Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Mylroie, John E.
Committee Member
Kirkland, Brenda L.
Committee Member
Schmitz, Darrel W.
Date of Degree
5-17-2014
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Geosciences
Degree Name
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of Geosciences
Abstract
As karst features are buried into the deep subsurface and isolated from the mechanisms that formed them, they turn into paleokarst. Some karst features, such as hypogene and island karst, have a higher probability of being preserved into the deep subsurface, as opposed to epigene karst. As these features transition from modern karst to paleokarst, they are susceptible to collapse. When an individual passage or room collapses, it results in an increase in the void’s areal and volumetric footprint. In addition, individual passages and rooms have the potential to collapse and coalesce into each other, further increasing the cave footprint. The end result is often a large zone of brecciated collapse. While the porosity has decreased, the collapse process integrates the permeability over a much larger area, which is the reason these collapsed paleokarst features form an important class of hydrocarbon reservoirs, paleokarst reservoirs.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/18265
Recommended Citation
Travis, Ryan, "Evaluation and Quantification of Modern Karst Features as Proxies for Paleokarst Reservoirs" (2014). Theses and Dissertations. 1985.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/1985