Exploration and Production of Oil and Gas from Naturally Fractured and Weathered Basement Reservoirs in Asia, Africa and the Americas

Tako Koning

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... within a fault zone does not assure basement production. Other geological factors are equally important to basement oil accumulations and production...

Structure of the Upper Horse Creek Area

L. H. VanDyke

Wyoming Geological Association

... Eocene-later?) fault. Deformation since the Skyline Trail has been negligible in the area. However, a short distance away large displacement block...

Pre-Mississippian History of the Peace River Arch

G. DEMILLE

CSPG Bulletin

... sections. The orientation of basement trends and fault blocks in northeast and northwest directions is deduced from the borehole data and the general...

Abstract: Late Cretaceous Eugeosynclinal Sedimentation, Gravity Tectonics, and Ophiolite Emplacement in the Oman Mountains, Southeast Arabia

H. Hugh Wilson

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... this high is believed to have been by means of turbidity currents activated by repetitive block-fault movement over a rising mantle diapir. Hawasina...

Seismicity and Basement Structure Beneath South San Francisco Bay, California

Mary Lou Zoback, Jean A. Olson, Robert C. Jachens

Pacific Section SEPM

... to determine whether, and, if so, on what possible fault structures the Bay block is deforming. The geophysically-defined basement structures identified include...

Comments on Structure Within the Igneous Core, Wichita Mountains Crustal Block

M. Charles Gilbert

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... this crustal block. Fault distributions within the main igneous outcrops in the eastern Wichitas have been shown on the Oklahoma State Geologic Map (Miser...

Geologic Framework of a Transect of the Central Brooks Range: Regional Relations and an Alternative to the Endicott Mountains Allochthon

J. S. Kelley , W. P. Brosge

AAPG Bulletin

.... Basement rocks and overlying Silurian to Upper Devonian rocks in the southern part of the map area are structurally repeated in fault blocks (Figure 4a...

Strike-slip fault skeletonization based on deep learning cascade ant tracking method

Zhipeng Gui, Junhua Zhang, Rujun Wang, Yintao Zhang, Chong Sun, Mei Yang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...Strike-slip fault skeletonization based on deep learning cascade ant tracking method Zhipeng Gui, Junhua Zhang, Rujun Wang, Yintao Zhang, Chong Sun...

Chapter 10: Structural Styles of the Camisea Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Southeast Peru

Ken McClay, Nicola Scarselli, Javier Tamara, James Hammerstein, Daniel Torres

AAPG Special Volumes

...-and-thrust belt is interpreted to be a system of large inverted basement fault blocks that were uplifted and exhumed as the Andean deformation moved outboard...

Paleotectonic Controls on Sedimentation in the Northern Williston Basin, Saskatchewan

D.M. Kent

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... tectonics or to local basement block movements. However, isopach mapping and sediment distribution patterns show that there is at least one...

Structural and Sequence Geometry of the Kiunga Area, Papuan Foreland Basin, Papua New Guinea

S. A. Kawagle, J. B. Meyers

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... by small-scale thrust and normal block fault splays are developed along the Kiunga Fault Zone. Minor sedimentary troughs developed along NE trending...

Chapter 7: Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Tectonic History of the Ridgway Area, Northwestern San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Paul C. Weimer

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., the Orvis block, the Ouray graben, and the Uncompahgre block. Recurrent movement of these fault blocks from the Paleozoic through the Cenozoic...

Evolution of fracture and fault-controlled fluid pathways in carbonates of the Albanides fold-thrust belt

Brita R. Graham Wall, Radu Girbacea, Agim Mesonjesi, Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

... being a fault with a well-developed fault core and damage zone. A three-dimensional (3-D) perspective block diagram constructed from outcrop mosaics...

Abstract: Inversion Structures of the Central Zone of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia, by M. G. Freitas and B. L. Françolin; #90933 (1998).

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The North Brook Formation: A temporal bridge spanning contrasting tectonic regimes in the Deer Lake Basin, Western Newfoundland

R. S. Hyde

Atlantic Geology

.... 7-26. SYLVESTER, A.G. and SMITH, R.R. 1976. Tectonic transpression and basement-controlled deformation in San Andreas fault zone, Salton trough...

Abstract: Compressional Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Aspects of the Ternberg-Ost Area (Upper Austria), by B. Gunzenhauser, B. Meier, and W. Zimmer; #90942 (1997).

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Integrating strike-slip tectonism with three-dimensional basin and petroleum system analysis of the Salinas Basin, California

Tess Menotti, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, Kristian Meisling, and Stephan A. Graham

AAPG Bulletin

... on mostly Cretaceous-age granitic and metamorphic basement of the Salinian tectonic block, defined by the San Andreas Fault on the east and Nacimiento...

Paleogene Depositional Systems of the Western Transverse Ranges and Adjacent Southernmost Coast Ranges, California

William R. Dickinson

Pacific Section SEPM

... fault, from coeval Cretaceous strata lying along the western flank of the Salinian block (Grove, 1993). These Salinian Cretaceous strata are in turn...

An Integrated Geophysical Analysis of Crustal Structure in the Wichita Uplift Region of Southern Oklahoma

Amanda Rondot Buckey

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... Rocky Mountains, a series of fault-bounded basement uplifts and flanking basins formed in the Late Mississippian to Permian that stretches from...

Paleomagnetism of the Upper Paleocene Locatelli Formation, Santa Cruz County, California: Implications for Tectonic Rotation of the Northern Salinian Block

Donald R. Prothero, Ruben A. Lopez

Pacific Section SEPM

... (Fig. 1) is a major terrane boundary, separating two blocks with very different basement rocks and stratigraphies (the Ben Lomond block, with its...

Crustal Modeling of the Caribbean- South American Plate Boundary, at Venezuelan Central Coast

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Tectonic Setting of Horizontal Bakken Production in Southwestern North Dakota

George W. Shurr

Williston Basin Symposium

... block tectonics. Zones of weakness in the Precambrian basement have periodically reactivated to influence development of fractured reservoirs...

The Petroleum System of the Rubio Area, Mrida Andes, Venezuela

Enrique Novoa, Angel Gonzalez, Carmen Zambrano, Claudia Fintina, Oswaldo Gallango

AAPG Special Volumes

.... They interpret the fold-fault patterns as flower structures. Macellari (1984) interpreted the Rubio block as the decoupling area between the Mrida...

Abstract: Depositional Models, Intrabasin Tectonics, and Sea Level Changes in Petroleum Exploration

Robert J. Weimer

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

.... (Annual) Recurrent movement on Precambrian-age basement-fault systems has influenced the origin, thickness, and distribution of Phanerozoic strata...

Depositional Models, Intrabasin Tectonics, and Sea Level Changes in Petroleum Exploration: ABSTRACT

Robert J. Weimer

AAPG Bulletin

...) Recurrent movement on Precambrian-age basement-fault systems has influenced the origin, thickness, and distribution of Phanerozoic strata...