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Seafloor Images Refine Petroleum Exploration Models

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A - Classic fan model showing a feeder channel and suprafan lobes where continuous sand sheets are inferred to be deposited.
B - Observations based on side-scan sonar images and cores showing the association of the sand deposits with channels and the complex, discontinuous nature of the deposits.
A - Classic fan model; B - observations based on side-scan sonar images and cores.
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