Chapter Nine: Inversion and Interpretation of Impedance Data

Rebecca B. Latimer

AAPG Special Volumes

...). Above the unconformity, the sands have high sonic-log values (low velocity) and low values of density. Below the unconformity, the sands have low...

The Three Elements of Structural Geology Part 5, #41849 (2016).

Terry Engelder,

Search and Discovery.com

... are displayed in a one-dimensional analysis. In one dimension there can only be a rigid-body translation (burial) and a stretch (compaction around a concretion...

Models and Concepts for Exploration in Barrier Islands

David K. Davies

New Orleans Geological Society

... (Figs. 14 and 15) reveal the local development of an elongate, quartzose sandstone body. Field mapping by Boenig (1970) demonstrated...

Surficial Sediments of the Great Australian Bight: Facies Dynamics and Oceanography on a Vast Cool-Water Carbonate Shelf

Noel P. James , Yvonne Bone , Lindsay B. Collins , T. Kurtis Kyser

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...) stream of comparatively warm, low-salinity, nutrient-depleted oceanic water of tropical origin that flows southward at relatively high velocity...

Abstract: Grayson Field, Jurassic Smackover Reservoir, Columbia County, AR: A Case Study Using Leading Edge Reservoir Characterization Seismic Processing of 3D Seismic Data

Kevin B. Hill and William R. Meaney

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... porosity and pore-volume maps generated from well information. The Grayson field Smackover reservoir is a low-velocity zone encased within high-velocity...

Styles of Continental Rifting: Results from Dynamic Models of Lithospheric Extension

Jean Braun, Christopher Beaumont

CSPG Special Publications

... replace stronger olivine-dominated mantle rocks. The net effect is a local decrease of the vertically integrated plate strength, Σ. Table 3 gives...

Cardium Stratigraphy of the Pembina Field

A. R. Nielsen

CSPG Bulletin

... from the up-dip "shale out" of the Cardium sand with local structure having no effect on the accumulation. The Cardium formation can be divided...

The Great Salt Lake Astrobleme

Robert E. Cohenour

Utah Geological Association

... a great central uplift and subsequent gravity sliding or was one of explosive external origin such as would result from the impact of a high velocity...

Mobile Shale in the Niger Delta: Characteristics, Structure, and Evolution

Richard W. Wiener, Michael G. Mann, Michael Terry Angelich, Joseph B. Molyneux

AAPG Special Volumes

... velocities at 3 s below water bottom. Note the correspondence of low-velocity zones and the structural province of thick mobile shale, consistent with high...

Probe Permeametry: An Overview and Bibliography

Andrew Hurst , David Goggin

AAPG Bulletin

... slippage and high velocity flow effects: In Situ, v. 12, p. 79-116. *Goggin, D. J., M. A. Chandler, G. Kocurek, and L. W. Lake, 1988b, Patterns...

Marine Sedimentation and Oil Accumulation on Gulf Coast: ABSTRACT

Dorothy A. Jung, Doris S. Malkin

AAPG Bulletin

... (Wilcox), lower Yegua, Vicksburg-lower Frio, and Catahoula, are not considered theoretically as favorable, local structural or environmental conditions...

Many Factors Involved in Finding Oil By Airborne Scintillometers

Hans Lundberg, President

Panhandle (Texas) Geological Society

.... If the detection equipment is close to ground level, it will "see" effectively only a small area at one particular moment. Thus a radiation high anomaly at 200 ft...

Magnetics and Geology of Yoast Field, Bastrop County, Texas

D. M. Collingwood

AAPG Bulletin

... by the Yoast oil field, was made by the Sun Oil Company under the direction of the writer. A local high anomaly in vertical intensity found on the Yoast...

High-Resolution Depositional Framework of the Paleocene Middle Wilcox Strata, Texas Coastal Plain

Liangqing Xue, William E. Galloway

AAPG Bulletin

... (uranium, glauconite, phosphate enrichment); (2) resistive, dense, high-velocity layers (carbonate hardgrounds, shell material, and cement...

Behaviour of Petroleum in Northern Australian Waters

R. I. Kagi, S. J. Fisher, R. Alexander

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... record of the event is likely to remain. The properties of the water body The temperature of a water body is the factor which has the major effect...

Permian glacial paleo-valley identification and characterization using geometrical attributes and 2D forward modelling

Leticia Itzel Flores-Sanchez, Michael LeStrat, Robert H. Richards

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... This ilustrates the pull-up effect at the Ordovician level due to the high velocity on the Permian sands. From this model and the relationship of velocity...

Author's Reply: DISCUSSION

William M. Barret

AAPG Bulletin

.... Whether a tabular mass of high permeability is regarded as disturbing the magnetic field in direction and intensity, or the disturbance is regarded...

Using Pre-Stack Seismic Data to Predict the West African Deepwater Reservoir

Search and Discovery.com

Seismic Line Across the Wind River Thrust Fault, Wyoming

W.L. Basham, W.F. Martin

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... caused by a shallow wedge oflow velocity Miocene sediments superimposed on a velocity pullup related to the high velocity Precambrian granite. The effects...

A Pore Scale Study of Slickwater Systems in Shale Reservoirs: Implications for Frac-Water Distribution and Produced Water Salinity

Yinan Hu, Deepak Devegowda, Alberto Striolo, Anh Phan, Tuan A. Ho, Faruk Civan, Richard Sigal

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pores, and are therefore superior to the frequently assumed graphene slit pore systems. The effect of maturation, pore surface mineralogy, and pore...

Dynamics of Bedforms in the Lower Mississippi River

David J. Harbor

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are bigger than would be expected given the discharge (the stippled line in Figure 13). During high-velocity flow at Ajax, compound dunes are as steep (L/H...

On the completeness and fidelity of the Quaternary bivalve record from the temperate Pacific coast of South America

Marcelo M. Rivadeneira

PALAIOS

... 1.532, p 5 0.037; Table 2). The effect of body size and bathymetric midpoint was evident only in the multiplicative terms. The negative coefficient...

The Gippsland Basin: Reprocessing Reveals New Opportunities in a Mature Basin

Peter Baillie, Paul Carter, Jarrad Grahame, Joe Zhou, Nigel Mudge

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... generation and data contamination. This, in combination with shallow high-velocity carbonate channels and highly absorbing and scattering coal reflectors...

Initiation Processes and Flow Evolution of Turbidity Currents: Implications for the Depositional Record

William R. Normark, David J. W. Piper

Special Publications of SEPM

... demonstrated that at high concentrations to grain collisions prevented turbulent transport of sediment this damping effect started at concentations...

Effects of Underground Storage Conditions on Characteristics of Petroleum

Paul W. Prutzman

AAPG Bulletin

... to that of coal or lignite, would be a petroleum rather than a tar-like body because of the extreme slowness and the consequent low temperature at which...