Deltas: Sites and Traps for Fossil Fuels (Geological Society Special Publication No. 41)

This volume of 23 papers, comprising many aspects of modern and ancient deltaic sedimentary systems, is intended as an overview of this subject for the use of students, teachers and researchers alike. Deltas : Sites And Traps For Fossil Fuels / M.k.g. Whateley & K.t. Pickering -- Deltaic Systems And Their Contribution To An Understanding Of Basin-fill Successions / T. Elliot -- Delta Or Coastal Plain? With An Example Of The Controversy From The Middle Jurassic Of Yorkshire / J. Alexander -- Fjord Sedimentation As An Analogue For Small Hydrocarbon-bearing Fan Deltas / J.p.m. Syvitski & G.e. Farrow -- Profiles Of Fan Deltas And Water Depth In The Receiving Basin / M. Ito -- Diagenesis Of Upper Carboniferous Sandstones : Southern North Sea Basin / G. Cowan -- Detailed Sedimentology And Gamma-ray Log Characteristics Of A Namurian Deltaic Succession I : Sedimentology And Facies Analysis / C.s. Bristow & K.j. Myers -- Detailed Sedimentology And Gamma-ray Log Characteristics Of A Namurian Deltaic Succession Ii : Gamma-ray Logging / K.j. Myers & C.s. Bristow -- Deltaic Reservoir Prediction From Rotational Dipmeter Patterns / R.c. Selley -- Nile Delta : A Review Of Depositional Environments And Geological History / G. Sestini -- Arcuate And Bird's Foot Deltas In The Late Pleistocene Palaeo-tokyo Bay / H. Okazaki & F. Masuda -- A Fluvial-dominated Lacustrine Delta In A Volcanic Province, W Greenland / G.k. Pedersen -- The Sedimentology Of A Middle Jurassic Lagoonal Delta System : Elgol Formation (great Estuarine Group), Nw Scotland / J.p. Harris -- Styles Of Soft-sediment Deformation On A Namurian (carboniferous) Delta Slope, Western Irish Namurian Basin, Ireland / O.j. Martinsen -- Controls On Internal Structure And Architecture Of Sandstone Bodies Within Upper Carboniferous Fluvial-dominated Deltas, County Clare, Western Ireland / A.j. Pulham -- Upper Proterozoic Passive Margin Deltaic Complex, Finnmark, N Norway / A. Siedlecka, K.t. Pickering & M.b. Edwards -- Reservoir Geology Of The Sirikit Oilfield, Thailand : Lacustrine Deltaic Sedimentation In A Tertiary Intermontane Basin / S. Flint, D.j. Stewart & E.d. Van Riessen -- Review And Computer Modelling Of The Brent Group Stratigraphy / W. Helland-hansen [and Others] -- Facies And Development Of The Middle Jurassic Brent Delta Near The Northern Limit Of Its Progradation, Uk North Sea / S. Brown & P.c. Richards -- Facies Associations And Sand-body Geometries In The Ness Formation Of The Brent Group, Brent Field / S.e. Livera -- Coal Reviewed : Depositional Controls, Modern Analogues And Ancient Climates / R.s. Haszeldine -- Deltaic Coals : An Ecological And Paleobotanical Perspective / A.c. Scott -- Fan-delta-lacustrine Sedimentation And Coal Development In The Tertiary Ombilin Basin, W Sumatra, Indonesia / M.k.g. Whateley & G.r. Jordan -- The Influence Of Basin Subsidence And Depositional Environment On Regional Patterns Of Coal Thickness Within The Namurian Fluvio-deltaic Sedimentary Fill Of The Kincardine Basin, Scotland / W.a. Read. Edited By M.k.g. Whateley & K.t. Pickering. Includes Bibliographies And Index.