Clastic Shelf, Deltaic and Shoreline Systems I
Room Boyce Theatre
Co-Chairs: J. Bhattacharya and J. Suter
8:00 -- Introductory Remarks
8:05 -- Y. Saito: Lessons from Holocene Deltas: Facies, Evolution, and Regime Shift
8:45 -- B. J. Willis: Origin of Large-Scale Inclined-Bed Sets in Ancient Tide-Influenced Delta Deposits
9:05 -- D. Mackay, D. R. W. Dalrymple: A Sedimentological Comparison of Tide-Dominated Estuarine and Tide-Dominated Deltaic Deposits: A Subsurface Perspective
9:25 -- S. Yoshida, R. Steel, R. Dalrymple, J. MacEachern, K. Bann: Tidal-Fluvial Versus Estuarine Bars: Upper Cretaceous Sego Sandstone, Utah, Compared with Modern-Ancient Analogues
9:45 -- Break
10:05 -- J. P. Bhattacharya: Distinguishing Shorefaces Versus Delta Fronts in the Rock Record
10:25 -- J. A. Howell, T. Manzocchi, S. Consortium: What Controls Hydrocarbon Production from Shallow Marine Reservoirs?
10:45 -- J. C. Turner, E. Glorstad-Clark, L. A. Banfield, S. G. Davis, J. L. Nelson, M. Casey, K. E. Meisling: Geologic Interpretation of Compartmentalization in the Pliocene Shelf Edge Delta System at Amberjack, Gulf of Mexico
11:05 -- D. I. Cummings, R. W. C. Arnott, B. Hart: Shelf-Margin Delta Myths and Misconceptions
11:25 -- R. R. Winter, R. J. Steel: Reservoir Characterization and Hydrocarbon Implications of the Early Pliocene Deltaic Sedimentary Succession of the Columbus Channel, Trinidad