Graphic logging for interpreting process-generated stratigraphic sequences and aquifer/reservoir potential: With analog shelf to shoreface examples from the Atlantic Coastal Plain Province, U.S.A.

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 723-745

  Farrell, Kathleen M ^a   Harris, W Burleigh ^b   Mallinson, David J ^c   Culver, Stephen J ^c   Riggs, Stanley R ^c   Wehmiller, John F ^d   Moore, Jessica Pierson ^a,g   Self Trail, Jean M ^e   Lautier, Jeff C ^f  

^a North Carolina Geological Survey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f 1611 Mail Service Center   (United States)

^g West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; RADIOACTIVITY LOGGING; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

BOUNDING SURFACES; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGIC ENVIRONMENT; PARASEQUENCE SETS; RESERVOIR POTENTIAL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES;

GAMMA RAYS;

AQUIFER; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE; GRAPHICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881147554     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2013.52     Document Type: Article

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