Paleochannel sands as conduits for hydrocarbon leakage across faults: An example from the Wilmington oil field, California

Linji Y. An

AAPG Bulletin

... change and can be used to compare permeability properties among different strata within the same fault profile. The result is, therefore, directly relevant...

ABSTRACT Stratigraphic Controls on Fault Zone Complexity and Evolution: The Little Grand Wash Fault, Utah, #90104 (2010)

Scarselli Sonia; Vrolijk Peter; Myers Rod; Sweet Michael L.; Nollet Sofie; Cleveland David

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... Upstream Research Company,  Houston, TX.     Fault zone geometry can be highly variable, ranging from a simple fault plane accommodating all...

2D Resistivity Imaging Investigation of Long Point, Katy-Hockley, Tomball, and Pearland Faults, Houston, Texas

Mustafa Saribudak

GCAGS Transactions

... and crossing through many neighborhoods that can potentially deform many residential and commercial buildings. The fault plane dips about 70 degrees toward...

Fault Interpretation Problems in the Southeast Barrow Sub-Basin

R. K. Whyte

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... several major steps. With fault offset these steps cause lateral velocity contrasts on the fault plane, called velocity windows. Normal incidence ray...

Geological Cross Sections: Part 6. Geological Methods

Jeremy M. Boak

AAPG Special Volumes

... be preferable to construct a profile section in which the plane of section is perpendicular to the plunge of the structure rather than being vertical...

Milton Field, Harris County, Texas

Phil F. Martyn, Roy F. Beery Jr.

Houston Geological Society

... Houston field. A profile drawn along the fault plane permits of the interpretation that an area of approximately 108,000 square feet (2 acres) may...

Seismic Models and Interpretation of The Casper Arch Thrust: Application to Rocky Mountain Foreland Structure

Riley C. Skeen, R. Randy Ray

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... fault zones (Ray and others, 1983). Two of these zones show up as laterally continuous reflections on the seismic profile A-A‘ (Fig. 3). Bedding Plane...

Fault Techniques: Analyzing Normal Faults: Unit 21: Techniques

Martin P. A. Jackson, William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

... accompanied by rotation of beds or fault plane. Nonrotational faults produce extension without rotation of beds or fault plane (table 1). Nonrotational...

Research on buried hill fracture prediction based on sweet spot attributes of gradient structure tensor in dominant frequency band

Min Gong, Bo Wang, Lin Wang, Rui Wu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the fault, ε≈ 0, far away from the fault, ε≈ 1. Sweet Spot Attributes of Gradient Structure Tensor The structure tensor field is a new attribute analysis...

Introduction to AAPG Bulletin thematic issue on fault seals

Russell K. Davies, James W. Handschy

AAPG Bulletin

... of clay-rich layers, such as shale, along a fault plane created a lower permeability fault rock, or seal, between two reservoirs (Smith, 1966, 1980; Weber...

Introduction to AAPG Bulletin thematic issue on fault seals

Russell K. Davies, James W. Handschy

AAPG Bulletin

... of clay-rich layers, such as shale, along a fault plane created a lower permeability fault rock, or seal, between two reservoirs (Smith, 1966, 1980; Weber...

Application of an Inverse Method for Calculating Three-Dimensional Fault Geometries and Slip Vectors, Nun River Field, Nigeria

Hugh G. Kerr, Nicky White

AAPG Bulletin

... within the plane of Fig. 9. Synthetic model. (a) Numerically generated fault surface used in forward model to calculate geometries of two deformed...

Evidence of Post-Pleistocene Faults on New Jersey Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf: GEOLOGIC NOTES

R. E. Sheridan , H. J. Knebel

AAPG Bulletin

... permit the extrapolation of the fault planes at depth. The fault planes appear to dip northwest. On two crossings northeast of profile A-B (Fig. 1...

Seismic Profile, Structural Cross Section, and Geochemical Comparisons

Donald S. Stone

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., and the figure (7) caption states that the “inclination of [the] fault is approximated by [the] syncline’s axial plane which dips steeply under...

Sealing by Shale Gouge and Subsequent Seal Breach by Reactivation: A Case Study of the Zema Prospect, Otway Basin

Paul J. Lyon, Peter J. Boult, Richard R. Hillis, Scott D. Mildren

AAPG Special Volumes

... the observed paleocolumn. It is therefore likely that fault damage processes on the fault plane were responsible for holding back the original 69-m (226-ft...

Implications of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake for the Emergence of Marine Terraces Along the Santa Cruz Coast, and for Long Term Evolution of the Santa Cruz Mountains

Robert S. Anderson, Dan L. Orange, Susan Y. Schwartz

Pacific Section of AAPG

.... J.G.R. v. 89: p. 5681-5698. Schwartz, S.Y., J.W. Dewey, and T. Lay, 1989. Influence of fault plane heterogeneity on the seismic behavior...

Utilization of Existing Wells in Seismograph Work

Burton McCollum , Wilton W. Larue

AAPG Bulletin

... of a fault plane at different depths, as shown in Figure 4. Here, for example, a well which was drilled too far back from the fault plane to obtain...

Application of improved shearlet transform algorithm in noise filtering of complex fault block oilfield in eastern Bohai Sea

Yu Xiong, Cai Li, Yongqiang Yao, Shaoxuan Li, Lei Gao

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

...), it can be seen that at the position indicated by the red arrow, the characteristics of fault plane distribution are very clear in the 2000ms...

Locally Develop Tectonic Historic Of Southern Barito Basin Due To Tensor Type Analyses, Study Case In Panyiuran Region, South Kalimantan

Emanuelta Naibaho, Hendry Setiawan Lie, Febriwan Mohamad, Arief Pinandita

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... interlimb angle. The axes fold had the same orientation with as the Buluan Normal Dextral Fault (Figure 7). Baliangin Fold (Axial Plane I and Axial Plane...

ABSTRACT: Fluvial Response to Faulting: Insights into the Growth History of Normal Fault Arrays using Geomorphic Criteria, by Deirdre C. Commins, Sanjeev Gupta, and Joseph A. Cartwright; #90906(2001)

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Revealing Fault Control on Hydrocarbon Distribution in the Montney Play: a 3-D Exploratory Statistics Approach; #11388 (2024)

Jean-Yves Chatellier, Tristan Euzen, Andy Mort, Damien Thenin

Search and Discovery.com

... fault planes identified using Datadesk, a 3-D exploratory statistic program 30 km 34 high pressure gas kick incidents on the map One fault plane...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Geological Perception of Pore and Fracture Prediction: Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico

Shaker, Selim S.

GCAGS Transactions

... presence contribute to the magnitude of this shift. The structural setting of a prospect and the fault plane lithology juxtaposition play...

3.4 Detached Sediments: 3.4.1 Decollement Tectonics (A-Subduction): Three Seismic Profiles Through the Po Plain

M. Pieri

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the profile a reverse fault separates the front of the Ferrara arc from the southern part of the homocline that rises toward the Berici-Euganei Hills axis...

Experimental Analysis of Gulf Coast Fracture Patterns

Ernst Cloos

AAPG Bulletin

... of the horizontal component and the fault trace. The horizontal component means an extension between two points on opposite sides of the fault plane. On curved...

Geologic History of Santa Ana Structure, Anaco Structural Trend, Anzoategui, Venezuela

Luis M. Banks , Edgar S. Driver

AAPG Bulletin

... (private report, 1949) were among the first to propose a single fault plane for the Anaco thrust at Santa Ana. A zone of thrusting has been the usual...