Sedimentary geology. Sedimentary basins depositional environments petroleum formation / Геология осадочных пород. Осадочные бассейны, условия залегания отложений, образование нефти

This introductory manual to sedimentary geology was originally intended to accompany and complement J. Guillemot’s excellent book of basic geology (entitled Elements de geologie, fourth edition of 1986) used by generations of engineering students at the French Ecole du petrole et des moteurs. It is larger than Guillemot’s book, as it was designed to extend the students’ foundations in the geology of sedimentary basins by introducing and discussing new concepts that are widely used today in petroleum exploration. So it serves as basic documentation and an introduction to more in-depth education in geology, and refers the reader to more specialized books and articles in different fields as each field is developed.
The material for the manual comes from introductory courses in sedimentology and geology available to engineering students at the Petroleum exploration and economics centers, and from a graduate course on geodynamics entitled “Quantitative methods in the geosciences.”
The first chapter presents the primary driving forces that act and interact on the planet in a perspective of dynamic geology, along with the ideas of three-dimensional objects and the time evolution of geological processes.
The second lays out the general framework of sedimentary geology with a description of the various basins where petroleum-forming sediments are likely to accumulate.
The third chapter is the core of the book. Here, deposition mechanisms and sedimentary environments are described in greater detail. Continental environments and their main types of deposits are first described, drawing heavily on material updated from Les gres du Paleo-zoi'que inferieur au Sahara, by S. Beuf, B. Biju-Duval, O. de Charpal, et al., Editions Technip, 1971). <...>