Relationship of Hydrocarbon Gravities to Facies in Gulf Coast

Fred R. Haeberle

AAPG Bulletin

... indicate that this is true only within limits, if at all. Changes from continental to shallow-water to marine conditions have an important effect...

Crude Oil Chemistry and Classification, Alaska North Slope

Joseph A. Curiale

Pacific Section SEPM

... or marine organic matter in the respective sources, are certainly consistent with the general finding that low sulfurlow metal oils are more often...

The Gorgon Field: An Overview

A. Maftei, E. J. King, M. C. Flores

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the Late Jurassic that resulted in the accumulation of marine sediments including source rocks. During Jurassic extension the rift shoulders were...

Environmentally Assisted Fatigue Failure of Drill Pipe Connections

Judy Turnbull, Roger G. Metcalfe, Roger Costanzi

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... and Lubinski 1966; Ziomek-Moroz 2012). At lower stress-intensity levels and lower cyclic frequencies, corrosion plays a more dominant role. The material...

Wave Evolution in Cohesive Sedimentary Environments: Open Problems

A. Sheremet, J. M. Kaihatu, G. W. Stone, X. Zhang

GCAGS Transactions

... were estimated using linear models. Other possible dissipation mechanisms involving higher frequencies (see below) were neglected, which is somewhat...

Evolution of a Barrier System in Response to Slow Sea Level Rise and Backbarrier Infilling: Plum Island, Massachusetts; #50235 (2009)

Christopher J. Hein, Emily Carruthers, Duncan FitzGerald, Walter A. Barnhardt, and Byron D. Stone

Search and Discovery.com

... a complex inlet fill sequence is observed. The dominant southerly dipping sequences often contain several distinct sets of overlapping reflectors...

Petrophysical characterization at the extremes and across three continents: contrasting examples from Utica, Marcellus, Longmaxi and Roseneath-Murteree resource shales

M. Ben Clennell, Matthew Josh, Lionel Esteban, Claudio Delle Piane, David Dewhurst, Vladimir Luzin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in Figure 2. Petrographic analysis of the organic matter in the UPP shales showed that the dominant maceral was pyrobitumen, whose morphology is suggestive...

Sediment Texture and Composition Changes Along the Southwest Louisiana Coast: Implications for Sediment Supply

Matthew J. Taylor , Mark R. Byrnes , Randolph A. McBride

GCAGS Transactions

.... Shifting positions of the Mississippi River are generally thought to control episodic fluxes in sediment supply to the chenier plain. However, local sources...

Sequence stratigraphic control on preservation of late Eocene whales and other vertebrates at Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt

Shanan E. Peters, Mohammed Sameh M. Antar, Iyad S. Zalmout, Philip D. Gingerich

PALAIOS

... with higher frequencies on the marine flooding surface (MFS) in this part of the section as a result of environmental and temporal condensation during...

Cenozoic Deposits of Central Gulf Coastal Plain

Grover E. Murray

AAPG Bulletin

... (Jackson) time. Marine sedimentation was dominant during the Jackson and Oligocene epochs. Near the close of the Oligocene, deltaic sedimentation...

Sensitivity analysis of acoustic waveform inversion to velocity anomalies in the near-surface using the Frchet derivative

Ao Cai, Colin A. Zelt

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... anomaly with a size equivalent to a fraction of the dominant wavelength. Then, we perform WI tests to recover high and low velocity anomalies of equal...

Permian Eolian Deposits, Sequences, and Sequence Boundaries, Colorado Plateau

Ronald C. Blakey

Rocky Mountain Section (SEPM)

... to blanket all of northern Arizona and vicinity. Sequence 3 also paralleled the Wasatch line. Eolian deposits intertongue with marine-sabkha deposits...

Pelagic and Hemipelagic Sedimentary Rocks as Source and Reservoir Rock

Robert E. Garrison

Pacific Section SEPM

... In Brown, G.C., Gorsline, D.S. and W.J. Schweller, eds., 1990, Deep Marine Sedimentation: Depositional Models and Case Histories In Hydrocarbon...

Chapter 2: Shale Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: Some Influences of Tectonics and Paleogeography During Deposition

Jennifer D. Eoff

AAPG Special Volumes

... productivity compared to open-marine settings because of proximity to sources of terrestrial nutrients and the ability of the basin to concentrate the nutrients...

Organic Geochemistry

Keith A. Kvenvolden

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... al., 1969). The ratios H/C and O/C have been useful in ascertaining the marine and nonmarine sources of kerogen in ancient rocks (Tissot et al., 1974...

Depositional Systems in Jackson Group of Texas Gulf Coast Basin: ABSTRACT

William L. Fisher, Cleo V. Proctor, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

...) Regional outcrop and subsurface investigation of the Jackson Group in Texas indicates development of 5 main depositional systems. Dominant element...

Sedimentology of Type Tejon Formation of San Emigdio Mountains, California: ABSTRACT

Tor H. Nilsen

AAPG Bulletin

... Formation of the San Emigdio Mountains is a marine clastic sedimentary sequence of middle and late Eocene age that was deposited primarily in a variety...

Extensive Coniatolite-Pelagosite Diagenetic Sedimentation in Marine Limestones, Tansill Formation (Permian), New Mexico: ABSTRACT

S. J. Mazzullo, John M. Cys

AAPG Bulletin

... fossils, are the dominant if not exclusive components of shallow-marine limestones in the Tansill Formation (back-reef facies of the Capitan) in New...

Origin of Quartzarenites in Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian of Appalachian Basin: ABSTRACT

C. Blaine Cecil, Kenneth J. Englund

AAPG Bulletin

... that quartzarenites were deposited primarily in a high-energy marine environment dominated by tidal currents. These deposits are linear, trend toward the southwest...

Abstract: New Zealand’s Poverty Shelf Yields Wealth of Information on Shallow Marine Sediment Dispersal, by J. G. Parra; #90088 (2009)

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Altamont-Bluebell--A Major, Naturally Fractured Stratigraphic Trap, Uinta Basin, Utah

Peter T. Lucas, James M. Drexler

AAPG Special Volumes

... accumulations where hydrocarbons are (at least initially) the dominant movable fluid within a large volume of rock. Evidence of significant hydrocarbon potential...

Abstract: Pore Geometry and Pore-Fluid Types: Effects on Seismic Properties of Carbonate Rocks Under a Compaction Disequilibrium Scenario; #90224 (2015)

Gautier Njiekak and Douglas R. Schmitt

Search and Discovery.com

... transmitting and receiving transducers (resonant frequency = 1 MHz), tanks as pore-fluid sources, independent pumps for regulating confining and pore-fluid...

Borehole Stability and Field Stress Analysis with Azimuthal Logging-while-Drilling Technology: A Case History, #41775 (2016).

Saikh A. Azim, Sankar Chowdhuri, Salah Al-Anezi, Anar Abdulkarim, Ahmet Aki, Mohamed Samie

Search and Discovery.com

... information related to principal stress orientations and geological information in the deltaic to marine Zubair clastic sequence of Raudhatain Field...

Late Devonian Carbonate Margins and Foreslopes of the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia, Part A: Development During Backstepping and the Aggradation-To-Progradation Transition

Ted E. Playton,, Charles Kerans

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... margins: insight from Quaternary foreslopes in the Bahamas: Marine Geology, v. 103, p. 125–136. Hocking, R.M., and Playford, P.E., 2001, Cycle types...

Cyclic Carbonate Sedimentation in the Upper Triassic Dachstein Limestone, Austria: The Role of Patterns of Sediment Supply and Tectonics in a Platform-Reef-Basin System

Arthur K. Satterley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... versus low stand deposition on carbonate platform margins: insight from Quaternary foreslopes in the Bahamas: Marine Geology, v. 103, p. 125-136. GRANT...