Niger Delta

Harry Doust, Ebi Omatsola

AAPG Special Volumes

...-dipping fault blocks bounded by a series of closely spaced seaward-dipping faults (Figure 16) are found in the offshore "K-block" or "K-type" structures...

Comment on "Time of Migration" by W. C. Gussow

A. J. Goodman

CSPG Bulletin

... basement rocks, riddled by old fault weaknesses, did not subside gently as a rubber sheet would. They went down as blocks. The long edge of one...

The Paleogeography of the Beagle Sub-Basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia

A.E. Stephenson , J.E. Blevin , B.G. West

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... basement offshore extension of the Proterozoic Pilbara Block. The shelf is onlapped by a thin sequence of Triassic to Cenozoic sediment. The Lambert...

Abstract: Fracture Development within Partially-Decoupled Basement-Involved Folds, by C. Zahm; #90092 (2009)

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Abstract: Integrated reservoir characterisation of a fractured basement reservoir; #90137 (2011)

Erika Angerer, Pascale Neff, and Iftikhar Abbasi

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... in structural highs formed by fault-controlled blocks in an intra cratonic rift basin in the Middle East. The target zones are the metamorphic basement...

Buried-Hill Oil and Gas Pools in the North China Basin

Zhai Guangming, Zha Quanheng

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and Mantou formation, Click to view image in JPEG format. Fig. 2. [Color] Forms of fault blocks in North China basin: (1) tilt type, (2) horst-graben...

System of Faults in the Northwest Part of the Dnieper-Donets Depression

V. M. Smelyanskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the Dnieper-Donets depression; they have determined the block structure of the basement and contributed to the development of various dislocations...

The Tectonic and Synorogenic Depositional History of the Hoback Basin and Adjacent Areas

J. A. Dorr Jr., D. R. Spearing, J. R. Steidtmann

Wyoming Geological Association

... on the Cache Fault. These relationships show that after deposition of the Hoback Formation, initial uplift in the Gros Vetre block yielded thick...

Mesozoic Sedimentary Succession at Andoy, Northern Norway, and Relation to Structural Development of the North Atlantic Area

A. Dalland

CSPG Special Publications

... of Denmark, Bulletin 27, p. 73-87. Surlyk, F., 1978c. Submarine fan sedimentation along fault scarps on tilted fault blocks (Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary...

New Data on Faults of the Basement and their Reflection in the Structure of the Sedimentary Cover of the Eastern Stavropol Area

L. A. Naydenova, B. A. Polosin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of maximum erosion (above the fault and within the basement). Local uplifts: 1 -Russkiy Khutor Severnyy, 2-Ozek-Suat, 3-Neftekum, 4-Urozhaynen...

Tectonics of East Side of Cordillera in Western Canada

A. J. Goodman

AAPG Bulletin

... block faulting is present. For the rest, the over-all pattern is one of fault blocks tilted in many directions, but mainly west, and in the basement...

Deep Subsurface and Oil-Gas Potential of Rift Systems of East Asia

V. G. Varnavskiy, V. V. Krapiventseva, Yu. F. Malyshev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...) volcanism continued throughout the entire Cenozoic. These were alkalic, rarely tholeiitic basalts. The basement of the blocks becomes younger from...

Petroleum Geology of the Ombilin Intermontane Basin, West Sumatra

T. Koning

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... as having oil and gas potential. Much of the block consists of surface exposures of pre-Tertiary basement rocks comprising the core of the Barisan...

Makassar Straits: Deepwater basins with major gas/condensate potential

Staff of Talisman Energy

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

..., synrift clastics on fault blocks and ponded and basin floor turbidites. In the North and South Makassar Basin the pre-rift accretionary prism basement...

Tectono-Stratigraphy of the Passive Margin Off Nova Scotia: Chapter 14: North American Margins

H. J. Welsink, J. D. Dwyer, R. J. Knight

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... unconformity. The modern shelf break is abrupt and is underlain by a steeply dipping basement fault, with throw of at least 6 km, that was active until Aptian...

Geology of Western Caucasus: Structure

A. L. Tsagareli

AAPG Special Volumes

... to different depths. In the intermontane blocks its position has been determined by seismic methods (Ioseliani, 1969). The basement of the Georgian block...

Neogene–Quaternary postrift tectonic reactivation of the Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China

Lei Huang, Chiyang Liu, Yingbin Wang, Junfeng Zhao, and Nigel P. Mountney

AAPG Bulletin

... basement blocks: the Taihang Shan to the west, Yanshan to the north, Luxi to the south, and Jiaoliao to the east. Internally, the basin is characterized...

Central and South Atlantic Conjugate Margin Pre- and Post-Salt Successions: Implications to Rift Models and Petroleum Systems, #30081 (2009)

David E. Brown, Webster U. Mohriak, Haddou Jabour, and Gabor C. Tari

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.... Unusual deep water structures, seen as highly rotated fault blocks with growth geometries, have alternative interpretations of continental or oceanic...

Mesozoic Rifting in the Western Arctic Ocean Basin and Its Relationship to Pacific Seafloor Spreading

Peter B. Jones

CSPG Special Publications

... of Alaska and eastern Siberia. All three elements are proved or probable dextral strike-slip fault and shear zones. It is postulated that during...

Structural Interpretation of the Ara Group Carbonates South Oman Salt Basin

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The Lusitanian Basin of West-Central Portugal: Mesozoic and Tertiary Tectonic, Stratigraphic, and Subsidence History: Chapter 22: European-African Margins

R. C. L. Wilson, R. N. Hiscott, M. G. Willis , F. M. Gradstein

AAPG Special Volumes

... Franca de Xira fault, the Tagus lineament, and associated Lisbon submarine canyon. Likewise, the offshore basement horst (Berlenga, Farilhoes...

Analogue Modeling of the Monterrey Salient and the La Popa Basin, Northeastern Mexico

Mariano Cerca, Rodrigo Portillo-Pineda, Dora Carreon-Freyre

GCAGS Transactions

... a conspicuous perturbation of the folding patterns in the interaction with the basement faults. Inset shows the localization of the studied area...

Provenance of Carboniferous strata (the Meishan Group) on the northern margin of the Dabie orogenic belt and implications of oblique convergence between the North and South China blocks

Cheng Cheng, Shuangying Li, Xiangyang Xie, Yanlin Lu, Arthur B. Busbey, Guanglu Chai

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... rocks of the South China Block and recycling of Archean to Proterozoic basement rocks of both the North and South China blocks. Compilation...

Structural Styles of Mesozoic-Cenozoic Petroliferous Basins of China: ABSTRACT

Liu Hefu

AAPG Bulletin

...; compressive fault blocks and ramps in the basement; detached reverse faults and parallel folds in the cover. The Mesozoic-Cenozoic basins of China have...

Using Freehand Three-dimensional Drawings to Clarify and Verify Subsurface Structural Interpretations

Donald S. Stone

AAPG Special Volumes

...://reynolds.asu.edu/blocks, for mini-movies of rotating block diagrams of different structures). The figures in this chapter also differ from...