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Tropical Deltas of Southeast Asia—Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Petroleum Geology: SEPM Special Publication No. 76

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TROPICAL DELTAS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA—SEDIMENTOLOGY, STRATIGRAPHY, AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY: SEPM SPECIAL PUBLICATION NO. 76

F. Hasan Sidi, Dag Nummedal, Patrice Imbert, Herman Darman, and Henry W. Posamentier, Editors, 2004, SEPM, Tulsa, 269 p. (Hardcover, SEPM Members; US $87.00; non-members; US $121.00) ISBN: 1-56576-086-7.

A couple of years ago, I was assigned the task of identifying reservoir trends in a new gas field located in the Gulf of Thailand. This was the first step in developing a reservoir model. Geologists working on that part of the world have had a tendency to lump depositional environments for petroleum reservoirs into the catchall category of "fluvio-deltaic." This fence sitting is not only frustrating, it fails to provide the kind of detail necessary to build genuine reservoir models. As I tried to match the well data to examples from modern deltas, I was again frustrated by how difficult it was to access papers written about tropical deltas, especially those written from the point of view of petroleum geology or sequence stratigraphy. As a Bangkok resident, this problem was especially acute, because I often rely on publications I can access on line. With work, I was able to get my hands on a few recent articles, but I was never satisfied that the studies I could access were good analogies for Southeast Asia. With nowhere else to turn, I retreated to my old textbooks (Reading, 1986), old course notes (Coleman and Prior, 1980), and SEPM's last special publication on deltas (Morgan and Shaver, 1970). My dilemma finally was solved when I got my hands on SEPM's newest volume on deltas: Tropical Deltas of Southeast Asia—Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Petroleum Geology, SEPM Special Publication Number 76.

Aside from the focus on Southeast Asia I was searching for, the newer special publication benefits from 33 years of advances in sedimentology and oceanography, not to mention the . . . [Full Text of this Article]