ABSTRACT: Controls on the Genesis, Evolution and Breaching of Relay Ramps: New Insights from Field Studies (Hurricane Fault, Southwest Utah) and 3-D Seismic Analyses (Offshore West Africa ); #90013 (2003)

David Dutton, Bruce Trudgill, David Sanderson

Search and Discovery.com

... relay ramps from the basement controlled fault systems are characterised by upward bifurcations of a single fault strand and a change in breaching style...

Geology and Habitat of Oil in Ras Budran Field, Gulf of Suez, Egypt

L. R. Chowdhary , Said Taha

AAPG Bulletin

... and had moderate displacements. The faulting, however, was not accompanied by fault-block rotation, and the erosion of the Ras Budran blocks...

Cenozoic Evolution of the Northern Colorado River Extensional Corridor, Southern Nevada and Northwest Arizona

James E. Faulds, Daniel L. Feuerbach, Calvin F. Miller, Eugene I. Smith

Pacific Section of AAPG

... on the Dupont Mountain fault. Several narrow west-tilted fault blocks, such as the Mount Davis block on the east side of Lake Mohave, and associated half grabens...

Structural Characterization of the Wilzetta Fault Zone; Lincoln, Pottawatomie, and Creek Counties, Oklahoma

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Chapter 9: Evolution of the Hat Creek Fault System, Northern California

Simon A. Kattenhorn, Bob Krantz, Erin L. Walker, Matthew W. Blakeslee

AAPG Special Volumes

... collapse. Fracture patterns and fault segment geometries and linkages were used to deduce the kinematic and stress history. The oldest segments of the Rim...

Ute Dome I: Multidisciplinary Integration Defines Dakota Reservoir Compartments

B.S. Hart, S. Ralser, S.P. Cooper, M. Herrin, K. Nikolaissen, R.S. Balch

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... blocks are rotated with the northeast side of each block being at a higher structural level than the southeast side (Fig. 6). Individual fault segments...

Structure and Stratigraphy of the Gulf of Suez, Egypt: Chapter 2: Part I. Type Basin: Gulf of Suez

Karsten I. Schutz

AAPG Special Volumes

... Durba (Figures 2, 7) is the largest, exposed, tilted fault block inside the Gulf of Suez graben. Basement is exposed along the coast over a distance...

Regional Stratigraphy, Environments of Deposition, and Tectonic Framework of Mississippian Clastic Rocks Between the Tuscumbia and Bangor Limestones in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama and Mississippi

David R. Higginbotham

GCAGS Transactions

... subsidence of crustal blocks. The northeast-trending block boundary in the Black Warrior basin nearly parallels an interpreted northeast-trending late...

Hidden Structures in the Permian Basin

Jack G. Elam

West Texas Geological Society

... a single, free-standing tilted fault block structure could ever be formed by itself. If one fault block has been tilted 5°, the adjacent crustal blocks...

Oil Basins and Subtle Traps in the Eastern Part of China

Ma Li, Ge Taisheng, Zhao Xueping, Zie Taijun, Ge Rong, Dang Zhenrong

AAPG Special Volumes

... and brittle Paleozoic limestones, dolomites, and old metamorphic rocks; (2) there was a prolonged active fault bordering the basement blocks and several...

Abstract: Structural Inversions During the Phanerozoic in the Rocky Mountain Area

Robert J. Weimer

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... in both major and minor fault block structures. This pattern of fault movement is important in petroleum exploration because a basement block may...

Structural Geology: Tectonic History, Macrostructures, Regional Fault Map, Fault Systems, Second-Order Structures, and Impact of the Inheritance

Denis Marchal, Rene Manceda, Ricardo Fabián Domínguez, Federico Sattler

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the Neuquén Basin (Figure 22A) with the Patagonian block to the south and the Chilenia terrane to the north. The fabric of this basement blocks...

Role of Sub-Andean Fault System in Tectonics of Eastern Peru and Ecuador: ABSTRACT

C. K. Ham, L. J. Herrera, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... fault system is an imbricate zone of west-dipping reverse strike faults along which the western blocks are elevated with respect to the eastern blocks...

Effect of Fault-Block Tectonics on Formation of Zones of Oil-Gas Accumulation in South Mangyshlak

L. P. Dmitriyev, V. I. Popkov, V. P. Palamar, A. A. Rabinovich

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Effect of Fault-Block Tectonics on Formation of Zones of Oil-Gas Accumulation in South Mangyshlak L. P. Dmitriyev, V. I. Popkov, V. P. Palamar...

Early synrift reservoir development on the flanks of extensional forced folds: A seismic-scale outcrop analog from the Hadahid fault system, Suez rift, Egypt

Matthew M. Lewis, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Robert L. Gawthorpe, and Paul S. Whipp

AAPG Bulletin

... stacking patterns. Figure 2 Geologic setting of the Hadahid fault block and Hadahid fault system. (A) Geologic map of the Hadahid fault block (modified...

A Two Phase Extensional Model for the Penola Trough, Otway Basin, Southern Australia

M. Bowyer, C. F. Elders, K. R. McClay

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... will contribute to a better understanding of trap geometries and the role of fault sealing in the hydrocarbon system. Structural Architecture Basement...

Dip-Slip Versus Strike-Slip Movement on San Gabriel Fault, Southern California

Robert H. Paschall , Theodore Off

AAPG Bulletin

... to a ominantly dip-slip history. Numerous unconformities in the blocks on either side of the San Gabriel fault attest to the unstable nature...

Abstract: Wrench-Faulting and Compressional Features in an Extensional Basin: the Mekong Basin, Vietnam (Paper 31)

Mastura Abd Malik, N. H. Ngoc, M. Jamil Said, M. Nasir Abd Rahman, H. D. Tjia

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... compression exists. Analyses of slickenside patterns on fault planes, well-bore elongations in over a dozen basement-penetrating wells in Carigali...

Heart Mountain — Blocks in a Giant Volcanic Rock Glacier

John K. Sales

Wyoming Geological Association

... competence to that under the Heart Mountain fault appears incompetent to support blocks 30 times thinner than the Heart Mountain block. Figure 9. View...

THE WHITTIER FAULT TREND: CROSS SECTIONS, STRUCTURE MAPS, AND WELL TOPS IN THE MAJOR OIL PRODUCING AREA OF THE NORTHEASTERN LOS ANGELES BASIN, by Tom Bjorklund, Search and Discovery Article #10038 (2003)

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ABSTRACT: Seismic Structural Characterization of Fault Zones in Early Cretaceous Carbonates, Offshore Abu Dhabi; #90051 (2006)

Henry Ewart Edwards, K. Hong Sit, Hamad A. Bu Al-Rougha

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...ABSTRACT: Seismic Structural Characterization of Fault Zones in Early Cretaceous Carbonates, Offshore Abu Dhabi; #90051 (2006) Henry Ewart Edwards, K...

Abstract: Tectonic Lineaments in Southern Poland

Stanislaw Ostaficzuk

Utah Geological Association

... the surfaces separating the blocks. The displacements of basement blocks are reflected at the surface by systems of faults, fault shifts, and overthrusts...

THE TECTONICS OF MONTANA AS RELATED TO THE BELT SERIES

SHEROD A. HARRIS

Montana Geological Society

... of western Montana to the Williston Basin of North Dakota. There may have been some adjustments along the basement fault systems in the "Big...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Structural Geology of the Mississippi Fan Fold Belt, Northern Deep Gulf of Mexico, Part 1: Geometry and Restorations

Morris, Peter L., and Weimer, Paul

GCAGS Transactions

... the crest of this fold making only the southern limb visible. As fault fold pair C2 decreases in offset and amplitude the truncation patterns...

A Symposium of the Oil and Gas Fields of Southeastern New Mexico

Curtis Anderson, Robert Casavant, Kenneth Mallon, Michael Gerstner, Mark Malone, George Hillis, Kevin Kohles, John Roberts, Hoxie Smith, James Reeves, Ralph Worthington

PTTC

...; to as the "White City Penn fault" or "WCP Kelley, 1971). fault" . It is noteworthy that structural inversion and reactivation of basement fault blocks...