Pisoliths, Ooliths and Calcareous Growths in Limestone Caves at Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia

George Baker, M.Sc., A. C. Frostick

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... miles east of Port Campbell township. They are Pearce's Cave at the head of the east arm of the gorge, and Carmichael's Cave situated near normal high...

Reef Configurations: Cause and Effect

Edward G. Purdy

Special Publications of SEPM

...Reef Configurations: Cause and Effect Edward G. Purdy Copyright © 2012, The Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (SEPM) Reefs...

Carousel Model for the Crystallization of Saddle Dolomite

Ralph Kretz

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to dolomite crystals which possess a tabular morphology (with spear-head terminations), curved crystal surfaces, and (when viewed in thin-sections), sweeping...

Sedimentology of Some Mexican Coastal Lagoons

Fred B. Phleger, Gifford C. Ewing

Tulsa Geological Society

... and there are brine pans and salt flats beyond the head of the lagoon. The dominant type of sediment is fine, well-sorted sand showing little skewness...

Silcretes and Associated Silica Diagenesis in Southern Africa and Australia

David Smale

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... cm across are present in the clay near the silcrete layer, which tends to be rich in colloform leucoxene (Fig. 2). A well-known quarry northeast...

The Occurrence of Glauconite in Monterey Bay, California, Diversity, Origins, and Sedimentary Environmental Significance

James R. Hein , Alan O. Allwardt, Gary B. Griggs

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Allwardt, Gary B. Griggs 1974 Vol. 44 No. 2. (June), Sediment transport, sedimentation rate and the energy due to currents and waves distinguish three...

Depositional and Erosional Coastal Processes During the Last Postglacial Sea-Level Rise: An Example from the Central Tyrrhenian Continental Shelf (Italy)

Paolo Tortora

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... CHIOCCI, F.L., AND NORMARK, W.R., 1992, Effect of sea-level variation on upper-slope depositional processes offshore of Tiber delta, Tyrrhenian Sea...

Experimental Study of Fracture Permeability With or Without Proppants on Vaca Muerta Gas Shale

Kun Su, Martin Santacoloma, Sebastian Estrada, Pierre Barlet, Hamid Pourpak

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is then compared with the mechanical closure recorded by an extensometer. This experiment is used to investigate the effect of proppant concentration...

Parameters Controlling Hydrocarbon Distribution at Tatum's Camp Field, Lamar County, Mississippi

Phillip R. Jackson

GCAGS Transactions

... at or close to their present depth of 15,700-15,800 ft (4785-4815 m). Hydraulic head estimates within the upper Hosston Formation decrease from north to south...

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

... by treating them as downgoing rays (head waves). This always resulted in a larger rms error (Figure 4); however, the depths were more consistent with typical...

On the Labeling, Length, and Objective Basis of Fischer Plots

P. M. Sadler, D. A. Osleger, I. P. Montanez

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of an irregular train of asymmetric waves, which rise steeply and fall gradually. The asymmetry of the individual waves arises because thinner-than-average...

Chapter 136: A 2-D, Oblique-dip Outcrop Transect through a Third-order, Progradational, Deep-water Clastic Succession, Urenui–Mount Messenger Formations, New Zealand

Peter R. King, Greg H. Browne, Malcolm J. Arnot, Martin P. Crundwell

AAPG Special Volumes

... and only moderately indurated, and exposures are relatively unweathered and clean because of washing by waves during high tides. The shoreline cliffs...

Pennsylvanian Outcrops of Significance, Mills County, Texas: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Robert Pavlovic

AAPG Bulletin

... sheet to the head of Rough Creek where it becomes hidden by the Cretaceous. Basal Cretaceous (Trinity) conglomerate in many places overlies the "Keen...

Gravity Anomalies in Gulf of California

J. C. Harrison , S. P. Mathur

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the Gulf near its head, could mark an extension of the San Jacinto fault. Bullard, E.C., 1962, The deeper structure of the ocean floor: Royal Soc. Proc...

Transportation of Sand Into Deep Water

Francis P. Shepard

Special Publications of SEPM

... Jolla Can- yon, but the tributaries at the head of Scripps Canyon are constantly being filled and reopened (fig. 4). The fill con- sists largely...

Role of Diastrophism in Topography of Corpus Christi Area, South Texas

W. Armstrong Price

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Creeks such as Oso Creek, with many others along the coast which head in the Beaumont Terrace, are continued headward, in some places for 2 or 3...

Heart Mountain — Blocks in a Giant Volcanic Rock Glacier

John K. Sales

Wyoming Geological Association

... unambiguously tectonic. Earlier published statements to the effect that all or nearly all of the Absaroka volcanic rocks postdate Heart Mountain...

An Estuarine-Embayment Fill Model from the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group West-Central Saskatchewan

B. A. Zaitlin, B. C. Shultz

CSPG Special Publications

.... A structural third order residual map of the sub-Mannville erosional surface has the net effect of removing post-depositional tilt (Fig. 8). This map...

Anatomy of a Gravelly Meander Lobe in the Saskatchewan River, Near Nipawin, Canada

Janet E. Campbell, Hugh E. Hendry

Special Publications of SEPM

... indicate wide fluctuations in river stage. The gravels must have accumulated in much the same way as the bar-head gravels of Bluck (1971, 1976), the bar...

Destructive Phase of Deltaic Development: North Santee River Delta

Daniel G. Stephens, Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise, Peter Mullin , Christopher Lee , William H. Kanes

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... River mouths. Because the prevailing southwesterly winds blow at a very slight angle from land to sea, the waves they produce do not have sufficient...

Role of Cap Rock in Oil Accumulation

Robinson P. Lockwood

AAPG Bulletin

...-grained layer of white clay. All of the material was water saturated and tightly tamped. A 15-inch head of oil and water was used to drive the two...

Paleoenvironmental implications of time-averaging and taphonomic variation of shell beds in Lake Tanganyika, Africa

Emily K. Ryan, Michael J. Soreghan, Michael M. McGlue, Jonathan A. Todd, Ellinor Michel, Darrell S. Kaufman, Ismael Kimirei

PALAIOS

... aquarium. Part of head, the inhalant siphon and the foot (partly concealed by sand grains), colored gray with orange flecks, are visible. Encrusting green...

Case Study on Real-Time Pump Health Check for Optimizing ESP Performance and Extending Lifespan in Unconventional Wells

Matthew Wortmann, Haiwen Zhu, Hardikkumar Zalavadia, Chris James, Chad Harbaugh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the gas effect on in-situ rate, fluid properties, and their impact on pump performance. Finally, the pump degradation is defined by comparing measured...

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Environments of Deposition of the Pliocene Imperial Formation, Coyote Mountains, Southwest Salton Trough

Pat Bell-Countryman

Pacific Section SEPM

... be considered the easternmost exposure of the Imperial marine invasion. The Yuma Basin is considered to be the decapitated head of the Proto Gulf...