Mass-Transport Deposits in Deepwater Settings

Historically, submarine-mass failures or mass-transport deposits have been a focus of increasingly intense investigation by academic institutions particularly during the last decade, though they received much less attention by geoscientists in the energy industry. With recent interest in expanding petroleum exploration and production into deeper water depths globally and more widespread availability of high-quality data sets, mass-transport deposits are now recognized as a major component of most deep-water settings. This recognition has lead to the realization that many aspects of these deposits are still unknown or poorly understood. This volume contains twenty-three papers that address a number of topics critical to further understanding mass-transport deposits. These topics include general overviews of these deposits, depositional settings on the seafloor and in the near-subsurface interval, geohazard concerns, descriptive outcrops, integrated outcrop and seismic data/seismic forward modeling, petroleum reservoirs, and case studies on several associated topics. This volume will appeal to a broad cross section of geoscientists and geotechnical engineers, who are interested in this rapidly expanding field. The selection of papers in this volume reflects a growing trend towards a more diverse blend of disciplines and topics, covered in the study of mass-transport deposits.
Mass-Transport Deposits: Combining Outcrop Studies and Seismic Forward Modeling to Understand Lithofacies Distributions, Deformation, and their Seismic Stratigraphic Expression
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Published:January 01, 2011
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Mason Dykstra, Katerina Garyfalou, Vanessa Kertznus, Ben Kneller, Juan Pablo Milana, Matteo Molinaro, Magdalena Szuman, Philip Thompson, 2011. "Mass-Transport Deposits: Combining Outcrop Studies and Seismic Forward Modeling to Understand Lithofacies Distributions, Deformation, and their Seismic Stratigraphic Expression", Mass-Transport Deposits in Deepwater Settings, R. Craig Shipp, Paul Weimer, Henry W. Posamentier
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Abstract: Mass-transport deposits may act as barriers or baffles to fluid flow in the subsurface, or may conduct fluids via internal structures or lithological connectivity. Conventional seismic and borehole data present radically different scales of observation to assess the likely fluid-flow behavior of mass-transport deposits. Seismic-scale outcrops and high-resolution seismic data bridge this scale gap. Exceptional outcrops of large mass-transport deposits are used to develop strategies to relate core- and seismic-scale observations for the purposes of subsurface prediction of reservoir, baffle, or seal potential, and for prediction of fluid flow through mass-transport deposits in the subsurface. We present here...