Intracontinental Rifting and Inversion: Missour Basin and Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Weldon Beauchamp , Muawia Barazangi , Ahmed Demnati , Mohamed El Alji

AAPG Bulletin

... are steeply dipping high-angle faults. Fault plane lineaments indicate a reverse sense of motion on the reactivated synthetic fault (up to the northwest...

Variations in Fault Planes in South Texas

Richard H. Sams

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... in predictable directions. According to this law, a normal gravity fault plane (either up-to-the-coast or down-to-the-coast) should be formed...

The Permain & Carboniferous extensional history of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: Insights from the 3D seismic interpretation &fs structural restorations

Amy I'Anson

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... a complex geometry. It was initiated in the Carboniferous or Devonian but was underfilled. The observed present day fault plane, where footwall...

Tectonics of the Pre-Devonian Formations of the Birsk Saddle

Yu. B. Fain, Yu. N. Kukharenko

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of faults in the pre-Devonian formations. On the geologic map and profile (Figs. 1 and 2), it is clear that the structural-tectonic plan of the lower...

Section Two: Exploration Drilling Phase

New Orleans Geological Society

... be evaluated separately as a geologic unit with specific characteristics. Diapir profile helps determine the number of tests needed for each major fault block...

Structural Analysis of Delta Farms Field, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

A. L. Morgan

AAPG Bulletin

... effect on sedimentary processes throughout the Miocene neritic interval. This section thickens (with the development of reverse dip into the fault plane...

Procedure for Recognizing Tectonic Faults

K. A. Mashkovich

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

....” During prospecting drilling the most reliable criteria for recognition of a tectonic fault in the sedimentary section is the intersection of the fault...

Curvature of Low-Angle Faults at Las Mercedes, Venezuela: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

M. Kamen-Kaye

AAPG Bulletin

... angle. Compilation showed that the typical Las Mercedes fault varied in angle almost constantly with depth. The typical fault plane could therefore...

Stochastic surface-based modeling of turbidite lobes

Michael J. Pyrcz, Octavian Catuneanu, Clayton V. Deutsch

AAPG Bulletin

... in reservoir response through the construction of multiple realizations of lithofacies, porosity, and permeability. Stochastic models are commonly cell based...

Regional Tectonics and Structural Evolution of the Monterey Bay Region, Central California

H. Gary Greene

Pacific Section of AAPG

..., D.S., and Greene, H.G. (in press), Earthquake epicenters and selected fault plane solutions of the central California continental margin, in Greene...

Methods Used in Computing Secondary Equities, Wilmington Field, Los Angeles County, California

Dennis R. Allen

AAPG Bulletin

... saturation and a line representing clean oil production were placed on the contour maps and on the fault trac base maps. In this type of construction...

Upscaling Fault Flow Properties for Evaluation of Cross-Fault Flow, #41390 (2014)

Alton A. Brown, Russell K. Davies

Search and Discovery.com

... with a few large sandstone lenses. Lenses have long axes parallel to the fault plane (Figure 9). Clay smear thins near the thicker lenses and near the base...

Geologic Aspects of the Strawberry Aqueduct and Associated Features — Central Utah Project

Lloyd Calder

Utah Geological Association

..., talus, and stream gravels are thin and will be of little consequence during construction. Considering the large reservoir capacity, narrow profile...

Holocene Shoreline Change and Sediment Supply in Mugu Lagoon/Barrier System, California

James L. Sadd, Ronald Karpilo

Pacific Section SEPM

... primarily with construction of military harbor facilities at Port Hueneme located updrift of Mugu, and is apparent locally within the Point Mugu NAS study...

Geology-geophysics-data mining solution enhances the identification of deep fault-karst carbonate reservoirs

Fei Tian, Jiangyun Zhang, Wenxiu Zhang, Wenhao Zheng, Wang Zhang, Zhongxing Wang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... engraving technology was used to clarify the profile structure style and plane combination characteristics of the fault-karst reservoirs...

Geologic Interpretation of Seismic Profiles, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, Part 1: East Flank

Donald S. Stone

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... the ductile sedimentary layers. A 30” thrust fault plane w s precut in the clay block, and the fault plane and basal detachment surface of the a hanging...

Automated fault surfaces extraction from 3D fault imaging volume

Nam Nguyen, Alejandro Jaramillo

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... fault sample by applying a plane fit approximation to a group of nearby fault samples from the neighbor traces. In Figure 3, the vertical thickness...

Quantification of static connectivity between deep-water channels and stratigraphically adjacent architectural elements using outcrop analogs

Jonathan E. Funk, Roger M. Slatt, David R. Pyles

AAPG Bulletin

... of architectural elements, (2) stacking pattern of channel elements, (3) setting on the slope-to-basin profile, and (4) net sand content. Results are as follows...

Overthrust Tectonics of the Volga-Ural Region and Formation of Petroleum Deposits

M. A. Kamaletdinov, T. T. Kazantseva, Yu. V. Kazantsev, D. V. Postnikov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... figure 6. Horizontal displacement of the rocks of the basement is 3-4 km, and the fault plane dips at an angle of 10-15°. Displacement on the thrust...

High Information Content of Magnetic Exploration in the Study of Salt-Dome Areas of the Peri-Caspian Depression

I. N. Shcherbakova, B. M. Pchelintsev, Yu. S. Sakhnovskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... depression across the Sartsay, Chingiz, Zhekendysay, Kubasay, Dzhundusay, Yegizkara, Kemershi, Tamdykul, Talkuduk, Mukur, and other domes. Fig. 1 is a profile...

New Data on the Paleozoic Stage of Aryskum Downwarp of South Torgay Depression

G. Yu. Kobzarev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... is bounded on the south by the plane of an overthrust fault, on which the top of the basement has been displaced upward to the 0.7-0.5 sec level...

Fracture Zones between Overlapping En Echelon Fault Strands: Outcrop Analogs within the Balcones Fault Zone, Central Texas

Edward W. Collins

GCAGS Transactions

.... Striations on the master faults indicate that slip was parallel to the fault plane dip, at S25-30°E (Fig. 5). Strata adjacent to the master faults...

"Fault Structures in the Foothills and Eastern Rocky Mountains of Southern Alberta

George S. Hume

CSPG Bulletin

... in the more competent beds on the footwall side of the fault. Between the two folds thus produced, the structure along the near-bedding-plane part became...

Application of Results of an Aeromagnetic Survey to Study of Deep Crustal Structure of the Peri-Caspian Depression

N. S. Yefimkin, Ye. G. Lapina, S. V. Lapin, K. Ye. Fomenko, A. A. Shushpanov, V. S. Shcherbinin

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... profile. The ΔTa graph is shown in Fig. 1. Figure 1. Graph of ΔTa and Δg in comparison with geological-geophysical sections based on aeromagnetic...

Abstract: Spatial and Temporal Fault Analysis and Prospect Quality Evaluation Using Automated Interpretation and Solid Modeling Techniques

Laura Evins, Antony J. Marsh, Julio Gomez, Gladys Gonzalez, John Tyrrell, Franco Spano

GCAGS Transactions

... formation and hydrocarbon migration. Evaluation of fault processes are aided by using fault plane geometric attributes such as dip, azimuth, and Gaussian...