G. Shanmugam. "Deep-Water Processes and Facies Models: Implications for Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs"

The primary purpose of this book is to make a link between deep-water process sedimentology and petroleum geology. Specific objectives are:
● To explain the principles and procedures of process sedimentology in petroleum geology.
● To trace the history of research on deep-water systems and to provide a philosophical retrospective on genetic nomenclature (Chapter 2).
● To provide a cutting edge overview of relevant deep-water processes and to catalog reasonable criteria for interpreting their deposits.
● To discuss the importance of deep-water sand injections and to critically evaluate the role of tsunamis on deep-water sedimentation.
● To document the variability of modern deep-water systems and their importance for reconstructing ancient environments.
● To critically evaluate process-related problems and to dispel conceptual and nomenclatural myths surrounding turbidity currents and their deposits.
● To demonstrate that the turbidite facies model and conventional fan models of sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy are obsolete.
● To review tectonic and eustatic controls of deep-water sedimentation.
● To summarize implications of deep-water processes and environments for understanding sandstone petroleum reservoirs in terms of their spatial distribution, dimensions, geometry, and quality.

In presenting a consistent process interpretation, the author has relied on his description and interpretation of core and outcrop (1:20 to 1:50 scale) from 35 case studies (which include 32 petroleum reservoirs), totaling more than 30,000 feet (9,145 m), carried out during the past 30 years (1974-2004). This book should serve as an important source of information for students on history, methodology, first principles, advanced concepts, controversies, and practical applications on deep-water sedimentology and petroleum geology.