Chapter 3: Nanoscale Imaging of Organic Matter and Wettability of Oil-Window Shales

Andrew Fogden, Terri Olson, Andrew G. Christy

AAPG Special Volumes

... wettability alteration in the reservoir. Tetrahydrofuran effected only a slight swelling of mature bitumen, while pyridine (at higher temperature) apparently...

Fluidization and Associated Soft-sediment Deformation in Eolian Sandstones: Hopeman Sandstone (Permian), Scotland, and Rotliegend, North Sea

Ken Glennie, Andrew Hurst

AAPG Special Volumes

...-scale sand dikes (Figure 6c). The flooding of a wadi on the upstream side of a dune system that is blocking its path may result in the local saturation...

Sedimentary Facies of an Arid Zone Delta: Gascoyne Delta, Western Australia

David P. Johnson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... vary widely from year to year and most rain falls in sporadic, heavy showers. Average annual minimum temperature is 17° C; maximum, 27° C; the hottest...

Oregon Beach-Sand Compositions Produced by the Mixing of Sediments Under a Transgressing Sea

Karen E. Clemens, Paul D. Komar

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in blocking movements of sand on the modern beaches. Only those two headlands demonstrate marked changes in mineral compositions on opposite sides...

Origin of Major Karst-Associated Celestite Mineralization in Karstryggen, Central East Greenland

Peter A. Scholle , Lars Stemmerik , Ole Harpoth

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to be an effective radiation shield for blocking secondary X-ray emissions. This has thus become the widest application of celestite. The second most important...

Gulf Coast Barriers

Francis P. Shepard

AAPG Special Volumes

... the blocking of an inlet on the ocean side and the development of relatively muddy sediment on the inside. B--illustrating the migration of an inlet...

Architecture and Directional Scales of Heterogeneity in Alluvial-Fan Aquifers

Michael J. Neton , Joachim Dorsch , Christopher D. Olson , Steven C. Young

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Climate (temperature; volume, type and frequency of precipitation) modifies the tectonic component by TABLE 1. Lithofacies, sedimentary structures...

Depositional Effects of Flow Nonuniformity and Stratification Within Turbidity Currents Approaching a Bounding Slope: Deflection, Reflection, and Facies Variation

Ben Kneller, William McCaffrey

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-dimensional situations the bore propagates normal to the blocking topography (Kneller et al. 1991, Edwards 1993; Kneller 1995). FIELD CASE STUDY: THE ANNOT...

Provenance of the Hillsboro Formation: Implications for the Structural Evolution and Fluvial Events in the Tualatin Basin, Northwest Oregon

Doyle Wilson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the middle to late Miocene, blocking the Columbia River from entering the Tualatin Basin. This hypothesis is viable if sediments in the Hillsboro...

Process-Response Modeling of Wave-Dominated Coastal Systems: Simulating Evolution and Stratigraphy on Geological Timescales

Joep E.A. Storms, G.J. Weltje, J.J. van Dijke, C.R. Geel, S.B. Kroonenberg

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the barrier have a local effect on washover by blocking the washover flow. However, washovers can always reach the backbarrier because barrier islands...

High-Resolution Subsurface (Gpr) Imaging and Sedimentology of Coastal Ponds, Maine, U.S.A.: Implications for Holocene Back-Barrier Evolution

Ilya V. Buynevich, Duncan M. Fitzgerald

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... a natural depression that contained the original water body or wetland. The proposed development of a welded barrier is similar to "barrier blocking...

Partial Ponding of Turbidite Systems in a Basin with Subtle Growth-Fold Topography: Laingsburg-Karoo, South Africa

Martin Grecula,, Stephen Flint, Graham Potts, Deville Wickens, Stephen Johnson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... KUENEN, P.H., 1963, Turbidites in South Africa: Geological Society of South Africa, Transactions, v. 66, 191 p. LONG, R.R., 1970, Blocking effects...

Assessment of CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Coalbed Methane Potential in Unminable Coal Seams of the Illinois Basin

Maria Mastalerz, John Rupp, Agnieszka Drobniak, Satya Harpalani, Andrew Anderson, Chris Korose, Scott Frailey, David Morse

AAPG Special Volumes

..., moisture and ash, vitrinite reflectance, and temperature and pressure. Advanced Resources International (ARI), 2005, COMET3 version 1.00 users guide...

Regional Assessment of Suitability of Organic-Rich Gas Shales for Carbon Sequestration: An Example from the Devonian Shales of the Illinois and Appalachian Basins, Kentucky

Brandon C. Nuttall, James A. Drahovzal, Cortland F. Eble, R. Marc Bustin

AAPG Special Volumes

...%. Reservoir temperature averages 29C, with an initial reservoir pressure of 5.5 MPa or more. Current reservoir pressure averages 2.75 MPa. Sidewall cores from...

Diagenesis and Reservoir-Quality Evolution of Incised-Valley Sandstones: Evidence from the Abu Madi Gas Reservoirs (Upper Miocene), the Nile Delta Basin, Egypt

Alaa M. Salem, J.M. Ketzer, S. Morad, Raafat R. Rizk, I.S. Al-Aasm

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-quality evolution during burial. Gas reservoirs of the upper Miocene Abu Madi Formation (present-day depth 3350 m, temperature 116°), the Nile Delta...

The Effect of Sea-Level and Climate Change on the Development of a Mixed Siliciclastic–Carbonate, Deltaic Coastline: Suwannee River, Florida, U.S.A.

Eric E. Wright, Albert C. Hine, Steven L. Goodbred Jr., Stanley D. Locker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... along other Gulf of Mexico shorelines. Blum, M.D., Misner, T.J., Collins, E.S., Scott, D.B., Morton, R.A., and Aslan, A., 2001, Middle Holocene sea...

Fluvial Fans: Myths, Misconceptions, and the End of the Terminal-Fan Model

Colin P. North, Gail L. Warwick

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... it was not the terminus of that river when the fan formed. In drylands, fans are common at tributary junctions, sometimes even blocking the main channel, when the flow...

Structure and Stratigraphy of San Francisco Mountains, Western Utah

Edwin H. East

AAPG Bulletin

.... They have been uplifted and tilted along with the older rocks of the range and thus predate the blocking out of the present range. They are well indurated...

Tectonics of Southwestern North Atlantic and Barbados Ridge Complex

George Peter , Graham K. Westbrook

AAPG Bulletin

... appear to have caused the offset of the axis of the buried trench in a left-lateral sense, and others probably are partly blocking it. Basically, however...

Oil and Gas Developments in West Coast Area in 1981

T. W. Dignes , D. Woltz

AAPG Bulletin

... in early 1981, in a reversal by the Department of Interior. Litigation by the State of California and other groups led to a federal court judge blocking...

Diagenetic Sequence Related to Structural History and Petroleum Accumulation: Spindle Field, Colorado

Karen W. Porter , Robert J. Weimer

AAPG Bulletin

...), generally considered the interval of subsurface leaching under normal fluid pressure-temperature conditions. However, leaching can go on at any depth...

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Seismic Stratigraphy of a Neogene Piggyback Basin, Argentina (1)

JAMES A. BEER , RICHARD W. ALLMENDINGER , DANIEL E. FIGUEROA , and TERESA E. JORDAN

AAPG Bulletin

... plateaus developed only at high-temperature heating steps. Furthermore, {40}Ar/{39}Ar and fission-track dates on the same sample differ by about 5 Ma...

Kinetics of the Smectite to Illite Transformation in the Denver Basin: Clay Mineral, K-Ar Data, and Mathematical Model Results (1)

W. CRAWFORD ELLIOTT , JAMES L. ARONSON , GERALD MATISOFF , and DONALD L. GAUTIER

AAPG Bulletin

... of radiogenic argon at Denver basin burial temperatures for Upper Cretaceous strata. In fact, a minimum blocking temperature, below which I/S retains...

Quartz Cementation in Sedimentary Basins

K. Bjorlykke , P. K. Egeberg

AAPG Bulletin

..., have been dissolved, given the higher reverse solubility/temperature function of carbonates. We suggest that the source of quartz cement in sandstones...