TECTONIC PATTERNS OF CENTRAL MONTANA

FRANK P. SONNENBERG

Montana Geological Society

... structural elements along pre-existing basement controlled fault and/or joint systems...

Breccia pipe and sinkhole linked fluidized beds and debris flows in the Athabasca Oil Sands: dynamics of evaporite karst collapse-induced fault block collisions

Paul L. Broughton

CSPG Bulletin

... the deeper reaches of the inter-block fault planes as adjacent blocks obliquely rotated apart and towards each other, resulting in zones with compressional...

Basement Reactivation in the Alberta Basin: Observational Constraints and Mechanical Rationale: REPLY

G.M. Ross, D.W. Eaton

CSPG Bulletin

... Folding Associated with Basement Block Faulting in the Western United States. Geological Society of America, Memoir 151, p. 355-366. Edwards, D.J....

Chapter 10: Subsurface Structure of the Hinge Line Fault Zone and Its Control on the Distribution of Gas Fields of the North Coast Marine Area of Offshore Northern Trinidad

Stefan Punnette, Paul Mann

AAPG Special Volumes

... quality. The complex map pattern of lenticular and fault-bounded basement blocks separated by anastomosing and curvilinear faults as seen in Figure 3...

Divide Creek Anticline: A Decapitated Pop-Up Structure with Two Detachment Zones

Bret G. Gunneson, Michael S. Wilson, James A. Labo

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...) there are three northwest trending basement thrusts and a broad; northeast-dipping, tilted fault block which underlies the Dakota pop-up structure...

Development characteristics of transtensional fractures: A case study from Linnan Depression, East China

Dawei Dong, Xingpeng Chen, Qianhao Sun

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... thickened, forming a combination of forward tilting fault block, as shown in figure 6b. The development patterns of tail end differential extensional...

Tectonic Features of Oil and Gas Basins in Eastern Part of China

Tang Zhi

AAPG Bulletin

... that there are more than 50 major basement faults in the basin. They are all normal tension faults, and they dissect the area into more than 80 fault blocks...

Criteria for Predicting Oil-Gas Productivity of Eifelian-Lower Frasnian Carbonate-Clastic Sediments of the South of the Volga-Ural Oil-Gas Province

L. G. Kiryukhin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... the best reservoirs. The crystalline basement has a block structure. See Fig. 1. The blocks are bounded by regional faults, which are marked...

ABSTRACT: Analysis of Complex Rift Fault Systems Using Analogue Models; #90061 (2006)

E.A. Baker and K.R. McClay

Search and Discovery.com

... and relay structures with en-echelon border fault arrays oriented parallel to the basement discontinuity. In contrast, intra-rift fault systems are more...

Fault-seal Analysis Applied to the Erawan Gas-condensate Field in the Gulf of Thailand

Tokio Kachi, Hideki Yamada, Kiyoshi Yasuhara, Masamichi Fujimoto, Shutaro Hasegawa, Shoji Iwanaga, Rasoul Sorkhabi

AAPG Special Volumes

.... 291304.Turner, J. W., 2002, Gas in antithetic fault blocks of the Pattani trough, Thailand: An underappreciated play? (abs.): AAPG Annual Meeting Program, v...

Geology of the Santa Cruz Mountains, California

Tor H. Nilsen

Pacific Section SEPM

... and La Honda blocks by the bounding faults. The Ben Lomond block, bounded on the north by the Zayante fault, contains extensive Cenozoic deposits that rest...

Subsurface Structure of the Eastern Edge of the Zagros Basin as Inferred from Gravity and Satellite Data

Mohamed N. Bushara

AAPG Bulletin

... Precambrian), rifted boundary. The fault-bounded gravity-anomaly highs that are regarded here as uplifted basement blocks just offshore southern Iran...

ABSTRACT: 4-Dimensional Modelling of Structural Geology: Implications for Hydrocarbon Migration and Accumulation; #90007 (2002)

Stuart Burley, Graham Williams, Stuart Clarke, Andrew Richards, David Meredith, Stuart Egan

Search and Discovery.com

... juxtaposed fault-blocks and up-dip flow (Allan 1989). 3 AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90007©2002 AAPG Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, March 1-13...

Jurassic Gravitational Shelf Spreading in the Western DeSoto Canyon Salt Basin, Mobile, Viosca Knoll and Destin Dome Areas, East-Central Gulf of Mexico

Search and Discovery.com

Geomorphic Analysis of the Deep Creek Fault, Upper Yellowstone Valley, South-Central Montana

Stephen F. Personius

Wyoming Geological Association

...., 1979, Estimation of fault-scarp ages from a scarp-height-slope angle relationship: Geology, v. 7, p. 11-14. Hamblin, W. K., 1976, Patterns...

Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Cayman Trough (Caribbean Sea) From Seismic Reflection Data

Sylvie Leroy , Bernard Mercier de Lepinay , Alain Mauffret , Manuel Pubellier

AAPG Bulletin

... physiographic provinces, the main geological units in Jamaica, and dominant fault patterns. HB = Hanover block, NMB = Newmarket-Montpelier block, CB...

Active Folding and Blind Thrust Faulting Induced by Basin Inversion Processes, Inner California Borderlands

Carlos Rivero, John H. Shaw

AAPG Special Volumes

... faults. This reactivation generated regional structural wedges cored by faulted basement blocks that inverted the sedimentary basins in the hanging wall...

Critical Review of Some Tectonic Problems in Cordilleran Foreland

Frank W. Osterwald

AAPG Bulletin

... Basement Blocks--Preliminary Note," Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, Vol. 29, pp. 99-103. CURRY, W. H., NORTON, GEORGE, REINHART, P. W., SPALDING, R. W...

Geologic Excursions in the California Deserts and Adjacent Transverse Ranges

George Dunne, John Cooper

Pacific Section SEPM

... zones predominate in the deformation of the northeastern Mojave tectonic block. They noted that the region is composed of fault-bounded? range blocks...

Chapter 6. Western and Central Europe: Major Fracture Patterns in the British Isles

Dennis A. Holmgren

Utah Geological Association

... FAULT TECTONICS: REPLY: Bull. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., v. 48, p. 112–122. Moody, J.D., 1966, CRUSTAL SHEAR PATTERNS AND OROGENESIS: Tectonophysics, v.3, p...

Reexamination of Late Jurassic Reef Building in the East Texas Basin; A Maturing Gas Play

Edward M. Norwood, Lise Brinton

GCAGS Transactions

... Bossier shows no evidence of disruption by the decollement faulting, but does exhibit draping over fault toes of Gilmer blocks. Derivative maps...

Does the Owl Creek fault zone of north-central Wyoming extend to the Black Hills of South Dakota? Implications for basement architecture of the Wyoming Province

Jeffrey W. Bader

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., p. 1357–1374, 10.1139/e03-054. Cooper, S.C., Goodwin, L.B., and Lorenz, J.C., 2006, Fracture and fault patterns associated with basement-cored...

Basement Rocks and Structure, Northeast Gulf of Mexico

Laura M. Dobson , Richard T. Buffler

GCAGS Transactions

.... To the northeast, basement is rough and has a high amplitude with dip reversals and diffractions marking fault blocks (Figure 8). Southwest of shot point...

Chapter 11. Observation, Analysis, Terminology: Determination of Regional Fracture Patterns in Precambrian Rocks - A Comparison of Techniques

E. W. Spencer, S. J. Kozak

Utah Geological Association

... N50-65W. This direction coincides closely with the two major boundary faults for this basement block. The southern border fault trends approximately N60W...

New Insights into the Structural Development of the Onshore Otway Basin

A. N. Aburas, P. J. Boult

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of the Aptian. Coincident with this growth, left-lateral offset of tilted fault blocks resulted from movement of pre-existing basement weaknesses...