Turbidite systems: an outcrop-based analysis

Petrobras is honored to deliver to the Geosciences community the book entitled Turbidite Systems: An Outcrop-Based Analysis authored by Professor Dr. Emiliano Mutti. The present edition contains part of his Work, the fruit of his exemplary dedication to scientific work, developed over several decades in the field, in classrooms of the most renowned teaching institutions in the world, and together with major interna-tional oil companies, including Petrobras.

Professor Dr. Emiliano Mutti, recognized and awarded several international awards, is the author of dozens of scientific articles and several books, having based his academic life on the study of the stratigraphy and sedimentology of sedimentary basins tectonically exposed in orogenic belts, especially in the Spanish Pyrenees and the northern Italians Apennines.
With the advance of the oil discoveries in turbidite reservoirs in the Campos Basin, in the 1970s and 1980s, the deepening in the knowledge of this type of reservoir became imperative and Professor Mutti, with his brilliance and innovative ideas, became part of the history of oil exploration at Petrobras.

In addition to his invaluable contribution to the construction of the basis for modern sedimentary facies analysis, the basic cell of Sedimentology and Modern Stratigraphy, Professor Emiliano Mutti has acted as consultant and actively collaborated in the training, qualification and post-graduation projects of Petro-bras’ geoscientists. Since the 2000s, this action has intensified with the resumption of field courses by our explorers in the Spanish Pyrenees and the northern Apennines in Italy.

Turbidite Systems: An Outcrop-Based Analysis represents an outstanding scientific contribution to cur-rent and future generations of scholars in the Earth Sciences and in particular Petroleum Geology.
We register our recognition for the incomparable work of Professor Mutti and our gratitude for his willing-ness to share his knowledge, such as that registered in this book, which we are privileged to be able to edit as a chapter of his Work.
Welcome to this adventure of knowledge and enjoy your reading.