The Vicksburg of South Texas: A Shelf-Delta System with an Attitude

Tony Whitbread, Todd Nicholson, Bill Owens

GCAGS Transactions

... on the listric fault plane was reduced as the slump rotated to a horizontal position. When rotation was complete, all the curvature from the base of the slump...

Direct imaging of alteration with high-resolution hard-rock 3D seismic data at the Darlot Gold Mine

G. Hird, W. Turner

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... as seismic reflections in fault planes. (Depth slice 318, approximately 1300 metres below surface) The application of Gocad’s 3D GIS functionality...

Fault Interpretation Problems in the Southeast Barrow Sub-Basin

R. K. Whyte

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... several major steps. With fault offset these steps cause lateral velocity contrasts on the fault plane, called velocity windows. Normal incidence ray...

Abstract: Moose Mountain: New Insight into its Internal Structure and Relative Timing of Deformation; #90172 (2014)

David Repol, Martin Kraemer, Ben Stephenson, Irma Eggenkamp

Search and Discovery.com

... well data, fold shapes and fault-plane seismic reflections and combined crossection balancing techniques, we model the structural styles...

4D GPR for Characterization of Fluid Flow in Carbonates: Insights from Structural- vs. Stratigraphic-Controlled Domains and Comparison with Eclipse Dynamic Modeling; #41179 (2013)

Pierpaolo Marchesini, Mark Grasmueck, Gregor P. Eberli, and Ralf J. Weger

Search and Discovery.com

..., the infiltrated water bulb shows a pronounced up-dip asymmetry along a fault plane due to preferential flow. At Ingraham, water content changes peak...

Seismic Models and Interpretation of The Casper Arch Thrust: Application to Rocky Mountain Foreland Structure

Riley C. Skeen, R. Randy Ray

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... fault zones (Ray and others, 1983). Two of these zones show up as laterally continuous reflections on the seismic profile A-A‘ (Fig. 3). Bedding Plane...

New insights into deformation mechanisms in the gravitationally driven Niger Delta deep-water fold and thrust belt

Dominic Maloney, Richard Davies, Jonathan Imber, Simon Higgins, Stephen King

AAPG Bulletin

..., and are deformed by seaward-verging (regional), and landward-verging (counterregional) fault-propagation folds. Fault-plane reflections are planar...

Section 3: Displays of Seismic Sections: The New Hebrides Trench, Lines 1 and 12

Michael A. Fisher and H. Gary Greene

AAPG Special Volumes

... floor along the toe of the slope. A fault plane reflection from this fault is evident on the migrated seismic section. Some thrust faults can be traced...

Improving Fault Geometry Interpretation through 'Pseudo-Depth' Conversion of Seismic Data in the Penola Trough, Otway Basin

P. J. Lyon, P. J. Boult, A. Mitchell, R. R. Hillis

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... or not juxtaposition and/or fault plane processes have provided a viable fault seal for the retention of hydrocarbons. Successful determination of the original...

Fault Prospects in Horizontally Compressed Areas

Norman S. Morrisey, Jack L. Walper

Tulsa Geological Society

... formed by compressive forces; the dip of the fault plane may range from 45° to 90° (by definition, the plane of an over-thrust fault has a dip of less...

Geophysical evidence for thrust faulting in the Carboniferous Antigonish-Mabou Subbasin, Nova Scotia

P. Durling, P. Harvey, K. Howells

Atlantic Geology

...­ grade the seismic response of reflection ‘A’. In the same area, low amplitude, southeast dipping reflections are in­ terpreted as the fault plane...

The Permian and Carboniferous extensional history of the Northern Carnarvon Basin and its influence on Mesozoic extension

Sam McHarg, Amy I'Anson, Chris Elders

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

.... The observed present day fault plane, where footwall stratigraphy is preserved (Line B, Figure 5), cannot explain the geometry of the base Triassic...

Sumpal Fractured Basement Field, Structural Attribute Analysis and Interpretation Case Study, Workflow Management and New Insights from Pre-Stack Depth Migrated Data and Azimuthal Stacks

Yan Darmadi, John Hughes, Sugiharto Danudjaja, Rita Achdiat

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... in the enhancement of: (1) fault plane definition; and, (2) the top Pre-Tertiary (PRT) basement horizon reflector continuity. The analysis shows a complex...

Geometric and seismic interpretation of the Perdido fold belt: Northwestern deep-water Gulf of Mexico

Rion H. Camerlo, Edward F. Benson

AAPG Bulletin

... fault dip is required to avoid cutting the subhorizontal event. Because the same phenomenon is observed over multiple reflections along the kink plane...

To Boldly Go Where No Interpreter Has Gone Before

Sven Philit, Fabien Pauget, Sebastien Lacaze, Caroline Guion

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., is getting a step closer. 56 GEOExPro March 2019 Eliis SVEN PHILIT, FABIEN PAUGET, SEBASTIEN LACAZE, Eliis; CAROLINE GUION; Eliis Inc. Fault Plane...

ABSTRACT: 3-D Seismic Fault Plane Images from Offshore Myanmar, Gulf of Thailand, and Lake Maracaibo: Insight into Regional Stresses and Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways

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Complex Imbricate Systems in the Southern Caribbean Basin, Offshore Northern Colombia: Advanced Structural and Stratigraphic Analysis, and Implications for Regional Oil Exploration

F. Corredor, J. H. Shaw, T. Villamil

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... fold shape, fault plane reflections, and patterns of growth sedimentation, we model the geometry and kinematics of this imbricate system using combined...

Coaxial Stretching or Lithospheric Simple Shear in the North Sea? Evidence from Deep Seismic Profiling and Subsidence: Chapter 33: North Sea and Barents Shelf

Simon L. Klemperer, Nicky White

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the North Sea. The top of the Caledonian basement cannot be well defined with these seismic data. Fault-plane reflections are visible in places within...

Extensional Fault-Bend Folding and Synrift Deposition: An Example from the Central Sumatra Basin, Indonesia; John H. Shaw, Stephen C. Hook, and Edward P. Sitohang; Search and Discovery Article #40004 (1999)

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Fracture Detection Through MultiFocusing Diffraction Imaging, Case Studies

Marianne Rauch-Davies, Danil Pelman, Kostya Deev

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... has large diffraction anomalies caused by the anhydrates and can be easily mapped across the fault plane. The faulting can URTeC 1922003 3 also...

Geology and Structural Evolution of the Demarcation Subbasin and Herschel High, Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Arctic Canada

J.R. Dietrich, Larry S. Lane

CSPG Bulletin

...), separates steeply dipping, irregular reflections (to the south) from more coherent and gently folded reflections (to the north). Although the fault...

Marine Sonoprobe System, New Tool for Geologic Mapping

C. D. McClure , H. F. Nelson , W. B. Huckabay

AAPG Bulletin

.... The true dip of the fault plane can not be determined because only one profile crossed the fault. Sediment layers dip toward the fault at low angles...

Structural Trend Analysis by Axial Surface Mapping: Reply

John H. Shaw , Stephen C. Hook , John Suppe

AAPG Bulletin

... on the seismi display, where it is bounded by other discordant reflections (also noted in Yeats, 1983, his figure 10) and, possibly, a fault-plane reflection...

Geophysics Along the Edwards Trend

W. Lee Moore

GCAGS Transactions

... distortion or erratics due to unusual ray paths from the shot through the major fault plane to reflectors below the major fault. This type of distortion...

3-D Seismic Characterization of Submarine Landslides on a Miocene Carbonate Platform (Luconia Province, Malaysia)

Valentina Zampetti, Wolfgang Schlager, Jan-Henk van Konijnenburg, Arnout-Jan Everts

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... reflections (A and B). Platform contour may show straight segments when the slope is guided by fracture systems or just coincides with a fault plane...