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24-Pet-A1 Principles of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation: May 2013

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  1. Question 1 Dunham's Classification of Limestones
  2. Question 2 Marine Evaporite Minerals
  3. Question 3 Terrestrial Depositional Systems for Uranium, Coal and Placer Gold
  4. Question 4 Clay Mineral Families – Structure and Importance
  5. Question 5 Transgressions and Regressions
  6. Question 6 Debris Flows vs. Turbidites
  7. Question 7 Lithostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy and Chronostratigraphy
  8. Question 8 Clay Mineral Families – Diagenetic and Petroleum-Reservoir Importance
  9. Question 9 Storm-Dominated Siliciclastic Shelf Deposits
  10. Question 10 Subaqueous Bedforms – Grain Size and Flow Velocity
  11. Question 11 How Dolostones (Dolomites) Are Thought to Form
  12. Question 12 Characteristics of the Carbonate Reef Facies Model
  13. Question 13 Petroleum Source Rocks – Features, Origin and Burial Evolution
  14. Question 14 Carbon and Oxygen Stable Isotopes in Diagenetic and Sedimentological Studies
  15. Question 15 The Geological Time Scale

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EGBC National Exam — Petroleum Engineering, 98-Pet-A1 Principles of Stratigraphy & Sedimentation, 2013-May. 3 hours duration; closed book, no calculator permitted. Candidates answer any 10 of the 15 questions (10 marks each, 100 marks total) and are asked to illustrate answers with drawings wherever possible.

Reference texts: Boggs, S. Jr., Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Pearson (texture classification, evaporites, clay minerals, sediment gravity flows, storm/shelf processes, bedforms, stable isotopes, geological time scale); Tucker, M.E., Sedimentary Petrology, 3rd ed., Blackwell (carbonate fabric, dolomitization, reef facies); Nichols, G., Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 2nd ed., Wiley-Blackwell (depositional systems, transgression/regression, sequence stratigraphy); Reading, H.G. (ed.), Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy, 3rd ed., Blackwell (facies models); Selley, R.C. & Sonnenberg, S., Elements of Petroleum Geology, 3rd ed., Academic Press (source rock maturation, petroleum systems); International Commission on Stratigraphy, International Chronostratigraphic Chart (geological time scale).