Diagnosis of the Upper Cretaceous palaeokarst and turbidite systems from the Iranian Persian gulf using volume-based multiple seismic attribute analysis and pattern recognition

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-240

  Farzadi, Pourdad ^a,b   Hesthammer, Jonny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carbonate turbidite; Cluster analysis; Ilam formation; Karst; Mishrif formation; PCA

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIMESTONE; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; OIL FIELDS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; CENOMANIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PALEOKARST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SOFTWARE; TURBIDITE;

ARABIAN SEA; ASIA; EURASIA; ILAM; INDIAN OCEAN; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; PERSIAN GULF;

CONIACIAN;

EID: 34548189859     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079306-710     Document Type: Article

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