Facies architecture and sequence stratigraphy of nonmarine and shallow-marine deposits

这个建议发展了两个长期存在的主题，这是我大部分研究的特点。首先是继续探索非海相和浅海沉积单元的结构，以帮助了解它们的起源，并为石油储层研究做出贡献。本提案延续了科罗拉多高原地区长期以来的调查计划，该地区缺乏植被覆盖和结构干扰，导致大量极好的露头，可用于详细的地表调查。这些相同的条件有利于使用探地雷达来探测浅层地下（在干燥岩石中下至约30米）的三维结构和雷达相。另一个项目探索了阿尔伯塔南部沿着一些河流的大型白垩纪露头。第二个主题包括调查对大规模盆地结构的控制，在这种情况下，通过绘制阿尔伯塔南部部分地区的高频层序地层。目的是更好地了解重要的含气砂岩，并在构造模型和其他模型的开发中使用地层数据来解释高频层序地层学。该提案包含了四名博士生完成研究的计划，他们都已经开展了实地考察的初步方案，并处于规划其主要研究活动的高级阶段。

This proposal develops two longstanding themes that have characterized much of my research. The first is continued exploration of the architecture of nonmarine and shallow-marine sedimentary units, as an aid to understanding their origins, and as a contribution to petroleum reservoir studies. The present proposal continues a long-standing program of investigations in the Colorado Plateau area, where the lack of vegetation cover and the lack of structural disturbance has resulted in a plethora of superb outcrops for detailed surface investigations. These same conditions facilitate the use of ground-penetrating radar for exploring three-dimensional architecture and radar facies in the shallow subsurface (down to about 30 m in dry rocks). An additional project explores the large Cretaceous outcrops along some rivers in southern Alberta. The second theme consists of investigation of the controls on large-scale basin architecture, in this case through the mapping of high-frequency sequence stratigraphy of part of southern Alberta. The objective is to develop a better knowledge of a significant gas-bearing sandstone, and to use stratigraphic data in the development of tectonic and other models to explain high-frequency sequence stratigraphy. The proposal contains the plans for the completion of research by four doctoral students, all of whom have carried out initial programs of field reconnaissance and are at an advanced stage of planning for the their major research activities.