Lower Paleozoic Siliciclastic Reservoir Potential Predicted From Outcrop, Eustatic Sea Level, and Analogs: Arabian Plate
Steinhauff1, D.L. Le Pain1, S. Alshamary1, and S. Hayton1
1Saudi Aramco
Abstract
Cambrian to Devonian strata thin onto the Arabian Shield and provide anchor points for environments of depostion (EODs) more proximal than observed in the subsurface. Sandstones in outcrop record sandy-braided fluvial, eolian, estuarine, barrier-island/tidal inlet, deltaic, shoreface, and shelf EODs; whereas, equivalents observed in the subsurface comprise more distal EODs.
AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90188 ©GEO-2014, 11th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition, 10-12 March 2014, Manama, Bahrain