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Table 7.3. Recurrent Carbonate Reservoir Typesa
Lithology: D G B M·W·P
1. Middle shelf grainstone bars with primary (or modified
primary) porosity (<I>)
Porosity: Primary BP WP BC 2. Middle and outer shelf reefs
Secondary MO VUG BC a. Primary <I> in boundstones and associated
grainstones
b. BC <I> and FR <I> if dolomitized
3. Grainstones and breccias of slope deposits
Position on Inner shelf fairway 4. Inner shelf dolomites (BC <I> and VUG <I>) with anhydrite
shelf to basin Outer shelf fairway seals; tidal flat deposits
profiles: Middle shelf highs 5. Dissolution, paleokarst development, and dolomitiza
Deep water reefs and atolls tion below regional unconformities
6. Fractured carbonate reservoirs
7. Chalks with BC <I> and FR <I>
Figure 7.17. General properties of carbonate reservoirs.
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