The Tide-Dominated Han River Delta, Korea: Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Stratigraphic Architecture

ISBN-13: 9780128007686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 382 str.

Robert Dalrymple; Kyungsik Choi; Jaehwa Jin

Opis

The Tide-Dominated Han River Delta provides a thorough analysis of a river delta in which tidal currents have reworked the river-borne sediment, generating characteristic geomorphological and sedimentological signatures in the process. Such "tide-dominated" deltas are common in the modern ocean, forming the substrate upon which entire populations are built. Furthermore, ancient examples contain enormous volumes of hydrocarbon. Despite this, tide-dominated deltas remain less well understood than their wave- and river-dominated counterparts, largely because processes within them are inherently more complex and fewer modern examples have been investigated in detail. This multi-year study by a team of experts in coastal geoscience represents the most complete documentation of a tide-dominated delta to date. Results help advance, and are applicable to, a broad range of fields within sedimentary geology, including clastic sedimentology, seismic and sequence stratigraphy, and coastal geomorphology, in addition to petroleum geology and reservoir engineering.

• Offers new access to results of a multi-year hydrocarbon-reservoir analogue study not available elsewhere
• Features 75 full-color figures and illustrations to emphasize critical aspects of the delta's sedimentology, geomorphology, and stratigraphy
• Provides basic data that better define what tide-dominated deltas are, how these complex systems behave over time, and why this is so
• Aids petroleum geologists and reservoir engineers in predicting the distribution of baffles and barriers in tide-dominated sediment bodies, helping in the successful development of reservoirs

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Depositional setting Chapter 3. Database and Methodology Chapter 4. GeomorphologyChapter 5. Near-surface sedimentology Chapter 6. Seismic stratigraphy Chapter 7. Facies successions Chapter 8. Sequence stratigraphy Chapter 9. Discussion Glossary References Appendix 1. Short coresAppendix 2. Seismic dataAppendix 3. Side-scan sonar dataAppendix 4. Grab samples