RESERVOIR ARCHITECTURE OF DEEP-WATER TURBIDITE SYSTEMS
Late Miocene clastics that filled, rapidly deforming, basins in SE Spain, provide a wide variety of turbidite systems that interacted with intrabasinal topography.
Very large outcrops that allow inspection of seismic and sub seismic scale architecture. Turbidites or their by pass evidence that can be followed from canyon to base of slope settings and from the "basin plain" to the outboard highs. Several distinct turbidite systems including mixed sand/mud turbidite systems and sand-rich turbidite systems. Geometries that include sheets, amalgamated sheets, stacked channels and isolated channels. Many outcrops allow exercises with respect to the lateral extent of the sands or/and continuity of intercalated mudstones. Sediment gravity flow deposits that range from slides, slumps, debrites to low and high-density turbidites.
Duration: 5 days
Timing: October to May
Accommodation: a small hotel on a quiet beach.
Transport: four wheel drives.
Climate: warm>17C with cool evenings.
RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION IN SILICICLASTIC AND CARBONATE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
ANALOGUE STUDIES AND REGIONAL STUDIES
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