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Book Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems

Download or read book Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems written by W. E. Galloway and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reserves, or extractable fraction, of the fuel-mineral endowment are sufficient to supply the bulk of the world's energy requirements for the immediately forseeable future-well into the next century according to even the most pessimistic predictions. But increasingly sophisticated exploration concepts and technology must be employed to maintain and, if possible, add to the reserve base. Most of the world's fuel-mineral resources are in sedimentary rocks. Any procedure or concept that helps describe, under stand, and predict the external geometry and internal attributes of major sedimentary units can therefore contribute to discovery and recovery of coal, uranium, and petroleum. While conceding the desirability of renewable and nonpolluting energy supply from gravitational, wind, or solar sources, the widespread deployment of these systems lies far in the future-thus the continued commercial emphasis on conventional nonrenewable fuel mineral resources, even though their relative significance will fluctuate with time. For example, a decade ago the progilostications for uranium were uniformly optimistic. But in the early 1980s the uranium picture is quite sombre, although unlikely to remain permanently depressed. Whether uranium soars to the heights of early expectations remains to be seen. Problems of waste disposal and public acceptance persist. Fusion reactors may ultimately eliminate the need for uranium in power generation, but for the next few decades there will be continued demand for uranium to fuel existing power plants and those that come on stream. This book is, to some extent, a hybrid.

Book Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems

Download or read book Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems written by William E. Galloway and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonrenewable energy resources, comprising fossil fuels and uranium, are not ran domly distributed within the Earth's crust. They formed in response to a complex array of geologic controls, notably the genesis of the sedimentary rocks that host most commercial energy resources. It is this genetic relationship between economic re sources and environment that forms the basis for this book. Our grouping of petro leum, coal, uranium, and ground water may appear to be incongruous or artificial. But our basic premise is that these ostensibly disparate resources share common genetic attributes and that the sedimentological principles governing their natural distributions and influencing their recovery are fundamentally similar. Our combined careers have focused on these four resources, and our experiences in projects worldwide reveal that certain recurring geologic factors are important in controlling the distribution of com mercial accumulations and subsurface fluid flow. These critical factors include the shape and stability of the receiving basin, the major depositional elements and their internal detail, and the modifications during burial that are brought about in these sediments by pressure, circulating fluids, heating, and chemical reaction. Since the first edition of this book in 1983, there has been a quantum leap in the volume of literature devoted to genetic stratigraphy and refinement of sedimentologi cal principles and a commensurate increase in the application of these concepts to resource exploration and development.

Book Stratigraphic Traps

Download or read book Stratigraphic Traps written by Edward A. Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treatise of Petroleum Geology was conceived during a discussion held at the annual AAPG meeting in 1984 in San Antonio, Texas. This discussion led to the conviction that AAPG should publish a state-of-the-art textbook in petroleum geology, aimed not at the student, but at the practicing petroleum geologist. The textbook gradually evolved into a series of three different publications (Reprint series, Atlas, Handbook). The set was designed to represent the cutting edge in petroleum exploration knowledge and application. Stratigraphic traps II comprises a collection of detailed field studies that illustrate the many ways oil and gas are trapped and to serve as a guide to the petroleum geology of basins where these fields are found.

Book Analytical Sedimentology

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  • Author : Douglas W. Lewis
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461526361
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Analytical Sedimentology written by Douglas W. Lewis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Practical Sedimentology contained dis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS cussions of principles and techniques that could be applied to the analysis of sediments in the field and in laboratories sup Colleagues at the University of Canterbury and the Univer plied with inexpensive and commonly available equipment. sity of New England, Lismore, have helped with practical When considering a revised edition, we felt that it was inap advice on their experiences with various methodologies dis propriate to restrict consideration to the simple and common cussed in this volume. At the University of Canterbury, we techniques because so many modern analyses of sediments are particularly grateful to K. Swanson for advice on prepar use sophisticated and often expensive equipment to examine ing materials for scanning electron microscopy and paleonto sediments and sedimentary rocks. A review of the wide range logical specimens; to G. Coates (working at the university at of available techniques and equipment was not feasible in the the time of the first edition of Practical Sedimentology) for same volume as a review of principles. The original intent to compilation of, and additions to, the procedures for textural analysis and some tables and sketches; to Ted Montague for produce a concise summary of practical sediment studies in an inexpensive format was maintained, but now in the form the bulk of the chapter on borehole sedimentology; to Dr. J.

Book Terrigenous Depositional Systems

Download or read book Terrigenous Depositional Systems written by William Lawrence Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deep Marine Systems

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  • Author : Kevin T. Pickering
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2015-10-23
  • ISBN : 1118865480
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book Deep Marine Systems written by Kevin T. Pickering and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generallyhidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% ofthe Earth’s surface, including large parts of ancientmountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-levelundergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earthscientists with interests in physical oceanography and hydrocarbonexploration and production, about many of the important physicalaspects of deep-water (mainly deep-marine) systems. The authorsconsider transport and deposition in the deep sea, trace-fossilassemblages, and facies stacking patterns as an archive of theunderlying controls on deposit architecture (e.g., seismicity,climate change, autocyclicity). Topics include modern and ancientdeep-water sedimentary environments, tectonic settings, and howbasinal and extra-basinal processes generate the typicalcharacteristics of basin slopes, submarine canyons, contouritemounds and drifts, submarine fans, basin floors and abyssalplains.

Book The Geological Modelling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogues

Download or read book The Geological Modelling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogues written by Ian D. Bryant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geological Modelling of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Outcrop Analogues is a collection of 15 selected papers taken from the Symposium of the same name which formed part of the IAS Congress of 1990 held in Nottingham, UK. Recent technological advances and the ever increasing demand for maximising recovery from existing oil and gas fields has led to an upsurge of interest, at both academic and industrial levels, in reservoir characterization and quantitative modelling of physical rock properties in 3-D inter-well space. Synthesizing both industrial and academic research and integrating sedimentology, petroleum geology, geostatistic and geomathematics, this volme is a state-of-the-art presentation of approaches to quantifying geology in order to give better input to 3-D numerical reservoir modelling methods. It is the first IAS volume to highlight the necessary interface with academic and oil industry geology by showing how academic research can significantly support the mathematical modelling work of reservoir engineers in industry and contributions to the volume come from an expert, international team comprised of university, government and international oil industry scientists.

Book Applied Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy

Download or read book Applied Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy written by Douglas J. Cant and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stratigraphic Systems

Download or read book Stratigraphic Systems written by Glenn S. Visher and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1999-12-08 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable as a primary text for undergraduate courses in sedimentology and stratigraphy."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Transactions   Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

Download or read book Transactions Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies written by Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geology of North America   An Overview

Download or read book Geology of North America An Overview written by Albert W. Bally and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summaries of the major features of the geology of North America and the adjacent oceanic regions are presented in 20 chapters. Topics covered include concise reviews of current thinking about Precambrian basement, Phanerozoic orogens, cratonic basins, passive-margin geology of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, marine and terrestrial geology of the Caribbean region and economic geology.

Book Regional Depositional Systems Tracts  Paleogeography  and Sequence Stratigraphy  Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Strata  North  and West central Texas

Download or read book Regional Depositional Systems Tracts Paleogeography and Sequence Stratigraphy Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Strata North and West central Texas written by Leonard Franklin Brown and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Development Geology Reference Manual

Download or read book Development Geology Reference Manual written by Diana Morton-Thompson and published by AAPG. This book was released on 1993 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Characteristics of Chinese Petroleum Geology

Download or read book Characteristics of Chinese Petroleum Geology written by Chengzao Jia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Characteristics of Chinese Petroleum Geology: Geological Features and Exploration Cases of Stratigraphic, Foreland and Deep Formation Traps" systematically presents the progress made in petroleum geology in China and highlights the latest advances and achievements in oil/gas exploration and research, especially in stratigraphic, foreland and deep formation traps. The book is intended for researchers, practitioners and students working in petroleum geology, and is also an authoritative reference work for foreign petroleum exploration experts who want to learn more about this field in China. As President of the Chinese Petroleum Society, former Vice-President of PetroChina Company Limited, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Chengzao Jia has been engaged in geological research for 30 years and in oil/gas exploration for more than 20 years.

Book Petroleum Abstracts

Download or read book Petroleum Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: