STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS OF UPPER CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS IN THE INNER COASTAL PLAIN: THE VIEW FROM EASTERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA

David T. King Jr., Michael C. Skotnicki, Roy F. Weston

Alabama Geological Society

... discontinuities) occur at several levels in the Upper Cretaceous section, including all formal stratigraphic boundaries. 102 I I A tJ.. WEST Kpb...

Initiation and growth of salt diapirs in tectonically stable settings: Upbuilding and megaflaps

Maria A. Nikolinakou, Mahdi Heidari, Michael R. Hudec, and Peter B. Flemings

AAPG Bulletin

...). Salt rise causes lateral extension, decreasing horizontal stresses to the value of the vertical stress (point a to point b) and even lower (point b...

Balancing Observation and Interpretation

Bill Devlin

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... stratigraphy that are worth distinguishing: the methodological and the conceptual. The Methodological Aspect of Sequence Stratigraphy The methodological...

Abstract: Drainage Patterns of Subvertical Wells intersecting Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoir Layers, by Shaho Bazr-Afkan, Stephan Matthai, and Caroline Milliotte; #120034 (2012)

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Characterizing Shallow Seismic Anomalies; #42086 (2017)

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma, Graziella Kirtland Grech, Bent Erlend Kjolhamar

Search and Discovery.com

... of interest. A cursory examination of the 3-D seismic volume (by way of vertical and horizontal sections) reveals bright amplitude anomalies...

Discontinuity Surfaces and Correlation in the Sierra De El Abra

Charles J. Minero

Dallas Geological Society

... the subaerial origin of discontinuities. In the El Abra quarries these surfaces and immediately subjacent rocks comprise an association of diagenetic...

Seismic geomorphology and high-resolution seismic stratigraphy of inner-shelf fluvial, estuarine, deltaic, and marine sequences, Gulf of Thailand

Hernan M. Reijenstein, Henry W. Posamentier, Janok P. Bhattacharya

AAPG Bulletin

... to allow much higher resolution of stratigraphic discontinuities. With a vertical resolution approximately 25 times greater than the 3-D seismic data...

ABSTRACT: Critical Review of Criteria for Distinguishing Structures Developed Before and After Lithification, by Paul F. Williams; #91043 (2011)

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Evolution of Normal Faults:Displacement Patterns in 3D Seismic Data from the Eastern Levant Basin; #11309 (2020)

Nadav Navon, Benjamin Medvedev, Amotz Agnon

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... striking normal faults, respectively. Four sampled faults yield distinguishable types of growth: (1) Blind fault, where both horizontal and vertical...

Facies Assemblages on Distributive Fluvial Systems; #50420 (2011)

Stephanie Davidson, Adrian Hartley, Gary Weissmann, Gary Nichols, and Louis Scuderi

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... d facies l ti hi largely controlled by:  Discharge and sediment supply (catchment)  Tectonic regime (controls available horizontal and vertical...

The Role of Climate Variation in Sequence Stratigraphy: Lessons from Analogue Modelling; #41170 (2013)

Jochem Bijkerk, Johan ten Veen, George Postma, and Daniel Mikes

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... as well. 14 Presenter’s notes: Besides erosion deposition maps and architectural panels measurements are made of the horizontal and vertical...

Chapter 14: Structural Relationships between Surface Lineaments and Basement Faulting in the Northeastern Williston Basin

Fred J. Anderson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... 392 Vertical to sub-vertical faults, interpreted from structural analysis of 2D seismic profiles, are rooted in the Precambrian basement...

Geomechanics: Pressure, Stress Field, and Hydraulic Fractures

Raúl A. Varela, Denis Marchal, Sergio Cuervo, Ezequiel F. Lombardo, Yonatan S. Perl, Damián E. Hryb, Osvaldo Nielsen, Pablo Pateti

AAPG Special Volumes

... = Composite Bulk Density; RHOB = Bulk Density. TVD = True Vertical Depth. MD = Measured Depth. Principal Horizontal Stresses Principal Horizontal...

New Data on the Tectonics of the North of the Bukharo-Khivin Oil-Gas Province

B. M. Geyman, N. S. Kokina

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... plan corresponds to a subsidence to the southeast of the discontinuities at depth (Fig. 1). Figure 1. Outline of the regional background. The outline...

Well-Bore Geometries for Optimum Fracture Characterization and Drainage: (Reprinted from WTGS December 1992, V.32, No. 4)

John C. Lorenz

West Texas Geological Society

... heterogeneity limit vertical permeability, despite fractures, such that a horizontal well provides little benefit in enhanced drainage volume? The first...

ABSTRACT: Rejuvenation of a Mature Field Through Application of a Unique Frequency Enhancement Technology; #90007 (2002)

Marcus L. Countiss

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... variations between wells but were hard pressed to visualize this level of depositional complexity with the currently available seismic. Distinguishing...

Method of Differentiation and Correlation of the Oil-Bearing Sediments of the Devonian of Bashkiria

A. R. Kinzikeev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of expression of the continuous - discontinuous directional process is necessary and sufficient for distinguishing the natural history stages of development...

Classification of Modern Bahamian Carbonate Sediments

John Imbrie , Edward G. Purdy

AAPG Special Volumes

... by discontinuities in the ranges of their observed properties. A statistical scheme for identifying discrete sample groupings (if they exist) in a set...

Geophysical Framework of Northern End of Gulf of California Structural Province

Shawn Biehler , Robert L. Kovach , Clarence R. Allen

AAPG Special Volumes

... zones in the middle of the valley are extrapolated from section A-B, Figure 6. Note that ratio of horizontal to vertical scales is different on Figures...

A new technology for the characterization of microfractured reservoirs (test case: Unayzah reservoir, Wudayhi field, Saudi Arabia)

Mohammed S. Ameen, Ernest A. Hailwood

AAPG Bulletin

... into three mutually perpendicular stresses, referred to as maximum horizontal stress (H), minimum horizontal stress (h), and vertical stress (V...

Turbidite Systems in the Inner Forearc Domain of the Hikurangi Convergent Margin (New Zealand): New Constraints on the Development of Trench-Slope Basins

Julien Bailleul, Cecile Robin, Frank Chanier, Francois Guillocheau, Brad Field, Jacky Ferriere

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Vertical successions of facies in each section were then used to identify major discontinuities (characterized by sharp facies changes...

The Gay Mine, Fort Hall, Idaho

William O. Schmitt

Utah Geological Association

... procedures. Figure 3. The Gay Mine Meade Peak Member, showing structural discontinuities in stratigraphic sequence. (Courtesy FMC Corp.) Thrust faulting...

Predictability of the Stratigraphic Record from the Outcrop to Multiple Seismic AttributesPast, Present, Future, by J. F. "Rick" Sarg; #90015 (2003)

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Chapter 6: Natural and Remotely-Sensed Fractures in Badger Basin

Cheryl Jaworowski, Rose Gonzales

Montana Geological Society

... discontinuities in the fluid-flow regime (Figure 6-10). These discontinuities in the fluid-flow regime follow northeast, north, and northwest trends...

Small Scale Aeolian Bedforms

John M. Ellwood, Peter D. Evans, and Ian G. Wilson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... ever been given for distinguishing between them when wavelenhts are in the 15-30 cm range. Never doubting that the division existed, we set out...