Controls on the Trap Integrity of the Skua Oil Field, Timor Sea

A. Gartrell, M. Lisk, J. Underschultz

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...-flow. SKUA-1 SWIFT-1 Figure 1b: Regional setting of the Skua Field. b). Structural cross-section through the Rowan, Skua and Swift fault blocks...

Chronology of Cenozoic tectonic events in western Venezuela and the Leeward Antilles based on integration of offshore seismic reflection data and on-land geology

David Gorney, Alejandro Escalona, Paul Mann, M. Beatrice Magnani, BOLIVAR Study Group

AAPG Bulletin

.... Mann, 2003, Basement blocks and basin inversion structures mapped using reprocessed Gulfrex 2D seismic data, CaribbeanSouth America oblique...

Reef Development on a Mid-Oceanic Island: Reflection Profiling Studies of the 500-Meter Shelf South of Oahu

Arthur E. Gregory III , Loren W. Kroenke

AAPG Bulletin

... reefs. Fault control is evident; many reefs have grown on t e upthrown side of tilted basement fault blocks, usually directly on elevated basement...

Abstract: Detached Salt Tectonics during Basement-Involved Extension, by B. C. Vendeville, M. P. A. Jackson, and H. Ge; #90987 (1993).

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Aero-Cosmic Investigations of the Geology and Oil-Gas Potential of Krasnoleninsk Arch, West Siberia

V. M. Pererva, V. E. Filippovich, V. N. Barinov, V. A. Sidorov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... is somewhat less. All this is regarded as being a consequence of predominantly vertical block movements of the crystalline basement, and this in turn...

Tectonic History of West-Central Colorado

Ogden Tweto

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... thrust fault, the London and Weston faults, the Castle Creek fault, parts of the Grand Hogback, and perhaps even the basement trough of the Piceance basin...

GEOLOGIC RESEARCH IN THE INNER PIEDMONT AND ITS BORDERS: PROGRESS 1970-1990

Michael J. Neilson, Steven A. Goldberg, Mark G. Steltenpohl

Alabama Geological Society

... Mountain, and Inner Piedmont blocks are bounded by the by the Goat Rock and Towaliga fault zones and the Brevard zone. The Inner Piedmont bloCk includes...

Structural-Geodynamic Criteria for Distribution of Possible Zones of Oil-Gas Accumulation in Mezen Sineklize

D. A. Astaf’yev, N. Yu. Alinova

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... and downdropped blocks. A strong paleo-relief developed on the basement surface, and this is reflected in the structure of the Riphean and overlying sedimentary...

Mesozoic diapirism in the Pyrenean orogen: Salt tectonics on a transform plate boundary

Joseph Canrot, Michael R. Hudec, Konrad Rockenbauch

AAPG Bulletin

.... 353367.Dooley, T., K. McClay, M. Hempton, and D. Smit, in press, Salt tectonics above complex basement extensional fault systems: Results from analogue...

Early Tertiary sinistral transpression and fault reactivation in the western Vring Basin, Norwegian Sea: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration and pre-breakup deformation in ocean margin basins

J. Imber, R. E. Holdsworth, K. J. W. McCaffrey, R. W. Wilson, R. R. Jones, R. W. England, G. Gjeldvik

AAPG Bulletin

... of the top basement; (4) positive or negative flower structures above the master fault; (5) coeval extensional and contractional structures within a single...

Reconstruction of Allochthonous Salt Emplacement from 3-D Seismic Reflection Data, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Robert D. Walters

AAPG Bulletin

... is actually initiated. A common hypothesis calls upon some initial irregularity produced by tectonic movement, such as a basement fault or step. Studies...

Divergent Wrench Faulting in the Belize Southern Lagoon: Implications for Tertiary Caribbean Plate Movements and Quaternary Reef Distribution

Maria Ester Lara

AAPG Bulletin

... on the footwall block that probably coincides with the fault plane, and a gentler hanging-wall dip slope, on which sediments onlap. The hanging-wall block...

Evolution of an Allochthonous Salt System, Southern Mars-Ursa Minibasin, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Angela Pell, Jeffrey A. Nunn

GCAGS Transactions

... group faults (Fig. 6a). The northern fault group likely formed in response to eastward-directed salt evacuation. Analysis of well data in blocks MC898...

Basement Thrusting in North-Central Utah: A Model for the Development of the Northern Utah Highland

Tad W. Schirmer

Utah Geological Association

... the highland, cast of the Wasatch Fault was combined with well data from the Henefer-Coalville area to provide a basis for interpretation of the basement...

Salt Basin Framework

New Orleans Geological Society

... fault blocks and differential subsidence allow for the deposition of thick local pods of sediment. Large grabens serve as the site of lacustrine...

Tectonic-Sedimentary Evolution of Piedra Clavada and Koluel Kaike Fields, Golfo San Jorge Basin, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina; #20210 (2013)

Ariel Schiuma, Carolina Crovetto, Adrián Rasgido, and Ornella López Alvarado

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... slope. There is an important en-echelon fault system produced by a basement fault placed at the middle of the footwall block in Koluel Kaike Field...

The lithospheric structure and deep processes of the Mesozoic mineral systems in east China: constrained from integrated geophysical data

Qingtian Lü, Guixiang Meng, Jiayong Yan, Jinhua Zhao, Xuejing Gong

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... (NBC) and the South China Block (SCB) as indicated by the Tan-Lu Fault. Radiometric dating (Li et al., 1989), paleomagnetic study (Zhao et al., 1987...

Geology of Monterey Canyon, California

Bruce D. Martin , K. O. Emery

AAPG Bulletin

... of an upthrown block. The writers suggest that the fault in the nearshore regions of Carmel Canyon is an extension of the Carmel Valley fault, and that canyon...

Wrench Fault Movements Along Washita Valley Fault, Arbuckle Mountain Area, Oklahoma: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

J. Henry Tanner, III

AAPG Bulletin

... and the Arbuckle anticline was thrust northward over the adjoining structural element. The Washita Valley fault separates two distinctly different basement-rock...

Basement Structure and Sediment Distribution in Northwest Atlantic Ocean

Brian E. Tucholke , Virginia A. Fry

AAPG Bulletin

.... Major structural lineations that define possible transform fault traces are shown for Davis Strait area. Significant basement highs on oceanic crust...

Pre-Tertiary and Tertiary Fault Systems as a Framework of the South Sumatra Basin; A Study of SAR-Maps

A. Pulunggono, Agus Haryo S., Christine G. Kosuma

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... Fault in the Palembang Basin has been described for the first time in 1969, this particular ± N300°E trending steeply dipping basement-rooted (strike...

Synthetic Seismic-Reflection Profiles of Rift-Related Structures

Martha O. Withjack , D. J. Drickman Pollock

AAPG Bulletin

... displacement deform the basement and much of the overlying sedimentary and igneous rocks, forming tilted fault blocks, horsts, and grabens (Table 1, Figure...

Horizontal Compression and a Mechanical Interpretation of Rocky Mountain Foreland Deformation

J. R. Scheevel

Wyoming Geological Association

...). This "smoothing" may occur because layered rocks in contact with basement-fault block edges, effectively "spread" the fault displacement to a wider...

Neogene Tectonic and Structural Evolution of the Timor Sea Region, NW Australia

M. Keep, M. Clough, L. Langhi

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...) are used to describe cross-sectional fault patterns (e.g. de Ruig eta!. 2000). They are not related to a surface or subsurface structural pattern...

Geologic Evolution of the Petroleum Basins of Southern California

Tom Wright

Pacific Section of AAPG

... offshore extension to the Rose Canyon fault). Figure 7. Major faults of southern California, showing cumulative fault displacements and block rotations...