Contemporary Seismicity and Tectonics of the Northern and Central Coast Ranges-Sierran Block Boundary Zone, California

Ivan G. Wong, Richard W. Ely, Auriel C. Kollmann

Pacific Section of AAPG

..., although aftershocks also occurred on moderately to steeply dipping reverse faults. Fault plane solutions along the zone exhibited a tectonic stress...

Magnetic and Tectonic Fabric of the North Fiji Basin and Lau Basin

Alexander Malahoff, Loren W. Kroenke, Norman Cherkis, John Brozena

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... fault to that of a spreading center (Figure 4). The postulated regime of alternating transform and spreading activity along orthogonally opposed linea...

Discovery to Development: A Subsurface Case History of the Kitan Oil Field, Timor Sea

D. Wheller, G. Ellis, Y. Suhardiman, R. Yokote, D. Selvaggi, J. Derrij, G. Maniscalco

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... Development Area (JPDA), an area jointly administered by Timor-Leste and Australia. The Kitan structure is a Jurassic E-W trending tilted fault block...

A Discussion of Minor Fields in McMullen County, Texas and Their Production Histories

George R. Pinkley

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... field with accumulation trapped in a fault block upthrown to the southeast. It is only three miles from the San Miguel uplift and a tectonic...

Expected Value and Chance of Success: Part 2. Economics and Risk Assessment

Peter R. Rose

AAPG Special Volumes

..., such as an unexpected structural low, an absence of hydrocarbon charge, or a leaky trap. However, the presence of a 1-ft-thick tight siltstone where a 10-ft...

Rift Shoulder Erosion and Basin Deformation Associated with the Wichita Uplift (Mountain Front): Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma and Texas, U.S.A, #30523 (2017).

Thomas P. Bulling, Robert Marksteiner, Kristian Meisling, Jesse Koch, Kim Koepke

Search and Discovery.com

... the structural history of the Mountain Front deformation and to assess its impacts on trap formation, reservoir characteristics, and hydrocarbon...

Outline of Geology and Mineral Resources of Upper Kuskokwim Region, Alaska

Thomas K. Bundtzen, Wyatt G. Gilbert

Alaska Geological Society

... place. Right-lateral movement (about 60 kilometers) and vertical displacements occurred along the Farewell fault during Cenozoic time; Quaternary...

Shale Gas Development Potentials of the Jurassic Weald and Wessex Basins, South-East England: A Techno-Economic Evaluation

Bassey Okon Bassey, Ekpenyong Anakiri Ana

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... km2 of southern Britain extending from Salisbury westwards to Ashford eastwards, Southampton south-westwards and Portsdown-Middleton Fault southwards...

Frontal Fault Zone of the Wichita Mountains: Identification and Characterization of a Fault-Associated Lateral Sea, Part I

Catherine Lisa Price

Oklahoma City Geological Society

...Frontal Fault Zone of the Wichita Mountains: Identification and Characterization of a Fault-Associated Lateral Sea, Part I Catherine Lisa Price 1998...

Mesozoic Tectonic and Paleogeographic Evolution of the Gulf of Cadiz and Algarve Basins, and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration; #10621 (2014)

Adrià Ramos, Oscar Fernández, Pedro Terrinha, Josep Anton Muñoz, Álvaro Arnaiz

Search and Discovery.com

..., are located along the eastern termination of the Azores-Gibraltar Fault Zone (AGFZ), a diffuse transforming plate boundary between Iberia and Africa...

Structure of the Colorado Plateau Margin Near Cedar City, Utah

Richard L. Threet

Utah Geological Association

... of the significance of the Bear Trap fault (Averitt, 1962), neither of which is unequivocal. The Hurricane fault zone proper need not continue north...

The Lower Mesozoic Continental Margin and Marine Intra-Arc Sedimentation at Mineral King, California

Cathy J. Busby-Spera

Pacific Section SEPM

... the Monarch ash-flow tuff thickens and becomes more proximal in character toward the north, the' fault margin of the trap-door caldera probably lay...

Central Sumatra Prospect Evaluation, Structural and Stratigraphic Fluid Barriers and Hydrodynamic Systems as Indicated by Wireline Formation Pressures

Richard R. Terres, Soejanto

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... the sealing capacity of the trap boundaries. This is of primary importance in that most prospects now being generated by Caltex rely on either fault seals...

Cerro Fortunoso Field: Static-Dynamic Modelling of a Complex Faulted and Thrusted Reservoir (Malargüe Fold and Thrust Belt, Argentina); #20223 (2013)

Griselda Vocaturo, Vanesa Consoli, Abel Garriz, Pablo Giampaoli, Gastón Manestar, Anthony Thompson, and José Luis Massaferro

Search and Discovery.com

... asymetric anticline  Discovery 1984 - Oil production 750m³/d  Thickness ~ 500 m  Strike N15°E  Cumulative production 6.39 Mm3 (primary)  Trap...

Geology of Natural Gas in South Louisiana Lafayette and New Orleans Geological Societies: PART 2

William R. Paine , James P. Spillers , Kenneth M. Waters , Donald I. Andrews , E. M. Baysinger , A. M. Borland , James Cotton , S. T. Cristina Jr. , Justin P. Hall Jr. , B. W. Kimmey , John E. McDougall , A. A. Meyerhoff , Marvin A. Munchrath , David L. Paffett , Francis L. Paspberry , D. N. Rockwood , Edward P. Roederer Jr. , Jack C. Stipe , H. O. Woodbury

AAPG Special Volumes

... in anticlinal traps. In the 8,200-ft Sand (basal Frio), accumulation is partly fault controlled. The trap for the accumulation in the Miller Sand...

Rift Structures and Their Oil-Gas Potential

I. M. Shakhnovskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... in the Paleozoic and then a platform regime was established at the end of the Paleozoic or in the Mesozoic. In line with such a concept the pre-Jurassic of West...

Overpressuring mechanisms in the Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea

Xiaorong Luo, Weiliang Dong, Jihai Yang, Wan Yang

AAPG Bulletin

.... Baleix, 1994, Role of overpressures and in situ stresses in fault-controlled hydrocarbon migration: a case study: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v...

Significant Erosion during Development of the Middle Miocene Unconformity and Its Effect on Hydrocarbon Generation in the Gulf of Thailand; #20084 (2010)

Masahi Fujiwara

Search and Discovery.com

... are relatively short to charge interbedded sandstone reservoirs. Leaky fault traps require active charge to sustain gas accumulations. The second...

Determining Failure Behavior at Hydraulic Fracturing Conditions through Experimental Rock Deformation, #41684 (2015).

Robert Charles Choens, Frederick M. Chester

Search and Discovery.com

... the fracture and maximum compressive stress) increases linearly with mean stress across the transitional regime. We suggest that the empirical failure...

3-D Analog Modeling of Inversion Thrust Structures

Yasuhiro Yamada, Ken McClay

AAPG Special Volumes

... breakaways. Three-dimensional inversion by horizontal contraction produced asymmetric, thrust-fault-bounded, hanging-wall inversion anticlines with curved...

Permeability and flow impact of faults and deformation bands in high-porosity sand reservoirs: Southeast Basin, France, analog

Elodie Saillet, Christopher A. J. Wibberley

AAPG Bulletin

... to decameters)-offset ultracataclastic fault zones. Microstructural analyses of the cataclastic DBs show that fragmentation produces strands of cataclastic...

Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

Tim T. Schowalter

AAPG Bulletin

... be anywhere the source rock is adjacent to a reservoir rock, an open fault plane, or an open fracture. Secondary migration is the movement of hydrocarbons...

Mechanics of Secondary Hydrocarbon Migration and Entrapment

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Neogene Tectonics of the Central Ventura Basin, California

Robert S. Yeats

Pacific Section SEPM

... than onshore. During the last six m.y., the west-trending, fault-bounded Ventura basin received sediments while it underwent strong subsidence...

Orogenesis and Post-Orogenic Collapse: Rocky Mountain Analogs and New Permian Basin Insights; #30643 (2019)

Ryan C. Thompson

Search and Discovery.com

... Ranch to Grisham fault zones, rotating from NWSE to E-W in the SDB, just as seen in the Wind River Basin SHmax orientation, faulting regime: Lund Snee...