Course Outline

• Introduction
• Major depositional influences in marginal marine systems
• General classification of sand-depositing marginal marine environments
• Principal sedimentary processes
• Deltas
• Significance with respect to petroleum occurrence
• General depositional setting
• Classification of deltas
• Characteristics of important sand deposits
• Reservoir characteristics
• Seismic identification
• Field example
• Fan deltas
• Coastal barrier islands
• General introduction
• Relative influence of wave and tidal processes
• Distribution of facies in a barrier island setting
• Morphology and depositional processes
• Beach to offshore facies
• Regressive vertical sequences
• Associated sand facies
• Strand plains and cheniers
• Stratigraphic sequences
• Palaeontology ,Morphology
• Reservoir characteristics
• Subsurface diagnosis and detection of barrier island deposits
• Seismic response
• Well logs
• Cores
• Summary
• Field examples