of America Special Paper 201, 246 p.</ref> and Blakey<r
    89 KB (13,415 words) - 19:16, 16 January 2024