Mechanisms Controlling the Clustering of Fluvial Channels and the Compensational Stacking of Cluster Belts

Michael H. Hofmann, Anton Wroblewski, Ron Boyd

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Boyd 2011 670 685 Vol. 81 (2011) No. 9. (September) Analysis of sand-body distribution reveals that fluvial channel sands in the Upper Cretaceous...

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Pleistocene and Holocene Carbonate Eolianites, Kaua'i, Hawai'i, U.S.A.

Charles T. Blay, Mark W. Longman

Special Publications of SEPM

... by prevailing trade winds on and along shore from localized highstand beach deposits Modern eolian deposits of the Pa a Maha ulepli area are sand body...

Some Applications and Problems of the Seismic Refraction Technique in Civil Engineering Projects in Malaysia

B. K. Lim, S. J. Jones

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... are frequently caused by presence of a high velocity layer overlying a low velocity medium. The formation of low-speed can be caused by several factors...

PermianHolocene tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Mandal High, Central Graben, North Sea

Anders Rossland, Alejandro Escalona, Rinn Rolfsen

AAPG Bulletin

... Late Permian to Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous, providing a local source of sediments for adjacent basins.Similar to the Utsira High, where several...

Salt-Dome Breccia

Paul F. Kerr , Otto C. Kopp

AAPG Bulletin

... establish the texture as an inherent feature of the shale and not an impact effect of the coring mechanism. The breccia appears significantly different...

Depths of Modern Coastal Sand Clinoforms

Neil C. Mitchell, Gerhard Masselink, John M. Huthnance, Luis M. Fernandez-Salas, Francisco J. Lobo

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., M.E., and Roy, P.S., 1984, Offshore transport and sand-body formation—evidence from a steep, high-energy shoreface, southeastern Australia: Journal...

3D Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Upper Miocene to Lower Pleistocene Deepwater Sediments of the Thunder Horse…Mensa Area, Southern Mississippi Canyon, Northern Deep Gulf of Mexico

Raquel Cepeda, Paul Weimer, Geoff Dorn

GCAGS Transactions

.... See Figure 6 for location of profile. However, the lobes at Mensa (9.0-8.2 Ma) appear to have developed across a local structural high, the Mensa...

A New Production and Gathering Technique for Unconventional Oil and Gas Fields

Yuri Fairuzov, Victor Fairuzov

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and the flowline. Cycling variations of local free-water velocity convert stationary solids beds into slowly moving dunes. Free-water residence time...

Physics-based preconditioned multidimensional deconvolution in the time domain

David Vargas, Ivan Vasconcelos, Matteo Ravasi, Nick Luiken

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... set of reliable, stable solutions. This allows to successfully reconstruct the overburden-free reflection response beneath a complex salt body from noise...

Origins of Bimodal Stratigraphy In Fluvial Deposits: An Example From the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Western U.S.A.

Paul L. Heller, Deidre Ratigan, Sheila Trampush,, Atsushi Noda, Brandon McElroy, James Drever, Snehalata Huzurbazar

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... level, and changes in climate. In places rapid changes in stacking density are found in vertical succession between very high to very low net sandstone...

Structures in Peninsular Malaysia and Their Interpretations

B. K. Tan

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...) 2 B.K. T an criticism. One wonders if this is due to the fact that a remarkable high percentage of the geological hypotheses proposed are completely...

Passive Margins: Eroded Carbonate Platform Margin--The Blake Escarpment off Southeastern United States

William P. Dillon, Anne M. Trehu, Page C. Valentine, and Mahlon M. Ball

AAPG Special Volumes

... areas for profiling anyway, because of rough surfaces and cavities produced by karstification, and occurrence of common high-velocity layers shallow...

Geology of Erath Field, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

M. H. Steig , I. K. Nichols , Shapleigh G. Gray , R. L. Denham

AAPG Bulletin

.... The presence of this shale body is manifested by the saddle shown crossing the center of the structure in Figure 13. The shale body has the effect...

Newtonia Field: A Model for Mid-Dip Lower Tuscaloosa Retrograde Deltaic Sedimentation

Michael D. Hogg

GCAGS Transactions

... high risk exploration and development in the mid-dip Lower Tuscaloosa Trend. In sparsely drilled areas, sand prediction by seismic velocity analysis...

Critical Grain-Size Parameters for Predicting Framework and “Floating” Grains in Sediments

Steven L. Bryant, Chris Lerch, Michael E. Glinsky

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...”, that is, occupy volume without contributing to mechanical strength. The latter grains affect the relationship between acoustic velocity and porosity as well...

General Lithofacies Relationship of St. Peter Sandstone and Simpson Group

E. C. Dapples

AAPG Bulletin

..., number of sands, and thickness, increase systematically into southern Oklahoma, the thickest part of the Simpson basin. Except for local thickening...

Salem Oil Field, Marion County, Illinois

H. H. Arnold, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

..., is supplied by Cheney (FOOTNOTE 8) as follows: "en echelon folding and faulting may be the natural result of the local features along an older line...

Reservoir Monitoring Technology Part V: Linking Seismic Response to Geomechanics

Tron Kristiansen, Olav Barkved, Martin Landrø, Lasse Amundsen

GEO ExPro Magazine

... the compacting body, in the arch, is unloaded and the velocity is reduced. At the side of the compacting area the load is increasing and the velocity...

Federal Government to Control Offshore Petroleum Industry

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., safety and environmental regulation. input into decisions which have a signifi cant Ti napple said there were instances of the effect on local, reg...

The Mesaverde Formation of the Northern and Central Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Tom E. Purcell

Wyoming Geological Association

..." are present at either end of the map. Local smaller scale "thicks" are present along the eastern limit of the sandstone body. Several small local areas...

Deposits of the sandy braided South Saskatchewan River: Implications for the use of modern analogs in reconstructing channel dimensions in reservoir characterization

Ian A. Lunt, Gregory H. Sambrook Smith, James L. Best, Philip J. Ashworth, Stuart N. Lane, Christopher J. Simpson

AAPG Bulletin

... dunes forming in a channel with low velocity but high depth, whereas smaller dunes may form in a channel with high velocity and lower depth...

Physical Modeling of Sedimentation Adjacent to Diapirs and Comparison with Late Precambrian Oratunga Breccia Body in Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia

N. M. Lemon

AAPG Bulletin

...Physical Modeling of Sedimentation Adjacent to Diapirs and Comparison with Late Precambrian Oratunga Breccia Body in Central Flinders Ranges, South...

Abstract: Hydrocarbon Generation, Migration and Accumulation Related to Igneous Intrusions: An Atypical Petroleum System from the Neuquen Basin of Argentina, by Felipe Rodríguez, Héctor J. Villar, and Roger Baudino; #90066 (2007)

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Properties and Genesis of "Jackpile" Sandstone, Laguna, New Mexico

J. S. Schlee , R. H. Moench

AAPG Special Volumes

... The "Jackpile" sandstone, a term of local usage, is exposed near Laguna, New Mexico. It is the uppermost unit in the Morrison formation, of Jurrassic age...

Characteristics of Heat Flow through Diapiric Salt Structures on the Texas Continental Slope

Seiichi Nagihara , Lila M. Beckley , E. William Behrens ,, John G. Sclater

GCAGS Transactions

... hardly penetrate to the salt body of high reflectivity. Not being able to image the bottom of salt has been the major drawback for salt structure studies...