Model for reworked deltaic sands - Example from South Lake Arthur, Bayou Gentily, and Bayou Lery Fields

Conference · Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA)

OSTI ID:5921567

Saxena, R S ^[1]

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1. Geo Consultants International, Inc., Kenner, LA (USA)

Reworked deltaic sands are beach-barrier sand bodies that are produced by the reworking of abandoned deltaic lobes. The facies association of these sand bodies makes them ideal reservoirs, and although abundant hydrocarbons are trapped in this type of sandstone, their genesis is seldom understood in the petroleum world. Criteria and models are developed for the recognition of reworked deltaic sand bodies from the subsurface by comparing a Holocene analog from the eastern periphery of the modern Mississippi delta with an ancient example from the Carboniferous of the northern Appalachian plateau. A simulated seismic model and several subsurface examples are presented.

• OSTI ID: 5921567
• Report Number(s): CONF-9010204-; CODEN: AABUD
• Journal Information: AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (USA), Vol. 74:9; Conference: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (Society of Economics, Paleontologists, and Mineralogist) meeting, Lafayette, LA (USA), 17-19 Oct 1990; ISSN 0149-1423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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