Best practice stochastic facies modeling from a channel-fill turbidite sandstone analog (the Quarry outcrop, Eocene Ainsa basin, northeast Spain)

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1003-1029

  Falivene, Oriol ^a   Arbués, Pau ^a   Gardiner, Andy ^b   Pickup, Gillian ^b   Muñoz, Josep Anton ^a   Cabrera, Lluís ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BED-SCALE RESOLUTION; CHANNEL-FILL TURBIDITE SANDSTONE; FACIES MODELS; MULTIPLE-POINT GEOSTATISTICS; OUTCROP CHARACTERIZATION; SPAIN;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MODELING; MUDSTONE; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SANDSTONE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33746394183     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/02070605112     Document Type: Article

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