Facies Characterization and Architecture of a Muddy Shelf-Sandstone Complex: Mancos B Interval of Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Northwest Colorado-Northeast Utah
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Published:January 01, 1991
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Rex D. Cole, Robert G. Young, 1991. "Facies Characterization and Architecture of a Muddy Shelf-Sandstone Complex: Mancos B Interval of Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Northwest Colorado-Northeast Utah", The Three-Dimensional Facies Architecture of Terrigenous Clastic Sediments and its Implications for Hydrocarbon Discovery and Recovery, Andrew D. Miall, Noel Tyler
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The Mancos B interval of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale is represented by up to 372 m of thinly interstratified clays tone, siltstone, and very fine- to fine-grained sandstone deposited offshore, below storm-wave base, in the Western Interior Seaway. The Mancos B is best developed along Douglas Creek Arch in western Colorado and eastern Utah, where it is a major producer of natural gas and a minor producer of oil.
Combined stratigraphic and sedimentologic data suggest that the Mancos B is a regressive prodelta-plume complex genetically related to deltaic systems active along the western shoreline of the seaway. In...
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The Three-Dimensional Facies Architecture of Terrigenous Clastic Sediments and its Implications for Hydrocarbon Discovery and Recovery

While there has been much interest in recent years in concepts of sequence stratigraphy, this book focuses on stratigraphic units that are, in general, an order of magnitude smaller than sequences. A knowledge of such architectural detail is of considerable significance in the development of detailed, scaled facies models for depositional environments, and is of paramount importance in the efficient design of advanced petroleum recovery projects. This book is the outcome of a SEPM Research Symposium held at the annual meeting of the Society in San Antonio, Texas, April 1989. The intent of the meeting was to bring together modern research on facies architecture, and to apply this research to the investigation of reservoir heterogeneities and production problems.