Coaxial Stretching or Lithospheric Simple Shear in the North Sea? Evidence from Deep Seismic Profiling and Subsidence: Chapter 33: North Sea and Barents Shelf

Simon L. Klemperer, Nicky White

AAPG Special Volumes

... 85-05 across the central North Sea the only certain intrabasement fault-plane reflections are at the east end of the profile, bounding and beneath...

Pleistocene and Recent Tilting of Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming

J. D. Love, John de la Montagne

Wyoming Geological Association

... (1943, p. 163), extends southward from the southern part of Jackson Hole for at least 35 miles. The fault plane is nearly vertical and the west block...

2.3 Detached Sediments in Extensional Provinces: 2.3.2 Salt Tectonics: Salt Diapir--Gulf of Mexico

M. T. Sunwall, K. A. McQuillan, and C. J. Nick

AAPG Special Volumes

... 2.3.2_33------------------- Figure 2. Migrated-scaled profile. End_Page 2.3.2_35------------------- Figure 3. Migrated-scaled profile...

Passive Margins: Mass Slides and Turbidite Type Deposits Recognized by Offshore Seismic Prospecting: Cap Ferret Depression and at the Outcrop: Gres D'annot Series

C. Ravenne, M. Cremer, P. Orsolini, and P.Riche

AAPG Special Volumes

... IN THE SEISMIC FACIES RELATED TO SLOPE COLLAPSE Profile CF 110 (2) shows a slope collapse on the north flank of the Cap Ferret depression and also shows...

Mechanism and continuity of gypsum smears in the East Qiulitage anticline, Kuqa foreland basin, China

Tong Wu, Xiaofei Fu, Haixue Wang, Mingxu Lu, Lingdong Meng, and Lei Gong

AAPG Bulletin

.... The injection smears were not common and formed on a fault plane adjacent to the expansion area when mudstone (shale) flowed along the fault surface from...

Details of the Geology of the North Flank of the Moscow Synclise

M. S. Korochkin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...–5 meter part of the Gdov sandstone in well 15 and its absence in well 25 is due to these wells passing through the fault plane. The presence in wells...

Physical-Model Investigation of the Influence of Early Extensional (Growth) Faults on Fold-Thrust Structures, with Application to the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt

J. M. Dixon

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... stratal unit, and to overlie foot-wall synclines. The second series of models has plane layers dis­ rupted by a single primary normal fault that separates...

A scaling law to characterize fault-damage zones at reservoir depths

Madhur Johri, Mark D. Zoback, and Peter Hennings

AAPG Bulletin

... related to higher permeabilities along the fault plane, thus enhancing fluid flow (Zhang and Sanderson, 1995; Paul et al., 2009). Lockner et al. (2000...

Sealing mechanisms in volcanic faulted reservoirs in Xujiaweizi extension, northern Songliao Basin, northeastern China

Bo Liu, Songlin He, Lingdong Meng, Xiaofei Fu, Lei Gong, and Haixue Wang

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1989). The Knipe diagram uses a triangular diagram to characterize lithologic juxtaposition relationships of two sides of the fault plane. The Knipe...

Exploration of the North Seribu Area, Northwest Java Sea

Roberto Fainstein

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... profile. A detailed seismic reprocessing study was undertaken to improve the understanding of the basement structure along the fault trend. This paper...

Structure Test Holes Confirm Post-Paleozoic Relief as Indicated by the Seismograph in the Avonlea Area, Saskatchewan

H. B. Sawatzky, R. G. Agarwal, W. Wilson

CSPG Bulletin

... in the area may be associated with this fault". It is interesting to note that detailed plane-table mapping by Wickenden and Graham (1937) indicated...

Unraveling the influence of throw and stratigraphy in controlling subseismic fault architecture of fold-thrust belts: An example from the Qaidam Basin, northeast Tibetan Plateau

Yangwen Pei, Douglas A. Paton, Rob J. Knipe, W. Henry Lickorish, Anren Li, and Kongyou Wu

AAPG Bulletin

... nonuniform combinations of a single-plane thrust fault and multiple splay faults as well as variable rotational, fold-related straining. The changing fault...

Implications of Fault Geometry on Sealing Capacity in Paleozoic Unayzah Reservoirs - South Ghawar

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Using Fracture Stress Shadows to Drive Stage Spacing

Jonathan P. McKenna, Michael S. Blaz, Michael H. Grealy, Orlando J. Teran

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... their respective stage center they occurred (Figure 1). According to the Wallace-Bott hypothesis, shear stress resolved onto the fault plane must parallel...

Geologic Processes and Seafloor Stability, Continental Shelf and Slope, Northwest Gulf of Mexico Case Studies: Section 4B

Anita Trippet

AAPG Special Volumes

... to be present under the upthrown side, and sediments on the downthrown side dip into the fault plane. Location of profile shown on figure 14. Scale values...

The Geology of the Western Front Ranges South of Bow River, Alberta

J. L. Usher

CSPG Special Publications

... of Banff. Southward towards Canmore older rocks appear above the fault plane, and for most of the length of Mt. Rundle the hanging wall rocks are Upper...

Importance of Low-Angle Migration Paths in Alberta … Detection and 3-D Visualization; #41321 (2014)

Jean-Yves Chatellier and Michael Chatellier

Search and Discovery.com

...-Angle Planes The first example relates to some present-day hydrocarbon migration paths along a south-dipping, low-angle fault plane system (Figures 1...

Reply (To Comment on Article by R. S. Yeats on Low-Shake Faults of the Ventura Basin, CaliforniaŽ)

Robert S. Yeats

Pacific Section SEPM

... of this reply, the bending-moment reverse fault is controlled by the axial plane of the asymmetric fold between the south flank of the Ventura Avenue anticline...

Geomechanical Investigation of Microseismic Mechanisms Associated With Slip on Bed Parallel Fractures

Robert Hull, Paul Leonard, Shawn Maxwell

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... microseismic mechanism comes from a variety of microseismic projects. Much of this evidence is based on geophysical investigation of microseismic fault-plane...

Delacroix Island Field: Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

Roland B. Keller

New Orleans Geological Society

... is characterized by broad low relief with abrupt north dip into the downthrown trace of the fault plane. The major field fault strikes in a northeast...

North Fork and Cellers Ranch Fields: "Differential Sedimentation" or Thrust-Folding?

Donald S. Stone

Wyoming Geological Association

... and is parallel to fault strike through the center of the structure. This explains why the thrust plane does not appear to cut basement on the profile. (B...

Genetic Relationships of Fossil Fuels of the Patronov Area (Northern Donets Basin)

S. T. Zelizna

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... beneath the plane of the Patronov fault in sediments of the Lower Carboniferous Serpukhov Stage. The oil is in sediments of the Protvin horizon, which...

Abstract: Onshore-offshore Neotectonics in Nordland, Northern NO – Implications for Petroleum Exploration, by Odleiv Olesen; #90177 (2013)

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Stratigraphic Architecture and Reservoir Characteristics of Slumped Distributary Mouth Bar Deposits, Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah: An Analysis of Sedimentary Fabric and Facies Utilizing Outcrop and Core Data

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Deep Water Discharge: Key to Hydrocarbon and Mineral Deposits

W. H. Roberts, III

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

.... Manifold flow through unconformity or fault: schematic profile. End_Page 38--------------- Figure 8. Trap boundary convergence and trap efficiency...