Reservoir Architecture in Recent and Subsurface, Deepwater Meandri-Channel and Related Depositional Forms

Meandri-channelforms are typical of the turbidite systems, fed by mud-rich terrigenous sediment sources. Based on 2D high-resolution and 3D seismic, side-scan imagery, wireline logs and cores of several examples worldwide, we present here a synthesis and summary of the meso- and larger-scale reservoir architectures of the recent and subsurface meander channels and related depositional forms: levee-overbank and lobe fonns. Reservoir architecture here includes morphology, geometry and intemal stacking of reservoir-prone lithologic facies of the different depositional forms.