Preliminary Aeromagnetic Interpretation of the Uncompahgre Uplift and Paradox Basin, West-Central Colorado and East-Central Utah

Verner C. Johnson

Grand Junction Geological Society

... Guidebook, p. 23–30. Thomas, G.E., 1976, Lineament-block tectonics: North America—Cordilleran Oregon: 2nd International Conference on Basement Tectonics...

Geometry and Origin of Fault-Related Folds in Extensional Settings

Roy W. Schlische

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1982). Drag folds and related folds Fig. 3. (a) Drag (forced) folds and associated basement-penetrating normal fault zone from the eastern El-Qa plain...

Abstract: Devonian-Cretaceous Tectonostratigraphic Evolution along the Tornquist … Teisseyre Zone in SE Poland … New Models Based on Sei

Piotr Krzywiec

Search and Discovery.com

... / transpressional reverse reactivation of major normal faults and uplift of basement blocks. It also involved strike-slip movements, both parallel...

Fundamental Advances in Structural Geology Based on Ongoing Studies in Reactivation Tectonics, Part 2

S. Parker Gay Jr.

Oklahoma City Geological Society

..., U.S.A.: AAPG Bulletin, v. 73, n. 5, p. 641-657. Gay, S.P., Jr., 1995, The basement fault block pattern: its importance in petroleum exploration...

Abstract: Tectonic Control on Sedimentation for the Lower Cretaceous Newcastle Formation — Eastern Powder River Basin, Wyoming and South Dakota

Kathy Farmer

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... Configuration and relative vertical position of underlying basement fault blocks controlled distribution of Newcastle alluvial valleys in the east-central...

Tectonic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Migration Synchronization in the Eastern Venezuela Basin / Tacata Area, by José F. Mijares, Maria Silva, Wilfredo Maestracci, and Euries Gil, #10070 (2004).

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Gravimetric Exploration for Reefs and Fracture Zones in the Michigan Basin: Abstract

Richard A. Pohly

Tulsa Geological Society

... A-1 structure. A gravity profile across the Scipio Field suggests that the productive Trenton fracture zone is coincident with a basement fault...

Sedimentation and Tectonics of the Middle Proterozoic Belt Basin and Their Influence on Phanerozoic Compression and Extension in Western Montana and Northern Idaho: Part II. Northern Rocky Mountains

D. Winston

AAPG Special Volumes

... BLOCK FAULT PATTERNS WITHIN THE BELT BASIN AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON PHANEROZOIC STRUCTURES Introduction In Part I the Belt basin is interpreted...

Structural Features of the East Side of the San Joaquin Valley, California

Leo S. Fox

AAPG Bulletin

... tensional forces have been active up to Recent time, the overloading of the old fault blocks by younger sediments as the valley was being filled having...

ABSTRACT: Rotational Fault-Bend Folds: An Alternative to Kink-Band Models with Implications for Reservoir Geometry and Heterogeneity, by Heather I. Stanton and Eric A. Erslev; #90906(2001)

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Gold Hill, Utah: Polyphase, Polymetallic Mineralization in a Transverse Zone

James P. Robinson

Utah Geological Association

... affected the patterns of mineralization and distribution of mineral deposits. The development of structural blocks with discontinuous fault patterns could...

Evolution of stratigraphic sequences in multisegmented continental rift basins: Comparison of computer models with the basins of the East African rift system

Juan Contreras, Christopher H. Scholz

AAPG Bulletin

.... T. Hagstrum, 1993, The growth of fault-bounded tilt blocks: Tectonics, v. 12, no. 6, p. 1451-1459. Beaumont, C. P., P. Fullsack, and J. Hamilton, 1992...

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN TOBACCO ROOT MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA

Kiff J. Samuelson, Christopher J. Schmidt

Montana Geological Society

..., Structural and stratigraphic relationships of an isolated fault-bounded basement block, Beaverhead Mountains, southwest Montana: Geol. Soc...

Exploring the Greater Taranaki Basin North of the Established Hydrocarbon Fairway

K. Bierbrauer, T. J. Herdy, A. Rek, K. L. Mills

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... PEP 38618 and PEP 38619. reflective unit above basement in a tilted fault block. The inferred Cretaceous rift sequence is now interpreted as part...

Digital Sandbox Modeling Using Distinct Element Method: Applications to Fault Tectonics

Yasuhiro Yamada, Toshifumi Matsuoka

AAPG Special Volumes

... modelling of contractional fault-propagation folding above rigid basement fault blocks: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 25, p. 515528.Horsfield, W...

Chapter 2: The Ribbon Continent of South America in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela

Armando Altamira, Kevin Burke

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and Pallatanga Blocks. Basement is not exposed in the westernmost Cordilleran block, the Macuchi Block. The age of eruption of the CCOP has been...

AAPG/Datapages Discovery Series No. 7: Multidimensional Basin Modeling, Chapter 11: Structural Trap and Fault-seal Analysis, Offshore Myanmar: A Case Study

Davies, R. K., L. An, D. A. Medwedeff, D. Yarwood

AAPG Special Volumes

... risks on additional prospects in the block. Fault S1 is a key trapping component to seven prospective hydrocarbon accumulations of which six...

Structural Style and Tectonic Evolution of the Albuquerque Basin Segment of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, U.S.A.: Chapter 6: Part II. Examples of Other Rift Basins

L. R. Russell , S. Snelson

AAPG Special Volumes

... location of the Rio Grande rift very closely follows the distribution of Laramide foreland basement block uplifts in the southern Rocky Mountain region...

Regional Pressure Patterns as Evidence for Fractured Reservoirs in the Bowdoin and Phillips Sandstones on Bowdoin Dome, Montana

George W. Shurr, Frederick D. Wosick, Dudley D. Rice

Montana Geological Society

.... The interpretation of fracture porosity relies in part on a regional model of basement blocks which not only influenced depositional patterns...

Polycyclic Rifting - An Interpretation of Gravity and Magnetics in the North West Shelf

V. Anfiloff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... basement fault control, and the probable development of conjugate orthogonal volcanic rift systems. 448 Polycyclic Rifting, North West Shelf Northern...

Late Cretaceous and Paleocene Faulting in Rocky Mountain Foreland and Frontal Thrust Zone, Southeastern Montana: ABSTRACT

Christopher Schmidt

AAPG Bulletin

... compressive forces. The first of these patterns is a set of steep northwest-trending faults involving the metamorphic basement rocks of the Rocky...

Structural Relations Among Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, and Trinidad-Tobago

L. Austin Weeks , R. K. Lattimore , R. N. Harbison , B. G. Bassinger , G. F. Merrill

AAPG Bulletin

..., exemplified by the Pilar block and El Pilar fault, has somewhat modified and directed the arcward continuation of the continental mobile belt...

Structural Inversion in the Cagüi Sector, Northern Central Part of the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia

Flavio Garavito

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... unconformity. In the hanging wall of this fault, the Jurassic, Cretaceous and the basement units are present, while in the footwall only the Cretaceous...

Remote Sensing to Petroleum Exploration in the Qaidam Basin, China

Wang Wenyan, Song Jianguo, Zhang Jiong, Wang Tianxi, Fan Congwu, G.B. Bailey, John L. Dwyer

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... appear as relatively smooth sinusoidally trending patterns, having been formed by dynamic compressive forces. The Zhongwunong fault in the northern...

Geology of Edison Oil Field Kern County, California

J. H. Beach

AAPG Special Volumes

... and gas. The oil found in the sedimentary section has accumulated largely in lenticular sands on an uplifted fault block. Oil in the metamorphic "basement...