X-Ray Computed Tomography of Macroscale Variability in Sediment Physical Properties, Offshore Louisiana

Thomas H. Orsi, Aubrey L. Anderson

GCAGS Transactions

... by head-down feeding organisms; and (3) historical layer: associated with a rapid increase in CT density and simultaneous decrease in CT variability...

Sediment Deposition in an Alaskan Fjord: Controls on the Formation and Preservation of Sedimentary Structures in Icy Bay

John M. Jaeger , Charles A. Nittrouer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... or preclude their habitation in the seabed. In high-energy, shallow-water environments, frequent reworking of the seabed by strong waves and currents can...

The Trap: Chapter 13: Part II. Secondary Migration and Accumulation of Petroleum, Compiled by Robert H. Dott and Merrill J. Reynolds

AAPG Special Volumes

... in great measure prevented its escape. (p. 170), as did Alexander Winchell: Where the shales ["black slate"] are covered by an impervious layer...

Implications of Haline Convection for Waste Disposal in Closed Basins

Kim McCleary-Hanagan, Christopher J. Duffy

Utah Geological Association

... in dimensionless form. The dimensionless hydraulic head is h* = h/L (hydraulic head/basin length), the concentration mass fraction is c* (mass of solute/mass...

GEOLOGY OF THE COOSA COALFIELD. Road Log.

Denny N. Bearce, Jack C. Pashin, W. Edward Osborne

Alabama Geological Society

... Hampton Inn just north of Interstate 459. Head south on U.S. Route 280. 5.9 Crest of Double Oak: Mt. on U.S. Route 280 capped by basal Shades...

Architecture and Directional Scales of Heterogeneity in Alluvial-Fan Aquifers

Michael J. Neton , Joachim Dorsch , Christopher D. Olson , Steven C. Young

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of outcrop and core will elucidate these sequences. The effect of sequences on groundwater flow in the region can then be assessed. The previously described...

Frontmatter, Table of Contents, Road Logs: Geology of the Sacramento Mountains Otero County, New Mexico: Field Trip Guidebook

Lloyd C. Pray, James Lee Wilson, Donald F. Toomey

West Texas Geological Society

... near the head of Alamo Canyon. Flowage in the pipeline to the reservoir is about 1 million gallons per day. For the last two decades Alamogordo has...

Transactions of the West Texas Geological Society’s Symposium Economics and the Petroleum Geologist Midland, Texas

G. R. Gaige

West Texas Geological Society

... and Canada: New York, Am. Petroleum Institute. Baptist, O. C. and Sweeney, S. A., 1955, Effect of clays on permeability of reservoir sands to various...

Source and Migration of Light Hydrocarbons Indicated by Carbon Isotopic Ratios

R. H. Reitsema, A. J. Kaltenback, F. A. Lindberg

AAPG Bulletin

... isotopic ratios, provided a distinction was made between gases from an oil-prone area and those from a coal-producing basin. Head space gas analyses...

Taphonomic controls on Ediacaran diversity: Uncovering the holdfast origin of morphologically variable enigmatic structures

Lidya G. Tarhan, Mary L. Droser, James G. Gehling

PALAIOS

... and enigmatic forms, have yet to be described. One enigmatic structure in particular, informally known as ‘‘mop,’’ for its resemblance to the head...

Lake Pagahrit, Southeastern Utah: A Preliminary Research Report

William D. Lipe, William J. Breed, James West, George Batchelder

Four Corners Geological Society

... and this would gradually seal the basin to produce Lake Pagahrit. That this in fact happened can be deduced from the layer of peat at the bottom...

Reservoir Characterization to Understand Optimal Well Spacing … A Wolfcamp Case Study

Neha Bansal, Jichao Han, Yongduk Shin, Tom Blasingame

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... driving model location choice and methodology. Single Well Model Closest representative pilot well data has been used to populate layer properties...

Three-Dimensional Geometry and Evolution of a Composite, Multilevel Salt System, Western Eugene Island, Offshore Louisiana

Mark G. Rowan , Paul Weimer , Peter B. Flemings

GCAGS Transactions

... slows or there is a pulse of salt flow, the head of the diapir will flow laterally at the sea floor as a salt glacier emanating from a topographic high...

Example of Stratigraphic Confusion: Type Locality of Butler Clay Member of Rockdale Formation (Wilcox Group), Bastrop County, Texas

W. W. Sharp, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... on Stratigraphic Nomenclature been in effect and utilized. The clay pits at Butler in northern Bastrop County are the type locality of the Butler Clay...

Analytical Formation Sampling During Drilling Using OPAL … On Surface Petrophysical Analytical Logging; #41854 (2016)

Konstandinos Zamfes, Chris Smart, Steve Zamfes

Search and Discovery.com

... OPAL Gamma Ray (GR) measurement to the earlier recorded MWD/LWD GR in a horizontal well. It illustrates the bit entering a shale layer. The variance...

Chapter 5: Assessing Well Performance in a Prolific Liquids-rich Shale Play—An Eagle Ford Case Study

Paul R. Clarke, Douglas H. Portis, Gervasio J. Barzola, Hector Bello, Neil K. Basu

AAPG Special Volumes

... carbonates: The Hidden Valley fault, Central Texas: AAPG Bulletin, v. 95, no. 8, p. 1383–1397. Gardner, R. D., M. C. Pope, M. P. Wehner, and A. D...

Fluid Flow, Water Chemistry, Gas Chemistry and Diagenesis in the Subsurface Triassic in Alberta and British Columbia

Dirk Kirste, Steven Desrocher, Brad Spence, Bill Hoyne, Brian Tsang, Ian Hutcheon

CSPG Bulletin

..., v. 79, p. 410-430. Majorowicz, J.A. 1989. The controversy over the significance of the hydrodynamic effect on heat flow in the prairie basin...

Anatomy of a Deep-Water Coral Reef Mound from Stjernsund, West Finnmark, Northern Norway

André Freiwald, Rudiger Henrich, Jürgen Pätzold

Special Publications of SEPM

... foraminifers con 1996 layer admixed with ice rafted detritus on top of glacial or glaciomarine sequences Meter thick mats of bryozoans and siliceous...

Classification of Offshore Mass Movements

Thierry Mulder ,, Pierre Cochonat

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... MILLER, D.J., 1960, Giant waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 354C, p. 51-86. MILLIMAN, J.D., AND MEADE, R.H....

Seismic Sequences and Facies of Siliciclastic Deep-Water Deposits with Applications to Hydrocarbon Exploration

Charles J. Stuart

Pacific Section SEPM

... lobes than to outcrop scale depositional features. Seismic Resolution Seismic resolution is the minimum size of a rock layer that can be imaged...

Facies Associations and Depositional Environment of the Proterozoic Carbonate-hosted Microbanded Manganese Oxide Ore Deposit, Penganga Group, Godavari Rift Basin, India

P. C. Bandopadhyay

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... lamination, structures formed by waves, tidal currents, and storm-induced current are totally absent. The limestone is brown and argillaceous...

Cyclic Deposits and Hummocky Cross-Stratification of Probable Storm Origin in Upper Cretaceous Rocks of the Cape Sebastian Area, Southwestern Oregon

Ralph E. Hunter, Edward H. Clifton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... waves and associated currents, in Shepard, F. P., Submarine Geology: New York, Harper and Row, p. 49-81. JOHNSON, H. D., 1977, Shallow marine sand bar...

Sand Control Using Inside Casing Gravel Packs and Epoxy Coated Gravel Slurries

Robert D. Erickson

Indonesian Petroleum Association

..., and inside casing gravel packs. Evaluation of resin type treatments was based on the degree of consolidation each process would effect and how...

Petrology and Origin of Phosphorites

G. Donald Emigh

Utah Geological Association

.... Darker layer at bottom represents the original bed which was later subjected to degradating action and then recovered. The darker patch of the original...

Seepage pathway assessment for natural gas to shallow groundwater during well stimulation, in production, and after abandonment

Maurice Dusseault and Richard Jackson

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... thickness) is now understood to be far larger than the volume of rock that has been reached by the proppant itself. This effect arises because significant...