Impact of Local
Accommodation on the Architecture and Stacking Patterns of Three Capistrano
Formation Slope Channel Outcrops:
Bouroullec, Renaud1, David,
R. Pyles2, Daniel, E. Schwartz3, David, C. Jennette4,
Florence Bonnaffé1 (1) The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
(2) Colorado School of Mines, Golden, (3) Shell International Exploration &
Production Inc, Houston, TX (4) Apache Corporation, Houston,
The stratigraphy
of deep-water reservoirs is partially related to local accommodation at the
time of deposition. Three outcrops of the upper Miocene-Pliocene Capistrano
Formation allow to document contrasting channelized slope depositional systems and the effects of
local accommodation on slope channel architecture and stacking pattern. Stratigraphic columns, paleocurrent,
photomosaic and lidar data
were collected to address the stratigraphy and
evolution of each depositional system.
The three slope channel systems studied
incised into slope mudstone of the middle to upper Miocene Monterey Formation.
They contain similar lithofacies that vary in their
proportions and distribution. The architectural elements are also similar at
each exposure but vary in their dimensions, geometries and stacking patterns.
The
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