Sediment Distribution and Architecture Around a Bathymetrically Complex Basin: An Example from the Eastern Champsaur Basin, Se France

Jamie S. Vinnels, Robert W.H. Butler, William D. McCaffrey, W. Henry Lickorish

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... processes at the fringes of turbidite basins, in defining the genesis of stratigraphic trap geometries in confined deep-water settings, and in better...

Interaction of OligoceneMiocene Deep-water Depositional Systems with Actively Evolving Structures: The Lower Congo Basin, Offshore Angola

Arlene V. Anderson, Donald K. Sickafoose, Tim R. Fahrer, Richard R. Gottschalk

AAPG Special Volumes

... important to focusing exploration efforts. A combination structural-stratigraphic trap is an important trap style in the deep water. Channel systems...

Chapter 17: Depositional History and Petroleum Habitat of Qatar

F. S. P. van Buchem, N. Svendsen, E. Hoch, R. Pedersen-Tatalovic, K. Habib

AAPG Special Volumes

..., 1987; Sadiq and Nasir, 2002). Figure 2. a) Structural element map of Qatar and surrounding area comprising the fault-bounded Qatar High, the Pre...

Joint and Fracture Patterns in Basement and Sedimentary Rocks in the Sudetes Mountains

Tomasz Jerzykiewicz, Michal Mierzejewski, Andrzej Zelazniewicz

Utah Geological Association

..., fracture and fault patterns is discussed. The Sudetes form the northeastern part of the Bohemian Massif. Their geological structure is very complex...

Subsurface Geology of Wheatland Area Cleveland, McClain, Grady, Canadian, and Oklahoma Counties, Oklahoma

Mir Ahmeduddin

Oklahoma City Geological Society

...) the McClain County Fault Zone, and (4) the Nemaha Ridge (see figure 2). The Central Oklahoma Platform, lying between the Nemaha Ridge and the Ozark Uplift...

Upper Triassic-Jurassic Foreland Sequences of the Ordos Basin in China

Li Sitian, Yang Shigong, Tom Jerzykiewicz

Special Publications of SEPM

... which developed under a generally unidirectional west east compressional regime the Ordos foreland basin was developed under the influence...

The arrival of the paleo–Orinoco Delta at Trinidad: The Cruse Formation delta lobes and delivery to deepwater Atlantic

Ariana Osman, Ronald J. Steel, Ryan Ramsook, Cornel Olariu, Si Chen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... created by Orinoco sediment discharge tended to overprint the compressional tectonic regime and resulted in growth-fault development (Wood 2000; Sydow et al...

Mineralogical, Geochemical (REE), and Isotopic (K-Ar, Rb-Sr, d18O) Evolution of the Clay Minerals from Faulted, Carbonate-rich, Passive Paleomargin of Southeastern Massif Central, France

Norbert Clauer , Francis Weber , Francois Gauthier-Lafaye , Theofilos Toulkeridis , , Jean-Pierre Sizun

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The fault system described at the lower part of the sedimentary sequence was active at 190 ± 20 Ma during a rifting tectono-thermal activity...

Geometry and Mechanisms of Folding Related to Growth Faulting in Nordheim Field Area (Wilcox), De Witt County, Texas

Lee T. Billingsley

GCAGS Transactions

... is recognized where intervals thicken off a fold crest in all direction, and not just in the direction of the growth fault. For example the deepest...

Chapter 9: The Zafarani and Tangawizi Giant Gas Discoveries: Two Very Different Play Openers Offshore Tanzania

Clemens Pirker, Nadya Badmaeva

AAPG Special Volumes

... strike-slip movement associated with this fault has been measured and interpreted to have been initiated in the Early Cretaceous (Figure 9). The trap...

Field Conference: Neogene Detachment and Strike-Slip Faulting in the Salton Trough Region and Their Geometric and Genetic Interrelationships; Orocopia Mountains Detachment System: Progressive Development of a Tilted Crustal Slab and Half-Graben Sedimentary Basin During Regional Extension; Low-Angle Normal Faulting Along Southern Coastal California as Displayed by the Hanging-Wall Rollover Geometry of the San Onofre Breccia

Eric G. Frost, Mitra J. Fattahipour, Kevin L. Robinson

Pacific Section SEPM

... somewhat diffuse array of faults generally termed the San Andreas fault system (Fig. 1). The North American plate, which extends from the Salton Trough...

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

Charles E. Chapin, Steven M. Cather

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

..., basins, drainage nets, and climate. Types of uplifts were: 1- Cordilleran thrust-belt uplifts, 2- basement-cored, fault-bounded uplifts of the Rocky...

Talco Oil Field, Franklin and Titus Counties, Texas

E. A. Wendlandt, T. H. Shelby, Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... basin on a fault structure which comprises a part of the Mexia-Powell-Talco fault zone. Most of the oil produced from earlier discoveries along this fault...

Upper Oligocene lacustrine source rocks and petroleum systems of the northern Qaidam basin, northwest China

Andrew D. Hanson, Bradley D. Ritts, David Zinniker, J. Michael Moldowan, Ulderico Biffi

AAPG Bulletin

... Earth Science Series, v. 10, p. 603-612. CSBS (Chinese State Bureau of Seismology), 1992, The Altyn Tagh active fault system: Beijing, Seismology...

Burial dolomitization and dissolution of Upper Jurassic Abenaki platform carbonates, Deep Panuke reservoir, Nova Scotia, Canada

Rick Wierzbicki, Jeffrey J. Dravis, Ihsan Al-Aasm, Nancy Harland

AAPG Bulletin

... shown; note the distribu tion of dolomite and vuggy limestone. Gas is trapped in a combined structural-stratigraphic trap in the platform-margin edge...

Petroleum secondary migration and accumulation in the central Junggar Basin, northwest China: Insights from basin modeling

Qilin Xiao, Sheng He, Zhi Yang, Zhiliang He, Wang Furong, Shuifu Li, Daqing Tang

AAPG Bulletin

.... Li, and Y. M. Wang, 2006, Control of fault activity on hydrocarbon accumulation in the central Junggar Basin (in Chinese with English abstract): Acta...

AAPG International Conference & Exhibition, - Abstracts, #90166 (2013).

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Structure and Tectonics of the Central New Hebrides Arc

H. Gary Greene, Alexander Macfarlane, David P. Johnson, Anthony J. Crawford

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... compressional) regime along the region now occupied by the Western Belt islands of the Torres group, Espiritu Santo, and Malakula. Here, normal faults...

Formation Conditions of Three Oil Fields in the Jizhong Depression, China

Wu Huayuan, Liang Digang

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... oil fields and 19 oil-bearing fault blocks have been discovered; all are within the depres­ sion belt east of the central uplift. Three oil fields...

Renqiu Field

M. K. Horn

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Fractured) RESERVOIR ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION: Platform RESERVOIR AGE: Precambrian to Ordovician PETROLEUM TYPE: Oil and Gas TRAP TYPE: Tilted Fault Block...

Maui Field

W. O. Abbott

AAPG Special Volumes

... on three sides, but only the Cape Egmont fault zone contributes significantly to the trapping mechanism. The trap type can be considered a faulted anticline...

Processing and Interpretation of 2-D Seismic Data from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

David J. Taylor

Wyoming Geological Association

... and 8 are examples of the thrust faulted basin edge interpreted from CDP seismic lines "B" and "E", respectively. The fault shown is the Oregon Basin...

Ridge Basin, California

J. Edmund Eaton

AAPG Bulletin

... highway. The southwest edge of the succession is everywhere angular conglomerate deposited along the San Gabriel fault scarp. The conglomerate grades...

Hydrocarbon Potential of the North West Cape Area Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

A. Crostella

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... was specifically drilled to test a fault trap (Fig. 13), several wells penetrated the pre-breakup sequence in order to test its hydrocarbon potential...

Endicott Field--U.S.A. North Slope Basin, Alaska

J. L. Wicks, M. L. Bukingham, J. H. Dupree

AAPG Special Volumes

...: Sandstone RESERVOIR ENVIRONMENT OF DEPOSITION: Fluvial RESERVOIR AGE: Mississippian PETROLEUM TYPE: Oil TRAP TYPE: Truncated and Faulted Anticlinal Nose...