Precambrian Control of Laramide Faulting, Sheep Ridge Anticline, Western Owl Creek Mountains, Wyoming

J.S. Blundell, R.W. Marrs

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... structural levels. Field observations suggest that this intersection represents a fault transfer zone that developed during basement block uplift. Relative...

3D Seismic Definition of Fault Geometries and Interference as Structural Controls on Oil Fields in the Upia Area, Llanos Basin, Colombia

M G de Freitas

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

.... The Mirador is top sealed by the shales of the Carbonera C8 section, which also provide cross fault seal in all structures in the block. Depending...

ABSTRACT: Fault-Related Silurian Clinton Sandstone Deposition in Ohio, by Alan H. Coogan; #91031 (2010)

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SE HOOVER - ARBUCKLE DOLOMITE PRODUCTION

Robert W. Worthing

Fort Worth Geological Society

... and the underlying basement rock, the severe Arbuckle Mountain block faulting tends to become less complex with depth. The productive block is a relatively...

The PESA Australian Lecture 1992: Some Ideas on the Rifting History of the Timor Sea from the Integration of Deep Crustal Seismic and Other Data

Geoffrey W. O'Brien

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., classical, highly rotated fault blocks and low-angle extensional faults with substantial throws are present (the lower plate rift margin or LPRM); LPRMs...

An Essay on the Development of Structural Geology in Wyoming

D. L. Blackstone Jr.

Wyoming Geological Association

... Muddy, Lost Soldier and other anticlines present a pattern of fracture of obviously common origin. Similar fault patterns are recognized in California...

Origin, Detection, Involvement in Hydraulic Stimulation and Consequences for Field Development of large-scale Structural Lineaments in the Marcellus and Duvernay plays

Ben Stephenson, Earl Galan, Mathew Fay, Alexei Savitski, Taixu Bai

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... be an obvious fault structure in underlying sediments or basement. [As an aside, this stratigraphic pattern of shale overlying a thick carbonate is very...

Interaction between prerift salt and detachment faulting in hyperextended rift systems: The example of the Parentis and Mauleon basins (Bay of Biscay and western Pyrenees)

Suzon Jammes, Gianreto Manatschal, Luc Lavier

AAPG Bulletin

...) and Lichancumendy blocks, that salt migration was closely associated with block tilting along high-angle faults. Our work aims to understand how Triassic...

Structure of Continental Margin Between Cape Rhir and Cape Sim, Morocco, Northwest Africa

James M. Robb

AAPG Bulletin

... movement of the High Central zone basement block, and also, probably, by the South Atlas fault, although End_Page 648...

Late Jurassic Contemporaneous Faults in North Louisiana and South Arkansas

William F. Bishop

AAPG Bulletin

.... Because the downthrown blocks are tilted, sediments are thickest adjacent to the fault. Fault planes are believed to be curved, and although...

Significant Gas Potential in an Underexplored Basin

Prithiraj Chungkham

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., which are thickest in the onshore southeastern part. The basin was developed as a result of block-faulting of Mesozoic basement rocks and flexure...

The North Pyrenean Aquitaine Basin, France: Evolution and Hydrocarbons

Robert Bourrouilh , Jean-Paul Richert , Greg Zolnai

AAPG Bulletin

...°) (commonly N110°, Figure 5a). Some of the basement blocks, limited by elements of the inherited fault network, remained mobile throughout subsequent...

Petroleum in Basement Rocks

Chung-Hsiang P'An

AAPG Bulletin

..., California (Beach, 1948). Here the structure is rather complex. Before deposition of the Tertiary sediment, the area was an uplifted fault block...

Mapping Structures of Ancient Exposed Hyperextended Margins in the Alps: A Key to Understand the Evolution of Ultra-Deep Water Passive Continental Margins?; #50172 (2009)

Gianreto Manatschal, Geoffroy Mohn, Emmanuel Masini, Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic, Patrick Unternehr and Garry D. Karner

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... Preservation of rift-related Early Jurassic fault blocks proximal neck distal ZECM oceanic ZECM distal neck proximal Dauphiné European margin...

Moody and Hill System of Wrench Fault Tectonics: REPLY

J. D. Moody , M. J. Hill

AAPG Bulletin

..., Diastrophism and mountain building: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 71, no. 4 (Apr.). Cloos, H., 1948, The ancient European basement blocks--preliminary note...

Influence of the Eastern Cordillera Exhumation on the Structural Evolution of the Eastern Part of Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia, #40800 (2011)

Carlos J. Sanchez, Eliseo Teson, Brian K. Horton, Andres R. Mora Bohorquez, Richard A. Ketcham, Daniel F. Stockli, Nestor R. Moreno,

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... provenance analyses. In the study area, the La Salina Fault marks the boundary between the Paleogene foreland basin and thrust belt provinces. New...

3.2 Basement Involved: 3.2.2 Basement Thrust and Reverse Faults: Seismic Profile: South Elk Basin

D. S. Stone

AAPG Special Volumes

... block of a large thrust fault, cut the thrust zone, then cut overturned Paleozoic rocks, and right-side-up Paleozoic rocks, and finally bottomed...

Tectonostratigraphy and structures of the southern Perth Basin

C. M. Thomas, S. K. Martin

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... Coastline CT40a 18/07/19 Figure 9. a) Top basement to Top Permian isopach map, showing possible thickness changes across the Busselton Fault...

Tectonostratigraphic Terranes of the San Francisco Bay Region

M. C. Blake Jr., D. G. Howell, A. S. Jayko

Pacific Section SEPM

... fault-bounded blocks (not differentiated on fig. 2) that possibly represent separate terranes (Nilsen, 1981). The western block consists of the Upper...

The Reservoir Geology and Geophysics of the Hibernia Field, Offshore Newfoundland: Chapter 4

T. J. Hurley, R. D. Kreisa, G. G. Taylor, W. R. L. Yates

AAPG Special Volumes

... readily apparent, seismically definable structures including salt domes, tilted fault blocks, and basement highs. Exploration in this area commenced...

Structural Influence on Hydrocarbon Entrapment in the Northwestern Red Sea, Egypt

M. G. Salah , A. S. Alsharhan

AAPG Bulletin

... on both sides of the rift system. These fault zones generally trend northwest-southeast, with basement rocks exposed on the upthrown side; they become...

Interaction of Basement-Involved and Thin-Skinned Tectonism in the Tertiary Fold-Thrust Belt of Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard

Steffen G. Bergh, Alvar Braathen, and Arild Andresen

AAPG Bulletin

..., basement-rooted reverse faults (Billefjorden and Lomfjorden fault zones) beneath subhorizontal platform strata. Offshore seismic data from Isfjorden...

The Crustal Structure and Evolution of the Area Underlying the Magnetic Quiet Zone on the Margin South of Australia: Rifted Margins

Manik Talwani , John Mutter , Robert Houtz , Michael Konig

AAPG Special Volumes

... comes from the reflection records of Petrel. The basement in the east appears to be block-faulted whereas diffraction patterns indicative of oceanic...

3.2 Basement Involved: 3.2.2 Basement Thrust and Reverse Faults: Frontal Thrust Structure, South-Central Colorado

R. G. Ouellette and D. A. Boucher

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The upthrusting of the basement fault block which formed the Sangre de Cristo Mountains displaced the overlying sediments toward the east into the Raton basin...

Linkage and formation of strike-slip faults in deep basins and the implications for petroleum accumulation: A case study from the Shunbei area of the Tarim Basin, China

Yin Liu, John Suppe, Yingchang Cao, Fang Hao, Yiduo Liu, Xi Wang, Kongyou Wu, Zicheng Cao, and Hehua Wei

AAPG Bulletin

..., long fault traces and various deformations within fault blocks (Mount and Suppe, 1987; Peltzer and Tapponnier, 1988; Laurent-Charvet et al., 2003...