Modelling facies belt distribution in fan deltas coupling sequence stratigraphy and geostatistics: The Eocene Sant Llorenç del Munt example (Ebro foreland basin, NE Spain)

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 254-272

  Cabello, P ^a   Falivene, O ^a   Lopez Blanco M ^a   Howell, J ^b   Arbues P ^a   Ramos, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Facies modelling; Fan delta; Heterogeneity; Reservoir analogue; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; ALLUVIAL FANS; CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DATA INPUT; DATA SETS; DEAD-ENDS; DETERMINISTIC METHODS; FACIES BELT; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FACIES MODELLING; FORELAND BASIN; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOSTATISTICAL ALGORITHMS; HETEROGENEITY; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; OUTCROP DATA; PHOTO-REALISTIC; POTENTIAL RESERVOIR; PRODELTA; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; RESERVOIR ANALOGUE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACTS; TERRAIN MODEL; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS; WATERFLOODING;

FLOW SIMULATION; LANDFORMS; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELL FLOODING;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ALLUVIAL FAN; ANALOG MODEL; CARBONATE PLATFORM; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FACIES ANALYSIS; FAN DELTA; FORELAND BASIN; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SYSTEMS TRACT; TERRAIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; TRANSITION ZONE;

EBRO BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70449089875     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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