Course content

• General Introduction
• Depositional Process of Shelf Sands
• Tidal currents
• Storm currents
• Combined tidal and storm currents
• Turbidity currents
• Shelf Sand Deposits
• Sand sheets
• Sand ridges
• Diagnosis and Detection of Shelf Sands
• Paleontology
• Associated facies of shelf sands 
• Seismic, Wells logs , Cores
• Distinguishing shelf sands from shoreline sands
• Reservoir Characteristics of Shelf Sands
• Shelf Sand Field Example
• Shannon Sandstone
• Hartzog Draw Field 
• Sedimentation Processes of Deep Sea Sands
• Slumps and slides
• Debris flows
• Fluidized flow Grain flow
• Turbidity currents
• Flow relationships
• Importance of traction flow
• Deep Sea Depositional Systems
• Submarine fans
• Elongate submarine fans
• Radial submarine fans
• Slope-Apron systems
• The Ebro system
• Brae Turbidite system
• Delta-fed submarine ramp
• Fault-controlled submarine ramp
• Controls on Deep Sea Sedimentation
• Sediment type and supply
• Tectonic setting and activity , Sea-level fluctuations
• Lithofacies of Submarine Fans and Associated Systems
• Facies classification  , Facies associations
• Diagnosis and Detection of Deepwater Sandstones
• Paleontology
• Associated facies
• Cores, Well log, Seismic
• Sequence Stratigraphy of Deep Sea Sands
• Models of Posamentier and Vail

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