Application of Modern Stratigraphic Techniques: Theory and Case Histories
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Application of Modern Stratigraphic Techniques: Theory and Case Histories
Kenneth T. Ratcliffe, Brian Zaitlin
Much has been written and debated about the various methodologies applied to modern stratigraphic analysis and the ever increasing complexity of terminologies. However, there exist numerous stratigraphic techniques that are reliant upon precise, quantitative, reproducible data, rather than qualitative interpretive stratigraphic methodologies. Such stratigraphic techniques are applied in an entirely pragmatic non-biased manner within the petroleum industry to provide enhanced stratigraphic understanding of petroleum systems. The petroleum industry is a key driver behind the development of new stratigraphic techniques and a major provider of new stratigraphic data, which has resulted in several of these new techniques having been developed as a requirement to the industry. Furthermore, because techniques, such as isotope chemostratigraphy, elemental chemostratigraphy, magnetic susceptibility stratigraphy, numerical biostratigraphy and heavy mineral stratigraphy are based around precise, quantified and reproducible analytical data, they provide an independent means to test the more interpretive stratigraphic methodologies. This volume attempts an overview of stratigraphic methodologies, but largely focuses on data-generative stratigraphic techniques such as chemostratigraphy, magnetic susceptibility stratigraphy, numerical biostratigraphy and heavy mineral stratigraphy. Where appropriate, each paper discusses data generation methods including sample preparation and analytical methods as well outlining data interpretation methods. This is followed by case histories that demonstrate how those data are used to resolve stratigraphic problems, commonly using material derived from petroleum basins around the World.
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CONTENTS
Preface
Ken Ratcliffe and Brian Zaitlin
Sequence Stratigraphic Methodologies
The sequence stratigraphy family tree: understanding the portfolio of sequence methodologies
A.D. Donovan
Correlating siliciclastic successions with sequence stratigraphy
Ashton F. Embry
Biostratigraphic Methodologies
Recent advances in the application of biostratigraphy to hydrocarbon exploration and production
Jason A. Crux, Anthony Gary, Gunilla Gard, and William E. Ellington
A technique to provide digital biostratigraphic information for the seismic interpreter
Paul Watson, Caroline Reid, and Elisabeth Nairn
Chemostratigraphic Methodologies
The application of chemostratigraphic techniques to distinguish compound incised valleys in low-accommodation incised-valley systems in a foreland-basin setting: an example from the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group and Basal Colorado Sandstone (Colorado Group), Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
Amelia M. Wright, Kenneth T. Ratcliffe, Brian A. Zaitlin, and David S. Wray
Chemostratigraphy of Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) sequences from the southern North Sea (United Kingdom)
T.J. Pearce, J.H. Martin, D. Cooper, and D. Wray
Strontium isotope stratigraphy
J.M. McArthur
Constraining the depositional framework of Lower Carboniferous strata in northern Britain using stable-isotope chemostratigraphy
A.R. Prave, A.E. Fallick, and R.A.J. Robinson
Magnetic Susceptibility Stratigraphy Methodologies
Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility used for high-resolution correlation among Paleoeocene–Eocene boundary sequences in Egypt, Spain, and the U.S.A.
Brooks B. Ellwood, Aziz M. Kafafy, Ahmed Kassab, Jonathan H. Tomkin, Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Nageh Obaidalla, Kelli W. Randall, and David E. Thompson
Magnetostratigraphy susceptibility used for high-resolution correlation among Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) marine sedimentary sequences in the U.S. Western Interior Seaway and the Western Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Brooks Ellwood, Aziz Kafafy, Ahmed Kassab, Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Nageh Obaidalla, Richard W. Howe, and Paul Sikora
Miscellaneous Stratigraphy Methodologies
Heavy mineral stratigraphy of the Clair Group (Devonian–Carboniferous) in the Clair Field, West of Shetland, UK
Andrew Morton, Claire Hallsworth, John Kunka, Ewan Laws, Simon Payne, and Dave Walder
The sequence stratigraphic significance of paralic coal and its use as an indicator of accommodation space in terrestrial sediments
Jennifer Wadsworth, Claus Diessel, and Ron Boyd
A whole-rock geochemical approach to the recognition and correlation of “marine bands”
T.J. Pearce, D. Mclean, J.E. Martin, K.T. Ratcliffe, and D. Wray
Index
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