2008 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, October 26-29, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa - Abstracts, #90082 (2008)

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Enhanced Faults Interpretation in West Offshore Madura using Boundary Element and Slip Tendency Analysis

Ghufron Fauzi, Khadafi, Andri Akbar, Brett Freeman, Renny Sara Sipayung

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... including collision of the Paternostermicroplate in the Cretaceous, extensional opening of the East Java Basin during Eocene followed by Middle...

Unconformities in Upper Cretaceous Series of Texas

Lloyd W. Stephenson

AAPG Bulletin

... not heretofore been generally recognized, although several of them have been indicated in previous publications. These stratigraphic breaks...

Basin Modeling Uncertainties Related to the Hybrid Devonian Petroleum System (Conventional Plus Atypical) of the Solimões Basin (Brazil); #120106 (2013)

Gustavo Garcia, L. M. Araújo, and J. R. Wanderley Filho

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... to 168 m thick) was intruded around 500 m above the source rock. The middle and upper sets (up to 500 m and 449 m thick, respectively) were intruded...

The Green River Formation in Piceance Creek and Eastern Uinta Basins; Frontmatter and Roadlogs

Walter R. Averett, Craig S. Goodknight, G. J. Daub, R. G. Young, C. R. Neill, R. D. Dayvault, G. M. Smith, W. L. Chenoweth, P. K. Sokolosky

Grand Junction Geological Society

... of a face in detached rock; this profile is origin of name “Cameo” in this area.   1.0 17.9 Exit 49. State Highway 65 goes east up Plateau Creek...

The Role of Petroleum Geochemistry in Basin Modeling of the Oseberg Area, North Sea: Chapter 6: PETROLEUM GENERATION AND MIGRATION

B. Dahl, A. Yukler

AAPG Special Volumes

... occurs by development of natural hydraulic fractures. Therefore, seal capacity is thus related to cap rock thickness, minimum effective stress in the cap...

Seismic Foldout: Trinidad and Tobagos Advantage: Underexplored Frontier Amongst Discoveries

Jeniffer Masi, Mike Powney, Geoex MCG

GEO ExPro Magazine

... km of OligoMiocene to Pleistocene sediment. It is bounded by the Lesser Antilles arc to the west, the Barbados accretionary prism to the east...

Geology and Petroleum Potential of Exmouth Plateau Area Off Western Australia

N. F. Exon, J. B. Willcox

AAPG Bulletin

..., respecti ely. About 1,000 m of shallow-marine and deltaic detrital sediment, derived from the south and east, covered the block-faulted surface in Late...

SOME INFERRED RELATIONS BETWEEN TERTIARY AND PALEOZOIC FOLDING IN THE WILLISTON BASIN

V. A. GILLES

Montana Geological Society

... westward is shown by Thorn's map to be present near Coalwood to the east of the Ashland field. The west end of this anticline crosses...

Oil and Gas Accumulations of the Offshore Barrow and Exmouth Sub-Basins - Trends in Hydrocarbon Habitat

M. L. Zaunbrecher

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...: the position of a claystone seal relative to the hydrocarbon-generative window influences whether or not the seal is overpressured, and that, in turn, determines...

Geology of the Eastern End of the Uinta Mountains, Utah-Colorado

G.E. and B.R. Untermann

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... in the present Uinta Range which represents the principal east-west trending system in the western hemisphere. Maximum elevation in the western part...

Oil-Gas Prospects of Carboniferous and Upper Devonian Sediments of the Zharkamys-Temir Zone of Highs

S. N. Nursuitanov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... is also at -7 km. To the east across a series of faults is the Mugodzhar downwarp. [Please see Petroleum Geology, vol. 26, no. 11-12, p. 360 for a map...

Hydrocarbon Prospectivity in Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic Rift Basins in Central/Northern Kenya, by Jean-Jacques Tiercelin, Peter Thuo, Thierry Nalpas, and Jean-Luc Potdevin, #10188 (2009).

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Origin of Abrupt Change in Slope at Continental Shelf Margin

Robert S. Dietz , Henry W. Menard

AAPG Bulletin

... by Massachusetts Inst. Tech. and Woods Hole Ocean. Inst., Vol. 5, No. 4. 48 pp. STETSON, H. C. (1949), "The Sediment and Stratigraphy of the East Coast Continental...

Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential of Thrust and Fold Belt of Southwestern New Mexico

Lee A. Woodward, Harvey R. Duchene

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... to over 1,000 ft toward the east. The Percha Shale of Late Devonian age consists of black marine shale that is an ideal source and seal...

Transverse Faulting and Gas Prospects in Basement of the Freeport Area, Southeast Sacramento Basin

Lowell E. Garrison

Pacific Section of AAPG

... Fault is an important east-west trending fracture in the Freeport-Elk Grove area, Sacramento County. Its vertical displacement (> 500′ down to the north...

Depositional Facies and Eustatic Effects in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Ripley Formation, Central and Eastern Alabama

Michael C. Skotnicki , David T. King, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... packages of facies; the genetic packages are bounded by stratigraphic breaks of eustatic origin. The basal Ripley break is correlated with the end...

Day One Field Trip: Wyoming Geological Association 2008 Field Conference Laramie, Wyoming, Road Logs 2008

Tom Anderson, Barbara Atkinson, Anton Wroblewski, Wayne Sutherland, Jim Steidtmann

Wyoming Geological Association

... Ranch oil field and the Diamond Dome gas field occur on this anticline. To the northwest along the valley of Rock Creek is a shallow east-northeast...

Stratigraphy and Environmental Sedimentology of Chickamauga Group, Middle Ordovician of Eastern Tennessee: GEOLOGIC NOTES

Mansour Kashfi

AAPG Bulletin

... and adaptation of the Holston marble of East Tennessee: Tennessee Dept. Education, Div. Geology Bull. 28, p. 87-160. Fisk, H. N., and E. McFarlan, Jr...

Composite and diachronous stratigraphic surfaces in low-gradient, transitional settings: The J-3 “unconformity” and the Curtis Formation, east-central Utah, U.S.A.

Valentin Zuchuat, Ivar Midtkandal, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Sigrid Da Costa, Hannah Louise Brooks, Kristine Halvorsen, Nathan Cote, Anja Sundal, Alvar Braathen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... (Cedar Mountain, Fig. 7K) which diminishes southward. In the east of the study area, where the Slick Rock Member (Entrada Sandstone) is directly overlain...

Basin-centered Gas or Subtle Conventional Traps?

Wayne K. Camp

AAPG Special Volumes

... ago. Current models of basin-centered gas accumulations depict gas trapped below a relatively uniform, enigmatic pressure seal defined by a given...

Chapter 15: The Windjammer Discovery: Play Opener for Offshore Mozambique and East Africa

Tom Fletcher

AAPG Special Volumes

.... No rock properties were available for the Oligocene shale to aid in estimating seal integrity. Analogies from producing fields in similar depositional...

Major Structural Features of the Anadarko Basin

J. L. Evans

Tulsa Geological Society

... through Permian (Figure 1). Important reservoir rocks are present and proven in each of these major systems. Potential reservoir rock below the base...

The Composition, Structure and Erodability of Subtidal Mats, Abaco, Bahamas

A. Conrad Neumann, Conrad D. Gebelein , Terence P. Scoffin

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... No. 1. (March), The composition and microstructure of widespread subtidal biological mats binding sandy carbonate sediments in the Rock Harbour Cays...

The effect of deformation bands on simulated fluid flow within fault-propagation fold trap types: Lessons from the San Rafael monocline, Utah

Luisa F. Zuluaga, Atle Rotevatn, Eirik Keilegavlen, and Haakon Fossen

AAPG Bulletin

... with variable scenarios of permeability contrast between host rock and deformation bands. Our simulations show that pervasive deformation band arrays...