“The Explosion in Marine Seismic Technology – How to Choose the Right Tool”

William S. French, Svein Vaage

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... is to image complex geology where source-to-receiver azimuth variations of 360° improves reservoir illumination. Ocean bottom cables provide...

Vietnam: Improved Images of Fractured Basement

Jim Keggin, Wathik Alaaraji, Joe Zhou

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Geopublishing Limited GEO Physics Vietnam Detecting basement reservoir fractures on Vietnam’s first ocean bottom seismic survey in the Cuu Long Basin...

ABSTRACT: Where do the Maidens Fly? Trace Elements and What Controls Their Fate: Examples from the Greymouth Coalfi eld, New Zealand

Zhongsheng Li, A.H. Clemens, Tim A. Moore, D. Gong, S.D. Weaver, Nelson Eby

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... elements from sub-samples of feed coal, bottom ash, fly ash and flue gas were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), X-ray...

Ripple Marks: DISCUSSION

D. M. Baird

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). In the writer's view these are clearly the result of wave action on a shallow, nearly flat, sandy bottom. That these ripples were caused by wave action...

Changes in Clay Mineral Assemblages by Sampler Type

Frederic R. Siegel, J. W. Pierce

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in Recent marine environments can be made with confidence only if the same type sampling device has been used to extract the bottom sediments...

Common Oil Field Abbreviations and Conversion Chart

AAPG Special Volumes

... (hour) BHL: bottom hole location BHP: bottom hole pressure BHT: bottom hole temperature bl: black bldg: building bledg: bleeding blk: block blkt: blanket...

Nearshore Bedform Patterns Along Rhode Island From Side-Scan Sonar Surveys: DISCUSSION

Friedrich Werner

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... swell. FIG. 3. [Grey Scale] Sonograph (EG & G Mark lB, 105 kHz) showing fine-sand bottom interrupted by gravelly relict sediment zones. Wavy...

Abstract of 2006 AAPG/GSTT Hedberg Conference

Search and Discovery.com

The Importance of Ground Water Aquifer Identification on Well Planning: An Example from the São Sebastião Aquifer, Northeast Brazil, #80547 (2016).

Felipe S. Moreira, Elvio C.O. Garcias, Gregory S. Soule

Search and Discovery.com

...-water zones, as had been done before. Thus, the understanding of the ground-water-aquifer distribution is important to predict the bottom of the fresh...

Storm-Related Rejuvenation of a Northern Gulf of Mexico Estuary

Wayne C. Isphording , Dewayne Imsand , George C. Flowers

GCAGS Transactions

... some 3.6 billion cubic feet of sediment from the bottom of the bay, completely changing the character of the texture, mineralogy, and heavy metal...

The last gasp: trace fossils track deoxygenation leading into the Frasnian-Famennian extinction event

Diana L. Boyer, Emily E. Haddad, Emily S. Seeger

PALAIOS

... and chemical shifts reveal that bottom-water oxygen levels decrease rapidly below the base of the Upper Kellwasser interval. Relative oxygen levels...

Primary Sedimentary Structures Formed by Turbidity Currents and Related Resedimentation Mechanisms

John E. Sanders

Special Publications of SEPM

... and g beds of coarse grained sediment that are more delicately adjusted to bottom microrelief than interbedded layers of fine grained sediment Because...

Experimental and Field Studies on the Genesis of Sandstones

Gerard V. Middleton

Wyoming Geological Association

... or of the size of the roughness elements on the bottom (ripples, dunes), n is the kinematic viscosity of the fluid, and g is the acceleration due...

Underwater Mapping by Diving Geologists

H. W. Menard , R. F. Dill , E. L. Hamilton , D. G. Moore , Geo. Shumway , M. Silverman , H. B. Stewart

AAPG Bulletin

... reconnaissance dives were made at distances of ¼-3/4 mile from shore. Strike-ridges 3-10 feet high were found on three dives, and sand bottom was found...

Offshore Transport and Sand-Body Formation: Evidence from a Steep, High-energy Shoreface, Southeastern Australia

Michael E. Field, Peter S. Roy

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... is unresolved. We surmise that during storm events, disturbance by large waves and seaward transport by downwelling bottom currents result in sand...

Seismic-Reflection Studies in Block Island and Rhode Island Sounds

Robert L. McMaster , Thomas P. Lachance , Louis E. Garrison

AAPG Bulletin

.... The locations of many of the linear depressions on the present bottom surface of the sounds are closely related to these post-Cretaceous valleys...

Compositional Variation Study for Improving Recovery in Gas-Condensate Reservoirs

Hai X. Vo, Roland N. Horne

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... consent of URTeC is prohibited. Abstract Gas-condensate wells often experience a significant decrease in productivity once the flowing bottom-hole...

Flow Markings, Groovings, and Intra-Stratal Crumplings as Criteria for Recognition of Slope Deposits, with Illustrations from Silurian Rocks of Wales

John Lyon Rich

AAPG Bulletin

... the waters are repeatedly agitated by waves; the continental slope, extending downward from wave base; and the relatively flat ocean bottom...

Fluid Processes and Sea-Floor Response on a Modern Storm-Dominated Shelf: Middle Atlantic Shelf of North America. Part I: The Storm-Current Regime.

Donald J. P. Swift, Gregory Han, Christopher E. Vincent

CSPG Special Publications

... a model for sedimentation on storm-dominated shelves. Sediment transport on the Atlantic Shelf is forced by combined-flow bottom currents, in which...

Geotechnical Applications in Soft Sediments: Section 2

Wayne A. Dunlap

AAPG Special Volumes

... Mech., East Killbride. 9. Schapery, R. A. (1974). Wave-Sea Bottom Interaction Study (phase one) Part 1: Theory and Results, Texas A&M University...

Analysis of High Resolution Seismic Data: Section 2. Application of Seismic Reflection Configuration to Stratigraphic Interpretation

Herman C. Sieck, George W. Self

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the sea bottom and subsurface lithology. Commonly, more than one acoustic device is used simultaneously to achieve different data for different studies...

Carbonate Sediment Drifts in Northern Straits of Florida

Henry T. Mullins , A. Conrad Neumann , R. Jude Wilber , Albert C. Hine , Susan J. Chinburg

AAPG Bulletin

... pattern, where there appears to be a convergence of bottom currents having velocities of up to 60 cm/sec. However, depositional rates may have been...

Three Critical Environments of Deposition and Their Paleogeographic Implications

John Lyon Rich

Tulsa Geological Society

... depositional environments can be recognized. The first is that portion of the bottom which is shallow enough to be muddied by storm waves, i.e., the part...

Diffusion and Settling of Sediments at River Mouths: A Computer Simulation Model

G. F. Bonham-Carter, Alex J. Sutherland

GCAGS Transactions

..., at the expense of water depth values. Initial depth of water values, one for each cell, define the bottom configuration of the basin. Basin tectonics...

Fluvial Channel Complexes in the Middle Miocene of Lower Kutei Basin, East Kalimantan … The Stacking Pattern of Sediments

Irfan Cibaj

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... At the bottom of the section a shallow marine parasequence is observed containing prograding shelf sand lobes capped by transgressive reef carbonates...