Mass-Transport Complexes (MTCs) and Tectonic Control on Basin-Floor Submarine Fans, Middle Eocene, South Spanish Pyrenees

Sinuous deep-water channels: Genesis, geometry and architecture

“…the Boltana and Mediano Anticlines, which diverted sediment transport pathways (Mutti et al, 1988;Marzo et al, 1998). East of the Boltana Anticline, the sequences are dominated by submarine channel-fill turbidite bodies (Mutti et al, 1988), which are separated predominantly by upper slope-derived MTDs Pickering and Corregidor, 2005). Westwards from the Boltana Anticline, the succession is characterised by non-channelised sandstone lobes (Mutti and Ricci Lucchi, 1972;Mutti, 1977;Remacha et al, 2005).…”

Integrating outcrop and subsurface data to assess the temporal evolution of a submarine channel–levee system

“…The architecture and evolution of deep-water channel systems has been of particular interest in both the hydrocarbon industry and academic study in recent years with detailed investigations using highresolution reflection seismic data sets (e.g., McHargue and Webb, 1986;Badalini et al, 2000;Babonneau et al, 2002Babonneau et al, , 2004Abreu et al, 2003;Deptuck et al, 2003Deptuck et al, , 2007Posamentier, 2003;Posamentier and Kolla, 2003;Schwenk et al, 2005;Mayall et al, 2006;Kolla, 2007;Cross et al, 2009;Catterall et al, 2010;Armitage et al, 2012;Jobe et al, 2015;Ortiz-Karpf et al, 2015) and seabed imaging techniques (e.g., Torres et al, 1997;Maier et al, 2011Maier et al, , 2013Covault et al, 2014), although these provide limited detailed information on subseismic-scale elements and the range and distribution of sedimentary facies. This gap has been addressed through the use of analogous systems at outcrops (Badescu et al, 2000;Blikeng and Fugelli, 2000;Campion et al, 2000;Clark and Gardiner, 2000;Gardner et al, 2003;Beaubouef, 2004;Pickering and Corregidor, 2005;Hodgson et al, 2011;Brunt et al, 2013b;Hubbard et al, 2014;Masalimova et al, 2016). Although these studies help to constrain the distribution and lateral variation of sedimentary facies of channel fills, channel-scale stacking patterns, and detailed stratigraphic relationship with adjacent levee-overbank deposits, they typically have limited three-dimensional (3-D) control or calibration with subsurface data sets.…”

“…Although these studies help to constrain the distribution and lateral variation of sedimentary facies of channel fills, channel-scale stacking patterns, and detailed stratigraphic relationship with adjacent levee-overbank deposits, they typically have limited three-dimensional (3-D) control or calibration with subsurface data sets. Rare examples of outcropbased studies with subsurface constraint of channelized systems include the Eocene of the Ainsa Basin, northeast Spain (e.g., Pickering and Corregidor, 2005); the Miocene Mount Messenger Formation, New Zealand (Browne and Slatt, 2002); and the Permian Brushy Canyon Formation, United States (Beaubouef et al, 1999). Outcrop studies where slope channel systems can be traced in multiple outcrop exposures providing 3-D constraint are also rare (Hubbard et al, 2008;Pyles et al, 2010;Macauley and Hubbard, 2013).…”

Fabric Development and Pore-Throat Reduction in a Mass-Transport Deposit in the Jubilee Gas Field, Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Consequences for the Sealing Capacity of MTDs

“…debris flows, slides, slumps) (Dott, 1963;Nardin et al, 1979;Hampton et al, 1996;Mulder and Cochonat, 1996;Moscardelli and Wood, 2008) ( Figure 1.1). MTCs are volumetrically important in modern and ancient deepwater basins (Posamentier and Kolla, 2003) and have a significant interplay with turbidites (Pickering and Corregidor, 2005;Nelson et al, 2011;Ortiz-Karpf et al, 2015)-a typical reservoirquality deposit in petroleum exploration. Although, for obvious industrial reasons, turbidites have received the most attention during the past decades, the more recent acquisition of high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D) seismic data has shown that many slope and abyssal systems comprise a very significant portion of MTCs.…”