Present-day stress regime, permeability, and fracture stimulations of coal reservoirs in the Qinshui Basin, northern China

Shida Chen, Yafei Zhang, Dazhen Tang, Shu Tao, Yifan Pu, and Zhenhong Chen

AAPG Bulletin

... photographs shows that fragmented coal was primarily concentrated along the fault footwall near the fault plane (e.g., Zs-39), whereas cataclastic coal...

Abstract: Models for the Development of Listric Normal Faults and Fault Seals

John B. Spang

GCAGS Transactions

... in space at bends in the fault plane. As the rocks move through the fault bend, they are sheared according to the existing model of inclined shear...

Extensional Geometry of a Part of the Northwestern Flank of the Northern Grant Range, Nevada: Inferences on its Evolution

Phyllis A. Camiller

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., geometry, and kinematics. Construction of cross sections was aided in part by contouring fault planes. EXTENSIONAL GEOMETRY Figure 5. Detailed...

Using Buoyancy Pressure Profiles to Assess Uncertainty in Fault Seal Calibration

Peter Bretan, Graham Yielding

AAPG Special Volumes

... reservoir structure map showing location of fault 1 (arrowed) and wells in the southwest part of the Oseberg Syd field; (b) fault plane diagram...

Geomechanical modeling of an extensional fault-propagation fold: Big Brushy Canyon monocline, Sierra Del Carmen, Texas

Kevin J. Smart, David A. Ferrill, Alan P. Morris, Barron J. Bichon, David S. Riha, Luc Huyse

AAPG Bulletin

...Geomechanical modeling of an extensional fault-propagation fold: Big Brushy Canyon monocline, Sierra Del Carmen, Texas Kevin J. Smart, David...

Fault-Propagation Folds: Geometry, Kinematic Evolution, and Hydrocarbon Traps (1)

SHANKAR MITRA

AAPG Bulletin

... translation on propagating thrusts. The thrust fault may propagate through the undeformed units, along the synclinal axial plane, or through...

Integrating 3-D seismic data, field analogs, and mechanical models in the analysis of segmented normal faults in the Wytch Farm oil field, southern England, United Kingdom

Simon A. Kattenhorn, David D. Pollard

AAPG Bulletin

... they intersect a horizontal plane but cannot be used to elucidate the three-dimensional (3-D) evolution of the fault system. The 3-D characteristics of normal...

Geophysical Interpretations East of Preston, Idaho, Based on Gravity and Magnetic Data

Steven R. Scheu

Utah Geological Association

... of 1.5 kilometers and a maximum width of 4 kilometers in the plane of the profile. It cuts through both the basement rock and the Salt Lake Formation...

Integrated Fault and Hazard Analysis in Downtown Houston, Texas

Jingqiu Huang, Don Van Nieuwenhuise, Shuhab D. Khan

GCAGS Journal

... profile. The seismic line reveals ~20 m of displacement with the fault dipping to the southeast. At some point displacement of the hanging-wall block...

ABSTRACT: 3-D Seismic Fault Plane Images from Offshore Myanmar, Gulf of Thailand, and Lake Maracaibo: Insight into Regional Stresses and Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways

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Rock mechanics characterization using borehole images and far field acoustic measurements to optimize perforation in unconventional reservoir

Rajeev Kumar, Dai Guo Yu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... acoustic measurements at high temperature are key to build stress profile in tight reservoir. This paper describes how geomechanical study ranging from...

Section Four: Geologic Techniques for Operations on Diapiric Structures

New Orleans Geological Society

... of maps will increase. From the beginning, a map describing the diapiric mass, major fault plane contour maps and structure contour maps on key...

Climatic Conditions and Hydrological Change Recorded in a High-Resolution Stable-Isotope Profile of a Recent Laminated Tufa on a Subtropical Island, Southern Japan

Akihiro Kano, Risa Hagiwara, Tatsuya Kawai, Masako Hori, Jun Matsuoka

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... profile provides data on the annual deposition rate, which clearly increased from 1996 to 1998, when the groundwater table was raised by the construction...

Fabric Analysis of Folded Sedimentary Rocks

George W. Viele

Kansas Geological Society

... limitations of scale. For example, if a single large fault cuts an area, it obviously divides the area into two fabric domains, and the extension...

Recognition of Faults, Unconformities, and Sequence Boundaries Using Cumulative Dip Plots

Neil F. Hurley

AAPG Bulletin

... identical structural dip above and below one fault. Also, faults and unconformities are not the only reasons for changes in bedding-plane orientation...

Mainstream Mantle Convection: A Geologic Analysis of Plate Motion

T. H. Nelson , P. G. Temple

AAPG Bulletin

... velocity gradient, we have drawn a profile of the mainstream component of the mantle flow system (Fig. 6A) used in construction of the Tropic of Capricorn...

3D Structural Modeling of the Moran Oilfield, Papua New Guinea

J. T. Keetley, K. C. Hill, K. J. Kveton

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... the basis of the Moran 3D model showing the obvious fault correlations. 312 3D Structural Modeling of the Moran Oilfield, Papua New Guinea Construction...

Rift Systems: Structural and Stratigraphic Framework of the Jeanne D'arc Basin, Grand Banks

H. J. Welsink and A. J. Tankard

AAPG Special Volumes

... ranging from tens of meters to over 2 km (Figures 7 and 8; Profile B, 4 versus 10). Progressive rotation of fault blocks induced onlap onto structural...

Identification of Wrench Faults Using Subsurface Structural Data: Criteria and Pitfalls: Reply (1)

T. P. HARDING

AAPG Bulletin

... the cross section examples, (4) serial cross sections to accompany the map figures, (5) fault-plane cross sections along the faults, and (6) in general...

Direct estimation of fault trajectory from structural relief

Nathan W. Eichelberger, Alan G. Nunns, Richard H. Groshong Jr., and Amanda N. Hughes

AAPG Bulletin

... for. In this paper, regional dip is restored prior to applying the fault-trajectory method by rotating the structural profile being analyzed. Determining Fault...

The Three Elements of Structural Geology, #41849 (2017).

Terry Engelder

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... principal stress. In many geological applications the plane of interest is a fault plane. Now we can solve these two equations for sn and t Using...

Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of New Brunswick, Canada

William Carruthers Gussow

AAPG Bulletin

... and the fault planes dip northwest; on the fourth, overthrusting is from the southeast against the Caledonia Mountain buttress and the fault plane dips...

Stratigraphic and Structural Interpretations Using Diffraction Seismograms

Richard K. Snavely , A.K.M. Sarwar

GCAGS Transactions

... modeling. Forward modeling involves construction of a geologic cross-section, in the plane of a seismic section, in adequate detail to reproduce...

Abstract: Elastic Models of Deformation in Nature: Why Shouldn’t We Use The Present Day Fault Geometry; #90063 (2007)

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ABSTRACT: Automated Fault Plane and Polygon Generation in a Large, Mixed 2D and 3D Seismic Data Set; #90051 (2006)

Michael G. Kumpas, Srinivasa Rao Narhari, Hanan Al-Owihan, Andrew Corley

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...ABSTRACT: Automated Fault Plane and Polygon Generation in a Large, Mixed 2D and 3D Seismic Data Set; #90051 (2006) Michael G. Kumpas, Srinivasa Rao...