Abstract of 2006 AAPG/GSTT Hedberg Conference

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A mechanical basis of fault-bend folding

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

AAPG Bulletin

..., whereas the growth units show an increase in dip with depth. Figure 13. An interpreted fault (black dashed line) and anticlinal fault bend that have...

Geoscience Integration and Interpretive Model Building to Overcome Seismic Imaging Problems in Foothills Environments; #41547 (2015)

Rob Vestrum

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..., automated velocity-model-building tools fail to produce an optimum velocity model for TTI anisotropic depth migration. In a setting with such under...

Normal Moveout and Dip Moveout, C. L. Liner, #40037

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Quality Data at a Reduced Price: Innovative Approaches in 3-D Acquisition and Processing

Mars E. Semaan, Michel F. Bee, Maryanto, Gerard Dufourd, Eddy A. Sentani

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the diffraction patterns, as shown in Box C. Figure 6. DMO STACK. DMO gathers were used to repick a final velocity field before stacking the data...

Tarakan Sub-Basin Growth Faults, North-East Kalimantan: Their Roles in Hydrocarbon Entrapment

Elan Biantoro, M. Indra Kusuma, Lindy F. Rotinsulu

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... (listric). The fault dips at shallow depth may reach 45° to 60°, but with increasing depth there is a gradual decrease of dip and the fault plane...

Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Deltaic Depositional Sequences 2: Influence of Local Controls

Bryan D. Ritchie, Rob L. Gawthorpe, Stuart Hardy

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... development and the rate of sediment supply is recognized as an important control on facies stacking patterns and the timing and magnitude of facies shifts...

Optimised 3D Land Geophysical Survey Design - A Case Study

P. van Baaren

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... aperture, Z is the m depth of the target, and 0 the maximum bedding dip. This form ula can lead to an under or overestimation of the migration aperture (Bee...

Subaerial Debris-Flow Deposition in the Upper Paleozoic Cutler Formation, Western Colorado

Albert W. Shultz

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of microscopic and megascopic observations to obtain a "whole-rock" textural analysis. Sampling errors for the coarsest fraction are often serious unless very...

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)

...). The addition of volcanic ash onto the floodplain yields two effects that reduce stacking density. The first is a simple mass volume effect by which...

3.2 Basement Involved: 3.2.2 Basement Thrust and Reverse Faults: Seismic Profile: South Elk Basin

D. S. Stone

AAPG Special Volumes

... by thrust faulting at depth is progressively replaced by folding at shallower levels. Dip on the master thrust fault zone appears to be greater or less...

A Report on the Renaissance of Gravity in the Deep Water Gulf of Mexico: A Practical View of Integration Methods

Brian S. Anderson, Mark E. Weber, John E. Bain

Houston Geological Society

... an improved starting point velocity model for depth migration. This iterative process and feedback loop continues throughout the seismic migration...

ABSTRACT: Simplified and Constrained Gassmann's Equations; #90007 (2002)

De-hua Han, Michael Batzle

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...) as well as for time-lapse reservoir monitoring. These equations are commonly used to predict velocity changes resulting from different pore fluid...

High - Quality, Efficient Broadband Acquisition & Processing-An Integrated Approach

Richard Patenall, Dominic Fell, Timothy Brice, Saeeda Hydal

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... depth imaging approach. Key to the success of this was the ability to seamlessly integrate the data from the turn areas into the velocity model...

S1P and S2P separation and shear wave splitting correction for SVP data

Yuan Yuan Yue, Zhongping Qian, Hongmei Nie, Pengyuan Sun, Zhiwen Deng, Jianfeng Li

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...) azimuthal CCP stacking when converted-wave velocity is used for NMO correction. Table 1: Model parameters Layer 1 2 3 4 (m/s) Vp Vs 1500 1700...

Abstract: Onshore U.S. Depth Imaging and Velocity Model Building, by Morgan P. Brown, Joseph H. Higginbotham, Cosmin Macesanu, and Oscar E. Ramirez; #90124 (2011)

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Shear Fault-bend Folding

John Suppe, Christopher D. Connors, Yikun Zhang

AAPG Special Volumes

...). The time section of Figure 19 was depth converted by use of a heterogeneous depth stretch based on a smoothed velocity model that incorporates velocity...

Test Analysis of a 2D Seismic Survey With Finer CMP Interval

Zhao Xuewu, Widya Putri Pratami, Xu Qingsen, Muchlis MYS, Guo Shanli

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... area is highly ups and downs with rapidly lateral changes in the low-velocity layers (LVL). Figure 3 presents photos of the ground and vegetation...

Interpretation of first-arrival times of borehole acoustic measurements acquired in high-angle wells using 3D eikonal numerical simulations

Feiyue Xia, Carlos Torres-Verdín

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... to dip and azimuth of bed boundaries. The 3D eikonal solver requires lower memory and is more than 27 times faster than a parallel-accelerated 3D...

Exploration Potential of the Diablo Platform—Delaware Basin Margin, Trans-Pecos Texas

Douglas B. Swift, James J. Reeves, Richard J. Erdlac, Jr., Kenneth T. Barrow, Alexander P. Schoellkopf

West Texas Geological Society

... stacking velocity function for the entire line. Velocities were routinely chosen every 20 CMP or every 10 CMP if a greater variation in velocity...

Assessing and processing three-dimensional photogrammetry, sedimentology, and geophysical data to build high-fidelity reservoir models based on carbonate outcrop analogues

Ahmad Ramdani, Pankaj Khanna, Gaurav Siddharth Gairola, Sherif Hanafy, and Volker Vahrenkamp

AAPG Bulletin

... resonant column device (Perbawa, 2021). The acoustic velocity log along the core was constructed by simply sorting measured velocity by core depth. We...

Trishear: A Review of Kinematics, Mechanics, and Applications

Stuart Hardy, Richard W. Allmendinger

AAPG Special Volumes

...) it is only one of many ways to produce such an effect and (2) similar velocity fields have not commonly been observed in mechanical models (see review below...

Full azimuth angle domain Q prestack depth migration imaging technology: A case study of tight gas in western China

Huahui Zeng, Qin Su, Huijie Meng, Shengtao Zang, Deying Wang, Shuhai Qie

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... fracture prediction. The prediction effect is more stable and the prediction results are more reliable. In this paper, Q pre-stack depth migration...

Abstract: Second-Order Accommodation Cycles and Points of Stratigraphic Turnaround: Implications for High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Architecture of the Haynesville and Cotton Valley Lime Pinnacle Reefs of the East Texas Salt Basin

Robert K. Goldhammer

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... to aggradational/progradational accommodation packages. Each exhibits systematic vertical stacking patterns and associated lateral facies shifts within...

Channel Belt Architecture and Geometry — A Function of Depositional Parasequence Set Stacking Pattern, Ferron Sandstone, East-Central Utah

T.C.V. van den Bergh, James R. Garrison Jr.

Montana Geological Society

...Channel Belt Architecture and Geometry — A Function of Depositional Parasequence Set Stacking Pattern, Ferron Sandstone, East-Central...