Geologic Framework of Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska

Michael A. Fisher, Leslie B. Magoon

AAPG Bulletin

... apparently brings old high-velocity rocks close to the surface and causes the southeastward bulge of the velocity domains (Fig. 6). The Augustine...

Sedimentation and Trapping Mechanism in Upper Miocene Stevens and Older Turbidite Fans of Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, California

Bruce A. MacPherson

AAPG Bulletin

... systems can be compared to the Stevens sandstone. Normark (1976) described the midfan area as a "depositional bulge, convex-upward on a radial profile...

Factors Controlling Depositional Patterns of Ebro Turbidite Systems, Mediterranean Sea

C. Hans Nelson , Andres Maldonado

AAPG Bulletin

...; Monaco et al, 1982; Medialdea et al, 1987). MORPHOLOGY The lobate Ebro delta extends offshore and forms an arcuate prodelta bulge and relatively...

Interpretation of Footwall (Lowside) Fault Traps Sealed by Reverse Faults and Convergent Wrench Faults

T. P. Harding, A. C. Tuminas

AAPG Bulletin

...). The footwall trap at the Saticoy field lies down the flank of the southwest plunge of the South Mountain anticline (Figure 5). The positive bulge or warp...

Petroleum Geology of East-Central Tunisia

William F. Bishop

AAPG Bulletin

... on the southwest through organic-rich limestone to argillaceous bivalve limestone in the basin. The large bulge in the organic-rich facies (Figure 21...

Reconstruction of Allochthonous Salt Emplacement from 3-D Seismic Reflection Data, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Robert D. Walters

AAPG Bulletin

.... However, some workers did recognize a relationship between the seaward bulge of the Sigsbee Escarpment and the location of Pleistocene depocenters...

The Vicksburg Formation of Texas: Depositional Systems Distribution, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Petroleum Geology

Janet M. Combes

AAPG Bulletin

... Vicksburg growth fault and is cut by this fault; the belt does not extend past the first fault block. In Bee and Goliad counties, a lobate bulge of high...

Late Paleozoic Deformation of Interior North America: The Greater Ancestral Rocky Mountains

Hongzhuan Ye , Leigh Royden , Clark Burchfiel , Martin Schuepbach

AAPG Bulletin

... margin (the Ouachita thrust belt). In this interpretation, the Bend arch represents an intermediate flexural bulge (or flexural uplift) that formed...

Evolution and origin of deep reservoir water at the Activo Luna oil field, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico

P. Birkle, J. J. Rosillo Aragon, E. Portugal, J. L. Fong Aguilar

AAPG Bulletin

... flexural bulge caused hydrofracturing and subsequent karstification at the Veracruz basin (Ferket et al., 2000), which is adjacent to the Villahermosa...

Cenozoic tectonics of New Guinea

Andrew Quarles van Ufford, Mark Cloos

AAPG Bulletin

..., February 1214, 1990, p. 107117.Jacobi, R. D., 1981, Peripheral bulge-causal mechanism for the Lower/Middle Ordovician unconformity along the western...

Regional geologic and tectonic setting of the Maracaibo supergiant basin, western Venezuela

Paul Mann, Alejandro Escalona, Mara Vernica Castillo

AAPG Bulletin

... platform as tectonic loading continued. A flexural bulge formed in the central part of the initial basin as a response to thrust belt development...

Cretaceous to Holocene structural and stratigraphic development in south Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, inferred from well and three-dimensional seismic data

Mara Vernica Castillo, Paul Mann

AAPG Bulletin

... (450 m [1476 ft] in the north, 50 m [164 ft] in the south) because of the presence of a peripheral foreland bulge created by thrusting...

Evolution of the Cretaceous Astrid thrust belt in the ultradeep-water Lower Congo Basin, Gabon

Martin P. A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec, David C. Jennette, Richard E. Kilby

AAPG Bulletin

... now bulge the sea floor, suggesting that lateral compression rejuvenated buried passive diapirs.Gottschalk et al. (2004) focused on the comprehensive...

Estimation of kerogen porosity in source rocks as a function of thermal transformation: Example from the Mowry Shale in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming

Christopher J. Modica, Scott G. Lapierre

AAPG Bulletin

...: Reciprocal stratigraphies and the missing peripheral bulge: Geology, v. 25, no. 12, p. 10871090, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1087:IOSLAS>2.3.CO;2.Cobban...

Evaluation of hydrocarbon generation and migration in the Molasse fold and thrust belt (Central Eastern Alps, Austria) using structural and thermal basin models

Juergen Gusterhuber, Ralph Hinsch, Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer

AAPG Bulletin

... was adapted to show a slight northward migration of the bulge and some increase in the local dip gradient underneath the advancing wedge. Hence...

High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Montoya Group, southern New Mexico and western Texas: Outcrop analog of an unconventional chert and carbonate reservoir

Michael C. Pope

AAPG Bulletin

..., Distal orogenic effects on peripheral bulge sedimentation, Middle and Upper Ordovician of the Nashville dome: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 67, p...

Influence of mobile shale on thrust faults: Insights from discrete element simulations

Sarah Dean, Julia Morgan, and J. P. Brandenburg

AAPG Bulletin

... is similar to the deformation in numerical models (Ings and Beaumont, 2010). The mobile shale deforms by slug flow, where a large shale bulge develops...

Charging of Carboniferous volcanic reservoirs in the eastern Chepaizi uplift, Junggar Basin (northwestern China) constrained by oil geochemistry and fluid inclusion

Xiangchun Chang, Yue Wang, Bingbing Shi, and Youde Xu

AAPG Bulletin

... sag and contributed to the Carboniferous faulted traps in the neighboring Hongche fault zone and Xingguang bulge (Cao et al., 2010; Chen et al., 2016a...

Diagenetic differences caused by gas charging with different compositions in the XF13 block of the Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea

Wei Duan, Chun-Feng Li, Xue-Gang Chen, Cheng-Fei Luo, Lei Tuo, and Jian-Zhang Liu

AAPG Bulletin

.... The central depression consists of two positive tectonic units: the Lingao bulge and a diapir zone (Figure 1) (Xie et al., 2012; Duan et al., 2018). Figure 1...

Relay ramps and rhombochasms in the northern Appalachian Basin: Extensional and strike-slip tectonics in the Marcellus Formation and Utica Group

Robert Jacobi, Joel Starr, Craig Eckert, Charles Mitchell, and Alan Leaver

AAPG Bulletin

... Pennsylvania. The uplift might be the manifestation of a peripheral bulge that developed in response to plate loading and consequent downwarp farther east...

Growth and evolution of salt canopies on a salt-detached slope: Insights from physical models

Tim P. Dooley, Martin P. A. Jackson, and Michael R. Hudec

AAPG Bulletin

... radially across the surrounding country rocks in the absence of sedimentation, regional dip, or local buttresses, whereby a dynamic bulge atop an actively...

2009 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition,15-18 November 2009 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, #90100 (2009)

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Early Cretaceous Transgressions and Regressions in the Southern Interior Plains

W. G. E. Caldwell

CSPG Special Publications

... platform (foreland bulge), could be expected to carry a more faithful imprint of the eustatic record and, indeed, well may do so (Caldwell and North...

Pennsylvanian Section of North Central Texas, Outcrop Analogs to Pennsylvanian Production on the Eastern Shelf of the Midland Basin

Alton Brown, Eily Stoudt

West Texas Geological Society

... to foreland loading during collision. Backstepping is also a response to migration of the flexural bulge to the Fort Worth Basin towards the west...

Geology and Natural Gas and Oil Resources of Alaska

George O. Gates , Arthur Grantz , W. W. Patton Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... of another and thrust northward onto the Mesozoic rocks of the foothills. This belt of thrusting does not follow the northward bulge of the eastern...