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00:02 Okay, We're gonna finish up on islands. Not quite sure how long

00:06 out there, but when we I left you with this diagram

00:11 uh, I find a useful diagram think about as you're thinking about the

00:17 really architectural elements, the different parts the barrier system, and also begin

00:22 compare it with some of the other . For, um, Wave dominated

00:30 as, well River. So I'll that for now. But it is

00:34 useful diagram. Think about. And what we've done is we pretty much

00:40 the life out of the offshore to sequence of a pro grading. We

00:48 dominated setting being a barrier island or cling Okay on. We've also mentioned

00:55 fact that when we think about things reservoir modeling, we need to recognize

01:03 these con forms are really important in way in which the physical properties of

01:12 sediments and sedimentary rocks have developed. , there's one last hola seem a

01:18 I want to talk about. And first thing is you can see that

01:22 is a I was see not the drumstick, but it's best I got

01:34 is gonna be in a mixed title are mixed energy. It's clearly not

01:43 dominated. And if we look at cross section through this Ah, what

01:47 see is a transgressive shoreline. I'm . A Siris of, uh,

01:56 surfaces in this one here is, man is to up, so

02:02 there's gonna be this one. Here the most recent transgression, and then

02:06 have a regressive sequence. This is like we've been talking about.

02:13 And you notice here, there's some over fan deposits. So this again

02:18 a pro grading barrier island. There a little bit of a transgression and

02:25 been pro gradation. Okay, They ignoring that there was an earlier one

02:29 down in here. Uh, so is particularly from this package here,

02:37 kind of a darker yellow is the scene package. Now, on top

02:43 it, we're looking at Aeolian deposits then go into the bay.

02:50 Now, on the, uh, again, we can see that

03:04 Okay. And so we're picking up programming four cents, and but I

03:09 you to think about is something relatively history here nonetheless, with the pro

03:17 and transgression. We're getting some variability what arguably is a simple hole of

03:25 barrier, and I want you to go back and think about those Pleistocene

03:31 that we had in the trended and there was a Siris of transgressions,

03:38 over the regressions, transmigration, transgression, little drop in base

03:46 And so this kind of internal variability we saw apply icing eyes really not

03:56 from the internal variability we see in much shorter period of time, which

04:01 be the whole safe. Okay, there's one. Really there's writing good

04:06 , but one of the examples I the best for a A barrier system

04:13 the Friel formation in Texas. And were looking at a legacy mean system

04:24 is kind of like today. That to say, we've got rivers to

04:29 north and revert to the South. in Central Texas, we have a

04:34 grading, largely pro grading system that's to as a barrier slash strand

04:39 and it's a ah, a large of oil, but also that 80%

04:47 along the update margin. So we're look at what it basically a series

04:51 strata graphic traps that are associated with barrier islands. And this is an

04:58 that I particularly like, but it only available as a Bureau of economic

05:04 part of investigation. I don't have digital copy, but it it's a

05:09 a very nice example of how you take apart a barrier and then look

05:14 the components and then from that look the reservoir quality. So this is

05:21 a cross section of the field, like most of these fields, they

05:26 Siris of sand stones that are labeled number. So here's the 41 A

05:33 be talking about that, and there's couple of things to notice with

05:37 First of all, there are back pinch outs into a look good.

05:45 , of course, those are the fans the, uh, flood tidal

05:53 , basically those sand intrusions into the . In addition, on the marine

06:00 , we see a Siris of regressive that air pinching out seaward, and

06:13 see these regressive packages, or para that are largely vertically accreting Now.

06:20 , there's transgressions regressions, but the of vertical. A creation is making

06:28 barriers stacked one on top of it . Okay, Eso We're gonna look

06:33 one of these. We're gonna look the 41 a and look at the

06:37 Apax, and this is the oil contact here. Oh, and what

06:42 you see? Recognizing that that, , ice impacts are kind of art

06:50 . They you kind of see what want to see. But what I

06:56 in the person I think that drew up is that on this area here

06:59 see a series of more or less oriented, uh, ice Apax.

07:06 then we go into an area here is more or less dip oriented,

07:13 then we come back over here, get a strike Lorena system, and

07:18 it looks like we have something fanning . Okay, so that's the first

07:24 that kind of comes to mind. then when we look at that,

07:29 interpreted, this then becomes the barrier that is the pro grading strand plane

07:35 here. We're looking at what was pro grading strand playing this filling in

07:41 title inland. Okay, so here's title and okay. And then this

07:47 out hips, uh is the flood Delta My pen once stood tickle

07:57 So this is the month and then , no, Settle minor in little

08:01 , that's where these Ah, what really Beach Regis or truncate?

08:09 Now, the nice thing is, interpretation is also based on on core

08:14 , well, logs, not just impacts, but let's look at what

08:19 , uh, core derived permeability And in that programming barrier corps,

08:26 goes from a maximum of over 2000 Darcy's to 1 to 2000. That

08:38 Ah, there are resident pro grading in the film, but with spit

08:51 is over 1000 and then the inlet , for most of the inlet and

08:56 Sodom Delta are less than ah 1000 Darcy. So clearly there's some strong

09:04 . And then when you look at , that detail, you see even

09:07 interesting parts. So this is the shore face of the shore face

09:13 This is that pro grading secrets that so familiar with now and there's an

09:19 in brain size. This is what's to as the barrier Corps And then

09:25 got that title. And with that is laterally migrating, okay?

09:33 we know that's got a somewhat uh, Phil pattern is going to

09:40 something like this. Remember that spit Ridge? It's gonna be increased grain

09:51 notices, um, coarsening downward until get to that. Okay, so

10:00 beginning to see that there are packages this, and so we look for

10:05 higher permeability ease, and this should been greater than ah, and we

10:12 for the highest perm abilities. So the core is going to be the

10:15 shore face and beach. Or for , Okay. In the laterally pro

10:24 . Handle it, Phil. it's gonna be the lower for of

10:30 in that ville. Disassociated with channel , of course, is highest

10:35 And we're gonna get some high I'm sorry. Well, they are

10:42 unity, but they're coarse grained, sorted spit deposits that cap the inland

10:48 prior to abandon. Now, also that there are some segments of the

10:57 that are muddy. Okay, so indicates basically periods of time where there

11:02 changes in the a pattern of mud during the latter of migration. And

11:08 get a little patch of the down , etcetera. So we begin to

11:11 how within each of these components we variations and permeability. Okay,

11:20 this is one of the different sand sandstone, and it's a transgressive

11:27 This is just the interpretation. I bother showing the details with a watch

11:32 fan complex coming in and then the over here. Okay, That is

11:40 similar at the same scale. Eyes we would see here with metta gonna

11:53 . So way could imagine Galveston Island kind of the model for the 41

12:02 and then Matagorda Island, the model the Glasscock sand. And of

12:06 the up dip pinch out is where oil in this case the oil is

12:14 OK was in cross section, Of , is gonna look something like

12:18 Okay, Okay. Okay. S , this is just one example.

12:26 also that those examples that I gave a pro grading strand plane, the

12:33 properties and the modeling issues are pretty the same. Okay, The big

12:38 , of course, being the title . So what we've done is We've

12:44 at Strand playing barrier islands in both regressive pro grading setting and a transgressive

12:53 . But one do now is look estuaries, Okay? And estuaries.

13:02 of a bit of an issue with to definition, uh, there they

13:08 lead to find on solemnity. Fresh , diluted, freshwater, rather mixing

13:15 waters. But that's kind of an . No setting. I mean,

13:21 definition title influence. The Antolin extended sea reaching and remember, for us

13:28 upper limit of title rise. this is something at least that we

13:33 , presumably seeing the rock record. . Uh, and so if we

13:39 about solidity mixing, basically, this going to the definition of an

13:49 If we think of title influence, we're gonna look over here.

13:58 Uh, now what? I think as a quick aside, I was

14:03 in a lawsuit, uh, where was an expert witness on a an

14:10 of the Sanderson River. And after spending a lot of time discussing

14:15 effective subsided since on the curve ass in the area Ah, the judge

14:21 . Well, is this an And I said, Well, I

14:24 really see it is an estuary. , there's not a significant reduction changing

14:32 . And clearly the morphology is flu . Ah, But then the other

14:38 said well, but according to the records, those Anderson River shows toddle

14:46 all the way up to like Houston the dam. And I said,

14:52 , because what that did waas to that river no over river but in

14:59 and turns out that legally laws related are different than laws related river.

15:06 you never know where this particular distinction pop in? Uh huh. The

15:13 with both, in a way, that they're not very easily extended into

15:19 rock record. And so what we're at is a record where,

15:27 it is the limit of title She's okay and over the inland

15:33 anyway, and Seaworld limit of coastal at the mouth. These are face

15:38 that are influenced by times and Conclude your processes. So that's pretty

15:44 what we're going to use and what largely used in the geologic literature.

15:49 so what we've got is this even though it's below the zone of

15:54 influence, we don't have any Significant, uh, processes recorded.

16:02 , and so think of river processes a dominant here and then by Tommy

16:08 way out here. The river processes negligible, whereas marine processes, but

16:18 and tides or dominant. And, course, in clean, uh,

16:22 see ah mixing. And so we're kind of subbed about this into three

16:30 . A river dominated section where river are dominant. A marine dominated section

16:38 marine processes air dollar and then a energy. Okay, so Galveston Day

16:44 out to be a good estuary of type. If we kind of modified

16:48 little bit to look at settlement, see that there's some sediment that's coming

16:52 here with from the bay we see some settlement that's coming out in this

16:59 . Uh oh. This sediment is from erosion. But this settlement here

17:05 coming from the bay. And if look at the percent sand, one

17:13 that I think you see is that got wash over two pauses, that

17:18 extending ah, sediments into this You got little bit of sediments over

17:26 . Okay? And so what? defined is an area that's influenced by

17:31 processes, a little bit of river in here, and then the rest

17:37 basically gonna be a mud. That be the scent mixed zone. So

17:43 is a, uh, on estuary we would consider a wave dominated

17:50 Okay, tides are not a big , and that's going to distinguish it

17:54 a tide dominated this jewelry, which deal with it in a moment.

17:58 let's look at that. Waved on dish. Rethink Galveston Were they had

18:05 over here. We've got barrier islands wash overs and flood title Delta Over

18:12 . This is the kind of cross that we've been looking at. Here's

18:16 programming beta delta. And so we back to Galveston, and that's pretty

18:21 what we're looking here is the flood Delta and the wash overs.

18:27 that's over here. Here is that extent. Have this the influence on

18:35 what? We don't have here very , but we've got we've got essentially

18:39 head down to sitting up here. , So the wave dominated deltas are

18:46 to visualize their relatively straightforward in terms the face she's and clearly all the

18:52 that we see here our face, associated Barrier Islands. And so the

19:01 difference now is that it's confined into type of a alluvial valley, and

19:09 gonna have a s Terreri s marine dominant system here in village. And

19:19 had Delta's pro grading. Yeah, this setting right here in a And

19:26 is a cross section of a we've got a marine transgression.

19:34 we've got some titling from, So is the transgressive barrier island cross section

19:40 we talked about. Okay. Ocean , air causing transgression. OK,

19:48 here's that they had Delta. That's of pro grading out a little

19:52 Now, with time that Delta has to fill in the upper part of

20:02 bay. Meanwhile, we still according to this model of transgression.

20:10 we're we're still having sediments coming in here. And eventually that river completely

20:22 the Esther where, but knows we have erosion and transgression here.

20:28 so we still have a transgressive barrier . Uh, it turns out that

20:33 it continued, we're going to start transform. In fact, at this

20:38 , you could argue that we no have a barrier. There's no lagoon

20:45 . It is part of a I'm probably a wave dominated Delta.

20:51 , so by the time we get this ah, it's a wave dominated

20:57 . Okay, Now, a couple things toe No, on this,

21:03 , the transition from a an estuary barrier bar to away dominated Delta basically

21:12 the river to fill the estuary. that's what's happened in the Brazos

21:17 where the Colorado River Okay, that rivers had enough sediment that they fill

21:22 estuary. Unlike the trend A in Santa, which have yet to

21:29 Young said they Oh, so we that transition from barrier islands in pro

21:36 , a filling of an estuary to dominated. The other thing,

21:41 is that notice in this case, never go to a Galveston Island Pro

21:47 ation until the river starts emptying sediment into the near shore zones. At

21:56 point, we're gonna begin toe have gradation, according to this example.

22:02 the reason is, there's not much coming in to allow the delta,

22:09 though you're at a high stand to in other cases. Maybe because of

22:16 , erosion? Yeah, or or sources. There's no reason why that

22:24 couldn't have become a regressive barrier, as the island was a rather even

22:29 the estuary was Philip. And that , of course, was happened in

22:33 Island, Galveston Island. This is . I rather gums an estuary,

22:39 gobs and island. Except that it pro grading. Now follow Thailand.

22:47 on the bottom was transgressing. So whole issue of what's going on along

22:53 wave dominated front is in some ways of what's going on to that river

23:02 back bay. Okay, yeah. here we've got this trend.

23:09 first of all, we're in a valley. That's where most of our

23:13 estuaries occur today. And so, sea level rose, we had that

23:20 surface. It rose to here, maybe even here. And we also

23:29 that that be flooding of the seaward of the estuary. And they had

23:40 kept back stepping until right here. at this point that they had Delta's

23:46 to fill the upper part of the . Okay, Now, in this

23:55 , as soon as the estuary is , we begin to see the pro

24:01 ation of what is now a wave delta. Okay, now, if

24:07 look at it a little differently, think it's easier. Individualist. What's

24:11 on? Ah, I kind of this style of of, ah,

24:18 that is here Is that pro This is a wielder diagram of

24:22 This pro grading, uh, sure . Okay. And what we're preserving

24:31 the inland face. She's from the islands. There's going to be title

24:36 Let's wash over. Fans knows there's funny little thing right here. We

24:41 it up a little kosher. That is a little erosion all

24:49 That's the result of lateral erosion of title inland in combination with these wash

24:56 so and then the whole thing is by erosion. That's why that looks

25:01 here we've had a little bit of ah regression on from the day title

25:08 Beta delta and then transgressed again. typical. During a rise in sea

25:14 , little pauses in the increase of level or the sediment supply because these

25:20 go back and forth and then right , red on rental Children.

25:25 we began filling of the bay, Delta and Delta plane. And then

25:30 this point, ah, two we have resulted in in a pro

25:39 . Well, we have dominated Pretty straightforward. This is Ah,

25:44 model to vision. And if you're sequenced photography our high stand track begins

25:55 the sediment load sediment budget basically allows to increase had a rate greater than

26:07 energy. Okay, greater if you the rise in sea level. So

26:12 quit flooding the valley, and we to fill the estuary, and we

26:18 to Well, at some point pro out, Siemer. Okay, there's

26:24 lot of erosion surfaces here. sequence. Boundary if you like.

26:30 that basil Rozenhal? Scour? That's the valley filled around sorry valley in

26:37 Valley and then a sui go up is that you wave a revetment

26:44 That's the, uh, erosion surface rise in water level. These

26:52 uh, there's a title ravine. , let's see. Hang on.

27:04 , yeah. Uh, these are ravines here. Caused by that erosion

27:18 lateral migration of the title inlet. are some erosion. All features here

27:27 with variations in the they had, , Delta. The transgressive surface is

27:37 the area that was flooded, but flooding they actually extend out to

27:46 Okay, uh, but there's not an erosion all, Oh, Fator

27:52 with that. So this is gonna a complex cryptography when you look at

27:56 in detail. But we've looked at . We know exactly what each of

28:03 is gonna look like. Well, we even know this flu ville a

28:08 system here. So the only thing really little uneasy about is that they

28:13 Delta and the wave dominated ill, we'll get to. Here's an

28:20 This is the type of river. are basically, uh, contours of

28:26 buried Stieber Valley. Ah, Into a low stand. Oh,

28:35 then this is the present pro grading . And so what we're interested in

28:47 how that valley filled to form, , the estuary and and this is

28:51 it's filled. Here's the modern It's a way dominated delta. So

29:00 got, uh, pro grading way deposits. Okay, here's that basil

29:14 . And here are those a little re interests that were associated with the

29:25 overs in title, Endless. And here? No, thank. Or

29:32 we've got, uh, basically some our I think I'm just second our

29:43 plane. Uh, well s ring Delta plane deposit sitting in there.

29:50 . And, uh, yeah, our low stand Delta. Then here

29:56 a delta front transgressive surface. Another fraud, transgressive. And then Delta

30:04 . Okay, so here's the central that they had. Delta, This

30:10 the outer basin. And then this the high stand fan. Okay,

30:15 it's a nice example. Um, the strata graphic record would be of

30:23 filling of a wave dominated delta. sorry. Filling of a wave dominated

30:32 and transforming into a wave dominated Okay, so that's pretty much what

30:39 got here. Now. We did cross section of Galveston Bay. This

30:48 at ball of a rose. This the pro grading shore face alone

30:55 All here. There's a lateral migration with the title India. But what

31:00 see is we go from flu viel there. To some, they had

31:10 , but mainly we're looking at tattle . And so what we are realizing

31:20 that if this is a cross section , there's a large in size

31:29 Okay, Right in here. For , this is the estuary. It

31:38 completely filled. So we had esta deposits until they were covered with bay

31:49 . I mean, with barrier on deposits. So estuarine deposits continue underlie

31:57 whole area. Okay, so if ever got enough, sediment would see

32:03 like this. But until then, stuck in this zone right in

32:10 Okay? We haven't really seen the in the bay. Okay,

32:16 if we look, it waved down coastlines, we see a transition,

32:25 we can also look at I'm From wave to tie dominated coast

32:30 we can also look at the transition wave to tide dominated estuaries.

32:36 And so notice. In this there's ah re entrant here. That's

32:43 estuary. And instead of barrier we have elongated title bars and we

32:52 instead of a they had Delta. have a title river with extensive salt

33:03 , and lastly, there's actually a common or system adding transition from relatively

33:12 to highly meandering to relatively straight wherever into a V shaped estuary. So

33:18 is the typical pattern, man. of a tide dominated delta.

33:26 And so here there may be some , but they're really not very

33:30 Uh, tidal currents are doing And why are they doing this?

33:36 are the increasing? Well, because being amplified is you go into that

33:43 shape, reenter, and then they until some point there. Negligible river

33:50 influence. Basically, guys here. then what we find is that this

33:59 Ah, the upper part of the is filled with reverted pauses. But

34:06 lower part is basically time Don't Okay. And there's some implications in

34:14 of being great size. Uh Suspended sediment concentration. We've got course

34:20 settlement this flu via leading derived, , coarser sediment, that is Marine

34:27 . The zone in here is actually bi directional currents, uh, out

34:36 hairs, maybe flood dollars out in . It's uni directional. Ah,

34:41 clearly the sentiment transport in the sedimentary are a lot different. In a

34:49 dominated delta weighed down. A deltas easy. Okay, Tie dominated.

34:54 so much catch. Uh, so of things we see is that,

35:00 , we've got the different, deposition components of a tide dominated

35:08 This is the what he calls the string funnel. Ah, and there's

35:14 inner funnel and an outer funnel. Inter funnel consists of a series of

35:20 titled sandbars entitled Sand Flats. the title. Sand flats find

35:27 You remember that? Ah, the sandy. Ah, sand flattened rating

35:34 into the upper mud flat. The sandbars. We haven't really looked at

35:38 yet, but they're gonna course in . OK, so we have a

35:44 uppers and finding upward sequence. this is the coarsening upwards bar,

35:51 then this is the, uh, down. We're title flat.

35:58 You don't need to read these, look at the low Thala.

36:02 Heavily genius. Lenticular Betty. bi directional currents. Uh, clean

36:10 betting medium trough. Cross betting hit realistic ripples. Hedonistic, wavy

36:17 So what? We're looking at our of the title flab and the title

36:25 . Okay. And so the title from bottom to top is getting coarser

36:32 . I might read these to you , there, but notice Sing little

36:35 betting mud drapes. Uh, and , there's gonna be a lot of

36:45 betting in here. So the title down here, huh? McKay cross

36:50 a wavy betting. We're getting down storm influence between the bars. The

36:57 themselves are showing wave and tide Okay. Yeah. Uh, here

37:07 a series of different types of sediment areas where you had grain coatings and

37:17 filled highest probability. That's because it caused the least amount of courts over

37:25 down in here where we had solicit. Occassion is where you had

37:31 least amount of chloride coating. So tribal chloride is restricted to the sandbar

37:40 and it was deposited the end of , transgressive face. She's And so

37:44 we've got is this setting, uh they kind of seen it as a

37:52 of early wave dominated, which, the way, had a small amount

38:01 clays, a lot of wave grading up into a tide dominated with

38:08 lot of plays and preservation of Now, this transition from wave dominated

38:18 to tie dominated estuary is one that's common in transgressions. So,

38:24 first of all, this is not unusual sequence to see and equally

38:31 some ways the, uh, tendency tide dominated estuaries to preserve plays means

38:39 got a better chance of having clay precipitated and preventing courts over grows.

38:49 . Time dominated in stories feel as . It is just that they don't

38:53 a whole lot different. The tide . Essentially, we're going from a

39:02 dominated sediment transport and abdominal dated sediment as we fill those estuaries.

39:11 I said earlier that there was kind , ah, on area of trapping

39:17 , sentiment being arrived from the Marine in the title sandbars from the

39:24 Well, that's pushed out. And we have titled Sandbars now that are

39:31 fed by marine deposits. I mean flow beall deposits. So we go

39:37 these s Tareen sandbars to these title . Okay. Ah ! And so

39:48 go from this Lo suspended at a area here, so he pushed it

39:54 . So the grain size now is by the rivers. Suspended sediment concentration

40:04 is in this area here. That's , of course, because that's where

40:09 clays they're going to be deposited on of the sands And so that's where

40:15 Genesis might play a part. So went from a, uh, suspended

40:27 . I didn't have it in this being over here. Two suspended.

40:34 is being over here, and this just an example of the tide

40:39 Dealt. He's got that V shaped . He's got that straight to waving

40:45 straight channel. It's got this increased range up to the mouth, and

40:53 it decreases with distance. Okay, , and notice here. Now we

40:59 from barrier islands oriented parallel to the two title Sandridge is okay,

41:09 with the prevailing winds being in this . So this is a good

41:15 Um, a time dominated Delta. has a lot of the shared characteristics

41:24 a time dominated estuary. And these just some examples of these the fan

41:31 morphology which is associated with these tide systems. Okay, that's for,

41:40 , barriers and estuaries. Well, me record the s. Let me

41:53 Zooey recording and stop the It is . 20. We just had a

42:02 break. So look, break about minutes to stretch your legs and then

42:06 on back in about 10. 25 so That'll give me time to

42:11 uh,

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