Strike-slip fault control on karst in ultra-deep carbonates, Tarim Basin, China

Lianbo Zeng, Jinxiong Shi, Qingyou Ma, Wenya Lyu, Shaoqun Dong, Dongsheng Cao, and Hehua Wei

AAPG Bulletin

...). The second-order strike-slip faults root though the T80 interface and develop up to the T74 interface and generally display a sole fault plane (Figure 5...

Turbidite Channel/Overbank Deposition in a Lower Devonian Orogenic Shale Basin, Fortin Group of Gaspe Peninsula, Northern Appalachians, Canada

Reinhard Hesse, Edward Dalton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in the Fortin Group along the Matapedia Valley are particularly numerous, extensive, and fresh. Many were blasted during road construction in the last 20...

Tectono-Stratigraphic Analysis of a Deep-Water Growth Basin, Ainsa Basin, Northern Spain, #30102 (2009)

Matthew Hoffman, Renaud Bouroullec, Chris Guzofski, David Pyles, Julian Clark, Prianto Setiawan, Jeremiah Moody, Henri Silalahi, and Amy Moss-Russell

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... setting • Overview of Ainsa Basin structures and deepwater basin-fill • 3-D structural model construction methodology • 3-D structural model results...

Some Observations on Deformation, Crustal Shortening, and Uplift in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

H. A. K. Charlesworth

CSPG Bulletin

.... At the initial point of failure along a fault the shearing and normal stresses across the fault-plane, and 6 respectively, are such that      (1) (see Hubbert...

Middle Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoirs, Fahud Field and Northwestern Oman

P. M. Harris , S. H. Frost

AAPG Bulletin

... (Tschopp, 1967) (Figure 6). Aggregate throw is nearly 1,200 m (4,000 ft) along the fault plane that dips 45° southwest. The area within structural closure...

Day One Field Trip: Wyoming Geological Association 2008 Field Conference Laramie, Wyoming, Road Logs 2008

Tom Anderson, Barbara Atkinson, Anton Wroblewski, Wayne Sutherland, Jim Steidtmann

Wyoming Geological Association

... by a south-dipping reverse fault, which appears to pass into a bedding-plane fault at depth (see cross section A-A’). One major aspect of the Oil...

Geologic Hazards of the St. George Area, Washington County, Utah

Gary E. Christenson

Utah Geological Association

... Pine Valley to the north. The only known potentially active fault in the area is the Washington fault in Washington, but earthquakes generated...

Prediction and Timing of Production Induced Fault Seal Breakdown in the South Marsh Island 66 Gas Field

Anthony R. Dincau

GCAGS Transactions

... in ductile sand/shale sequences is to identify areas of sand-on-sand juxtaposition by making fault plane maps (Allan, 1989), and then to estimate...

Fault Interactions in an Experimental Model with Two Phases of Non-Coaxial Extension: Insights From Displacement Profiles; #41873 (2016)

A. A. Henza, M. O. Withjack, R.W. Schlische

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.... The displacement profiles for these second-phase faults generally did not exhibit abrupt changes near the offset first-phase fault. The displacement profile...

Question of the Method of General Geologic Study of Covered Regions with the North and Northwest Pri-Caspian as an Example

Ya. S. Eventov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... - a total of 19 areas. One hundred fifteen profile “krelius” wells were drilled by the VNIGNI along several traverses intersecting Chernaya Zem’lya...

Using Neotectonic Deformation at McKinleyville, California, to Test the Validity of Trishear Modelling to Predict Shear Fracture Orientations; #40978 (2012)

Jonathan Imber, Tom Perry, Richard Jones, and Ruth Wightman

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... instantaneous and finite shortening directions. Two-dimensional trishear models of fault-propagation folding above the initially buried tip of the McKinleyville...

Eocene Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Colorado Plateau - Rocky Mountain Area

Charles E. Chapin, Steven M. Cather

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... planes (70 to 90"), with variation in dip of fault plane along strike from high-anglenormal to high-anglereverse; 2- a wide, anastomosing pattern...

The Wave Equation Applied to Migration

D. Loewenthal, L. Lu, R. Roberson, J. Sherwood

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... section is probably due to out-of-profile returns from the fault plane. Figure 11. Louisiana offshore data. a. 36 fold stack, b. Wave equation migration...

How Diagnostic Fracture Injection Tests (DFITs) Show Horizontal Plane Tensile and Shear Fractures in Various Stress Settings

Alan K. Nicholson, Robert C. Bachman, Robert V. Hawkes

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.../PPD Derivative showing Early Radial Flow Interpreted as Hz Plane Fracture URTeC 2670018 8 Figure 7: Example 2 (Thrust Fault) - Duvernay - Surface...

Fault Seal Analysis in the North Sea

Steven D. Knott

AAPG Bulletin

... during the production life of the field and over a range of pressure differentials. Seal is provided mainly by the fault plane itself due to, for example...

Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Reservoir Architecture of the Eocene Mirador Formation, Cupiagua Field, Llanos Foothills, Colombia

Juan Carlos Ramon, Andres Fajardo

AAPG Special Volumes

... that trends north-northeast in the hanging wall of the frontal fault. Average length and width of the Cupiagua structure are 25 and 3 km (15 and 1.8 mi...

Abstract: Trap Types vs. Productivity of Significant Wilcox (Early Eocene) Gas Fields in the Listric Growth Fault Trend of South Texas and the Divergent Origin of Its Two Largest Producers

Fred L. Stricklin, Jr.

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... sands, upwarped the fault plane and resulted in rollover growth of the Wilcox anticline. The fault does not show the downward decrease in dip...

ABSTRACT: Crust and Upper Mantle Structure in Northeast of Tibet from Rayleigh Wave Tomography

Lun Li

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... of northeastern Tibet, we have analyzed Rayleigh wave data recorded by the Northeast Tibet Seismic (NETS) array and applied the Two-Plane-Wave (TPW...

ABSTRACT: The South Fork Fault Revisited: Implications for Exploration, Bighorn Basin, Park County, Wyoming, by Timothy L. Clarey; #91002 (1990).

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Structure of San Cayetano and Oak Ridge Thrust Faults, East-Central Ventura Basin, California: ABSTRACT

Ibrahim Cemen

AAPG Bulletin

... to form a single fault plane. The SCF shows a 30,000-ft (9,000 m) maximum separation in the Fillmore area where a possible structural downstep...

ABSTRACT: Surface and Subsurface Structural Expression of a Major Saharan Crustal Lineament: the Fadnoun Fault; #90016 (2003)

T. L. Patton, B. Taylor, N. Maache

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... the Phanerozoic. SPOT imagery data and limited fault-plane kinematic data argue for dominantly right-lateral strike-slip motion along its southern exposures...

ABSTRACT: 2D and 3D Discrete Element Stress Modelling in the Otway Basin, Australia; #90017 (2003)

Suzanne Hunt, Peter Boult

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... friction angle parameter, the angle of maximum principal stress to the fault plane and the ratio of maximum to minimum principal stress. The degree...

ABSTRACT: Uncertainty Analysis in Geomechanics Modeling for Fracture Prediction; #90051 (2006)

Haiqing Wu, Mohammed D. Al-Ajmi, Andrew Corley, Nikhil Banik, Neema H. Al-Ajmi

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... local details. The major differences in these interpretations which are common in interpretations in other areas are 1) fault size in horizontal plane, 2...

ABSTRACT Integrating Structural Uncertainty into the Reservoir Simulation Process, #90104 (2010)

Freeman Stephen R.; Harris Simon D.; Campbell Jeremy M.; Wood Kevin

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... plane where no appreciable strain is distributed in the wall  rocks to the fault and that no pre‐existing flexure was present in the vicinity...

Uncertainty Analysis in Geomechanics Modeling for Fracture Prediction

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