Abstract:Member C8 of Triassic Yanchang Formation is an important oil production pay zone in the Southwestern Ordos Basin. Based on mineral elements and content from logging and outcrop data, earlier researchers considered its sandstone as deltaic distributary channel deposition flowing from southwest to northeast. So the sandstone distribution was mapped as linear and parallel deltaic distributary channels spreading in NE direction. But based on the interpretation of the newly acquired 3D seismic and drilling data, sandbodies of the main channel were depicted with different shapes and different directions. Associated with Triassic paleostructrual and paleogeographic background of the basin, it is considered that the Member C8 belongs to a braided-meandering river system, flowing eastward in upstream, and branching radially in downstream. The width to thickness ratio of sandbodies ranges from 1/500 to 1/1000. Thicker sandstone reservoirs are constructed by amalgamated longitudinal bar. Toward the downstream channel sandstones become rare and thin. In the southwestern basin no lacustrine and deltaic facies occurred during Member C8 deposition.
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