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
•  Major depositional regimes
• Progradation and abandonment
• Influences on deltaic sedimentation
• Classification of deltas
• Characteristics of important sand deposits
• General introduction
•  Braided stream and point bar deposits
• Distributary channel sands
•  Crevasse subdelta sands
• Distributary mouth bars
• River mouth tidal ridge deposits
• Barrier island sands
• Reservoir characteristics
•  Seismic identification
• Field example
•  Fan deltas
• General introduction
• Classification
•  Distribution of facies
•  Field examples
•  Diagnosis of fan-delta sandstone
• 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
• Strategraphic sequences
• Palaeontology
• Morphology
• Reservoir characteristics
• Subsurface diagnosis and detection of barrier island deposits
• Seismic response
•  Well logs
• Cores
• Summary
• Field examples