Seismic Interpretation: Part 7. Geophysical Methods

D. C. Nester, Michael J. Padgett

AAPG Special Volumes

... provide information on the presence and proximity of faulting and the size of fault blocks. If digital data are available, a decision must be made...

Zonation and Oil and Gas Resource Potential of Oil-Bearing Regions of China

Yan Dunshi, Qiu Zhongjian, Lu Minggang, Li Gansheng, Lin Rujin

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... of complex rifting superimposed onto a paleotopography of high relief. The rifting produced mainly tilted groups of fault blocks. In each fault block...

The Tectonic Style in The Permian Basin and Its Relationship to Cyclicity1

Jack G. Elam

West Texas Geological Society

... overlying basement block fault. Figure 11. From J.J. Prucha et al’s (1965) Figure 23 - Postulated sequence in sedimentary rock beds overlying...

Testing Laramide Hypotheses for the Front Range Arch Using Minor Faults: Reply

Eric A. Erslev

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... them at all. While I agree that “rotation of basement fault blocks” can be very important in the Rockies, I strongly disagree that the dominant tectonic...

3.2 Basement Involved: 3.2.2 Basement Thrust and Reverse Faults: Drape Fold, Central Wyoming

M. S. Yancey and D. B. McClellan

AAPG Special Volumes

... in Geology 15, Volume 3: Seismic Expression of Structural Styles: A Picture and Work Atlas ROCKY MOUNTAIN FORELAND Basement-block uplift and rotation...

Development of Cumberland Overthrust Block in Vicinity of Chestnut Ridge Fenster in Southwest Virginia

Leonard D. Harris , Isidore Zietz

AAPG Bulletin

... Mountain fault, demonstrated that the Pine Mountain fault, instead of descending perhaps to the basement, actually flattens and underlies the block between...

Block Tectonics and Oil-Gas Prospects of Western Cis-Caucasus

B. K. Lotiyev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... Lovlin basin. The sedimentary cover is a syncline on a deeply downdropped basement block. The Neocomian is almost completely absent, Upper Jurassic...

ABSTRACT: Pennsylvanian sinistral strike-slip reactivation history of basement faults at the southwest boundary of the Uncompahgre uplift, Ancestral Rocky Mountains; #90012 (2003)

William A. THOMAS

Search and Discovery.com

... Late Paleozoic basement fault systems separate the Ancestral Uncompahgre uplift from the Paradox basin on the southwest. A thick, late Paleozoic...

Abstract: Plio-Pleistocene Structural Features and Implications of Basement Architecture of West Offshore Louisiana Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, by R. Li and J. S. Watkins; #90987 (1993).

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Overview of the structural framework and hydrocarbon plays in the Penyu Basin, offshore Peninsular Malaysia

Mazlan Madon, John Jong, Franz L. Kessler, Colm Murphy, Lucia Your, Mursyidah Bt A Hamid, Nurfadhila Bt M Sharef

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

.... The basement ridge, which is essentially the crest of the footwall block to the Cherating Graben (Figure 3) was found to be composed of basaltic...

Southeast Asia Reconstruction with a Non-Rotating Cenozoic Borneo

Richard W. Murphy

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... has been attempted which treats the Sunda block and the Philippine Sea Plate as (relatively) rigid blocks between 50 Ma and 15 Ma. The published...

South Atlantic: The Bigger Picture

Hermann Lebit, Jeff Tilton, Sriram Arasanipalai, Pascal Ollagnon

GEO ExPro Magazine

... layer. The pre-salt fault pattern highlights tilted fault blocks with onlapping sag-phase sediments. A north-east to south-southsubset of the faults...

Tilted Fault Block-Buried Hill Oil and Gas Traps in the Bohai Gulf Basin of China

Li Desheng

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... into the tilted-fault-block hill with monoclinal stratigraphic traps, and the paleogeomorphic hill with massive basement traps. Reservoir rocks beneath...

Alluvial Fan and Lacustrine Fan-Delta Complexes (Early-Middle Miocene) in Sediment Balanced and Sediment Overfilled Rift Basin in Western Anatolia, Turkey, by Alaattin Sayili, Zuhtu Bati And Y. Haluk Iztan; #90034 (2004)

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New Structural Model of Paleozoic of South of Nyurol Depression (West Siberia)

V. S. Slavkin, Ye. A. Kopilevich, N. N. Bakun, A. V. Goncharov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... This subsided block is bounded on the east and west by uplifted blocks; Kalinov and Severo-Kalinov on the east and Archin on the west. The highest part...

Algeria: A New Tectonic Framework

A. Saadallah

GEO ExPro Magazine

... up, down-throwing the Eastern Block of the Maghrebian Belt, acting as a sinistral strike-slip fault. The scale of the displacement is a few kilometres...

Seismic reflection imaging of a major strike-slip fault zone in a rift system: Paleogene structure and evolution of the Tan-Lu fault system, Liaodong Bay, Bohai, offshore China

Li-Yuan Hsiao, Stephan A. Graham, Nat Tilander

AAPG Bulletin

... and basement-controlled deformation in San Andreas fault zone, Salton trough, California: AAPG Bulletin, v. 60, no. 12, p. 20812102.Tang Y., and D. Yao, 1991...

Faults in Northeastern Oklahoma: Their Occurrence, Relation to Modern Seismic Activity and to Producing Reservoirs; #30675 (2020)

James Puckette, Xitong Hu

Search and Discovery.com

... in the NFZ and WFZ, (3) upthrown fault blocks in the junctions between an east-west-trending fault and the major fault zones, and (4) basement-high...

HYDROCARBON GENERATION AND LATE CRETACEOUS LARAMIDE DEFORMATION IN THE CENTRAL SNOWCREST RANGE, SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA

Gary E. Guthrie, Barry C. McBride

Montana Geological Society

.... McBride 1989 311 324 The Snowcrest Range contains the frontal thrust blocks of the Late Cretaceous, basement-involved Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift...

Geometry and Development of Relay Ramps in Normal Fault Systems

D. C. P. Peacock , D. J. Sanderson

AAPG Bulletin

... faults commonly have oblique-slip displacements (e.g., normal and sinistral in the block diagram). The two segments may eventually form a single fault...

Devonian--Carboniferous Tectonics and Basin Deformation in the Cabot Strait Area, Eastern Canada

George S. Langdon, Jeremy Hall

AAPG Bulletin

... the regional fault zones. During the subsidence phase, the pre-Carboniferous basement was onlapped by clastics to produce a classic "steer's head" basin...

Seismic Profiles in the Area of the Pierce and Black Hollow Fields, Weld County, Colorado

Donald S. Stone

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of a single interface, deep basement fault zone has been questioned by ~~~ Stone J ~ Jones and Nur (1982) on the grounds that insufficient...

Abstract: Jurassic Faults of the Southwest Alabama and Offshore Areas, by R. M. Mink, B. H. Tew, B. L. Bearden, and E. A. Mancini; #91004 (1991)

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Mapping and Kinematic Analysis of the Deep Creek Fault Zone, South Flank of the Uinta Mountains, Utah

David A. Haddox, Bart J. Kowallis, Jeremy D. Shakespeare

Utah Geological Association

... zone, each of the faults and/or fault blocks will be described here in detail. The names for the fault blocks are new with this report and have...

Delineation of Basement Related Fault Closures in Eastern Part of Purnea Basin Based on Morphotectonic Analysis, #50577 (2012)

S. Majumdar, H. D. Dave, J. K. Samal, D. S. Mitra

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...Delineation of Basement Related Fault Closures in Eastern Part of Purnea Basin Based on Morphotectonic Analysis, #50577 (2012) S. Majumdar, H. D...