CHAPTER 2: THE CONTINENTAL SHELF OFF SOUTH TEXAS

Henry L. Berryhill, Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

...', and E-E' (Figures 2-7, 2-8, and 2-9), shelf-edge failure was confined to a single fault plane. Downthrow may have been as much as 100 m (328 ft...

Development of Synthetic Layer Dip Adjacent to Normal Faults

David A. Ferrill, Alan P. Morris, Darrell W. Sims, Deborah J. Waiting, Shutaro Hasegawa

AAPG Special Volumes

... but form a monoclinal fold over the fault and exhibit layer-parallel extension and interbed uplimb shear and bedding plane slip to accommodate...

Displacement Geometry in the Volume Containing a Single Normal Fault

Jim A. M. Barnett , John Mortimer , John H. Rippon , John J. Walsh , Juan Watterson

AAPG Bulletin

... are plotted on a projection of the fault surface before contouring. The projection can be onto a vertical plane parallel to the mean fault strike...

Role of Concurrent Deposition and Deformation of Sediments in Development of Salt-Dome Graben Structures

John B. Currie

AAPG Bulletin

... these are approached by complementary faults. Since the amount of throw at various points along a fault profile in section should be dependent primarily...

Integration of Geophysical Description Technique and Application to a Volcanic Reservoir - A Case from Permian Fengcheng Formation in Xia-72 Well Area, Northwest Margin, Junggar Basin, by Yongbo Chen, Jianguo Pan, Duonian Xu, #10307 (2011)

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Development characteristics of transtensional fractures: A case study from Linnan Depression, East China

Dawei Dong, Xingpeng Chen, Qianhao Sun

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Development characteristics of transtensional faults (c) Figure 5: Fracture plane and profile of tectonic adjustment zone in region B. (a) Plane. (b...

Chapter 8: Insight on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Subsurface Interpretation

Ronald N. McGinnis, David A. Ferrill, Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart

AAPG Special Volumes

..., New applications of computer-based section construction: Strain-analysis, local balancing, and subsurface fault prediction: The Mountain Geologist, v...

Recent Work on the Hydrocarbon Potential of the Plateau Fault, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories

Karen M. Fallas

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... in the hangingwall and the fault plane. It should also show some variability in the map units preserved in the immediate hangingwall, as a function...

Recent Work on the Hydrocarbon Potential of the Plateau Fault, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories

Karen M. Fallas

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... in the hangingwall and the fault plane. It should also show some variability in the map units preserved in the immediate hangingwall, as a function...

Structure of Turner Valley Gas and Oil Field, Alberta

Theodore A. Link , P. D. Moore

AAPG Bulletin

... and advancing eastward during the same orogenic movement. The data clearly indicate a thrust sheet of great displaceme t which has glided over a fault plane...

Earthquake Hazards and Tectonic History of the San Andreas Fault Zone, Los Angeles County, California

Allan G. Barrows, James E. Kahle, David J. Beeby

Pacific Section of AAPG

... slip before the present San Andreas fault formed. When each one of the ancestral traces was bypassed, it remained a plane of discontinuity along...

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

...). 2. Cross-section construction. To investigate the spatial distribution of throw along the fault zone and the anticline geometry in the hanging wall...

Overthrust Zones as New Oil-Gas Exploration Targets in South Sakhalin

P. F. Volgin, V. A. Parovyshnyy, V. M. Radyush

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... displacement is of the same order. In the Paromay sector of the fault, seismic profile 24, which crosses the Goromay structure, shows that the upper...

Geometry and Origin of Fault-Related Folds in Extensional Settings

Roy W. Schlische

AAPG Bulletin

... contour (tip-line loop) of the fault plane has an elliptical geometry (Figure 1b), with the short axis of the ellipse parallel to the slip direction...

Analysis of Some Torsion-Balance Results in California

Robert H. Miller

AAPG Bulletin

... the surface. Figure 1 represents a cross section of an oil field in the Los Angeles basin. AA^prime is the observed gradient profile curve. The maximum...

Akaso Field, Nigeria: Use of Integrated 3-D Seismic, Fault Slicing, Clay Smearing, and RFT Pressure Data on Fault Trapping and Dynamic Leakage

B. I. Jev , C. H. Kaars-Sijpesteijn , M. P. A. M. Peters , N. L. Watts , J. T. Wilkie

AAPG Bulletin

...] Combined schematic cross section and pressure profile of the Akaso G reservoirs of the Akaso A block. The fault plane additionally corresponds...

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

A. M. Sarna-Wojcicki, R. F. Yerkes

Pacific Section SEPM

... that these features are due to monoclinal warping of a relatively thin layer of late Pleistocene alluvium over a discrete fault plane or fault zone at depth...

Modeling Tectonic Structures by Synthetic Seismic Construction: Comparison with Local Fold and Thrust Front Development in the Permian Basin Province

Richard J. Erdlac, Jr., Douglas B. Swift

West Texas Geological Society

...Modeling Tectonic Structures by Synthetic Seismic Construction: Comparison with Local Fold and Thrust Front Development in the Permian Basin Province...

Geomechanical Modeling of Stimulation-Induced Stress Change for Casing Deformation Analysis

Roberto Wagner Alvarado, Scott Wilkins, Stephanie Cook, Robert Holman, Robin Pearson, Abbey Hale, Grant Loxton, Jonathan Woolley, Jennifer Roberts, Wei Zheng, Vincenzo De Gennaro, Doug Jordan

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... deformation may result from fault reactivation and bedding-plane slip induced by elevated horizontal stresses near hydraulic fractures. These findings...

Fault Plane Geomorphology and Structural Analysis of a Middle Eastern Giant Carbonate Oil Field

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Interpretations of Foothills Structures, Alberta, Canada: Structure

Theodore A. Link

AAPG Special Volumes

... as a bedding-plane fault on bed C. Note also the upward bend of the top overthrust fault and the thickening of beds near the crest of the faulted anti...

Production-induced fault compartmentalization at Elk Hills field, California

Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart, David A. Ferrill, Nathaniel E. Reish, Peter F. Cowell

AAPG Bulletin

... by the fault zone and not by its clay content.Figure 1. Mohr circle construction showing hypothetical failure envelope for intact rock and the reactivation...

New Techniques Improve Reservoir Description While Reducing Risk

Drew Wharton

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., the easier oil can flow across the fault plane. Well pressure data Accurate fault interpretation is encumbered by the fact that the data necessary...

4.2 Wrench Fault Tectonics: Wrench Fault, Southeast Asia

P. D'Onfro and P. Glagola

AAPG Special Volumes

... sections A-A' and B-B' illustrate five criteria for identifying a wrench fault on a single seismic profile. The criteria are: (1) presence of "flower...

Interpretations of Foothills Structures, Alberta, Canada

Theodore A. Link

AAPG Bulletin

... as a bedding-plane fault on bed C. Note also the upward bend of the top overthrust fault and the thickening of beds near the crest of the faulted anticl...