Carbonate Reservoirs: Porosity, Evolution and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework

"...Coming from AAPG's recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Lecturer Award, the book is useful for exploration/production geologists, and is a welcome comprehensive reference, overviewing carbonate sequences and sediments in a sequence-stratigraphic framework. It could be profitably used in advanced carbonate courses and by graduate level students. The purchase is worth the price." --Journal of Sedimentary Research
"...This book is well-written and easy to read. There is a lot of information there but it is presented in an interesting way, with useful summaries. ...Clyde Moore is to be congratulated on writing a fine book that is a must for all carbonate and petroleum geologists and which comes with a CD-ROM that will be very useful indeed for graduate students and others to browse through while reading the book. --Organanic Geochemistry
"...This book is a major teaching resource on carbonate diagenesis and carbonate reservoirs from a scientist who has spent his professional life in this field." --Marine and Petroleum Geology
"...if you need a good overview of carbonate geology that will bring you up to date with some of the latest ideas, go and get yourself a copy of Carbonate Reservoirs Porosity Evolution and Diagenesis in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework. There are already two copies in our office. Enough said. --Journal of Petroleum Geology

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Dr. Clyde H. Moore received his BS degree in Geology from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Texas in Austin. He spent a number of years as a research geologist with Shell Development Company in Houston, Texas and Ventura, California. During this period he studied Cretaceous carbonate sequences in Texas, modern clastic coastal depositional environments along the Atlantic coast, and Tertiary clastic sequences in the marginal basins of the Pacific coast. He joined the geology faculty at Louisiana State University in 1966 and retired as Professor Emeritus in 1997. During his tenure at LSU his research interests and the work of his students spanned all aspects of carbonate geology from modern sediments to ancients rock sequences around the world. His main focus in his later years at LSU was the nature and evolution of porosity in carbonate reservoirs. This research was sponsored by an industrial associates program. At present he is a research professor at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He is an active consultant and teaches industrial seminars for Oil and Gas Consultants Inc (OGCI). His seminars include Carbonate Reservoirs and Sequence Stratigraphy. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for AAPG and recently received the AAPG Distinguished Educator award. He resides in Lakewood, Colorado.

Office address: Department of Geology Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 80401, USA Ph. 303 273 3805 Fax 303 273 3857 Email: chmoore@mines.edu

Preface. Chapter 1. The Nature of the Carbonate Depositional System. The Basic Nature of Carbonate Sediments and Sedimentation. (Sample images from CD-ROM in pdf format: /inca/publications/misc/622101fig1-13.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig1-14.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig1-17.pdf) Introduction. Origin of carbonate sediments. The reef: a unique depositional environment. Unique biological control over the texture and fabric of carbonate sediments. Carbonate grain composition. Carbonate rock classification. Efficiency of the carbonate factory and its impact on patterns of carbonate sedimentation. Carbonate platform types and facies models. Summary. Chapter 2. Concepts of Sequence Stratigraphy as Applied to Carbonate Depositional Systems. (Sample images from CD-ROM in pdf format: /inca/publications/misc/622101fig2-3.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig2-6.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig2-13.pdf) Introduction. Sequence Stratigraphy. Eustasy, tectonics and sedimentation: the basic accommodation model. Hierarchy of Stratigraphic Cycles. Introduction of Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphic Models. The Ramp Sequence Stratigraphic Model. The Rimmed Shelf Sequence Stratigraphic Model. The Escarpment Margin Sequence Stratigraphic Model. Sequence Stratigraphic Model of Isolated Platforms. High-frequency cyclicity on carbonate platforms: carbonate parasequences. The Consequences of the High-Chemical Reactivity of Carbonate Sediments and Rocks During Exposure at Sequence Boundaries. Carbonate minerals and their relative stability. Controls over the mineralogy of carbonate sediments, today and in the past. Mineralogy of ancient limestones: the concept of early progressive mineral stabilization and porosity evolution. Summary. Chapter 3. The Classification of Carbonate Porosity. (Sample images from CD-ROM in pdf format: /inca/publications/misc/622101fig3-8.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig3-12.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig3-21.pdf) Introduction. The Nature and Classification of Carbonate Porosity. Choquette and Pray porosity classification. The Lucia rock fabric/petrophysical carbonate porosity classification. The Nature of Primary Porosity in Modern Sediments. Intergrain porosity. Intragrain porosity. Depositional porosity of mud-bearing sediments. Framework and fenestral porosity. Secondary Porosity. Introduction. Secondary porosity formation by dissolution. Secondary porosity associated with dolomitization. Secondary porosity associated with breccias. Secondary porosity associated with fractures. Summary. Chapter 4. Diagenetic Environments of Porosity Modification and Tools for their Recognition in the Geologic Record61. (Sample images from CD-ROM in pdf format: /inca/publications/misc/622101fig4-1.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig4-4.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig4-17.pdf) Introduction. Marine environment. Meteoric environment. Subsurface environment. Petrography-cement morphology. Petrography-cement distribution patterns. Petrography-grain-cement relationships relative to compaction. Trace element geochemistry of calcite cements and dolomites. Stable isotopes. Strontium isotopes. Fluid Inclusions. Chapter 5. Normal Marine Diagenetic Environments. (Sample images from CD-ROM in pdf format: /inca/publications/misc/622101fig5-3.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig5-16.pdf /inca/publications/misc/622101fig5-29.pdf) Introduction. Shallow Water, Normal Marine Diagenetic Environments. Abiotic shallow marine carbonate cementation. Recognition of ancient shallow marine abiotic cements. Biologically mediated marine carbonate cementation and diagenesis. Diagenetic setting in the intertidal zone. Modern shallow water submarine hardgrounds. Recognition and significance of ancient hardgrounds. Diagenetic setting in the modern reef environment. Recognition of reef-related marine diagenesis in the ancient record. Early marine lithification of the Permian Capitan reef complex New Mexico, USA. Porosity evolution of