Identification of Wrench Faults Using Subsurface Structural Data: Criteria and Pitfalls: Reply (1)

T. P. HARDING

AAPG Bulletin

... fault blocks. The blocks are most clearly imaged across the southeastern two-fifths of the profile (above 2.0 s in Figure 2a). In this area...

Cormorant Field--U.K. East Shetland Basin, North Sea

B. K. Howe

AAPG Special Volumes

... north-south and basement reactivated northeast-southwest faults. In the Bathonian, the fault blocks produced by rifting underwent rotation about...

Abstract: Typical Cenozoic Dextral Strike-Slip Characteristics of Tan-Lu Fault and Relationship with Oil and Gas in Eastern Laizhou Bay, Bohai Offshore Area of China, by Shi Hao, Zhou Donghong, Niu Chengmin, and Lv Dingyou; #90124 (2011)

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System of Inclined Fractures in the Crust of Surkhandar’Ya Oil-Gas Area

A. A. Abidiv, F. G. Dolgopolov, A. I. Khodzhimetov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... angles of dip. As a result of application of horizontal compressive forces the central block was lowered. Maximum deformation of the blocks...

Basement Model for the Panhandle of Florida

Douglas L. Smith

GCAGS Transactions

... the basis of a basement model involving at least eight separate fault blocks and basins, each with a distinct depositional history. The dominant structures...

Seismic Investigation of the Colorado Front Range Zone of Flank Deformation Immediately North of Golden, Colorado

Thomas L. Davis, Terence K. Young

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... system is dominantly vertical in nature and is basement controlled. Fault displacement varies with depth and spatially from block to block within...

Cretaceous Sinistral Strike Slip Along Nacimiento Fault in Coastal California

William R. Dickinson

AAPG Bulletin

...., 1976, Late Cenozoic fault patterns and stress fields in the Great Basin and westward displacement of the Sierra Nevada block: Geology, v. 4, p...

Earthquake Hazards and Tectonic History of the San Andreas Fault Zone, Los Angeles County, California

Allan G. Barrows, James E. Kahle, David J. Beeby

Pacific Section of AAPG

... due to northward tilting of the underlying basement block. This tilting could have resulted from movement on the main trace of the San Andreas fault...

Structural Geology of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Rocks Near the Nacimiento Fault, Northwest of Lake Nacimiento, California

Victor M. Seiders

Pacific Section SEPM

... a basin formed by the faulting. Along the Sur fault, a northwestern branch of the Nacimiento fault, Salinian basement lies against the Franciscan...

Some Thoughts of the Structural Evolution of Southern Oklahoma

Jack L. Walper

Tulsa Geological Society

... in Precambrian time. The interplay of the basement blocks delineated by these early faults has controlled the sedimentation throughout geologic time...

ABSTRACT: Controlling Factors in Different Styles of Deformation Associated with Gravity Sliding, Kwanza Basin, Angola, by Steven G. Henry, Larry A. Standlee; #91020 (1995).

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Multiple Stratigraphic Indicators of Major Strike-slip Movement along the Eola Fault, Subsurface Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma

Jerry Glen McCaskill Jr.

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... or fault scarp slump blocks in the Oil Creek, Tulip Creek, Bromide, Viola, Sylvan, Hunton, Woodford, or Sycamore Formations. In other words...

Abstract: Fault Geometries and Origins in Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia; #90228 (2015)

Robert Jacobi, Joel Starr, Craig Eckert, Travis Warner

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... of the back-rotated blocks, thrust fault-associated anticlines have F-salt and Vernon thickening. Reactivation of RomeTrough basement faults influenced...

Deformation along oblique and lateral ramps in listric normal faults: Insights from experimental models

Shamik Bose, Shankar Mitra

AAPG Bulletin

... fault.Maps of growth-fault systems, such as those from the Niger Delta (Doust and Omotsola, 1989) and the Gulf of Mexico, show that the map patterns...

Morphology of the Casper Mountain uplift and related, subsidiary structures, central Wyoming: Implications for Laramide kinematics, dynamics, and crustal inheritance

Donald S. Stone

AAPG Bulletin

... in Figure 3. East-west shortening in the northern, footwall block of the Casper Mountain fault zone occurs on comparatively smaller scale, basement...

Role of Salinian Block in Evolution of San Andreas Fault System, California

Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

... the consequence of oblique plate convergence, emplaced granitic basement of the Salinian block west of the fault in Paleocene time. Following an initial...

Mesozoic Shear Disintegration and Terrane Motion of the East Asian Continental Margin

Zhu Guang, Xu Jiawei

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... fault zone, and Lishui-Haifeng fault zone, and Shaowu-Heyuan fault zone cut the Cathaysian massif into western East China Sea block...

Oil and Gas Prospects of the Middle Caspian in the Light of New Data from Offshore Geophysical Surveys

Ye. Ya. Nikolayeva, Yu. I. Svistunov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of magnito-acoustic bodies; 7-boundaries of basement blocks; 8-deep wells; 9-faults. These investigations show the absence of a domal uplift...

Basement and Cover-Rock Deformation During Laramide Contraction in the Northern Madison Range (Montana) and Its Influence on Cenozoic Basin Formation

Karl S. Kellogg , Christopher J. Schmidt , Susan W. Young

AAPG Bulletin

.... Analysis of foliation attitudes in basement gneiss north and south of the Spanish Peaks fault indicates that the basement in thrusted blocks...

The Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico: Tectonic History of a "Composite" Foreland Basin and Its Effects on Stratigraphic Development

Kenn-Ming Yang, Steven L. Dorobek

Special Publications of SEPM

... the greatest vertical displacement that is the boundary fault zones at the SW and NE C 3 observed along comers of these blocks 4 of basement from south...

Seismic Evidence of Tectonic Influence on Development of Cretaceous Listric Normal Faults, Boulder-Wattenberg-Greeley Area, Denver Basin, Colorado

Thomas L. Davis

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... normal faults are prevalent on the flank of a fault-bounded basement-confrolled paleostructural block termed the Wattenberg block by Weimer...

Deformation of Authochthonous Foreland Basement, Clark Mountain Thrust Complex, Southeastern California

Eric P. Nelson, B.C. Burchfiel

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... shear i n the basement, and 3) rotation or translation of the basement as a rigid block bounded on the east by the Ivanpah fault. The first mechanism...

Role of the Main Udmurt Fault in Formation of Oil-Bearing Structures in Sedimentary Rocks

I. M. Urazayev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... at 30°. It can be seen in Fig. 1 that the east block is upthrown. The direction of displacement of the blocks of the basalt layer and the gentle dip...

Chapter Seventeen: Structural Evolution of the T-Block Brae Fields, South Viking Graben

Simon Allerton, Eugenio Giuliani, Amy Kwiatkowski, Mark Jones, Julian Robinson, Adam Styles

AAPG Special Volumes

... segment and northward from a segment to the south of T-Block, to create a relay zone opposite Thelma and Toni. At the segment centers, the fault throws...

Directing a Marcellus Shale Drilling Program Using High Resolution Aeromagnetic Data, #41246 (2013)

Joseph P. Fagan Jr

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.... This is especially true if the natural fractures are part of a bigger, deeper-seated basement fault system. Heavily naturally fractured areas often...