Deep-Water Reservoirs of the World - Gulf Coast Section SEPM

Deep-Water Reservoirs of the World 

Gulf Coast Section 

Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation 

20th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference 

2000 

Program and Abstracts 

Adam’s Mark Hotel 

Houston, Texas 

December 3–6, 2000 

Edited by 

P Weimer • RM Slatt • J Coleman 

NC Rosen • H Nelson • AH Bouma 

MJ Styzen • DT Lawrence

Copyright © 2000 by the 



www.gcssepm.org 

Published November 2000 

Publication of these Proceedings has been subsidized by generous grants from 

BP Exploration, Shell Exploration & Production Company, and Unocal/Spirit Energy ’76 Business Unit

Foreword 

The last quarter of the 20 th Century has brought a significant 

increase in the exploration and production of 

deep-water reservoirs globally. A sizable amount of information 

from producing fields now exists that can be used 

to help in the future development of these reservoirs, especially 

as industry moves into the ultra deep-water. 

The purpose of the Bob F. Perkins 20 th Annual 

Research Conference is to address these development 

issues in deep-water reservoirs. Fifty-nine presentations 

are planned from companies, universities, and government 

agencies; presenters represent twelve countries. This 

year’s program consists of four main themes: Gulf of 

Mexico fields, International fields, the merging of observations 

from 3-D seismic and sea floor images, and outcrops 

as analogs for reservoir modeling. Program elements 

include new fields; fast-track developments; key geoscience 

and reservoir engineering technologies and their 

integration; plateau and mature field management; geological 

modeling and reservoir performance prediction; reservoir 

description and outcrop analogs; the integration and 

application of static and dynamic data; the use of outcrops 

in reservoir modeling and upscaling; and the comparison 

of 3-D seismic and seafloor images to help develop a dialogue 

among different deep-water workers. 

This conference reflects extensive planning by the convenors 

during the past four years: 

• December 1996: Paul Weimer and Roger Slatt agreed 

to convene this GCSSEPM research conference. This 

conference was planned as a significant update to the 

successful 1994 GCSSEPM Research Conference on 

deep-water reservoirs. They set out to work on several 

conferences/sessions whose results would eventually 

be integrated at this conference. 

• October 1998: Paul Weimer and Roger Slatt served as 

co-convenors (with Peter Dromgoole, Mike Bowman, 

Andy Leonard) of a one–week EAGE/AAPG research 

conference in Almeria, Spain. Jim Coleman stated his 

plans for developing a digital atlas of outcrops that 

could be used by all companies to help develop reservoir 

models and for upscaling. Because this theme was 

already planned as part of the 2000 GCSSEPM meeting, 

we merged our efforts. The outcrop section is the 

largest single portion of this year’s conference with 21 

papers. 

• November 1998: Paul Weimer served as co-convenor 

(with Cesar Cainelli) of two deep-water sessions at the 

1998 AAPG International Meeting in Rio de Janeiro. 

• April 1999: Hans Nelson, Roger Slatt, and Paul 

Weimer convened a poster session at AAPG meeting 

in San Antonio. The theme was comparison of sea 

floor images with 3-D seismic. 

• September 1999: Roger Slatt and Paul Weimer co-convened 

two deep-water sessions at the AAPG International 

meeting in Birmingham, England. 

We thank all of the authors for their perseverance in 

writing and editing of their manuscripts, during less than 

opportune times. The officers of the GCSSEPM and Trustees 

of the GCSSEPM Foundation have remained 

incredibly supportive of our efforts during the planning of 

this conference. We thank the technical program committee 

for their help and work in soliciting manuscripts and in 

their review: Trevor Elliott, Tim Garfield, Jory Pacht, 

Brad Prather, Andy Pulham, Kevin Schofield, Keith Shanley, 

Gary Steffens, and Mike Sweet. 

We thank the following people for their help in reviewing 

manuscripts under the extremely short deadlines. All 

of the reviewers helped make this a high-quality scientific 

conference and refereed publication. To all of them, we 

extend our sincerest gratitude: Lawrence Amy, Gill Apps, 

John Armentrout, Gianluca Badalini, Rick Beauboeuf, 

Gretchen Bolchert, Jim Booth, Wayne Camp, Kurt Campion, 

Mark Chapin, Tom Cheatham, Mike Clark, Julian 

Clarke, Chris Clear, George Clemenceau, Steve Cossey, 

Jennifer Crews, Mike Dean, Mike DeMarco, Bret Dixon, 

Shirley Dutton, David Jennette, Garry Jones, George 

Klein, Ven Kolla, Marty Link, Don Lowe, Jeff May, Mike 

Mayall, Bill McCaffrey, Tom McGilvery, Robert 

Mitchum. David Mohrig, Bill Morris, Peter Morris, Chris 

Morton, Robert Morton, Tor Nilsen, Dag Nummedal, Stefan 

Porebski, Deb Pfeiffer, Sandy Phillips, Carlos Pirmez, 

Wylie Poag, Henry Posamentier, David Pyles, Richard 

Redhead, Tony Reynolds, Mikie Smith, Randy Smith, 

Ryan Sincavage, Mark Sonnenfeld, Bob Spang, Ron Steel, 

Joe Studlick, Morgan Sullivan, Gabor Tari, Jack Thomas, 

David Twichell, Peter Varnai, Robert Weimer, Howard 

White, Charlie Winker, Beth Witton-Barnes, Lesli Wood, 

and Fred Zelt. A special thanks to Carlos Pirmez and 

David Pyles for reviewing the largest number of manuscripts 

(six each). A special bottle of fine Texas wine will 

be their reward. 

We thank the following students at the University of 

Colorado for their help at critical moments in the editing 

and assembling of this volume: Gretchen Bolchert, Renato 

Fonseca, Hector Gonzalez, John Martin, Chris Morton, 

and David Pyles. Their work at the end of this project 

made this publication available at the time of the 

conference. 

Finally, we profusely thank Gail Bergan for her Jobian 

patience in assembling, compiling, and producing this 

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unprecedented publication. She kept all of the authors and 

editors in line in regards to what can be accomplished with 

a digital publication. Her untiring dedication and perseverance 

were essential for this publication to happen on time. 

At the 1994 GCSSEPM Research Conference, Jim 

Coleman (then at Amoco) aptly summarized the significance 

of that conference by saying “…at a time when we 

have to constantly justify our budgets and time in business 

units, think of how many hundreds of millions of dollars 

of data were presented for the cost of $300 (registration 

fee). This was clearly the best possible investment that a 

company could make.” Those words are even more applicable 

for this conference. 

This conference and CD-ROM are a milepost in our 

industry’s collective efforts to improve our understanding 

of deep-water depositional systems and how they produce 

petroleum. We hope that the publication will serve as a 

catalyst for future exploration and production of deepwater 

depositional systems, especially as industry moves 

into the ultra deep-water. 

Paul Weimer, Roger Slatt, Jim Coleman, 

Norman Rosen, Hans Nelson, Arnold Bouma, 

Mike Styzen, and David Lawrence 

December 2000, Houston, Texas 

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Trustees and Executive Director 

Edward B. Picou, Jr., Chairman 

Consultant 

New Orleans, Louisiana 

Nancy Engelhardt-Moore 

Consultant 


John M. Armentrout 

Cascade Stratigraphics 

Clackamas, Oregon 

Michael J. Nault 

Applied Biostratigraphix 


Norman C. Rosen, Executive Director 

NCR & Associates 


20th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference Organizing Committee 

Michael J. Styzen 

Shell International E & P, Inc. 


Ron F. Waszczak 

Conoco, Inc. 


Tony D’Agostino 

PGS Reservoir 


Ilene Rex Corbo 

Consultant 


Rashel N. Rosen 

Excalibur Interpretation 


R. P. Major 

University of Mississippi 

University, Mississippi 

Audio-Visual and Poster Committee 

Michael J. Nault, Chairman 



Terri M. Dunn 

Consultant 

Metairie, Louisiana 

Nancy L. Engelhardt-Moore 

Consultant 


Ilene Rex Corbo 

Consultant 


Arden D. Callender 



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Technical Program Co-Chairmen and Editors 

Paul Weimer 

University of Colorado 

Roger M. Slatt 

University of Oklahoma 

James Coleman 

BP Amoco 

Norman C. Rosen 

NCR & Associates 

Hans Nelson 

Texas A&M University 

Arnold H. Bouma 

Louisiana State University 

Michael J. Styzen 

Shell International E & P 

David T. Lawrence 

Shell Offshore 

Technical Program Advisory Committee 

Trevor Elliott 

University of Liverpool 

Timothy R. Garfield 

ExxonMobil 

Jory A. Pacht 

SeisStrat Services 

Bradford E. Prather 

Royal Dutch 

Andy Pulham 


Kevin Schofield 

Conoco 

Keith Shanley 

Basin Exploration 

Gary S. Steffens 

Shell International 

Michael L. Sweet 

Consultant 

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Contributors to the Gulf Coast Section 


Corporate Sponsorship 

An Invitation from the GCSSEPM Section and Foundation 

for your support of Geological and Geophysical 

staff and Graduate Student Education in Advanced Applications 

of Geological Research to Practical Problems of 

Exploration, Production, and Development Geology. 

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Gold Sponsor ($5000 to $9999) 

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Contributions of Patrons will support General Expenses of the Conferences. 

Sponsor Acknowledgment 

In any one category, sponsors are listed alphabetically. 

For 2000, all Platinum, Gold, and Silver Sponsors were 

prominently acknowledged on a special page inserted in 

the 2000 conference abstracts volume and CD’s, with 

large placards strategically placed throughout the meeting 

areas during the conference. They will also be acknowledged 

in conference preprint volumes to be published 

through 2002. For 2001 sponsors, we will do the same but 

the time frame will be through 2003. 

All Bronze Sponsors and Patrons were acknowledged 

on a special page inserted in the 2000 conference preprint 

volume and in preprint volumes to be published through 

2001. For 2001 sponsors, we will do the same but the time 

frame will be through 2002. 

The GCSSEPM Foundation is a 501(c)(3) exempt 

organization. Contributions to it are tax deductible as 

charitable gifts and contributions. 

For additional information about making a donation as 

a sponsor or patron, please contact: Dr. Norman C. Rosen, 

Executive Director, GCSSEPM Foundation, 2719 S. 

Southern Oaks Drive, Houston, TX 77068-2610. Telephone 

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Millennium Sponsors and Patrons 

—Millennium Platinum— 

BP Exploration 

Shell Exploration & Production Company 

Unocal/Spirit Energy ’76 Business Unit 

—Millennium Gold— 

BHP Petroleum 

The Shell Foundation 

—Millennium Silver— 

Conoco, Inc. 

Roxar, Inc. 

Ocean Energy 

—Millennium Bronze— 

TGS-NOPEC 

—Millennium Patron— 

Sheila C. Barnette 


Ronald F. Waszczak 

1999 Sponsors and Patrons 

—Gold Sponsors— 

Mobil Exploration & Production U.S., Inc. 

Shell Offshore, Inc. 

Exxon Exploration Company 

—Silver Sponsors— 

Conoco, Inc. 

BP Exploration 

—Bronze Sponsor— 


—Patrons— 

Agip Petroleum Company 

Roxar, Inc. 

Nancy Englehardt-Moore 

Ronald F. Waszczak 

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Credits 

Book Layout, Cover Design, and CD ROM Publishing 

Gail R. Bergan 

The Write Enterprise 


www.bergan.com 

Cover Photo 

The theme photo used for this CD ROM appears in two papers in this volume: 

Dean et al., The Present is the Key to the Plio-Pleistocene: Seafloor Analogues at Shell’s GB516 Serrano Discovery, Figure 

11; 

and 

Booth et al., Sequence Stratigraphic Framework, Depositional Models, and Stacking Patterns of Ponded and Slope Fan 

Systems in the Auger Basin: Central Gulf of Mexico Slope, Figure 4. The image originated from NOAA bathymetric data. 

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Deep-Water Reservoirs of the World 



20th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference 

Adam’s Mark Hotel 


December 3–6, 2000 

Program 

681'$

10:00 a.m. Shanley, K.W. (Basin Resources), C. J. O’Byrne, R. R. Fisher, and T. M. Smith 

(BP Amoco): .....................................................................................................................55 

Preliminary discussion of net/gross distribution in Gulf of Mexico deep water 

reservoirs 

10:30 a.m. Schofield, Kevin and John Serbeck (Conoco): ................................................................54 

The “Above Magenta” reservoir at Ursa Field: A process-response model to 

explain a classic wireline log signature 

11: 00 a.m. Larue, D. and F. Friedmann (Chevron): ..........................................................................29 

The relationship between channelized deepwater reservoir architecture and 

recovery from petroleum reservoirs 

11:30 a.m. Pfeiffer, D. S., B. T. Mitchell, and G.Y. Yevi (Shell): ....................................................46 

Mensa: Mississippi Canyon Block 731 Field, Gulf of Mexico – An integrated field 

study 

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Open Poster Booths 

Session II: Gulf of Mexico Reservoirs 

Presiding: Keith Shanley, Mike Styzen 

1:30 p.m. Reynolds, Tony (BP Amoco): ..........................................................................................53 

Reservoir architecture in the Mars Field, deepwater Gulf of Mexico, USA: The 

implications of production, seismic, core and well-log data 

2:00 p.m. Clemenceau, George R., Jason Colbert, and Dennis Edens (BP Amoco): ......................15 

Production results from levee-overbank turbidite sands at Ram/Powell Field, 

deepwater Gulf of Mexico 

2:30 p.m. Booth, James R., A. E. DuVernay III, D. S. Pfeiffer, and M. J. Styzen (Shell): ...............6 

Sequence stratigraphic framework, depositional models, and stacking patterns of 

ponded and slope fan systems in the Auger Basin: Central Gulf of Mexico slope 

3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break 

3:30 p.m. Dean, Michael C., James R. Booth, and Kevin M. King (Shell): ....................................19 

The present is the key to the Plio-Pleistocene: Seafloor analogues at Shell’s GB 

516 Serrano discovery 

4:00 p.m. Okuma, A. F., R. R. Pressler, D. B. Walker, K. Kemp, and B. Boslaugh 

(Amerada Hess): ................................................................................................................45 

Baldpate Field exploration history, Garden Banks 260, central Gulf of Mexico 

4:30 p.m. Fugitt, D. S., C. E. Stelting, W. J. Schweller, G. J. Herricks, and M. R. Wise: ..............24 

Production characteristics of sheet and channelized turbidite reservoirs, Garden 

Banks 191, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A. 

5:00 p.m. Cossey, Stephen P.J.: ........................................................................................................18 

Producibility of deepwater reservoirs in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico 

6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Hot Buffet and Poster Session 

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SESSION III: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2000 

International Reservoirs 

Presiding: Tim Garfield, Kevin Schofield 

8:00 a.m. Leonard, A., E. Jolley, A. Carter, C. Mills, N. Jones, and M. Bowman (BP Amoco): ..31 

Lessons learned from the management of basin floor submarine fan reservoirs in 

the UKCS (keynote address) 

8:30 a.m. Jennette, D. (BEG), T. R. Garfield, D. C. Mohrig, and G.T. Cayley (ExxonMobil):......25 

The interaction of shelf accommodation, sediment supply, and sea level in 

controlling the facies, architecture, and sequence stacking patterns of the Tay and 

Forties/Sele basin-floor fans, central North Sea 

9:00 a.m. Lonergan, Lidia, Nick Lee, Joe A. Cartwright, Richard J.H. Jolly, and Howard D. 

Johnson (Imperial College):...............................................................................................33 

Remobilization and injection in deep-water depositional systems: Implications for 

reservoir architecture and prediction 

9:30 a.m. Refreshment Break 

10:00 a.m. Blikeng, Bente and Edith Fugelli (Statoil): ........................................................................5 

Application of results from outcrops of the deep water Brushy Canyon Formation, 

Delaware Basin, as analogues for the deep water exploration targets on the 

Norwegian shelf 

10:30 a.m. Mayall, Mike and Ian Stewart (BP Amoco): ...................................................................37 

The architecture of turbidite slope channels 

11:00 a.m. Sikkema, W. and K. M. Wojcik (Shell International): ....................................................56 

3D visualization of turbidite systems, Lower Congo Basin, Offshore Angola 

11:30 a.m. Redhead, Richard, Jesse T. Noah, Trevor Brown, Yusak Yusri, Eko Lumadyo, Art 

Saller, Jossy Inaray, T.A. Ma, Ronald May, and Rui Lin (Unocal): ...............................52 

West Seno Field discovery, Makassar Straits, East Kalimantan, Indonesia 


Session IV: Comparing Sea Floor Images with 3-D Seismic 

Presiding: Hans Nelson, Jory Pacht 

1:30 p.m. Vittori, Jacques, Bruno Savoye, Alain Morash, Tania Marsset, Laurence Droz, 

Michel Cremer, and Michel Lopez: ..................................................................................61 

The Quaternary Congo deep sea fan: Preliminary results on reservoir complexity 

in turbiditic systems using 2D high resolution seismic and multibeam data 

2:00 p.m. Badalini, Gianluca, Ben Kneller, and Charles D. Winker (Leeds University/Shell):.........2 

Architecture and processes in the late Pleistocene Brazos-Trinity turbidite system, 

Gulf of Mexico continental slope 

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2:30 p.m. Beaubouef, R. T. and S. J. Friedmann (ExxonMobil): ......................................................4 

High resolution seismic/sequence stratigraphic framework for the evolution of 

Pleistocene intra-slope basins, western Gulf of Mexico: Depositional models and 

reservoir analogs 

3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break 

3:30 p.m. Pirmez, Carlos, R. T. Beaubouef, S. J. Friedmann, and D.C. Mohrig (ExxonMobil):.....48 

Equilibrium profile and baselevel in submarine channels: Examples from late 

Pleistocene systems and implications for the architecture of deepwater reservoirs 

4:00 p.m. Brami, Tonya R., Carlos Pirmez, Kelly L. Holman, Curtis Archie, and Sookdeo 

Heeralal (ExxonMobil): ......................................................................................................7 

Late Pleistocene deep-water stratigraphy and depositional processes, offshore 

Trinidad and Tobago 

4:30 p.m. Demyttenaere, Renaat, Trey Meckel, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan-Pieter Tromp, and 

Patrick Allman-Ward (Shell): ...........................................................................................20 

Brunei deep water exploration: From sea floor images and shallow seismic 

analogues to depositional models in a slope turbidite setting 

5:00 p.m. Posamentier, Henry (Veritas Exploration Services), Meizarwin (BP Indonesia), 

Putri Sari Wisman, and Tom Plawman (Schlumberger): ..................................................49 

Deep water depositional systems—Ultra-deep Makassar Strait, Indonesia 

6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Beer, Wine, and Snacks; Poster Session 

SESSION V: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2000 

North American Reservoirs 

Presiding: Jim Coleman, Trevor Elliott 

8:00 a.m. Clarke, D. and C. Phillips (City of Long Beach): ...........................................................14 

3-D geological modeling and horizontal drilling bring more oil out of the 68-yearold 

Wilmington oil field of southern California 

8:30 a.m. Clark, Michael S. (Chevron), R.K. Prather and J.D. Melvin: .........................................12 

Characterization of an active margin, fan-shaped turbidite reservoir complex, 

Miocene Stevens Sandstone, San Joaquin Basin, California 

9:00 a.m. Moslow, Thomas F. (Midnight Oil and Gas): ..................................................................42 

Reservoir architecture of a fine-grained turbidite system: Lower Triassic Montney 

Formation, Western Canada sedimentary basin 

9:30 a.m. Refreshment Break 

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Outcrop Analog Studies for Reservoir Models 

10:00 a.m. Prather, B. E., F. B. Keller, and M. A. Chapin (Shell): ..................................................50 

Hierarchy of deep-water architectural elements with reference to seismic 

resolution: Implications for reservoir prediction and modeling 

10:30 a.m. Sullivan, Morgan, Gerrick Jensen, Frank Goulding, David Jennette, Lincoln Foreman, 

and David Stern (ExxonMobil): .......................................................................................59 

Architectural analysis of deep-water outcrops: Implications for exploration and 

development of the Diana sub-basin, western Gulf of Mexico 

11:00 a.m. Morris, William R., Mark H. Scheihing, De Ville Wickens, and Arnold H. Bouma: ......39 

Reservoir architecture of deepwater sandstones: Examples from the 

Skoorsteenberg Formation, Tanqua Karoo Sub-basin, South Africa 

11:30 a.m. Moraes, Marco A. S., Mauro R. Becker, Marcelo C. Monteiro, and Sérgio L. 

Almeida Netto (Petrobras): ...............................................................................................38 

Using outcrop analogs to improve 3D heterogeneity modeling of Brazilian sandrich 

turbidite reservoirs 


Session VI: Outcrop Analog Studies for Reservoir Models 

Presiding: Brad Prather, Andy Pulham 

1:30 p.m. Joseph, Philippe, Nathalie Babonneau, Aline Bourgeois, Gilles Cotteret, Rémi 

Eschard, Blaise Garin, Olinto Gomes De Souza, Didier Granjeon, François 

Guillocheau, Olivier Lerat, Jean-Marie Quemener, and Christian Ravenne (IFP): .........27 

The Annot Sandstone outcrops (French Alps): Architecture description as input for 

quantification and 3D reservoir modeling 

2:00 p.m. Martinsen, Ole J., Trond Lien (Norsk Hydro), and Roger G. Walker: ...........................35 

Upper Carboniferous deep water sediments, western Ireland: Analogues for 

passive margin turbidite plays 

2:30 p.m. Elliott, T. (University of Liverpool): ................................................................................22 

Depositional architecture of a sand-rich, channelized turbidite system: The Upper 

Carboniferous Ross Sandstone Formation, western Ireland 

3:00 p.m. Refreshment Break (Poster Take-Down Time) 

3:30p.m. 

Steel, Ron, Donatella Mellere, Piret Plink, Jeff Crabaugh, Jack Deibert, Maija 

Schellpeper, and Tore Loeseth (Univ. of Wyoming): ......................................................58 

Deltas vs. rivers on the shelf edge: Their relative contributions to the growth of 

shelf-margins and basin-floor fans (Barremian and Eocene, Spitsbergen) 

4:00 p.m. Witton-Barnes, E. M., N. F. Hurley, and R. M. Slatt (Colorado School of Mines): ......63 

Outcrop and subsurface criteria for differentiation of sheet and channel-fill strata: 

Example from the Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Wyoming 

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4:30 p.m. Campion, K. M., A. R. Sprague, M. D. Sullivan, D. C. Mohrig, J. A. Ardill, R. W. 

Lovell, P. A. Drzewiecki, G. N. Jensen, and D. K. Sickafoose (ExxonMobil): ...............10 

Outcrop expression of confined channel complexes 

POSTERS: Gulf of Mexico 

Breard, Sylvester Q., Arden D. Callender, Richard A. Denne, and Michael J. Nault: ........................................................8 

Gulf of Mexico Basin late Tertiary deep-water biostratigraphic zonation: Relationship to standard shelf 

foraminiferal and calcareous nannofossil marker terminology 

POSTERS: Outcrop Analog Studies for Reservoir Model 

Amy, Lawrence, Ben Kneller, and Bill McCaffrey (University of Leeds): .........................................................................1 

Evaluating the links between turbidite characteristics and gross system architecture: Upscaling insights from the 

turbidite sheet-system of Peïra Cava, SE France 

Badescu, M. O., C. A. Visser, and M. E. Donselaar (Delft University): .............................................................................3 

Architecture of thick-bedded deep-marine sandstones of the Vocontian Basin, SE France 

Clark, J. D., and A. R. Gardiner (Heriot-Watt University): ...............................................................................................13 

Outcrop analogues for deep water channel and levee genetic units from the Grès d’Annot turbidite system, SE 

France 

Coleman, J. L. (BP Amoco): ...........................................................................................................................................16 

Reassessment of the Cerro Toro (Chile) Sandstones in view of channel-levee-overbank reservoir continuity issues 

Coleman, J. L., Jr., G. H. Browne, R. M. Slatt, R. J. Spang, E. T. Williams, P. R. King, and G. R. Clemenceau: ...........17 

The inter-relationships of scales of heterogeneity in subsurface, deep water E&P projects—Lessons learned from 

the Mt. Messenger Formation (Miocene), Taranaki Basin, New Zealand 

Dudley, Philip R.C., Donald E. Rehmer, and Arnold H. Bouma (LSU): ...........................................................................21 

Reservoir-scale characteristics of fine-grained sheet sandstones, Tanqua Karoo subbasin, South Africa 

Lomas, Simon A., Bryan T. Cronin, Adrian J. Hartley, Davide Duranti, Andrew Hurst, Emma Mackay, Stewart 

J. Clark, and Sean Kelly: ...........................................................................................................................................32 

Characterization of lateral heterogeneities in an exceptionally exposed turbidite sand body,Grès d’Annot (Eocene- 

Oligocene), SE France 

May, Jeff and John Warme: ...........................................................................................................................................36 

Bounding surfaces, lithologic variability, and sandstone connectivity within submarin- canyon outcrops, Eocene of 

San Diego, California 

Pickering, Kevin T. and Jordi Corregidor: .........................................................................................................................47 

3D Reservoir-scale study of Eocene confined submarine fans, south-central Spanish Pyrenees 

Pyles, David R. and Roger M. Slatt (Colorado School of Mines): .....................................................................................51 

A high frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for shallow through deep-water deposits of the Lewis Shale and 

Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming 

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Slatt, Roger M., Charles G. Stone, and Paul Weimer: .......................................................................................................57 

Characterization of slope and basin facies tracts, Jackfork Group, Arkansas, with applications to deepwater 

(turbidite) reservoir management 

POSTERS: Comparing Sea Floor Images with 3-D Seismic 

Canals, M., J. L. Casamor, R. Urgeles, G. Lastras, D. G. Masson, S. Berné, B. Alonso, and M. De Batist: .....................11 

The Ebro continental margin, western Mediterranean Sea: Interplay between canyon-channel systems and mass 

wasting processes 

Ercilla, G., B. Alonso, J. Baraza, D. Casas, F. Estrada, F. Perez-Belzuz, and M. Farran: .................................................23 

High resolution morpho-sedimentary characteristics of the distal Orinoco turbidite system 

Morris, William R. and William R. Normark: ....................................................................................................................40 

Sedimentologic and geometric criteria for comparing modern and ancient sandy turbidite elements 

Morton, Chris H. and Paul Weimer (University of Colorado): ..........................................................................................41 

Sequence stratigraphy of the Alaminos fan (upper Miocene-Pleistocene), northwestern deep Gulf of Mexico 

Nelson, C. Hans, Chris Goldfinger, Joel E. Johnson, Gita Dunhill, and The Shipboard Scientific Party: .........................43 

Variation of modern turbidite systems along the subduction zone margin of Cascadia Basin and implications for 

turbidite reservoir beds 

Twichell, D.C., C. H. Nelson, and J. E. Damuth: ..............................................................................................................60 

Late-stage development of the Bryant Canyon turbidite pathway on the Louisiana continental slope 

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Evaluating the Links Between Turbidite Characteristics 

and Gross System Architecture: Upscaling Insights 

from the Turbidite Sheet-System of Peïra Cava, SE 

France 

Lawrence Amy 

Benjamin Kneller 

William McCaffrey 

University of Leeds 

School of Earth Sciences 

Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 

l.amy@earth.leeds.ac.uk 

b.kneller@earth.leeds.ac.uk 

mccaffrey@earth.leeds.ac.uk 

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LS2 9JT Leeds 

United Kingdom 

(e-mail: gianluca@earth.leeds.ac.uk) 

Ben Kneller 



LS2 9JT Leeds 


Current address: Institute for Crustal Studies 

University of California 

Santa Barbara, California 

(email: ben@crustal.ucsb.edu) 

Charles D. Winker 

Shell E&P Technology Company 

Bellaire Technology Center 


(e-mail:CW728819@shellus.com) 

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M. E. Donselaar 

Delft University of Technology 

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2628RX Delft 

The Netherlands 

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Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company 

P.O. Box 2189 

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Statoil A/S 

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A.E. DuVernay III 

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Shell Oil Company 

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New Orleans, Louisiana70161 

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ExxonMobil Exploration Company 

P.O.Box 4778 


Carlos Pirmez 

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company 

P.O. Box 2189 


Curtis Archie 

Sookdeo Heeralal 

Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago 

Point-a-Pierre, Trinidad 

Kelly L. Holman 

5626 Golden Grove 

Spring, Texas 77373 

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Sylvester Q. Breard 

Arden D. Callender 

Richard A. Denne 



717 East 8th Street 

Houston, Texas 77007 

Ph./Fax (713) 868-7444 

E-mail: biostrat@aol.com 

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P.O. Box 2189 


M. D. Sullivan 

J. A. Ardill 

G. N. Jensen 

D. K. Sickafoose 


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J.L. Casamor 

R. Urgeles 

G.Lastras 

A.M. Calafat 

GRC Geociències Marines 

Dept. Estratigrafia i Paleontologia 

Universitat de Barcelona 

Spain 

M. De Batist 

Renard Centre of Marine Geology 

University of Gent 

Belgium 

D.G. Masson 

Southampton Oceanography Centre 


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Brest, France 

B. Alonso 

Dept. Geologia Marina i Oceanografia Física 

Institut de Ciències del Mar 

CSIC 

Spain 

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Michael S. Clark 

Chevron USA 

P.O. Box 1392 

Bakersfield, California 93302 

Rick K. Prather 

Aera Energy 

P.O. Box 11164 

Bakersfield, California 93389 

John D. Melvin 

Netherland and Sewell and Associates 

Dallas, Texas 75201 

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SE France 

J. D. Clark 

A. R. Gardiner 

Department of Petroleum Engineering 

Heriot-Watt University 

Edinburgh, UK 

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City of Long Beach 

Department of Oil Properties 

211 East Ocean Blvd. 

Suite 500 

Long Beach, California 90802 

Christopher C. Phillips 

Tidelands Oil Production Company 

301 East Ocean Blvd. 

Suite 300 

Long Beach, California 90802 

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Dennis Edens 

BPAmoco 

501 Westlake Park Blvd. 


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BP Amoco Upstream Technology Group 

501 WestLake Park Boulevard 


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Subsurface, Deep Water E&P Projects—Lessons 

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(Miocene), Taranaki Basin, New Zealand 

J. L. Coleman, Jr. 

BP Amoco Upstream Technology Group 



G. H. Browne 

Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Ltd. 

P. O. Box 30 368 

Lower Hutt, New Zealand 

P. R. King 

Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Ltd. 

P. O. Box 30 368 

Lower Hutt, New Zealand 

R. M. Slatt 

Department of Geology and Geological Engineering 

Colorado School of Mines 

Golden, Colorado 80401 

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(now at Texaco, Inc.) 

E. T. Williams 





(now at Williams Petroleum Consulting) 

G. R. Clemenceau 

BP Amoco 

Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Development & Production 

Group 



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Stephen P.J. Cossey 

Cossey & Associates Inc. 

P.O. Box 270866 

Houston, Texas 77277-0866, USA 

Email: cosseygeo@aol.com 

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Kevin M. King 

Shell Offshore Inc. 

P.O. Box 61933 

New Orleans, Louisiana 70161 

James R. Booth 

Shell International E & P, Inc. 

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in a Slope Turbidite Setting 

Renaat Demyttenaere 

Jan Pieter Tromp 

Abdullah Ibrahim 

Patrick Allman-Ward 

Brunei Shell Petroleum 

KB 3534 Seria 

Brunei Darussalam 

Trey Meckel 

Shell Technology Exploration and Production 

2280 AB Rijswijk 


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British-Borneo U.S.A., Inc. 

1201 Louisiana, Suite 3500 

Houston, Texas 77002 USA 

Donald E. Rehmer 


Department of Geology and Geophysics 


Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 USA 

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Department of Earth Sciences 

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Jesús Baraza 

CSIC-Instituto de Ciencias del Mar 

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G. J. Herricks 

M. R. Wise 

Chevron North American E&P Co. 

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C. E. Stelting 

Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. 

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Chevron Petroleum Technology Co. 

6001 Bollinger Canyon Road 

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Previous Address: ExxonMobil Upstream Research 

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Nathalie Babonneau 

Aline Bourgeois 

Gilles Cotteret 

Rémi Eschard 

Blaise Garin 

Didier Granjeon 

Olivier Lerat 

Christian Ravenne 

Institut Français du Pétrole 

1-4 avenue de Bois-Préau 

92506 Rueil Malmaison 

Olinto Gomes de Souza 

Petrobras 

Cidade Universitaria 

Quadra 7, Ilha Do Fundao 

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 

François Guillocheau 

Jean-Marie Quemener 

Géosciences Rennes 

Campus de Beaulieu 

35042 Rennes, France 

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Shell International and Exploration, Inc. 


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Reservoirs 

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F. Friedmann 

Chevron Petroleum Technology Company 

1300 Beach Blvd 

La Habra, California 90633 

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Shell Exploration and Production Co. 

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Shell Exploration and Production Co. 

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Liz Jolley 

Andy Carter 

Carol Mills 

Neville Jones 

bp Development 

Aberdeen, Scotland 

Mike Bowman 

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Davide Duranti 

Andrew Hurst 

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Stewart J. Clark 

Barbara Palumbo 

Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology 

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King’s College 

Aberdeen AB24 3UE UK 

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Shell UK Exploration and Production 

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Aberdeen AB12 3FY UK 

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Howard D. Johnson 

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Trond Lien 

Norsk Hydro Research Center 

PO Box 7190, N-5020 

Bergen, Norway 

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Roger Walker Consulting Inc. 

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DDD Energy, Inc. 

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BP Amoco 

Chertsey Road 

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Marcelo C. Monteiro 

Petrobras Research Center (CENPES) 

Ilha do Fundão, Cid. Universitária, Qd. 07 

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ARCO Alaska Inc. 

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Mark H. Scheihing 

ARCO Technology and Operations Services 

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Department of Geology 

University of Stellenbosch 

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Phillips Alaska Inc. 

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Paul Weimer 

Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center 

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Midnight Oil and Gas Ltd. 

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U.S. Geological Survey and Department of Oceanography 

Texas A & M University 

College Station, Texas 77843 

409 458 1816 

email: hans@ocean.tamu.edu 

Chris Goldfinger 

College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences 

Oregon State University 

Corvallis, Oregon 97331 

Joel E. Johnson 

Department of Geosciences 

Oregon State University 

Corvallis, Oregon 97331 

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INSTARR/ Department of Geological Sciences 


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Amerada Hess Corporation 

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Shell Offshore Inc. 

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University College London 

Gower Street 

London WC1E 6BT UK 

Jordi Corregidor 

Institut Cartogràfica de Catalunya 

Barcelona, Spain 

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R. T. Beaubouef 

S. J. Friedmann 

D. C. Mohrig 

Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Co. 

P.O. Box 2189 


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Strait, Indonesia 

Henry W. Posamentier 

Veritas Exploration Services 

715 Fifth Avenue SW 

Calgary, Alberta T2P 5A2 

Meizarwin 

ARCO Indonesia 

Perkantoran Hijau Arkadia 

Jl. Let. Jenderal TB. 

Simatupang, Kav. 88 

Jakarta 12520 Indonesia 

Putri Sari Wisman 

Schlumberger-GeoQuest 

P.O. Box 4598/JKT 

Jakarta 10045 Indonesia 

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B. E. Prather 

Shell International E&P 

P.O. Box 60 

2280 AB Rijswijk 


F. B. Keller 

M. A. Chapin 

Shell International E&P, Inc. 

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Eko Lumadyo 

Art Saller 

Unocal 

14141 Southwest Freeway 

Sugar Land, Texas 77478 

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Trevor J. Brown 

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Ronald May 

Unocal Indonesia Company 

Pasir Ridge, PO Box 276 

Balikpapan, 76102 Indonesia 

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Unocal Thailand, Ltd. 

SCB Park Plaza, 19 

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Bangkok 10900 Thailand 

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BP Amoco 

501 Westlake Park Boulevard 


reynoltd@bp.com 

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Conoco (UK) Ltd. 

Rubislaw House 

North Anderson Drive 

Aberdeen AB15 6FZ Scotland 

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Basin Exploration 

1670 Broadway 

Denver, Colorado 80202 

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Ramsey R. Fisher 

BP Amoco 

501 Westlake Park Blvd. 


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Veritas DGC 

3701 Kirby Drive 


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Shell International Exploration and Production Inc. 

P.O. Box 576 


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Arkansas Geological Commission 

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Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center 



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R.J. Steel 

J. Crabaugh 

M. Schellpeper 

Department of Geology & Geophysics 

University of Wyoming 

Laramie, Wyoming 82071 

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University of Padova 

31137 Padova, Italy 

P. Plink-Bjorklund 


Goteborg University 

Goteborg, Sweden 

J. Deibert 


Austin Peay University 

Tennessee 

T. Loeseth 

Geological Institute 

University of Bergen 

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Morgan Sullivan 

Gerrick Jensen 

Frank Goulding 


P.O. Box 4778 


David Jennette 

Lincoln Foreman 

David Stern 


P.O. Box 2189 


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U. S. Geological Survey 

Woods Hole, Massachusetts 

Hans Nelson 

Texas A&M University 

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John E. Damuth 

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Alain Morash 

Elf Exploration and Production R&D 

Pau, France 

Bruno Savoye 

Tania Marsset 

IFREMER 

Brest, France 

Michel Lopez 

Lille 1 University, France 

Laurence Droz 

Brest University, France 

Michel Cremer 

Bordeaux University, France 

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Sedimentary Dynamics of the Salt-Dominated 

Continental Slope, Gulf of Mexico: Integration of 

Observations from the Seafloor, Near-Surface, and Deep 

Subsurface 

Charles D. Winker 

Shell Technology EP 

P.O. Box 481 


James R. Booth 

Shell International EP 

P.O. Box 481 


Abstract 

Intraslope mini-basins in more proximal (updip) settings 

are characterized by the bypass facies assemblage 

(BFA), in which sedimentation is dominated by MTCs 

(including debris flows), channels, and overbank sedimentation. 

More distal settings are characterized by the 

ponded facies assemblage (PFA), in which sedimentation 

is dominated by sand-enriched turbidity currents. Nevertheless, 

ponding of turbidites can occur in the BFA and 

bypass can occur in the PFA. As the Mississippi River has 

shifted during the late Pleistocene and throughout the late 

Cenozoic, it has repeatedly supplied sufficient sediment to 

fill intraslope mini-basins and cause bypass to the abyssal 

plain, even across the broadest parts of the continental 

slope. In late Pleistocene Mississippi deposystems, discrete 

phases of ponding (with shelf-margin deltas feeding 

intraslope fans) and bypass (with canyons feeding abyssal 

plain fans) can be recognized. In the late Brazos-Trinity 

deposystem, only the ponding phase developed. In ancestral 

Mississippi deposystems of the Miocene and Pliocene, 

bypass to the abyssal plain may have occurred across 

mini-basins dominated by PFA, without the formation of 

large canyons. 

Within a mini-basin, deposition proximal to a sediment 

entry point may be dominated by sand-rich fan lobes, by 

mud-rich MTCs, or by channel and overbank deposits. 

Sand-rich fan lobes, and thus the best reservoirs, should be 

more characteristic of the most distal mini-basins within a 

corridor, while MTCs should be characteristic of the most 

proximal mini-basins. The distal end of a mini-basin may 

be dominated by complete ponding of turbidity currents, 

by partial ponding and partial bypass over a low sill, or by 

bypass through a channel incised into the sill.

Outcrop and Subsurface Criteria for Differentiation of 

Sheet and Channel-Fill Strata: Example from the 

Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Wyoming 

E.M. Witton-Barnes 

Previous Address: 



Golden, Colorado, 80401 USA 

Current Address: 

25A Tweeddale Road 

Applecross, Western Australia 

6153 Australia 

N.F. Hurley 




R.M. Slatt 




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