Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration from Jurassic Source Rocks in the East Shetland Basin and Viking Graben of the Northern North Sea

J. C. Goff

AAPG Special Volumes

... in the East Shetland Basin has been deduced by comparing the volumes of oil and compaction water which moved through the source rock during migration...

Stratigraphy of Colorado Springs-Canon City Area - One-Day Trip: Denver to Canon City, Colorado, via U.S. Highways 87, 24, and 50, Colorado Highways 105 and 115 and Local Roads

H.W. Oborne, W.A. Fischer

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... by thin remnant of Oligocene Castle Rock conglomerate, to east. 7.4 Alternating clay and arkose of Dawson both sides of road. 8.2 More of same. Prominent...

Porosity and Heterogeneity Effect on Vp/Vs Ratio in Carbonate Rocks from a Reservoir in the Middle East; #40880 (2012)

El Amin Mokhtar, Sandra Vega, Ahmed Abed Hassan, and Mariam Al Baloushi

Search and Discovery.com

... samples from the Middle East shows that there is a proportional relation between Vp and Vs. Also, after including the rock classification, we observed...

Lower Paleozoic Cavern Development, Collapse, and Dolomitization, Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas

F. Jerry Lucia

West Texas Geological Society

.... Collapse of the cavern roof produced brecciation and fracturing in the overlying Montoya strata. Much of the breccia and adjacent country rock...

Carbon Ratios in Part of Arkansas-Oklahoma Coal Field

Thomas A. Hendricks

AAPG Bulletin

... of these coals; (2) differences in amount of overburden have produced no increase in carbonization from a younger to an older coal bed in this area...

Rift, Drift and Salt Tectonics in the Red Sea: The State of the Divergence

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Two-dimensional Kinematic Modeling of the Southern Kirthar Fold Belt, Pakistan

J. N. Fowler, R. Graham, W. Sassi, J. D. Smewing, J. Warburton

AAPG Special Volumes

... interpretation of overburden thickness of as much as 6 km (4 mi) prior to uplift, which would have resulted in overmature source rock throughout the area...

Times of Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum in Abo Reef of Southeastern New Mexico--A Hypothesis

William K. Stenzel

AAPG Special Volumes

... that all the accumulations have been entrapped in exactly the same manner or that all producing intervals are of one distinct rock type. In general...

The Rotliegend Reservoir System of the Northern Upper Rhine Graben, Germany: From Outcrop Analogue Studies to Geothermal Reservoir Assessment; #80194 (2011)

Kristian Bär, Marita Felder, Annette E. Götz, Nicolaas Molenaar, and Ingo Sass

Search and Discovery.com

... - sufficient for hydrothermal utilization. Based on petrography and thermophysical rock properties of representative lithotypes and the integration...

Campanian Paleoseismites of the Elk Basin Anticline, Northern Bighorn Basin, U.S.A.: A Record of Initial Laramide Deformation

William T. Jackson, Jr.,, Mervin J. Bartholomew, William R. Dupré, Taylor F. Armstrong, Kevin G. Stewart

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... predominantly east of the Sevier fold-and-thrust belt, from southwestern Montana to northern New Mexico. Laramide “thick-skinned” deformation has been linked...

Subsurface Stratigraphy of the Pre-Niobrara Formations in the Shirley and Laramie Basins, Wyoming

Robert R. Berg

Wyoming Geological Association

... the Sage Breaks shale because of its similarity in rock type and stratigraphic position with the type Sage Breaks...

Availability of Coal in Energy Crunch: GEOLOGIC NOTE

C. J. Potter

AAPG Bulletin

... in the east; 22 billion tons in the west), with approximately 35 billion tons obtainable from surface mining in the western United States and 10 billion tons...

Fracture Analysis of Pennsylvanian Carbonate Bank Systems in the Graford Formation North Central Texas

B. Wayne Hoskins

Dallas Geological Society

... exhibit a wide variance in orientation, although three dominant joint sets are recognizable. The most widely occuring set is North 60 degrees East...

The Neogene in Indonesia: The Most Important Period of Geologic Evolution and Formation of Petroleum Resources

Awang Harun Satyana

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...) of the petroleum system are important: source rock, reservoir rock, trap sealing rock, carrier bed of migration and its sealing rock, overburden rocks to mature...

Failure modes of shales and their implications for natural and man-made fracture assemblages

Atilla Aydin

AAPG Bulletin

... of the most common rock types, with a rich and complex variety of failure structures in the Earth’s continental crust. In this paper, a synopsis...

Magnetotelluric for Petroleum Investigation

Bayu A. Pramudhita, Deni Saputra, Royo Handoyo, Suchandra, Irkham Wahyu S.

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... advantages, rather with seismic these resistivity method could penetrate the high density rock (such as limestone or salt dome) than in same case...

Structural and Thermal History of the Piceance Creek Basin, Western Colorado, in Relation to Hydrocarbon Occurrence in the Mesaverde Group

Ronald C. Johnson, Vito F. Nuccio

AAPG Special Volumes

... from wells were used to determine coalification gradients and to suggest the amount of overburden that has been removed. Cuttings from drill holes...

Edwards Aquifer of South Texas

Robert W. Maclay

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... County on the west and Hays County on the east, by the faulted outcrop of the Edwards Group on the north, and by the interface between fresh and saline...

Oil Fields in Mio-Pliocene Zone of Eastern Carpathians (District of Ploiesti)

D. Paraschiv , Gh. Olteanu

AAPG Special Volumes

... units (external and mediomarginal) on the north, the Moesic platform on the south, the Slanic-Buzau Valley on the east, and the Dimbovita Valley...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Tectonically Induced Fracturing, Folding, and Groundwater Flow in South Florida

Missimer, Thomas M. and Maliva, Robert G.

GCAGS Transactions

... of aquifer rock. Fractured dolomites are often the main flow zones. Deformation observed in post-Paleocene-aged rocks has often been...

Type Locality Descriptions Saratoga Chalk (Upper Cretaceous)

Jerry D. Alagood

GCAGS Transactions

... of the White Cliffs chalk. It breaks in rudely conchoidal flakes and crumbles at the tap of the hammer. Small pieces of the fresh rock may be broken...

Stratigraphy, Structure, and Origin of Siwa Depression, Western Desert of Egypt

Amin R. Gindy , M. A. El Askary

AAPG Bulletin

... configuration of the depression, which is an elongate asymmetric and irregular basinlike syncline. This gentle syncline has a west-east extension of more than...

Nonmarine Rocks

Donald L. Gautier

Special Publications of SEPM

... to the east of the Sediments of the alluvial plain characteristically consist of tabulate-elongate sand bodies, each of which contains several cycles...

Oil-Gas Prospects of Pre-Jurassic Complex in East of West Siberia (Pur-Taz Interfluve, Tyumen Region)

V. A. Kashtanov, I. L. Levinson, B. V. Nikulin, Yu. F. Filippov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Oil-Gas Prospects of Pre-Jurassic Complex in East of West Siberia (Pur-Taz Interfluve, Tyumen Region) V. A. Kashtanov, I. L. Levinson, B. V. Nikulin...

Migration Pathways Leading to Oil Accumulation in Clastic Sediments

Robert J. Cordell

North Texas Geological Society

... compaction by sediment overburden of varying thicknesses. The deeply subsiding parts of basins or subbasins normally accumulate the thickest sediments...