Shelf Margin Deltas

INTRODUCTION

THE DELIVERY SYSTEM:INCISED VALLEYS
          Recent Examples
          Subsurface Examples

THE TARGET: SHELF MARGIN DELTAS
          Late Pleistocene / Recent
                    We will look at the best documented one in the world. Continuous 300-foot
                    cores show what really happens.             
          Subsurface Examples / Fields
                    We will look at six different Gulf Coast trends ranging from the Tuscaloosa
                    to the offshore Miocene.

EARLY EXPLORATION CLUES / DECISIONS
 

CLASSROOM: 2 DAYS
          OPTION: A one day field trip to a true shelf margin delta.

Cotaught with Harry Roberts
                        Coastal Studies Institute
                        Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
 
Those orange pods at the ends of low stand incised valleys are the
shelf margin deltas. These are extremely inportant exploration targets
and are the reservoir in most of the major Gulf Basin onshore discoveries
in clastics since 1970. Why not schedule a course and get the most
recent "ground truth" on these features?