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24-Pet-A1 Principles of Stratigraphy and Sedimentation: May 2018

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  1. Question 1 Sandstone Classification – Procedure and Classes
  2. Question 2 Limestone Classification – Dunham and Folk Schemes
  3. Question 3 Lithofacies and a Shallowing-Upward Carbonate Succession
  4. Question 4 Deltaic Depositional System and Its Prograding Sequence
  5. Question 5 Conglomerates versus Breccias and Breccia-Forming Processes
  6. Question 6 Negatively-Skewed Grain-Size Curves
  7. Question 7 Coal Definition and the Coal Rank Series
  8. Question 8 Principal Kinds of Modern Deep-Sea Sediments
  9. Question 9 Modern Warm-Water versus Cool-Water Carbonates
  10. Question 10 Porosity-Enhancing versus Porosity-Destroying Diagenetic Processes
  11. Question 11 Building Blocks of Sequence Stratigraphy and Relative Sea-Level Change
  12. Question 12 Oxygen Stable Isotopes in Quaternary Stratigraphy
  13. Question 13 Geochronostratigraphy versus Geochronology
  14. Question 14 Why First/Last Appearance Data May Be Misleading
  15. Question 15 Walther's Law of Facies Succession
  16. Question 16 Four Short Definitions
  17. Question 17 Well Logs for Stratigraphic Correlation
  18. Question 18 Major Kinds of Sedimentary Basins and Their Tectonic Settings
  19. Question 19 Stratigraphic Terminology – Matching Exercise

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EGBC National Exam — Petroleum Engineering, 17-Pet-A1 Principles of Stratigraphy & Sedimentation, 2018-May. 3 hours duration; closed book, no calculator permitted. The paper has two parts: Part A (Questions 1–10, Sedimentology and Sedimentary Processes) – Questions 1 and 2 are mandatory (10 marks each, 20 marks), plus any five of the remaining eight (3–10) at 6 marks each (30 marks), for a Part A total of 50 marks; and Part B (Questions 11–19, Stratigraphy and Sedimentary Basin Analysis) – answer any six of the nine at 5 marks each, for a Part B total of 30 marks – an 80-mark maximum (50 for Part A + 30 for Part B).

Reference texts: Boggs, S. Jr., Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 5th ed., Pearson (grain texture, sediment transport, bedforms, carbonate/evaporite systems, sequence stratigraphy, unconformities, stratigraphic principles); Tucker, M.E., Sedimentary Petrology, 3rd ed., Blackwell (sandstone/carbonate classification, diagenesis, dolomitization); Nichols, G., Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, 2nd ed., Wiley-Blackwell (fluvial/deltaic systems, sequence stratigraphy, stratigraphic units); Reading, H.G. (ed.), Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy, 3rd ed., Blackwell (facies models, deep-marine and shelf systems); Selley, R.C. & Sonnenberg, S., Elements of Petroleum Geology, 3rd ed., Academic Press (source rocks, basin classification, reservoir quality); International Commission on Stratigraphy, International Chronostratigraphic Chart (geological time scale).