Facies Distribution and Stratigraphic Development on a Shale-Cored Ridge, Klias Peninsula, Malaysia
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Klias Peninsula is comprised of entirely Tertiary sedimentary rocks and superficial Quaternary deposits. New sedimentological and micropaleontological data document that all sediments formed in a shoreface to shelfal setting in front of a mud rich delta. Six lithofacies defined and interpreted based on sedimentary structures, trace fossil distribution and foraminifera assemblages suggest a wave dominant open shelf. Most of the Tertiary shoreface reservoir sandstones in NW Borneo are wave dominant thus the Klias Peninsula succession is a good analogue for most of the subsurface shoreface reservoirs.
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