The Annot Sandstone Outcrops (French Alps): Architecture Description as Input for Quantification and 3D Reservoir Modeling

Downstream evolution of turbiditic channel complexes in the Pab Range outcrops (Maastrichtian, Pakistan)

“…The Pab Formation turbidites provide a rare example of a sandy turbiditic system developed on a passive margin. This type of geodynamic setting is rarely preserved in outcrop, and most turbiditic outcrop models are derived from foreland basin examples (the Apennine foreland, Ricci Lucchi, 1986, andMutti, Tinterri, Benevelli, di Biase, andCavanna, 2003; the Pyrenean foreland, Mutti, 1977;Remacha & Fernández, 2003; the Alpine foreland, Bouma, 1962;Joseph et al, 2000;Ravenne, Joseph, & Gomes de Souza, 1995). Eschard et al (2002) have described the large-scale stratigraphic architecture of the Pab Formation.…”

Deep-water sedimentation in the Alpine Foreland Basin of SE France: New perspectives on the Grès d’Annot and related systems—an introduction

“…Following the first reinterpretation of the St Antonin conglomerates as a fan delta (Stanley 1980), the Gr~s d'Annot system is no longer considered as a classic canyon-fed submarine fan, but as a sand-rich turbidite submarine ramp fed by multiple-source fan deltas at the border of the Corsica-Sardinia massif (cf. Pickering & Hilton 1998;Joseph et al 2000;Sinclair 2000). 'Fill and spill' concepts, in conjunction with the new correlations linking the sub-basin fills (Du Fornel et al), have provided key insights into the mode of basin infilling.…”

Sedimentology and reservoir modelling of the Ormen Lange field, mid Norway

“…Thus if the lateral terminations of the system are onlaps they were subtle in comparison with celebrated examples such as those seen in outcrop at Chalufy in southern France (e.g. Joseph et al, 2000;Smith & Joseph, 2004).…”

“…Gardner & Borer, 2000, 'basin floor' part of their Fig. 13) and the Annot Sandstones (Joseph et al, 2000;Lomas et al, 2000). Sand-rich overbank deposits or 'wings' can develop in overall mudpoor turbidite systems and a common motif is one of basal incision and fill succeeded by a stack of focussed, yet unconfined sandstone beds which are progressively more erosive towards their axes with the result that erosional amalgamation occurs in axial positions, but not in lateral positions (e.g.…”

“…Joseph et al, 2000;Moraes, Becker, Monteiro, & Netto, 2000;Rozman, 2000;Stephen, Clark, & Gardiner, 2001). In reservoir modelling they are typically treated as discontinuous ellipsoids within a continuous sandstone background, but Stephen et al (2001) make the point that in some cases amalgamation surfaces may represent holes in continuous mudstone sheets.…”