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CSL'S Field Seminars

The Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory offers field seminars to introduce geologists and geophysicists to the facies and lateral changes in the modern and ancient carbonates. The seminars to some of the classic field locations illustrate in an unique way the size, facies, and heterogeneities of the carbonate environments, which are potential hydrocarbon reservoirs. The observed facies relationships and stratigraphic successions are used to critically evaluate the concepts of cyclostratigraphy for reservoir characterization and to compare depositional and diagenetic aspects of the various environments with subsurface examples.

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Facies Successions on Great Bahama Bank - Implications for Exploration and Reservoir Characterization, June 21 – 26, 2010

 

This five day field seminar illustrates the vertical and lateral facies successions and heterogeneities of Great Bahama Bank. The seismic and core workshop on day 1 depicts the architecture of the prograding western margin of Great Bahama Bank. During the field seminar we explore the spatial heterogeneity within a carbonate platform, a facies belt and individual facies bodies, while simultaneously exploring the fundamental controlling processes. 

 


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GBB_2010.pdf

Heterogeneity of bank-margin ooid sands: depositional models and reservoir analogs, June 27 – July 2, 2010

A five day field seminar to the windward margin of Exuma Sound illustrates the variability and lateral distribution of high energy ooid deposits and its interaction with eolian deposits

 


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Exumas_2010.pdf

Application of outcrop to subsurface high resolution sequence stratigraphy for exploration and production, Paradox Basin, Utah

Pennsylvanian strata in the Paradox Basin of southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah are exposed in deeply incised canyons along the San Juan River and provide spectacular exposures of rocks lateral to the oil producing reservoirs in the nearby subsurface. The three-day field trip demonstrates how outcrop and subsurface data are integrated to develop reservoir models within the context of a predictive sequence stratigraphic framework.


Related Files:

Field_Sem...ox01.pdf

Coexistence and succession of siliciclastics, reefs, and platform carbonates, Belize, Central America

This 5 day field seminar to Belize displays the coexistence of carbonates and siliciclastics and the evolution of lagoonal patch reefs and a large barrier reef. Facies relations and heterogeneities in this mixed system are examined.


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