Problems of Intraplate Extensional Tectonics, Western United States, With Special Emphasis on the Great Basin

Gergory A. Davis

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... ranges in the structural province were fault blocks of basin-andrange type, others were “elongate-domal uplifts” with only subordinate block faulting...

Hydrocarbon Potential and Structural Style of Continental Rifts: Examples from East Africa and Southeast Asia

S. J. Derksen, J. McLean-Hodgson

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

...-graben unit is a very large, rotated basement block defined by a major, usually listric bounding fault on one side and a flexural margin broken...

The Cat Creek Anticline, Central Montana: Recurrent Faulting and Oil Migration, by W. J. Nelson; #90986 (1994).

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Structural Pattern of the Powder River Basin

D. L. Blackstone Jr.

Wyoming Geological Association

... a line trending roughly N 50 degrees E. This structural trend is reflected in the Bridger fault graben, the two constrictions mentioned and possibly...

Magnetotelluric Soundings in the Ouchita Thrust Belt of Central Texas

J. G. Muncey , W. J. Ehni

GCAGS Transactions

... material seems best explained by a high angle fault or fault zone separating the two resistive basement blocks. Significantly different MT resistivity...

The Opening of the Southern Gulf of California: Chapter 20: Part III. Regional Geophysics and Geology

Mitchell Lyle, Gordon E. Ness

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the Gulf, magnetic anomaly patterns, the uncentered position of the Rivera Rise within the Gulf, and the time of deposition of the Magdalena Fan...

Overview of the Structure and Associated Petroleum Prospectivity of the Taranaki Fault, New Zealand

V. Stagpoole, R. Funnell, A. Nicol

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... with the boundaries between basement terranes (Mortimer et a!. 1997). The location and geometry of the Taranaki Fault could therefore be controlled...

Basement Tectonic Control on Distribution of the Shallow Marine Bad Heart Formation: Peace River Arch Area, Northwest Alberta

W. Steven Donaldson,, A. Guy Plint, Fred J. Longstaffe

CSPG Bulletin

... results suggest that during Coniacian time, subtle movement of fault-bounded blocks in the Paleozoic basement continued to influence patterns...

Tectonic and Sedimentation Model for D Sandstone Deposition, Zenith Field Area, Denver Basin, Colorado: ABSTRACT

S. A. Sonnenberg, L. B. Conyers

AAPG Bulletin

... fault-block movement. Concurrent with the tectonics, a drop in sea level occurs which drains a portion of the D depositional basin. A drainage system...

Structural Controls of Contemporary Carbonate Continental Margins: Bahamas, Belize, Australia

Henry T. Muilins

Special Publications of SEPM

... at a subsurface depth of 7.2 km (Mullins et al., 1977). Abaco Knoll thus appears to have originated as a fault block or basement high (Mullins, 1976) on which...

Role of Subandean Fault System in Tectonics of Eastern Peru and Ecuador

Cornelius K. Ham , Leo J. Herrera Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... toward the shield regions. The Subandean fault system is an imbricate zone of west-dipping reverse strike faults along which the western blocks...

Geometries and Kinematics of Laramide Basement-Involved Anticlines, by A. B. Fisher; #90902 (2001)

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The Geological Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Occurrence in East China

Li Desheng

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... Gudao oilfield was developed on the basis of blocks since 1971. In 1974 inverted nine spot waterflood patterns were employed to develop the field. Peak...

Inversion Tectonics in the Malay Basin: Evidence and Timing of Events

H. D. Tjia

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... the following examples. (1) The planimetric shapes and patterns of fault-bounded basins along the Hinge Fault Zone on the west edge of the Malay Basin...

Thin-Skinned Shortening Geometries of the South Fork Fault: Bighorn Basin, Park County, Wyoming

Timothy L. Clarey

Wyoming Geological Association

.... Associated with these are detachment features such as the Heart Mountain Fault and remnant blocks of Paleozoic limestone, the South Fork detachment fault...

Carbonate Platform Models in Strike-Slip Settings, by Steven L. Dorobek; #90052 (2006)

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Satellite Interferometry and the Detection of Active Deformation Associated with Faults in Suban Field, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

Richard A. Schultz, Xiaopeng Tong, Khalid A. Soofi, David T. Sandwell, Peter H. Hennings

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... ~400 km to the southwest (Figure 1). The principal element uplifting the overall structure is a basement-rooted fault-propagation fold...

The Origin of the Gulf of Mexico Basin and its Petroleum Subbasins in Mexico, Based on Red Bed and Salt Palynostratigraphy

Jaime Rueda-Gaxiola

AAPG Special Volumes

...), this block migrated southeastward and subsequently northeastward along the Polochic-Motagua fault system (Figure 3) to form the northwestern part...

Rift Sequences of the Southern Margin of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece) as Exploration / Production Analogues; #90017 (2003)

Richard Collier, Greg Jones

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... that only lithostratigraphic correlation of units between adjacent fault blocks is currently possible. Two major syn-rift, non-marine, sedimentary formations...

Rift Sequences of the Southern Margin of the Gulf of Corinth (Greece) as Exploration / Production Analogues, by Richard Collier and Greg Jones, #50007 (2004).

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Chapter 3: Crystalline Basement: The Foundations of Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

G. Ross, R. A. Stephenson

CSPG Special Publications

... boundaries. In other sedimentary basins, a close correlation has been observed between basement structure and depositional patterns, for example in Mesozoic...

Chapter 12: Increasing Interpreter Capability in Structurally Complex Settings through Combined Fieldwork, Interpretation, and Geocellular Modeling

John G. Solum, Stephen J. Jolley, Benjamin D. Meyer

AAPG Special Volumes

... of fault geometry and displacement patterns, in Buchanan, P.G., Nieuwland, D.A., eds., Modern developments in structural interpretation, validation...

Structural Style and Decollement Levels in the Llanos Orientales Basin (Colombia)

Isabelle Moretti, Juan Carlos Mondragon, Julio Cesar Garzon, Gabriella Bosio, Jean Marc Daniel

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... extension of the fault. One may note that the top basement (strong reflector below the SPE [Structural style and decollement levels in the Llanos...

Early Cretaceous deepwater rifts of the Camamu-Almada Basin of northeastern Brazil and their implications for the distribution of deepwater source and reservoir rocks

James J. D. McConnell, Paul Mann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...-capped basement blocks, and created halfgraben which accumulated organic-rich fresh to brackish water lacustrine deposits of the Morro do Barro and Rio de...

Parameters of Subsurface Structural Reconnaissance in the Simpson Group (Ordovician), South Norman Area, Oklahoma

George O. McDaniel, Jr.

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... and 4. Stations 29 to 31 indicate an uplifted block bounded by faults. Stations 28 and 29, 31 and 32, show the relative movement of the fault block...