Presentation Archive

2008:

Conferences

2008 AAPG Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas

Pyles, D.R., On the relationship between submarine channel sinuosity and symmetry:  AAPG Annual Meeting Program with Abstracts  

Pyles, D.R., J. P. M. Syvitski, R. Slatt, Applying the concept of grade to basin-scale stacking patterns and stratigraphic architecture along the shelf to basin profile

Pyles, D.R., R. Bouroullec, D. Jennette, 3D stratigraphic architecture of distributary channel-lobe systems:  Outcrop analysis of the Bridges of Ross Exposure, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Ireland

Bouroullec, R., M. Tomasso, D. R. Pyles, Effects of syn-depositional deformation on the stratigraphic architecture of an interbasinal deep-water conduit, Grand Coyer Sub-Basin, Eocene-Oligocene, Gres D Annot Formation, SE France

2008 RMS AAPG Meeting, Durango, Colorado

Pyles, D.R., R. Slatt, Integrating outcrop and subsurface data to define regional and reservoir-scale patterns in the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone of the Great Divide and Washakie Basins, Wyoming

2008 GSA Meeting, Houston, Texas

Pyles, D.R. and D. Jennette, Geometry and architecture of basin margin strata in structurally confined basins:  Example from the Ross Sandstone, Ireland

2008 AAPG International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa

Bouroullec, R., D. R. Pyles, The channel stacking matrix:  A new method to relate deep-water channel stacking pattern to reservoir parameters

Tomasso, M.,  R. Bouroullec, D. R. Pyles, Bridging the scale gap:  Geological and seismic forward modeling of outcrop data

2008 Geological Society of London Conference on Mass Transport Deposits,

Amerman, R, T.L. Davis, M.H. Gardner, E.P. Nelson, B. Trudgill, The use of geophysical methods and outcrop studies in the recognition and characterization of submarine mass transport deposits:  An integrated approach. 

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2008 DRB

Bourellec, R., Introduction to Annot, Architecture of a Conduit that Connects to Adjacent Minibasins

Clark, J., Applicability of CoRE Research to Chevron Deepwater Reservoirs

Pyles, D.R., Shelf to Basin Changes in Stratigraphic Architecture of a Prograding System: Lewis Shale

Pyles, D.R., Geometry and Facies Associations of Basin Margin Strata in Structurally Confined Submarin Fans: Example from the Ross Sandstone

Setiawan, P., Sedimentology of the Basin Margin in Growth Basins - Morillo Formation, Spain

Silalahi, H., Stratigraphic Architecture of Slope Deposits Associated with Prograding Margins, Sobrarbe Formation: Ainsa Basin, Spain

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2008 Publications

Amerman, R., E.P. Nelson, B. Trudgill, M.H. Gardner, in review Submarine mass transport complex evolution and control on overlying reservoir deposition, Permian Cutoff Formation, west Texas, in C. Shipp, P. Weimer, and H. Posementier, eds., The importance of mass-transport deposits in deepwater settings:  Tulsa, Oklahoma, SEPM

Paton, D.A.,  M. Carr, H. Ortner, B. Trudgill, D. Medwedeff, 2008, Application of traditional field techniques to 3D geospatial modeling, Geosphere.

Pyles, D.R., 2008, Architectural elements in a ponded submarine fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication.

Pyles, D.R., 2008, Multiscale Stratigraphic Analysis of a Structurally Confined Submarine Fan: Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Ireland: AAPG Bulletin

Pyles, D.R., and D. Jennette, in review Process and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: Example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland):  Marine and Petroleum Geology.

Pyles, D.R., and R.M. Slatt, 2008, Stratigraphic Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Southern Wyoming:  Applications to Understanding Shelf to Base-of-Slope Changes in Stratigraphic Architecture of Mud-Dominated, Progradational Depositional Systems, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication.

Pyles, D.R., D. Jennette, R. Beaubouef, M. Tomasso, and C. Rossen, in revision, Process-related concepts learned by characterizing the high-resolution 3D stratigraphy of a sinuous slope channel exposure:  Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas:  Journal of Sedimentary Research.

Slatt, R.M., J. Minken, S.K. Van Dyke, D.R. Pyles, A.J. Witten, and R.A. Young, 2008, Scales of heterogeneity of an outcropping leveed-channel system, Cretaceous Dad Sandstone Member, Lewis Shale, Wyoming, USA, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication.

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2008 Session Chair

R. Bouroullec, V. Abreu: SEPM/AAPG Annual Convention

D.R. Pyles and R.T. Beaubouef:  SEPM Turbidites and Deepwater Sedimentation Research Group Meeting

Hubbard, S, and D.R. Pyles:  GSA Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas

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2007:

Conferences

2007 AAPG Annual Convention, Long Beach

Anderson, D.S., & Carr, M., Modeling Crevasse Splay Versus Point-Bar Bodies: Relative Roles in Characterizing Tight-Gas Fluvial Reservoir Successions

Amerman, R. Trudgill, B. Nelson, E., Gardner, M. H., Arbues, P., Borer, J., Clark, J., Ford, G., Ortner, H., Plink-Bjorklund, P. & Pyles, D.R., Comparison of Deepwater Mass Transport Complex Settings: West Texas; South-Central Pyrenees, Spain; Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria

Bakare, O., Hurley, N.F., & McHargue, T., Effect of Growing Structures on Stratigraphic Evolution, Channel Architecture and Submarine Fan Distribution, Niger Delta, West Africa

Bakare, O., Hurley, N.F., McHargue, T., & Plink-Bjorklund, P., Influence of Mass Transport Deposits on Paleotopography, Turbidite Reservoir Architecture and Preservation, Niger Delta, West Africa

Bouroullec, R., Pyles, D.R., Jennette, D., & Tomasso, M., Stratigraphic architecture and evolution of a meandering slope channel complex, Capistrano Formation, San Clemente, California

Bouroullec, R., Pyles, D.R., Schwartz, D., Jennette, D., & Bonnaffé, F., Impact of local accommodation on the architecture and stacking patterns of three Capistrano Formation slope channel outcrops: San Clemente, Dana Point Harbor and Point Fermin, California

Bouroullec, R., Tomasso, M., Pyles, D.R., & Lee, K., Stratigraphy of an interbasinal deep-water conduit: Lessons learned from the Grand Coyer sub-basin, Eocene-Oligocene Grés d’Annot Sandstone, SE France

Lee, K., Bouroullec, R., Tomasso, M., & Ambrose W. A., Integration of ground penetrating radar with conventional stratigraphic and lidar data to investigate the three-dimensional geometry of a tidal-inlet reservoir analog, Upper Ferron Sandstone, Utah

Paton, D., Carr, M., Ortner, H., Amerman, R., Borer, J., Plink-Bjorklund, P., Pyles, D.R., Trudgill, B., & Wild, R., The Influence of Tectonics on Temporal and Spatial Variations in Sandbody Architecture; Cretaceous Gosau Basin, Western Calcareous Alps, Austria

Paton, D., Trudgill, B., Ortner, H., Medwedeff, D., Mortimer, E., Carr, M., & Pyles, D.R., 3D Geospatial and Structural Modeling of a Structurally Complex Deep-Water Basin; The Gosau Group, Western Calcareous Alps, Austria

Plink-Bjorklund, P., Carr, M., Amerman, R., Borer, J., Ford, G., Mortimer, E., Paton, D., Pyles, D.R., Trudgill, B., & Wild, R., An Outcrop Record of Complex Sediment Gravity Flow Mechanisms

Pyles, D.R., Tomasso, M., Jennette, D., Beaubouef, R., & Rossen, C., The Role of Secondary Flow on Facies Associations and Stratigraphic Architecture in Sinuous Slope Channels: Concepts Learned from a 3D Exposure of a Sinuous Slope Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas

Tomasso, M., Bouroullec, R., Lee, K. & Pyles, D.R., Stratigraphic architecture of early channel-fill within an interbasinal conduit: Grand Coyer, Grés d’Annot Formation, SE France

Tomasso, M., Pyles, D.R., Bonnaffé, R., & Jennette, D., 3D Geological and Seismic Forward Modeling of a Sinuous Slope Channel Complex

2007 Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Geology Series

Amerman, R., Trudgill, B., Nelson, E. P., Gardner, H., M., Arbués, P., Carr, M., Ortner, H., Paton, D., Plink-Björklund, P., & Pyles, D. R., Mass Transport Deposits and Active Tectonics: An Outcrop Perspective, April 24, 2007

Bouroullec, R., Tomasso, M., & Pyles, D.R., Stratigraphic Analysis of a Large Deepwater Inter-basinal Conduit, Grand Coyer Exposure, Grès d’Annot Formation, SE France

2007 Geological Society International Conference, From Outcrop to Asset, Manchester

Bouroullec, R., Tomasso, M., Pyles, D.R., Jennette, D., Lee, K., & Bonnaffe, F., Use of Ground-Based Lidar Technology for Quantitative Stratigraphic Analysis

2007 European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Annual Conference, London

Bouroullec, R., Tomasso, M., Pyles, D.R., & Jennette, D., Quantitative Stratigraphic Analysis of Sinuous Channel Outcrop Analogues using Ground-Based Lidar

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2007 DRB

Amerman, R., Mass Transport Deposits

Carr, M., et al., Stratigraphic Variations

Clark, J., Stratigraphic Rules Impacting Business Decisions in Deepwater Reservoirs

Clark, J., Pyles, D.R., et al., Summary of Field Reconnaissance and Future Research in the Ainsa Basin, Spain

Hale, D., & Sava, P., Geophysical Research

Paton, D., et al., Introduction to the Gosau Basin

Paton, D., et al., Structural – Stratigraphic Interactions

Pyles, D.R., & Carr, M., Relationship Between Submarine Channel Sinuosity and Symmetry

Pyles, D.R., Harris, F., CSM CoRE Research Program Overview

Pyles, D.R., & Harris, F., Knowledge Transfer

Pyles, D.R., & Harris, F., 2007 Workplan

Pyles, D.R., Overview of the Ross Sandstone

Pyles, D.R., Structure Stratigraphic Interactions

Onyirioha, R., Proposed Structural and Stratigraphic Interpretations of Gbokoda

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2007 Publications

Lee, K., Tomasso, M., Ambrose, W. A., & Bouroullec, R., 2007, Integration of GPR with stratigraphic and lidar data to investigate behind-the-outcrop 3D geometry of a tidal channel reservoir analog, upper Ferron Sandstone, Utah

Pyles, D.R., accepted, Multiscale Stratigraphic analysis of a structurally confined submarine fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Ireland: AAPG Bulletin.

Pyles, D.R., in press, Architectural elements in a ponded submarine fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication (full article).

Pyles, D.R., in press, Architectural elements in a ponded submarine fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication (atlas article).

Pyles, D.R., & Jennette, D., in review, Process and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: Example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone: Marine and Petroleum Geology.

Pyles, D.R., & Slatt, R.M., in press, Stratigraphic Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Southern Wyoming: Applications to Understanding Shelf to Base-of-Slope Changes in Stratigraphic Architecture of Mud-Dominated, Progradational Depositional Systems, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication (full article).

Pyles, D.R., & Slatt, R.M., in press, Stratigraphic Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Southern Wyoming: Applications to Understanding Shelf to Base-of-Slope Changes in Stratigraphic Architecture of Mud-Dominated, Progradational Depositional Systems, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication (atlas article).

Slatt, R.M., Minken, J., Van Dyke, S.K., Pyles, D.R., Witten, A.J., & Young, R.A., in press, Scales of heterogeneity of an outcropping leveed-channel system, Cretaceous Dad Sandstone Member, Lewis Shale, Wyoming, USA, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication (full article).

Slatt, R.M., Minken, J., Van Dyke, S.K., Pyles, D.R., Witten, A.J., & Young, R.A., in press, Scales of heterogeneity of an outcropping leveed-channel system, Cretaceous Dad Sandstone Member, Lewis Shale, Wyoming, USA, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication (atlas article).

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2007 Session Chair

Bouroullec R. & Hodgetts D., Best of GeoSoc, European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers  2007 Annual Conference, London

Pyles D. R. & Joseph, P., Effects of Active Structural Growth and Confined Basins on Sandbody Architecture, AAPG 2007 Annual Convention, Long Beach

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2006:

Conferences

2006 AAPG Annual Meeting

Amerman, R., Nelson, E. P., Gardner, M.H., & Trudgill, B., 2006, Submarine mass transport complex evolution and control on overlying reservoir geometry, Permian Cutoff Formation, west Texas

Bonnaffe, F., Jennette, D.C., Andrews, J.R., Pyles, D.R., Bouroullec, R., & Tomasso, M., A method for acquiring and processing ground-based LiDAR data in difficult to access outcrops for use in 3-D virtual-reality models,

Bouroullec, R., & Pyles, D.R., Large sand extrusions affecting slope channel architecture and evolution, Mio-Pliocene Monterey and Capistrano Formations, Dana Point Harbor, California

Pyles, D.R., Hierarchical stacking of submarine channels and their depositional lobes in distributary landscapes, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland

Pyles, D.R., Beaubouef, R.T., Jennette, D.C., Rossen, C., Tomasso, M., Lovell, R., & Sprague, A.R., Insights into reservoir characteristics of sinuous deepwater channel fills from outcrop analogs—Part 1: Stratigraphic and sedimentologic evolution of a sinuous slope channel-fill, Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas

Pyles, D.R. & Bouroullec, R., Processes and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone Ireland

Seidler, L., Stewart, J., Fischer, B.J., Lyttle, C.J., Sprague, A.R., Box, D., Maynard, J.R., Campion, K.M., Beaubouef, R.T., & Pyles, D.R., Insights into reservoir characteristics of sinuous deep-water channel fills from outcrop analogs—Part 2: Testing production scenarios using outcrops as templates for geologic and reservoir simulation

Tomasso, M., Bonnaffe, F., Pyles, D.R., Bouroullec, R., Janson, X., Jennette, D.C., Bellian, J. A., & Kerans, C., Application of seismic forward modeling of detailed outcrop data in improving sub-surface interpretation

2006 Rocky Mountain AAPG Annual Meeting:

Boyce, M., Slatt, R.M., & Pyles, D.R., Characterization of Cretaceous Age Lewis Shale Deepwater Lobe Sands: Sanger Ranch, Washakie Basin, Wyoming

2006 GSA Penrose Meeting:

Paton, D., Borer, J., Trudgill, B., Amerman, R., Pyles, D.R., Carr, M., Ortner, H., Sullivan, M., Medwedeff, D., & Clark, J., Using 3D Geospatial Modelling to Investigate the 4D Structural Controls on the Deposition of the Gosau Deep Water Sedimentary Basin, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria

Tomasso, M., Pyles, D.R., Bonnaffe, F., & Jennette, D.C., Using LiDAR Data to enhance 3D Geological and Seismic Forward Modeling: Example of a Sinuous Slope Channel Complex, Brushy Canyon  Formation, West Texas: GSA Penrose Meeting

GSA 2006 Rocky Mountain Section Meeting: Oral

Amerman, R., Nelson, E. P., Gardner, M. H., & Trudgil, B., 2006, Submarine mass transport complex evolution and control on overlying reservoir geometry, Permian Cutoff Formation, west Texas

2006 West Texas Geological Society Meeting:

Tomasso, M., Bonnaffe, F., Pyles, D.R., Bouroullec, R., & Jennette, D.C., Outcrop versus seismic architecture of deep-water deposits: a slope to basin transect of the Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas

2006 Gulf Coast Section SEPM Meeting:

Tomasso, M., Pyles, D.R., Bonnaffee, F., Bouroullec, R., & Jennette, D.C., Outcrop versus Seismic Architecture of Deep-Water Deposits: Use of Lidar along a Slope-to-Basin Transect of the Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas

2006 Chevron SSC Forum:

Bouroullec, R., Tomasso, M., Lee, K., & Pyles, D.R., Stratigraphy of an Intraslope Basin Conduit: Lessons Learned from the Grand Coyer Sub-Basin, Annot Sandstone, Southern France

Carr, M., et al., The influence of tectonics on temporal and spatial variations in deep water stratigraphy; Cretaceous Gosau Basin, Western Calcareous Alps, Austria

Paton, D., et al., Structural Controls on the Stratigraphic Evolution of Deep Water Basins: Insights from Geospatial 4D Modeling of the Gosau Group, Western Calcareous Alps Austria

Pyles, D.R, Jennette, D., & Tomasso, M., Stratigraphic and Hydrodynamic Concepts learned from a 3D Exposure of a Sinuous Slope Channel: Beacon Channel Complex, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas

Tomasso, M., & Pyles, D.R., Three-Dimensional Seismic Foraward Modeling of a Sinuous Slope Channel, Beacon Channel Complex, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas

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2006 CVX Visits

Paton, D., et al., Structural Controls on the Stratigraphic Evolution of Deep Water Basins: Insights from Geospatial 4D Modeling of the Gosau Group, Western Calcareous Alps Austria

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2006 DRB

Amerman, R., Mass Transport Complex Study

Borer, J., Deep-Water Rules: Guidelines for Characterization, Interpretation and Modeling

Carr, M., et al., Modeling Subseismic Sheets/Lobes in Deepwater Systems

Paton, D., Structural Controls on Deep-Water Stratigraphy

Pyles, D.R., Proposed Field Research, Ainsa Basin, Spain: Phase I

Pyles, D.R., Proposed Field Research, Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland

Pyles, D.R., & Harris, F., Globally Applicable Deepwater Concepts

Pyles, D.R., & Harris, F., Knowledge Transfer and Future Opportunities

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2006 Publications

M. Tomasso, Pyles, D.R., Bonnaffee, F., Bouroullec, R., & Jennette, D.C., 2006, Outcrop versus Seismic Architecture of Deep-Water Deposits: Use of Lidar along a Slope-to-Basin Transect of the Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas, Gulf Coast Section SEPM special publication 26, p. 755-770.

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Other Lectures

Paton, D., Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Geology Lunch Series:From Geomodel to Petroleum Models to Reality: Orange Basin Passive Margin South Africa, 2006

Pyles, D.R., Colorado School of Mines Van Tuyl Lecture Series:  Stratigraphic and Hydrodynamic Concepts Learned from a 3D Exposure of a Sinuous Slope Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas, 2006

Pyles, D.R., Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Geology Lunch Series:  Processes and Facies Associations in Basin-Margin Strata of Structurally Confined Submarine Fans: Example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland), 2006

Pyles, D.R., University of Oklahoma Geology Colloquium: Stratigraphic and Hydrodynamic Concepts Learned from a 3D Exposure of a Sinuous Slope Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas, 2006

Pyles, D.R., University of Oklahoma Reservoir Characterization Talk: Processes and Facies Associations in Basin-Margin Strata of Structurally Confined Submarine Fans: Example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland), 2006

 

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