• Dominating the Rinevilla Point outcrop are two laterally offset, and compensational stacked, channels with erosional bases.
• Channels are less than 400 meters (1300 feet) wide and 10 to 15 meters (32 to 48 feet) thick with aspect ratios (width versus thickness) ranging from 20:1 to 40: 1.
• Channel-fills are semi-amalgamated and with lateral degradation in reservoir quality. Fill is dominated by highly amalgamated massive to cross-bedded sandstones in an axial position that grade laterally into progressively thinner-bedded, less amalgamated massive sandstones toward the margins.
• This difference in the lateral degree of amalgamation from axis to margin may suggest that the turbidity currents that deposited these sandstones were "underfit" relative to the channels (Sullivan et al., 2004).
• They also display a distinct "upward thickening" and upward expansion (widening) architecture. This type of vertical and lateral organization of channel-fills has been interpreted to reflect the progressive loss of efficiency of the channel to transmit sediment down slope and the back-filling of the channel (Clark and Pickering, 1996; Beaubouef et aI., 2000).
• Toward the east end of the outcrop, easterly dipping surfaces can be traced from the top of the channel to well within the channel where the surface is lost due to amalgamation. The surfaces are interpreted to be the product of lateral channel migration and suggest that there is some degree of sinuosity in the channels.
• Net-to-gross ratios for individual measured sections vary from 70 to 95% with an average of approximately 90%.
  

Figure: proximal fan channels in Ross Formation dominated by highly amalgamated massive to cross-bedded sandstones in channel axis position flanked by progressively thinner bedded, less amalgamated massive sandstones toward margins. Note distinct inclined in east portion of channel.  These inclined surfaces  are product of channel margin migration of a sinuous channel (modified from Sullivan et al., 2000b, Sullivan et al., 2004).

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