Relation between stratigraphic architecture and multi-scale heterogeneities in carbonate platforms: The Barremian-lower Aptian of the Monts de Vaucluse, SE France

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 265-266, Issue , 2012, Pages 87-109

  Leonide, Philippe ^a,b   Borgomano, Jean ^a   Masse, Jean Pierre ^a   Doublet, Stefan ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c BEICIP FRANLAB   (France)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Lower Cretaceous; Reservoir scale; SE France; Stratigraphic architecture; Urgonian carbonate

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; DISCONTINUITY SURFACES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; FULL-FIELD MODELS; GLOBAL SCALE; GROWTH HISTORY; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LARGE-SCALE MODELS; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MICROFACIES; MULTISCALES; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; OOLITIC SHOALS; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RESERVOIR PROPERTY; RESERVOIR-SCALE; RUDIST BIVALVE; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS; SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION; STRATIGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; STRATIGRAPHIC SURFACES; STRONG INTERACTION; TWO-DIMENSION; UPSCALING; WELL DATA;

ACCIDENTS; ARCHITECTURE; CARBONATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SPACE PLATFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

APTIAN; BARREMIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE ROCK; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FACIES ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; MICROFACIES; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FRANCE;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BIVALVIA; ECHINODERMATA; FORAMINIFERA; ORBITOLINIDAE;

EID: 84861827407     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.03.019     Document Type: Article

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