The Growth History of Toe Thrusts of the Niger Delta and the Role of Pore Pressure

Scot W. Krueger, Neil T. Grant

AAPG Special Volumes

... faults are generally imaged as steep planar surfaces in seismic sections (Figure 5) occasionally marked by a prominent fault-plane reflection...

Geotechnical Conditions Affecting Infrastructural Development of Oil and Gas Fields in Papua New Guinea

R. C. M. Goldsmith, S. Elliott

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

... in June 1992 included the construction of the Kutubu Access Road from Poroma to Moro on Lake Kutubu (Fig. 1). That road, 114km in length...

Geologic Hazards in the Uinta Mountains Area, Utah

John C. Osmond

Utah Geological Association

... recognition and location of geologically hazardous areas and consideration of these conditions in planning for development and construction by governmental...

Tinsley Field, Yazoo County, Mississippi*

Maurice N. Birdwell and Kevin B. Hill

GCAGS Transactions

... to these data points. An error of 25 ft. (+) was observed from the calculations. Fault plane maps were also generated from the 3-D data set. The fault plane...

Kate Spring Field Discovery, Nevada Basin and Range

Donna M.H. Flanigan

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... ofengineeringproblem and collapsing oil prices. The No. I Kate Spnng was drilled on a seismicallyand geomorphically deftned fault block upthrouwn from...

Abstract: Two Alternative Seismic Fault Interpretation Techniques—Part One

Mike Cline

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... plane map. This can then be used to accurately determine the intersection of the horizon and fault surfaces, which by definition is the fault polygon...

Classification of Faults, and Thrust Fault on Barranquilla-Cartagena Highway, Colombia: DISCUSSION

Mason L. Hill

AAPG Bulletin

... is said to pass downward into a "bedding plane shear" but in Clark's classification this term is synonymous with "horizontal fault"(FOOTNOTE 10) and only...

Growth Faults and Petroleum Traps: Unit 12: Principles

Martin P. A. Jackson, William E. Galloway

AAPG Special Volumes

... is larger than 150 m (500 ft) (fig. 5). Smearing of sand and shale into the fault plane gouge by intense simple shear creates strong anisotropy...

The Canmore Coal Basin

M. B. B. Crockford

CSPG Special Publications

... Mountain quartzite, Triassic, and Fernie shales that have been dragged up along the fault and are present along the fault plane. The west limb...

4-D evolution of rift systems: Insights from scaled physical models

K. R. McClay, T. Dooley, P. Whitehouse, M. Mills

AAPG Bulletin

... displacement transfer between the northern subbasin (Redford Bolson) and the southern subbasin (Big Bend National Park area) (Henry, 1998). Fault-plane...

Chacachare Field Trip Guide

Curtis Archie

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

... Field Guides of the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago Close up of the fault, showing calcite along the fault plane and abundant calcite near...

Neo-Tectonic Framework of Southeast Louisiana and Applications to Coastal Restoration

Sherwood M. Gagliano, E. Burton Kemp III, Karen M. Wicker, Kathleen S. Wiltenmuth, Robert W. Sabate

GCAGS Transactions

... slopes toward the fault plane as a result of rotation during fault movement. The location of this north-south section is shown as x-x' in Figures 5 and 6...

Resume of the Oklahoma City Field; A Study of Minor Folds, Ultimate Production and Production Problems

Lon B. Turk

Tulsa Geological Society

... the axial plane of the major fold has not been warped enough to produce west dip of the plane in any part, the fault along its northeastward side has been...

Alluvial fan and piedmont sedimentation in the Tynemouth Creek Formation (Lower Pennsylvanian) of Southern New Brunswick

A. G. Plint, H. W. van de Poll

Atlantic Geology

... faults, most of which have a NW-SE orientation. Most faults are nor­ mal and the fault plane usually dips at a high angle. The throw on most faults...

Geology of Rocky Mountain Front Ranges Near Bow River, Alberta: General Geology

Leslie M. Clark

AAPG Special Volumes

... displacement is measured in miles, there is no appreciable gouge along the fault plane. However, contortions, secondary faults, and drag folds can...

The Coosa deformed belt in the Alabama Appalachians: guidebook for the 12th annual field trip. Road Logs.

William A. Thomas, James A. Drahovzal

Alabama Geological Society

... Floyd Shale. The fault plane dips 40° southeast approximately parallel with bedding. The Little Oak Limestone characterized by dark-colored micrite...

Application of Real-Time Reservoir Navigation and High-Definition Electrical Imaging Services for Enhanced Well Placement and Optimal Completion Design

Mark G. Thomas, Rajdeep Gupta, Shane D. Hammons, Stephen J. Martin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... ft downthrown fault in Fig. 9; both have low displacement with no associated fracturing). URTeC: 1933458 Fig. 8 shows a bedding plane (turquoise...

Gravimetric Evidence for Thrusting and Hydrocarbon Potential of the East Flank of the Front Range, Colorado

David W. Bieber

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... hydrocarbons appear to lie in this area. Elsewhere along the Front Range, dips on the fault plane are interpreted to be more nearly vertical precluding...

A Subsurface Study of the Post-Morrowan Series of the Pennsylvanian System of Township 2 South, Range 3 West, Carter County, Oklahoma

Richard F. Shaw, JR.

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... a conservative attitude was assumed concerning faulting. The only fault evidence accepted was in the case of one or more wells penetrating the fault plane...

Late Miocene to Recent Evolution of Growth Faults in Greater Breton Sound, Louisiana, USA

Search and Discovery.com

Application of seismic spectral blueing based on generalized S-transform in high-quality reservoir prediction in gas cloud area

Pengzhi Zhang, Lei Liu, Zhiheng Jiang, Zhenglong Zhang

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... PR. China 300459) Summary In the gas cloud area, the seismic wave energy is absorbed, resulting in poor quality of seismic data. The seismic profile...

Recent Exploration and Development of Geothermal Energy Resources in the Escalante Desert Region, Southwestern Utah

Robert E. Blackett, Howard P. Ross

Utah Geological Association

... is unknown but it likely results from mineral precipitates or fine-grained material adjacent to the fault plane. Geology of the Newcastle Area...

Submarine Debris Flows and Continental Slope Evolution in Front of Quaternary Ice Sheets, Baffin Bay, Canadian Arctic

R. N. Hiscott, A. E. Aksu

AAPG Bulletin

... this profile. In both views, slide planes exist below the plane that underlies the upper slide mass; these slide planes are defined by cross-cutting surfaces...

Seismic reflection analysis of the deeply buried Neoproterozoic rift basin beneath Sichuan Basin, southern China

Jing Hu, Dong Jia, Guoqi Wei, Wuren Xie, Yiquan Li, Nan Su, Zhuxin Chen, Wei Yang, Zhigang Li, Chuang Sun, and Yong Zhang

AAPG Bulletin

... in the northeastern direction in profile EE′ (Figure 7). Both faults 1 and 2 are defined by clear fault plane reflections in the seismic data (Figure 8B, C; locations...

Relocating a Portion of the South Muskogee Fault, Muskogee and Cherokee Counties, Oklahoma

Mark W. Allen

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... the fault plane. Structural attitudes of these four exposures, located on the hanging wall side of the fault by present maps, show an increase in dip...