Hydrocarbon Seal Rocks: Chapter 8: Part II. Essential Elements

Marlan W. Downey

AAPG Special Volumes

... properties, and structural dips of the co-joined rock layers have a high probability of being altered. The fault plane itself can behave as an open...

Regression Models for Faulted Structural Surfaces

W. R. James

AAPG Bulletin

... and direction of displacement along the fault plane, and coefficients of the polynomial regression model. This paper treats two simple models...

Structural inheritance controls crustal-scale extensional fault-related folding in the Exmouth and Dampier Sub-basins, North West Shelf, Australia

Hongdan Deng, Ken McClay, Hanlin Chen, Emma Finch, Dariusz Jablonski, and Sukonmeth Jitmahantakul

AAPG Bulletin

...) isostatic folds, and (4) transverse folds (as shown in Figure 1). Fault-bend folds develop over a curved fault plane, such as a ramp-flat or listric...

Abnormal Pressures in Midland Field, Louisiana

William A. Fowler Jr, Walter A. Boyd Jr, Sabin W. Marshall, Robert L. Myers

Houston Geological Society

... normal pressures where the proportion of the fault plane in sand-to-sand contact is less than one percent (Figure 7). It appears that the time...

Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation of a Major 3D, The Gabus Sub-Basin, Blocks B and Tobong, West Natuna Sea, Indonesia: Getting the Geology Back into Seismic

Keith Maynard, Parvita Siregar, Ludy Andria

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... package) and by using azimuth and two way time mixed image displays in Stratimagic. Final fault plane correlations were undertaken within Seisworks...

Wind River Basin, Central Wyoming

R. Randy Ray, W.R. Keefer

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... strong reflections that can easily be mistaken for the base of Precambrian rocks (Ray et al, 1983). The South Owl Creek Mountain Thrust fault plane...

Near Surface Characterization of the Baton Rouge and Scotlandville Faults, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Angela M. Thomas, Jeffrey A. Nunn

GCAGS Transactions

... may alter the hydrologic properties of the fault zone making it more permeable along the fault plane (Barton et al., 1995). Multiple offsets...

3.4 Detached Sediments: 3.4.2 Decollement Tectonics (B-Subduction) and Active Margins: Regional Seismic Reflection Profiles Across the Middle America Trench and Convergent Margin of Costa Rica

J. C. Crowe and R. T. Buffler

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the oceanic crust is subtle along CR-5 because the profile essentially parallels the fault plane. Unfortunately, the depth conversion could...

Physical Seismic Modeling of a Near-Vertical Fault Zone; #41515 (2015)

Jessie M. Arthur, Donald C. Lawton, Joe Wong

Search and Discovery.com

... plane, within the fault zone, and near the tips of active fault zones (Tamagawa and Pollard, 2008). The identification of fault type is also important...

Structure of the Raton Basin From a Regional Seismic Line

James K. Applegate, Peter R. Rose

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... directly from fault plane reflections. Carried on the second thrust sheet are two anticlinal folds of Dakota Formation. On the third sheet is at least...

Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of New Brunswick, Canada

William Carruthers Gussow

AAPG Bulletin

... and the fault planes dip northwest; on the fourth, overthrusting is from the southeast against the Caledonia Mountain buttress and the fault plane dips...

Structural Interpretation of Seismic Reflection Data from Eastern Salt Range and Potwar Plateau, Pakistan

Edward S. Pennock , Robert J. Lillie , Agha Sher Hamid Zaman , Mohammad Yousaf

AAPG Bulletin

...: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 8, p. 229-238. Baranowski, J., J. Armbruster, and L. Seeber, 1984, Focal depths and fault plane solutions...

Seismofacies Comparison of Deepwater Sequences: Pleistocene to Recent Examples from Offshore North Sumatra and Kutei Basins, Indonesia

D. Sebayang, E. Guritno, B. September

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... toward the down thrown side of the normal fault which indicates that normal fault plane becomes a barrier for sediment current. Braided Channel...

Chapter Three: Structural Interpretation

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

... of a fault, the picking of a fault on a horizontal section provides a contour on the fault plane. Thus picking a fault on a succession of suitably spaced...

Abstract: The Milton Field, Harris County, Texas, Produced Before Discovery

Phil F. Martyn and Roy F. Beery, Jr.

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... Houston field to the south. Drainage across this fault plane occurred prior to discovery of the field. It is estimated that approximately three and one...

A Quaternary Fault is Peninsular Malaysia

J. K. Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... to be a quartz mica schist and is cut by some quartz veins. The fault plane is stained with secondary iron oxides and strikes north-south with a dip...

Subsurface Interpretation of Intersecting Faults and Their Effects Upon Stratigraphic Horizons

George Dickinson

AAPG Bulletin

...------------------------------ The conditions shown in this map are illustrated in the block diagram above it. The original fault plane ABCD (Fig. 1-a) has been cut...

Abstract: The Influence of Stress and Geologic Structures on Mining-induced Seismicity in the Creighton Mine, Sudbury, Ontario; #90172 (2014)

Paige Snelling, Laurent Godin, Steve McKinnon

Search and Discovery.com

... their kinematic relationships. A seismological analysis examined the seismic event parameters, event fault plane solutions and the relationships between...

Modeling Faults as Conduit-Barrier Systems to Fluid Flow in Siliciclastic Sedimentary Reservoirs

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Early Late Cretaceous to Holocene Seismic Stratigraphy and Geologic History of Southeastern Gulf of Mexico

David M. Angstadt , James A. Austin, Jr. , Richard T. Buffler

AAPG Bulletin

... the sediment thicknesses, are generally parallel to the Cuban margin. Fault plane dips are near vertical, with no evidence of flattening with depth...

Some Principles of Tectonics in the Permian Basin

John E. Galley

North Texas Geological Society

... well cutting the same fault more than once, because of either a crooked hole or a curved fault plane or both. There may also be instances in which...

Structural Style and Tectonic Evolution of the Albuquerque Basin Segment of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, U.S.A.: Chapter 6: Part II. Examples of Other Rift Basins

L. R. Russell , S. Snelson

AAPG Special Volumes

... 4600-6100 m (15,000 and 20,000 ft; Figures 25, 26, 27). The fault is expressed seismically by strong fault-plane reflections and prerift (Cretaceous...

Inner-Forearc Sequence Architecture in Response to Climatic and Tectonic Forcing Since 150 ka: Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

Fabien Paquet, Jean-Noel Proust, Philip M. Barnes, Jarg R. Pettinga

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the supposed fault-plane, and (3) the unusual downward attenuation of deformation along fault plane-like features (e.g., Lee et al. 2002) (Fig. 6...

The Growth History of Toe Thrusts of the Niger Delta and the Role of Pore Pressure

Scot W. Krueger, Neil T. Grant

AAPG Special Volumes

.... These reflections generally have the reverse polarity to the sea-floor reflection indicating a soft kick (i.e., the fault plane or zone represents a layer...

Little Lake Field: Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

Robert M. Swords

New Orleans Geological Society

... in Little Lake Field. It is also down-to-the-south, but there is no rollover into its downthrown side. The fault plane itself forms the primary...