Fault Interpretation Problems in the Southeast Barrow Sub-Basin

R. K. Whyte

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of the seismic horizon that fall beneath the shallow fault plane are subject to fault shadow effects. The fault shadow effect is a well-known...

Echo phone for direct attenuation indication

Lu Liu, Tong Fei, Fuhao Qin, Yi Luo

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... features. This method first focuses the surface seismic data back on the seal of the target via the wave-equation redatuming approach. This simulates...

Unfathomable: The shifting sand of wave base

Eugene C. Rankey, Christian M. Appendini

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the wave-driven currents. In addition, the resulting water levels are incorporated into the SW model to incorporate the effect of water levels...

Abstract: Local Radial Basis Functions for Helmholtz Equation in Seismic Inversion; #90255 (2017)

Hebert Montegranario, Mauricio Londoño

Search and Discovery.com

... Solutions of Helmholtz equation are essential in Seismic imaging methods like full wave inversion, which needs to solve many times the wave equation...

Abstract: Seismic Evidence of Formation Damage in the Lower Colorado Group Shales; #90172 (2014)

Jeremy Gallop

Search and Discovery.com

... was clearly delineated using 3D converted wave seismic. We believe that the observed anomaly’s high Vp/Vs values are due to the presence of weak planes...

Borehole Image and Production Logging Drives Well Interventions in Horizontal Gas-oil Gravity Drainage Wells in a Giant Middle Eastern Carbonate Field

Edward Follows, Andrew Beck, Andrew Farmer, Saud Al Salmi, Gerbert de Bruijn, Livio de Pieri, Rudy Welling

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Overlying shales of the Fiqa Formation sealed off the structure.The clearest seismic reflector is the Natih E horizon (Corsten et al., 2005; Van Eden et...

Process Regime Changes Across a Regressive to Transgressive Turnaround in a Shelf–Slope Basin, Eocene Central Basin of Spitsbergen

Anna Ponten, Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... stacking patterns and sedimentary facies. The regressive part preserves wave- and river-dominated deltaic deposits in a progradational to aggradational...

Stratification, Bed Forms, and Flow Phenomena (With an Example from the Rio Grande)

J. C. Harms, R. K. Fahnestock

Special Publications of SEPM

... product is the transport poorly rather graphic of The plane bed internal marked features of any or low standing wave lamination although...

Seismic Stratigraphy and Facies of Continental Slope and Rise Seaward of Baltimore Canyon Trough

John S. Schlee , Karl Hinz

AAPG Bulletin

... Ewing Series 3, p. 1-57. Keen, M. J., 1969, Possible edge effect to explain magnetic anomalies off the eastern seaboard of the United States: Nature, v...

Distribution of Surface Pebbles with Changes in Wave Energy on a Sandy Estuarine Beach

Karl F. Nordstrom , Nancy L. Jackson

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.../s. Temporal differences in wave height when wind characteristics are relatively constant are dependent on differences in the effect of the low-tide...

Sedimentology and Petrophysical Character of Cretaceous Marine Shale Sequences in Foreland BasinsPotential Seismic Response Issues

W. R. Almon, Wm. C. Dawson, F. G. Ethridge, E. Rietsch, S. J. Sutton, B. Castelblanco-Torres

AAPG Special Volumes

.... These transgressive shales are enriched in iron-bearing clay minerals and authigenic pyrite. Greater shear wave velocities, larger shear moduli, and higher...

An Empirical Study of the Generalized Fluid Method for Hydrocarbon Discrimination

Search and Discovery.com

... parameters are called intercept, gradient, and curvature. Fatti et al. (1994) give us the weighted zero-offset P-wave and S-wave reflectivities...

Amplitude inversion of OBS direct arrivals for seabed elastic properties

James Gaiser, Moacyr de Souza Bazerra, James Simmons

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... They agree well with exact plane-wave responses for small and intermediate p-values and at the critical ray parameter. However, they depart for large p...

Geophysical Characterization of Carbonate Reservoirs Using Advanced Interpretation Techniques: Applications to Abenaki Formation, Penobscot Block, Nova Scotia; #42083 (2017)

D. Coronel, E. Villamizar, E. Illidge, S. Khurama

Search and Discovery.com

... effect is linked to the rock mechanic-elastic properties. These changes in the reflectivity are the result of the contrasts between the P-wave...

A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding

N. P. Benesh, and J. H. Shaw

AAPG Bulletin

... and are subject to a linear restoring force in compression. Our two-dimensional fault geometry is composed of two linear sections of a fault plane...

Critical Analysis of Stack Seismic Systems: DISCUSSION

Richard H. Hopkins

AAPG Bulletin

... to parallel the bedding, a fact which would minimize the effect of velocity changes. The effect of changes of interval velocity which cause diversion...

The Effects of Seismic Data Conditioning on Pre-Stack Simultaneous Impedance Inversion

Scott W. Singleton

GCAGS Transactions

... removal, and reflector alignment. It then seeks to document the improvements that these processes achieve in the gathers...

Vietnam: Improved Images of Fractured Basement

Jim Keggin, Wathik Alaaraji, Joe Zhou

GEO ExPro Magazine

... compressional wave seismic (PP) and on shear wave degree incidence angles. converted wave seismic (PS), the effect being considerably larger on the PS...

Sedimentary Architecture and Dynamic Stratigraphy of a Marine Ice-Contact System

Ida Lonne , W. Nemec , L.H. Blikra , T. Lauritsen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of regressive foreshore deposits with downstepping wave-cut terraces on the moraine slopes reflects gradual emergence due to regional glacioisostatic...

Seismic Monitoring of Mineral Precipitation within a Fracture, by Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte, Zane A. Gilbert, #90027 (2004)

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Sedimentology of Some South Carolina Tidal-Creek Point Bars, and a Comparison With Their Fluvial Counterparts

John H. Barwis

Dallas Geological Society

... ebb-dominance and meander geometry, primarily radius of curvature. The distribution of sedimentary facies is controlled by lateral segregation...

Sedimentology of Some South Carolina Tidal-Creek Point Bars, and a Comparison With Their Fluvial Counterparts

John H. Barwis

CSPG Special Publications

... ebb-dominance and meander geometry, primarily radius of curvature. The distribution of sedimentary facies is controlled by lateral segregation...

Particle Interaction and Its Effect on the Thresholds of Initial and Final Bedload Motion in Coarse Alluvial Channels

Ian Reid, Lynne E. Frostick

CSPG Special Publications

...Particle Interaction and Its Effect on the Thresholds of Initial and Final Bedload Motion in Coarse Alluvial Channels Ian Reid, Lynne E. Frostick...

Geological significance of seismic reflections and imaging of the reservoir architecture in the Malampaya gas field (Philippines)

Franois Fournier, Jean Borgomano

AAPG Bulletin

... as the study of the tuning effect; the chronostratigraphic values of the seismic reflections are evaluated using the stratigraphic results by Fournier et al...

Bottom Currents And Sediment Transport on San Pedro Shelf, California

David E. Drake, David A. Cacchione, Herman A. Karl

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of bottom water was less than 3 cm/s at both GEOPROBES and was rather persistently southward (offshelf). Wave-generated bottom currents and bottom...