GSPC: CB-ONN-2000/1.

,inor delta systems progressively fill lagoon-bay waterbodies $right%" 0he large features seen on the amplitude extraction below could represent either minor deltas such as those shown right! or flood-tidal deltas such as that illustrated below"
Turos Estaury, New South Wales, Australia Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, USA

Report No. 8744/IId

High sinuosity fluvial channel systems have been inferred for parts of the intra-Cambay Shale Proximal fluvially dominated delta plain

lood tidal delta! formed on the landward side of a barrier" Note the curved nature of the large sand bars! which are comparable in scale to amplitude features seen within the #ntra Cambay Shale prospect $below%"

High sinuosity fluvial channel systems are interpreted for parts of the #ntra Cambay Shale prospect in southern areas of &loc' C&-ONN()))/*" +istinctive curvilinear features associated with scroll bar / point bar development are tentatively identified from seismic amplitude extractions and are reminiscent of the features seen in modern high sinuosity fluvial systems such as the lower ,ississippi -iver! .S/ $above%"

Nearshore lagoon / bay setting with low energy waterbodies ,uch of the Cambay Shale interval and the 1alol ormation in &loc' C&ONN-()))/* is best interpreted within the context of a relatively shallow water! restricted environment as a series of lagoons and restricted marine bays" 0hese water bodies were locally filled by minor deltas and may have been drained by high sinuosity channel systems" Salt marshes! swamps and tidal cree's may also have been common"
#uyas Estuary, Ecuador

Offshore marine setting with local development of shore-parallel tidal sandridges

Shore parallel to cuspate offshore sandbars, alaka Strai!hts, "ndonesia

Simplified version of a wave dominated estuarine depositional model (modified from Dalrymple et al., 1990, 1992). It is possible to visualise the o!ene of the "ambay #asin as a lar$e%s!ale e&uivalent to the above, with the shale dominated systems of the 'arapur depression representin$ the !entral basin of a lar$e s!ale estuarine embayment.

(ne&uivo!al offshore marine environments are diffi!ult to demonstrate for the )alol *ormation or for mu!h of the "ambay Shale interval in the study area. +owever, the ,in!h -ember of the "ambay Shale has been interpreted as a series of tidal rid$e sandbodies and forms a produ!tive reservoir in ,in!h and S.)adi *ields to the . of the study blo!/. 'idal rid$e sandbodies are also believed to o!!ur distally (to the west) of the +a0ad Delta in the #roa!h #lo!/ (1andey et al, 1992) and may be a feature of the distal portions of "ambay #asin deltai!s.

Shoreline-parallel tidal sand ridges

FIGURE 4.16

A conceptual depositional framework for the Tertiar of the !am"a #asin