High-resolution seismic stratigraphy of inner Continental Shelf, Texas Gulf Coast: Long term and short term cyclicity

Conference · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA)

OSTI ID:5630931

Anderson, J B; Thomas, M A ^[1]

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1. Rice Univ., Houston, TX (USA)

Since the summer of 1987, scientists at Rice University have conducted high-resolution geophysical surveys of Texas bays and the inner continental shelf from Sabine Pass to Freeport, Texas. To date, nearly 1,500 km of seismic profiles have been collected and they are now integrating these data with industry platform borings and their own cores. These studies address a variety of problems, which include the late Wisconsinan-Holocene sea level history of the northern Gulf of Mexico, the facies architecture of wave-dominated deltas and incised valley-fill sequences, the origin of modern shelf sand deposits, and the stratigraphy of recent storm deposits.

• OSTI ID: 5630931
• Report Number(s): CONF-8910221-; CODEN: AABUD
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA), Vol. 73:9; Conference: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and Gulf Coast Section of SEPM meeting, Corpus Christi, TX (USA), 25-27 Oct 1989; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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