Automatic Fault Extraction as an Exploratory Tool

Laura Evins, Andy Furniss

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... or fau lt t rends, fau lt framework. The smal ler fau lts within the relat ive ages of the major fault trends and of ind ividua l fau lt blocks wou...

Mud Volcanoes, Shale Diapirs, Wrench Faults, and Melanges in Accretionary Complexes, Eastern Indonesia

A. J. Barber , S. Tjokrosapoetro , T. R. Charlton

AAPG Bulletin

... into a series of lenticular fault blocks. A few of these vertical fault planes are exposed in river cuts, where they are marked by zones of sheared clay...

Geophysical Setting of the San Fernando Basin, Southern California

V. E. Langenheim, T. G. Hildenbrand, R. C. Jachens, A. Griscom

Pacific Section of AAPG

... exposed north of the San Gabriel fault, 2.72 g/cm3 (N=98). Table 2. Physical properties of basement rocks Average densities and magnetic susceptibilities...

Zone of Impingement Between the Western Thrust Belt and the Foreland Province in the MAdison and Gallatin Ranges, Southwestern Montana

John J. Tonnsen

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... thrust fault is a late Cretaceous east-northeast directed thrust system involving the Precambrian crystalline basement. The Spanish Peaks-Gardiner fault...

Anacapa Rift, California: ABSTRACT

Robert S. Yeats

AAPG Bulletin

...Anacapa Rift, California: ABSTRACT Robert S. Yeats 1969 460 460 53 2. (February) The Channel Islands, like the Salinian block, have been explained...

TECTONIC FRAMEWORK OF DEPOSITION OF THE CONASAUGA FORMATION

William A. Thomas, Ricardo A. Astini, W. Edward Osborne, German Bayona

Alabama Geological Society

... ----..--- thrust fault anticline ~ cratonward I,mlt of Appalachian accreted terranes mtracratonlC basement fault - margin of Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains...

Stratigraphic and Seismic Evidence for Late Cretaceous Growth Faulting, Denver Basin, Colorado: Section 2. Application of Seismic Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation

Robert J. Weimer , T. L. Davis

AAPG Special Volumes

..., reveals two distinct types of Late Cretaceous faulting. An early Laramide, basement-controlled fault system is the dominant structural style...

The Balcones Fault System, Texas—An Overview

Thomas E. Ewing

GCAGS Transactions

... than surface mapping. The fault patterns control groundwater flow paths, especially the high-displacement block-bounding faults. Horst blocks...

Development of the Bengkalis Depression, Central Sumatra and Its Subsequent Deformation – A Model for Other Sumatran Grabens?

P. J. Moulds

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Modelling to demonstrate fault reversal in basement of foreland to explain block uplift & folding in laramide foreland (after Lowell, 1983). Blocks...

Interpretation of the Piney Creek Thrust and Oil Exploration

Robert F. Hudson

Wyoming Geological Association

... and basement block faulting: Two examples from the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming: in Mattews, Vincent, III, ed., Laramide folding associated with basement block...

Sentinel Mountain-Dean Peak Faulted Anticline, North Park, Colorado

Thomas A. Steven

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... by an east-trending transcurrent fault, now covered by alluvium, along which thc axis of the anticline is displaced about. a mile. The, anticline...

ABSTRACT: Deepwater play types of the Black Sea: a brief overview; #90109 (2010)

G. Tari, C. Menlikli, S. Derman

Search and Discovery.com

... on top. The Polshkov High is unique in the sense that it represents a large rotated syn-rift fault block along the lower plate edge of the Western Black...

Influence of Tectonic Terranes Adjacent to the Precambrian Wyoming Province on Phanerozoic Stratigraphy in the Rocky Mountain Region: Part I. Regional Overview

J. J. Tonnsen

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Sears and Price, 1978). The blocks are schematically depicted in block diagram form in Figure 5. The fault systems do not appear to be randomly...

Whale Basin, Offshore Newfoundland: Extension and Salt Diapirism: Chapter 15: North American Margins

H. R. Balkwill, F. D. Legall

AAPG Special Volumes

... that the geometries and motions of basement extensional faults can impose significant influences on the patterns, amounts, and times of salt intrusion...

Abstract: Tertiary Stratigraphic and Depositional Environments Near Indians Ranch, Monterey County, California, by Stephen Alan Graham; #90976 (1976).

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Basement Backthrusts and Thin-Skinned Detachments in Gooseberry Field, Western Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Peter H. Hennings, Richard C. Hager

Wyoming Geological Association

... the hanging-wall of the main basement thrust sheet and produced uplift of individual fault-bounded blocks. The backthrusts form significant petroleum traps...

Some Observations on the Amarillo/Wichita Mountains Thrust-Fold Belt and its Extensions Southeast into East Texas and Northwest into New Mexico

S. Parker Gay, Jr.

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... the Wichita Mountain block in right-lateral fashion along the south line of Beckham and Washita Counties in Oklahoma. This fault is 70 miles north...

Rivers and Rifting: Evolution of a Fluvial System during Rift Initiation, Central Corinth Rift (Greece), #30419 (2015).

Romain Hemelsdael, Mary Ford, Fabrice Malartre, Robert Gawthorpe, Julien Charreau, Sevket Sen

Search and Discovery.com

... E-W normal fault blocks incised by present-day north-flowing rivers. By correlation of fluvial successions across normal fault blocks, we propose...

Cenezoic Geologic History of South PArk

Richard H. De Voto

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... to the of initial movements of basement blocks by bending over the margins eastward from basement block m a r g i n s and tilting e a s t w a r d f r o m the basement...

Geometry of the Hanging Wall Above a System of Listric Normal Faults--A Numerical Solution

Renato M. Darros de Matos

AAPG Bulletin

... for each block (points Pf1 and Pf2), since [EQUATION] and EQUATION (16) Note that the model assumes that the footwall of the main fault remains...

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY—NORTHWEST MARGIN, BIGHORN BASIN: PARK COUNTY, WYOMING AND CARBON COUNTY, MONTANA

D. L. Blackstone, Jr.

Montana Geological Society

... block faults and associated deformation: in Mathews, Vincent III, editor, Laramide folding associated with basement block faulting...

Quantitative evaluation of synsedimentary fault opening and sealing properties using hydrocarbon connection probability assessment

Likuan Zhang, Xiaorong Luo, Qianjin Liao, Wan Yang, Guy Vasseur, Changhua Yu, Junqing Su, Shuqin Yuan, Dunqing Xiao, Zhaoming Wang

AAPG Bulletin

...:10.1038/437046a.Harding, T. P., and A. C. Tuminas, 1989, Structural interpretation of hydrocarbon traps sealed by basement normal fault blocks at stable flank of fore...

Petroleum Geology and Geochemistry of a Production Trend Along the McPherson Anticline in Central Kansas, with Implications for Long-and Short-Distance Oil Migration

K. David Newell, Joseph R. Hatch

Kansas Geological Society

...-northeast-south-southwest dextral movement of basement blocks may account for structural pattern observed along McPherson anticline (contour interval...

Influence of Structural Inheritance on the Moattama – East Andaman Basins and the Present Day Plate Boundary

Karen Connors, Cedric Jorand, Lynn Pryer

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... and local mantle exhumation. Similar patterns of strain localisation in narrow, weak collisional belts between competent blocks (or cratons) have...

Structure and Tectonics of Central and Southern Appalachian Valley and Ridge and Plateau Provinces, West Virginian and Virginia

Byron R. Kulander , Stuart L. Dean

AAPG Bulletin

.... Eastman, 1983, Role of basement warps and faults in localizing thrust fault ramps, in R. D. Hatcher, Jr., H. Williams, and I. Zietz, eds...