High-resolution sequence stratigraphy applied to reservoir zonation and characterisation, and its impact on production performance-shallow marine, fluvial …

AJC Magalhães, GPR Gabaglia, DGC Fragoso… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
High-resolution sequence stratigraphy (HRSS) is a data-driven methodology that refers to
the stratigraphic refinement achieved below seismic resolution. HRSS follows the standard …

Seismic reflection methods in offshore groundwater research

C Bertoni, J Lofi, A Micallef, H Moe - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
There is growing evidence that passive margin sediments in offshore settings host large
volumes of fresh and brackish water of meteoric origin in submarine sub-surface reservoirs …

Astronomical forcing of the Paleogene coal-bearing hydrocarbon source rocks of the East China Sea Shelf Basin

J Zhang, D Pas, W Krijgsman, W Wei, X Du… - Sedimentary …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Paleogene coal-bearing deposits (Pinghu Formation) of the Xihu Depression form the
most productive hydrocarbon source in the East China Sea Shelf Basin. Due to the lack of …

Palaeoecological, sedimentological and stratigraphical insights into microbially induced sedimentary structures of the lower Cambrian successions of Iran

A Bayet‐Goll, M Daraei - Sedimentology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Micro‐organisms producing microbially induced sedimentary structures, particularly
epibenthic cyanobacteria, are not facies‐dependent and could flourish in any environment if …

Sequence stratigraphy in the context of the 'modeling revolution'

O Catuneanu - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Confusions between methodology and modeling created a false premise to question the
'future of sequence stratigraphy'. In reality, the future is already here in terms of a standard …

Parasequences: Allostratigraphic misfits in sequence stratigraphy

O Catuneanu, M Zecchin - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Parasequences were introduced as the building blocks of seismic-scale systems tracts in the
context of low-resolution seismic stratigraphy. Pitfalls of this concept relate to the definition of …

Impacts of backwater hydrodynamics on fluvial–deltaic stratigraphy

C Wu, JA Nitterour - Basin Research, 2020 - earthdoc.org
The hydrodynamics of rivers approaching a receiving basin are influenced by the onset of
backwater conditions that give rise to decelerating reach‐average flow velocity and …

[HTML][HTML] On the geological significance of clastic parasequences

L Colombera, NP Mountney - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Parasequences recognized in clastic sedimentary successions of shallow-marine origin are
considered by some geologists to be the fundamental building blocks of depositional …

Construction and evolution of submerged deltaic bodies on the high energy SE African coastline: The interplay between relative sea level and antecedent controls

L Engelbrecht, AN Green, JAG Cooper, A Hahn… - Marine Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the interplay between allocyclic controls and antecedent topography
in the evolution of submerged coastal landforms, including a back-stepped delta. Using high …

Carbonate diagenesis in fourth-order sequences: A case study of yingshan formation (Lower Ordovician) from the yubei area-Tarim Basin, NW China

P Shi, H Tang, Z Wang, X Sha, H Wei, C Liu - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yingshan Formation in Lower Ordovician is an important hydrocarbon reservoir
of the Tarim Basin, northwest China; however, the factors controlling reservoir development …