Subsurface Structure and Hydrocarbon Occurrence, Heidelberg-Sand Hill Graben System, Southeast Mississippi

J. Keith Bowman , Maurice A. Meylan

GCAGS Transactions

... of the pre-Louann basement (Phillips Fault System). At the mapped horizons, the eastward-dipping growth fault that defines the western edge...

Petroleum resources in the Nanpu sag, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China

Fujie Jiang, Xiongqi Pang, Longlong Li, Qiaochu Wang, Yuexia Dong, Tao Hu, Lijun Chen, Jian Chen, and Yingxun Wang

AAPG Bulletin

... belts are composed of anticlinal traps. The Nanpu sag has various trap types. Fault traps related to structure dominates and contains other trap types...

Do Subsurface Models Accurately Represent the Rock? Insights from Outcrop on the Often Overlooked Importance of Mechanical Stratigraphy; #120146 (2014)

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

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... (including tectonic stress regime, stress state, fluid pressure, and temperature). In our work in a range of tectonic regimes and across scales, we...

Trap Spring Oil Field, Nye County, Nevada

Herbert D. Duey

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

...Trap Spring Oil Field, Nye County, Nevada Herbert D. Duey © 2009 Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists 470 HERBERT D. DUEY Structural...

Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration from Jurassic Source Rocks in the East Shetland Basin and Viking Graben of the Northern North Sea

J. C. Goff

AAPG Special Volumes

... pressure gradients, from overpressured source rocks in half grabens to Jurassic reservoirs in tilted fault blocks. In the Viking Graben the Kimmeridge Clay...

Framework of Recent and Active Faulting in Northern Baja California: Chapter 16: Part III. Regional Geophysical and Geology

Francisco Suarez-Vidal, Rolando Armijo, George Morgan, Paul Bodin, R. Gordon Gastil

AAPG Special Volumes

... San Andreas-Gulf of California fault system, a transtensional tectonic regime oriented northwest (Angelier et al., 1981). Significant Miocene...

Tectonic significance of Late Paleozoic deformation in the Cape George Peninsula, Antigonish Highlands, Nova Scotia

J. A. R. St. Jean, R. D. Nance, J. B. Murphy

Atlantic Geology

... to the Greendale Fault. Development of the regional stress regime required by these fault kinematics is consistent with coeval post-accretionary...

Laramide Uplift of the Gros Ventre Range and Implications for the Origin of the Teton Fault, Wyoming

D. R. Lageson

Wyoming Geological Association

...Laramide Uplift of the Gros Ventre Range and Implications for the Origin of the Teton Fault, Wyoming D. R. Lageson 1987 79 89 The Gros Ventre Range...

Extensional fault–related folding of the North West shelf, Western Australia

Sam McHarg, Chris Elders, and Jane Cunneen

AAPG Bulletin

... morphology. Folds associated with fault movement are also a common structural trap style tested in hydrocarbon exploration (Mitra, 1990; Ehrlich...

Genetic Classification of Petroleum Systems Using Three Factors: Charge, Migration, and Entrapment: Chapter 4: Part I. Introduction

Gerard Demaison, Bradley J. Huizinga

AAPG Special Volumes

... are the most efficient on the whole, a structural trap reliant on a fault for closure carries substantial seal risks (Downey, 1984). Structural-stratigraphic...

Distribution of Hydrocarbons in South Louisiana by Types of Traps and Trends--Frio and Younger Sediments

James P. Spillers FOOTNOTE

GCAGS Transactions

...) fault closures. In this type of trap, faulting is necessary for entrapment. Fault closure is formed where a fault cuts across the regional strike...

Abstract: Multiphase Deformations within the Late Permian Strata of the Raub Gold Mine, Pahang

Mustaffa Kamal Shuib

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... to developed. The fold axes trend NNW with variable plunges ranging from moderate to sub-horizontal. Within a 3 m thick reversed fault zone, these folds...

Abstract: Facies, Textural Characteristics and Depositional Model for the Tertiary Boulder Beds of Batu Arang, Selangor

Abdul Hadi Abd. Rahman, Azlina Habibullah

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... have been deposited by different, temporally separated depositional regimes within a basin governed by fault-related movements. The Red Conglomeratic...

AAPG Memoir 68: Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region. Chapter 6: Cimmerian and Alpine Stratigraphy and Structural Evolution of the Moesian Platform (Romania/Bulgaria)

Gabor Tari, Oprea Dicea, Joe Faulkerson, Georgi Georgiev, Svetlozar Popov, Mihai Stefanescu, and Gary Weir

AAPG Special Volumes

...-Rhaetian times by a compressional regime in the whole Moesian Platform. Although these Late Triassic Cimmerian folds were undoubtedly formed due...

Abstract: Regional Geological Controls of the Methane Hydrate Occurrence, Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada, by Z. Chen and K. G. Osadetz; #90090 (2009).

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Regional Gravity and Magnetic Interpretation of the East Coast and Pegasus Basins, Offshore New Zealand

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Abstract: Pre-Salt Tectonossedimentary Evolution of Santos Basin: The Role of Sin-Rift Reactivation on Reservoir Quality Prediction; #91215 (2026)

N. M. Dehler

Search and Discovery.com

... wideness, and distinct rifting regime if compared to others East Brazilian Rift basins In Santos Basin, high-quality 3D seismic data interpretation...

There is general consensus now that regressive coastlines tend to be deltas and strandplains, whereas transgressive coastlines are estuaries and barrier-lagoon systems

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Bayou Crook Chene/Bayou Chene Fields: ST. MARTIN PARISH, LOUISIANA

W. David Willig

Lafayette Geological Society

... Mongoulois salt dome to the Bayou Crook Chene Field. Westward this fault bifurcates, forming the trap for the accumulation established in the western...

Exercises Part B: Deformed Western Niger Delta

Deborah E. Ajakaiye, Albert W. Bally

AAPG Special Volumes

... fault, at between 6.5 and 8.0 seconds (two way travel time) from which the overlying faults evolve. Also note the shale structure on top...

Natural thermogenic gas seeps at the front of the Richardson Mountains: Indications for a petroleum system in Peel Plateau, Yukon, Canada

T. L. Allen, K. G. Osadetz

CSPG Bulletin

... the Trevor Fault, a major mapped structural element near the eastern Richardson Mountains front. One seep occurs where Trail River crosses the deformation...

Zones of Oil-Gas Accumulation in the Southeast Ural-Volga Area and Types of Oil and Gas Pools

V. A. Klubov, M. F. Svishchev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... of the first type have closed trap of a crest character on all horizons with little shift in plan. The most common fields of this type are located on flexural...

Palacios Field: A 3-D Case History

Ron McWhorter and Bill Torguson

GCAGS Transactions

... seismic program in the Texas Gulf Coast. The purpose of the program was to unravel a fault pattern consisting of subtle faults-with throws of 30-100 feet...

Late Quaternary Folding and Faulting of Santa Cruz Island, California

Nicholas Pinter, Christopher C. Sorlien, Andrew T. Scott

Pacific Section of AAPG

... Cruz Island, interpretation of seismic-reflection profiles north of the island, measurement of fault-zone striations, and study of uplifted...

Tectonic Setting and Deformation Associated with the San Gregorio Fault System, San Francisco Peninsula, California

J. Duane Gibson

Pacific Section SEPM

... of the San Gregorio fault system. The present tectonic regime extends to at least the late Oligocene. The inferred environments of deposition...