Sedimentary architecture of a canyon-style fairway feeding a deep-water clastic system, the Miocene Cingöz Formation, southern Turkey: Significance for reservoir characterisation and modelling

The sedimentary architecture of a submarine canyon-fill supplying sediment to a deep-water fan system in the Adana Basin, southern Turkey is described and quantified. The canyon is at least 9-km long, 3-4-km wide, asymmetric in cross-section and has an exposed fill, 360-m thick consisting of sands a...

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Published in:Sedimentary Geology
Main Authors: Satur N., Kelling G., Cronin B.T., Hurst A., Gürbüz K.
Other Authors: Çukurova Üniversitesi
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12605/19865
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2003.11.024
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Summary:The sedimentary architecture of a submarine canyon-fill supplying sediment to a deep-water fan system in the Adana Basin, southern Turkey is described and quantified. The canyon is at least 9-km long, 3-4-km wide, asymmetric in cross-section and has an exposed fill, 360-m thick consisting of sands and gravels deposited in sheets across the entire width of the canyon. Normal graded and nongraded pebbly sandstones reflecting deposition from both waning and waxing high-density turbidity currents dominate these deposits. Facies are identified and correlated between closely spaced sedimentary logs. A hierarchy of bedding scales is recognised, ranging from individual beds and their sedimentary structures through 3-21-m-thick packages of beds to 100+m thick major units. This hierarchy provides the framework for computer-generated 3D models where sandstone bodies and facies are stochastically modelled to provide a better understanding of the internal sedimentary architecture within similar types of canyons in subsurface or in areas of poor exposure. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Enterprise The authors warmly acknowledge financial support from the Mesostratigraphy of Deep-water Sandstones Consortium (Amerada Hess, BP-Amoco, Conoco, TotalFinaElf and Enterprise). Drs. U. Ünlügenç and A Nazik (Çukurova University) provided logistical support while Y. Topak, O. Çelik and I. Naz from Çukurova University are thanked for their assistance in the field. Constructive comments on an early draft of this paper by Prof. John Collinson and Dr. Sami Derman are gratefully acknowledged.