1982 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Fluvial Sand Bodies
Author : George deVries Klein
Published in: Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The sediments of fluvial systems have interested geologists for some time. A large body of literature has grown up around the problems of fluvial processes (Leopold et al., 1964; Miall, 1978a), fluvial sediments (Allen, 1965; Miall, 1978a), and fluvial facies models (Miall, 1978a, Reading, 1979). Fluvial sandstone beds are known to contain petroleum reservoirs (Nanz, 1954; Harms, 1966; Berg, 1968; MacKenzie, 1972) and also form host rocks for the well-known sandstone-type uranium deposits found in the Rocky Mountains and the Gulf Coastal Plain (Fischer, 1970, 1974; Galloway, 1977).