Structural Geology of the Casper Mountain Area

William A. Sears, Frank C. Sims

Wyoming Geological Association

... by tension in an area where movement along fault planes was predominantly vertical...

New Method for Seismic Identification of Fluid Conduits or Barriers Challenges Several Industry Paradigms; #120083 (2013)

Ralf Oppermann

Search and Discovery.com

... with drilling problems (e.g. gas kicks, fluid losses, borehole instability), as well as production issues (water production along fault planes...

GEOLOGY OF A PORTION OF THE GASTON STEAM PLANT

Clayton E. Gore, James W. Whitfield

Alabama Geological Society

... as well as some normal faults are present. Almost without exception, fault planes dip southwest. The geologic map of the Unit 5 foundation is shown...

Stress State Derived from Microseismicity Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing: Downhole and Surface Monitoring

Zuzana Jechumtálová, František Stanĕk, Leo Eisner, G.Randy Keller

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... consistent with the locations of events, and the strikes of the nearly vertical fault planes agree with the strikes of the location trends. We showed...

Advanced Reservoir Modeling in Poor Seismic; October Field, Northern Gulf of Suez, Egypt, #40872 (2012)

William J. Sercombe, Leon Thurmon, James Morse

Search and Discovery.com

... planes were triangulated in SeisWorks and later gridded for the 3D Earthvision model. The green-colored fault traces on this view are where...

Some Principles of Tectonics in the Permian Basin

John E. Galley

North Texas Geological Society

... from the vertical in boreholes, angles of dip of fault planes, depths, and well spacings lead to the writer’s conclusion that in most cases vertical...

Diffraction and Refraction on Reflection Seismograph Records as Aids to Fault Interpretation

Miller Quarles, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... is not recognized and properly evaluated. When we realize that all combinations of reflections and refractions from bedding planes and fault faces can...

The Gridded Fault Surface: Chapter 11

Don Clarke

AAPG Special Volumes

...The Gridded Fault Surface: Chapter 11 Don Clarke 1992 141 160 CA 1: Computer Modeling of Geologic Surfaces and Volumes Faulted structural surfaces...

Salt Dome Growth, Thrust Fault Growth, and Syndeformational Stratigraphy, La Popa Basin, Northern Mexico.

Robert C. Laudon

GCAGS Transactions

... for the fault. The fault has disappeared completely into the bedding planes. To the southeast, evidence for the fault is less clear as it disappears...

Seismic Profiles of the Western Laramie Basin - Wyoming

Ronald W. Pritchett

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... the middle of the profile reverse fault displacement, beginning in the basement, decreases upward and the fault planes may pass into bedding planes...

Modeling Complex Reservoir Geometries Accurately: Using the Right 3Dgrid Types

Christian Höcker, Jonathan Zwaan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... generation grids such as JewelSuite’s faulted s-grid have become available. In such grids cells can be split exactly at fault planes, creating a zone...

Late Paleozoic Structural Directions in Southern Permian Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

John M. Hills

West Texas Geological Society

... on the previously formed fault planes. This movement deepened preexisting basins; reefs and other sedimentary features formed around the peripheries...

Terminology for structural discontinuities

Richard A. Schultz, Haakon Fossen

AAPG Bulletin

..., a fault zone is a set of subparallel slip planes. A slightly different usage of this term has been introduced by Childs et al. (1997), who pointed out...

3D Interpretation, Structural Characterization, and Seismogenic Association of Faults in the Eagle Ford Region, South-Central Texas

C. McKeighan, P. Hennings, E. Horne, K. Smye

GCAGS Transactions

... tensors and well located earthquakes provide insights into earthquakes that are linearly distributed along fault planes and enable identification of active...

Using outcrop geology to constrain uncertainties in three-dimensional structural models of sub-seismic scale fault networks?

J.L. Long, R.H. Wightman, J. Imber, R.R. Jones, K.J.W. McCaffrey, R.E. Holdsworth, N.S. Holliman, N. De Paola

Search and Discovery.com

... for producing 3D fault or fracture surfaces from laser scan datasets – Creating planes from traces • Sub-seismic scale post-depositional normal faults...

Implications of Long-Term Reactivation of Faults Normal to Rift Axis for Coarse-grained Clastic Systems and Structural Segmentation in the Niigata Basin, Japan; #30259 (2012)

H. Kurita, T. Toyoshimai, and Y. Ishikawa

Search and Discovery.com

....  mostly fault gouges and breccias, occasionally with cataclasites along the same fault planes. RESULTS –Fault rock analysis Outcrops of fault...

Incorporation of deformation band fault damage zones in reservoir models

Dongfang Qu, and Jan Tveranger

AAPG Bulletin

... by extending 3-D grids around mapped fault planes. The procedure uses an algorithm implemented in the fault modeling software Havana. Fault zone grids...

Enhancing Production in High Angle and Horizontal Wells Through An Integrated Workflow: Examples from The Western United States

Iain Pirie, Randy Koepsell, Alisher Yunuskhojayev, Mi Zhou, Brian Dupuis, Gabriela A. Martinez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... profile reasons? • Production does not appear to correlate with fault planes. As opposed to production, are natural fracture/fault planes more...

Apparent Reverse Movement of Previous Thrust Faults Along the Eastern Margin of the Basin and Range Province, North-Central Utah

Douglas A. Sprinkel

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., 1977), and are also concave upward. Proffett (1977) attributes the shape of the fault planes to flattening with depth. In north-central Utah...

Integrated Seismic Attributes Analysis of Naturally Fractured Basement Reservoir: An Approach to Define Sweet Spot for Optimum Well Location and Trajectory

Fithra Harris Darmawan, Trisakti Kurniawan, Azli B Abu Bakar, Tan Han Kee, Nur Hafizah Bt Mangsor-Mansor, Wahyudin B. Nasifi, Randy Condronegoro, Andri Syafriya, Lee Chung Shen, Joe Dominguez

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... attribute which allows auto extraction of fault planes within the entire 3D seismic. Well markers interpreted from FMI logs justify...

Laramide Deformation of the Uncompahgre Plateau - Geometry and Mechanisms

O.G. Heyman, P.W. Huntoon, M.A. White-Heyman

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... surfaces are indicative of the geometry of the fault planes at depth. Rigid-body rotation and translation occurred between basement blocks by movement...

Late Paleozoic Structural Directions in Southern Permian Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

John M. Hills

AAPG Bulletin

... fault movement on the previously formed fault planes. This movement deepened preexisting basins; reefs and other sedimentary features formed around...

Revisions to the Interpretation of Structural Style in the Muddy Mountain Region, Nevada

Vernon James (Jay) Temple Jr.

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... fault. area. The southeasterly change in bedding plane strikes is most apparent where the bedding planes are overturned. East of the Summit thrust...

Advances in Seismic Fault Interpretation Automation, by Randolph Pepper and Gaston Bejarano, #40170 (2005).

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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

... of a fault system, principal directions of bulk extension and shortening rotate relative to individual fault planes and to local bedding. In Figure 1b...