Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems

Produktbeschreibung

Nonrenewable energy resources, comprising fossil fuels and uranium, are not ran domly distributed within the Earth's crust. They formed in response to a complex array of geologic controls, notably the genesis of the sedimentary rocks that host most commercial energy resources. It is this genetic relationship between economic re sources and environment that forms the basis for this book. Our grouping of petro leum, coal, uranium, and ground water may appear to be incongruous or artificial. But our basic premise is that these ostensibly disparate resources share common genetic attributes and that the sedimentological principles governing their natural distributions and influencing their recovery are fundamentally similar. Our combined careers have focused on these four resources, and our experiences in projects worldwide reveal that certain recurring geologic factors are important in controlling the distribution of com mercial accumulations and subsurface fluid flow. These critical factors include the shape and stability of the receiving basin, the major depositional elements and their internal detail, and the modifications during burial that are brought about in these sediments by pressure, circulating fluids, heating, and chemical reaction. Since the first edition of this book in 1983, there has been a quantum leap in the volume of literature devoted to genetic stratigraphy and refinement of sedimentologi cal principles and a commensurate increase in the application of these concepts to resource exploration and development. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Fuel-Mineral Resource Base.- Energy Resource Base.- Relevance of Depositional
Systems to Energy Resources.- Applications in the Environmental Arena.- 2
Approaches to Genetic Stratigraphic Analysis.- Introduction: Depositional and
Sediment Dispersal Systems.- Applied Depositional System Analysis.- Seismic
Stratigraphy and Facies Analysis.- Recognition of Depositional Systems: An
Example.- Base Level Change and Vertical Sequence.- Integrated Depositional
System Analysis.- 3 Alluvial Fans.- Processes Acting on Alluvial Fans.- Spectrum
of Alluvial Fan Systems.- Fan Deltas.- Ancient Alluvial Fan and Fan Delta
Systems.- Basin-Fill Architecture.- Alluvial Fans Through Geologic Time.-
Resource Potential of Alluvial Fan Systems.- 4 Fluvial Systems.- Depositional
Processes.- Fluvial Environments and Facies.- Spectrum of Fluvial Depositional
Systems.- Eroding Rivers: Stable Channel and Valley-Fill Systems.- Fluvial
Evolution Through Geologic Time.- Ancient Fluvial Systems.- 5 Delta Systems.-
Delta Process Framework.- Delta Environments and Facies.- Process Classification
of Delta Systems.- Fluvial-Dominated Deltas.- Wave-Dominated Deltas.-
Tide-Dominated Deltas.- Delta System Recognition.- Delta System Stratigraphic
Architecture.- Evolution of Delta Systems.- 6 Shore-Zone Systems.- Spectrum of
Shore-Zone Environments.- Shore-Zone Processes.- Shore-Zone Facies.- Shore-Zone
Depositional Systems.- Stratigraphy of Shore-Zone Systems.- Shore-Zone Systems
Through Geologic Time.- 7 Terrigenous Shelf Systems.- Shelf Processes.- Shelf
Sediment Sources and Dispersal Patterns.- Shelf Facies.- Spectrum of Shelf
Systems.- Stratigraphic Architecture and Evolution of Shelf Systems.- Shelf
Systems in Marine Basin Fills.- 8 Slope and Base-of-Slope Systems.- Slope
Processes.- Bedding Architectureof Slope Systems.- Slope Environments and
Facies.- Slope System Classification.- Slope Systems in Time and Space.- 9
Lacustrine Systems.- Factors Controlling Lake Geometry and Hydrology.-
Stratification of the Water Column.- Lacustrine Environments and Facies.-
Lacustrine Sequence Development.- Lake Systems Through Geologic Time.- 10 Eolian
Systems.- Supply and Transport of Eolian Sand.- Eolian Bedforms and Structures.-
Biogenic Structures.- Dune Types.- Interdune Facie.- Sand Sheets.- Coastal Dune
Fields.- Interior Sand Seas (Ergs).- Eolian Sequences.- Associations with Other
Depositional Systems.- Hydrocarbons and Minerals in Eolian Systems.- 11
Depositional Systems and Facies Within a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework.-
Morphodynamics: Concepts of Regime and Grade Adjustment.- Sequence Stratigraphic
Paradigm.- Lessons of the Quaternary - Stratigraphic Signature of
High-Frequency, High-Amplitude Sea-Level Change.- Depositional Systems and
Sequences: Examples.- Sequences in Other Kinds of Basins.- Integration of
Sequences, Systems, and Facies.- 12 Depositional Systems and Basin Hydrology.-
Fundamentals of Groundwater Flow.- Properties of the Aquifer Matrix.-
Geochemical Properties.- Basin Geohydrology.- Meteoric Flow Regime.-
Compactional and Thermobaric Systems.- Hydrology of Depositional Systems.-
Example of a Confined Coastal Plain Aquifer System.- Conclusion.- 13 Coal and
Coalbed Methane.- Coal Through Geologic Time.- Coal-Forming Depositional
Environments.- Coal Petrography and Paleoenvironment.- Coal Rank.- Cyclicity in
Peat-Forming Environments and Coal-Bearing Strata.- Depositional Systems and
Coal.- Geometry and Evolution of Coal Basins.- Coal-Basin Resources.- 14
Sedimentary Uranium.- Uranium Ore Deposits.- Classification of Uranium
Deposits.- Applicationsto Resource Evaluation, Exploration, and Development.- 15
Petroleum.- Distribution of Petroleum in Time and Space.- Depositional Systems
and Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production.- Distribution of Petroleum in
Depositional Systems.- Example: Intracratonic Basin Depositional Systems and
Hydrocarbon Occurrence.- Example: Frio Depositional Systems, Northern Gulf Coast
Basin.- 16 Facies Characterization of Reservoirs and Aquifers.- Types and Scales
of Heterogeneity.- Styles of Heterogeneity.- Depositional Systems, Genetic
Facies, and Fluid Flow.- Sequence Stratigraphic Applications to Reservoir and
Aquifer Characterization.- Summary.- References. 

Kritik

"I highly recommend this fine book - the authors and publishers are to be congratulated. Adopt it, buy it!" Sedimentary Geology
"...an excellent and very welcome addition that should be on the bookshelf of anyone seriously engaged in energy exploration." - The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 

Autoreninfo

The book deals with clastic sedimentation (mainly sandstones) in relation to mineral and fuel deposits and hydrology. The second edition has been completely revised and updated and two new chapters have been included.