Review of Some Hypotheses on Mountain Building

A. J. Goodman

CSPG Bulletin

... escaping from the subcrust produce regional metamorphism and plutonic rock bodies. 1 Paper presented before the Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists...

Digital Sandbox Modeling Using Distinct Element Method: Applications to Fault Tectonics

Yasuhiro Yamada, Toshifumi Matsuoka

AAPG Special Volumes

... with depth as overburden pressure increases. By using the scaling theory of Hubbert (1937), rock mechanics can be properly scaled down to design...

Interpretation of High Resolution Seismic Data from a Geologically Complex Continental Margin, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Carol Lutken, Allen Lowrie, Erika Geresi, Richard Bennett, Richard Faas, Bradley Battista, Tom McGee

GCAGS Transactions

... create environments for dewatering, especially of clays. Results of increasing overburden pressure - differential compaction of sands and clays...

Gilbert, on Laccoliths and Intrusive Structures

Chas. B. Hunt

Utah Geological Association

... the field notebooks of G. K. Gilbert. A, View north along the east side of Mount Ellen. The stock is at the south end of the high part of the mountain...

Structure and emplacement of mud volcano systems in the South Caspian Basin

Simon A. Stewart, Richard J. Davies

AAPG Bulletin

... fluidization pipes injected in the country rock. This subvolcanic intrusion complex creates a densely intruded, cylindrical zone, similar in cross section...

A working petroleum system on purely oceanic crust

Christian Niño, Francisco Silva, Diana Rocha, Teresa Martins, Sara Pestana, Martin Zubiri

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., PAN AMERICAN ENERGY F OR A LONG TIME, exploring for hydrocarbons in the deep waters of the Gulf of Guinea, east of the São Tomé and Príncipe (STP...

Abstract: Abstract: 4D modeling of salt sediment interaction during diapir evolution, by Jean-Paul Callot, Daniel Rondon, Christophe Rigollet, and Jean Letouzey; #90066 (2007)

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Seismic Expression of Salt Dissolution-Related Features in the North Sea

Malcolm K. Jenyon

CSPG Bulletin

... and overburden collapse have occurred; some saltedge drape structures reported here generally resemble similar features described from the margins...

Stratigraphic Analysis of Source-Bed Occurrences and Reservoir Oil Gravities

Harold J. Holmquest

AAPG Bulletin

...-gravity characteristics. In addition, the study shows that an approximate overburden of 2,000 feet is needed for flush migration from the source bed...

The Time Rock Units of West Central Texas in Block Diagrams, West-East Section 1958

Abilene Geological Society Stratigraphic and Study Group

Abilene Geological Society

...The Time Rock Units of West Central Texas in Block Diagrams, West-East Section 1958 Abilene Geological Society Stratigraphic and Study Group 1958...

Scours: Occurrence, Measurement, and Importance in Deep Water and Shallow Water Depositional Systems- Extended Abstract

John Snedden, Paul A. Dunn, David Chorneyko, John C. Van Wagoner

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... measured in both East Breaks Upper Fan (Quaternary) and Iron River Valleys (Cretaceous) are comparable in scale, with a typical weighted average of 10...

The East Bartlett Field Jones County, Texas

Arthur L. Jenke, Emory W. Parrott

Abilene Geological Society

... that the rock breaks down into individual grains under the action of the bit. This creates a very treacherous situation and is treated with considerable respect...

Design, Execution and Lesson Learnt of Open PIT Trial Study in Iliran High Shallow Heavy Oil

Dyah Pitaloka Citrarasmi, Yasin Zaidun, Endras Pribadi, Saras Noer Hidayat, Bernard P. Sinambela

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of ore from the Telisa formation as the producing formation objective after removing top soil and overburden. The extraction of oil, which...

Relationship between Geothermal and Geopressure Gradients in the Western Gulf of Mexico

Sharon Cornelius, Peter A. Emmet

GCAGS Transactions

... Canyon, East Breaks, Mustang Island, Corpus Christi, Port Isabel, and North and South Padre Island. in the WGOM thermal gradients were converted...

Petroleum Geology of Young Regressive Sequences

Richard E. Chapman

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

...., 1965. Theory of gravity instability with variable overburden and compaction. Geophysics, 30: 213–227. Bradley, J.S., 1975. Abnormal formation pressure...

Inferring Stratigraphy from Seismic Data

R. E. Sheriff

AAPG Bulletin

... determines the velocity in a rock is the difference between the overburden pressure (which is trying to squeeze out the rock's porosity) and the interstitial...

Impact of Pore Pressure on Modeled Hydraulic Fracture Geometry and Well Spacing in the East Duvernay Shale Basin, Canada

Farhan Alimahomed, Eric Wigger, Matthew Drouillard, Gabriel Garcia Rosas, Christen Kolbeck

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... The area of interest for this study is in the East Duvernay shale basin, situated within the oil window as indicated by Tmax from rock-evaluation core...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Preliminary Analytical Results: Haynesville Shale in Northern Panola County, Texas

Chris Bresch, James Carpenter

GCAGS Transactions

... over a west-east expanse of 6.5 mi, 8 mi north of Carthage, Texas. The top of the Upper Jurassic Haynesville Shale lies at drilling depths ranging...

Preliminary Analytical Results: Haynesville Shale in Northern Panola County, Texas, Chris Bresch and James Carpenter, #90093 (2009)

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Piceance Basin Niobrara-Mancos: Piceance Basin Niobrara-Mancos Gas Accumulation

Stephen P. Cumella, Erik Graven, Paul Weimer, Nathan Rogers

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... Group (Figure 3). The Niobrara was deposited in a large foreland basin that formed to the east of the Sevier orogenic belt (Kauffman, 1977). Niobrara...

Geomechanical prestack depth migration of the Kraken 3D (Browse Basin, Australia)

Jarrod Dunne, Ferudun Kilic, Matthew Zengerer, Pramod Kumar, Hamish Stein, Shiv Pujan Singh, Stephen Gallagher

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of time and thought into compiling robust rock physics databases for overburden lithologies. However, this is something that probably should be done...

From Chaos to Caves … An Evolution of Seismic Karst Interpretation at the Vorwata Field

Riangguna Eloni, M.R. Husni Sahidu, Ilham Panggeleng, Christopher S. Birt, Ted Manning

Indonesian Petroleum Association

.... The overburden in this area is complex and challenging to drill through, especially the thick, karstified carbonate of the Kais and Faumai Formations...

Hydrocarbons Resource Assessment of The Eastern Offshore Area of Seram Island, Indonesia

Panuju, Jonathan Setyoko Hadimulyono, Jakson Anwari

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... if fractures occur in the limestones. Seal and Overburden Rocks The proven seal rock in the Seram and its surrounding area is Late Jurassic to Early...

Review of Geological Controls on Resistivity in Uplifted Basins: Insights from the Norwegian Barents Shelf; #30535 (2017)

Kim Senger, Thomas Birchall, Sverre Ohm, Snorre Olaussen, Kei Ogata

Search and Discovery.com

... into electrofacies representing the overburden, the organic-rich Hekkingen Formation cap rock and the gas and oil zones. The inset map illustrates the wells...

Ascent of Shiprock

W. A. Read

Four Corners Geological Society

... of the features and can be used for general orientation. The route begins at the bottom of a huge bowl on the west side. The rock is dark, breaks readily...