Porosity trends in the Skagerrak Formation, Central Graben, United Kingdom Continental Shelf: The role of compaction and pore pressure history

Neil T. Grant, Alexander J. Middleton, and Stuart Archer

AAPG Bulletin

... a reasonable fit to the density data and plots as linear depth trend for the overburden gradient (Figure 8B). The general layer-cake stratigraphy across...

Petroleum System Modeling of Northern Alaska

Oliver Schenk, Leslie B. Magoon, Kenneth J. Bird, Kenneth E. Peters

AAPG Special Volumes

... and Beaufortian sequences are characterized by layer cake geology. Details of individual pre-Brookian formations were incorporated using isopach maps...

Two-dimensional seismic refraction tomography of a buried bedrock valley at Hallsands beach, Devon, United Kingdom

Eric B. Avalos, David H. Malone, Eric W. Peterson, William P. Anderson, and Roland W. Gehrels

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... in a “layer-cake” arrangement. Gravel exists to a depth of approximately 0 m. Wood peat occurs from approximately 1-m (3-ft) elevation at 3-m (10-ft...

Biostratigraphy in a Late Neogene Caspian-Type Lacustrine Basin: Lake Pannon, Hungary

Imre Magyar, Dana H. Geary

AAPG Special Volumes

... of a traditional layer-cake structure, these packages follow each other horizontally, from north to south, in a prograding pattern (Figure 2e). What were long...

Unlocking Unconventional Reservoir with a Fully Integrated Reservoir Simulation

Peng Ye, Valerie Hallam, Frank Hovland, Lee Nguyen, Faisal Rasdi

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... information, but rather a few vertical logs. Therefore, a simplified layer cake model with constant property per layer was built instead...

The Influence of Pre-Existing Basin Architecture in the Development of the Papuan Fold and Thrust Belt: Implications for Petroleum Prospective

Peter G. Buchanan, John Warburton

Papua New Guinea (PNG) Petroleum Convention Proceedings

...-thrust architecture of the basin rather than assuming an oversimplistic pre­ thrust ‘layer-cake’ stratigraphic template. We must now be even more...

Origin and Geometry of Red River Dolomite Reservoirs, Western Williston Basin

Mark W. Longman, thomas G. Fertal, James S. Glennie

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... they are difficult to construct and partly because many exploration geologists tend to think in terms of layer cake reservoirs. As Kohm and Louden (1978...

Clues to the Structural History of the Rankin Trend, from 3-D Seismic Data

Steve Newman

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... to this basin. The cause of this uplift though is still unanswered. Precise timing of the movement is also hard to determine. Conformable, 'layer-cake...

Waveland Field: An Analyses of Facies, Diagenesis, and Hydrodynamics in the Mooringsport Reservoirs

Lawrence R. Baria

GCAGS Transactions

... examined and thin sectioned. Two of these wells, one north of and one within the field, are shown in Figures 6 and 7. Without exception, a near layer...

Altamont-Bluebell--A Major, Naturally Fractured Stratigraphic Trap, Uinta Basin, Utah

Peter T. Lucas, James M. Drexler

AAPG Special Volumes

.... No doubt the reason for these views was the layer-cake stratigraphic concept whereby basin-margin redbed clastic units were correlated across the basin...

Quantifying Geohazards Through Advanced Visualisation and Integration in the Terang-Sirasun Development, Kangean PSC, Indonesia

Peter Cook, Daniel Jayson, Susana Yunita Ritha, Paul J. Nichols, Doug W. Ellis, Jonathan Zwaan

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... deposition in many of these provinces has led to the development of a layer cake stratigraphy. The Terang Field is located at the crest...

Abandonment of the Name "Elephant Canyon Formation" in Southeastern Utah: Physical and Temporal Implications

David B. Loope, George A. Sanderson, George J. Verville

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... by the Colorado River and subsequent salt flowage relatively small area, then, is "layer cake. " Every promior gravitational sliding (McGill and Stromquist...

Petroleum systems of the Eastern Cordillera, foothill basins, and associated Llanos basin: Impacts on the prediction of large scale foreland and foothill petroleum accumulations

Andrés Mora

AAPG Bulletin

... stratigraphy that are typical of rift settings, in contrast to the common layer-cake stratigraphies observed or inferred in other fold and thrust belts...

The Khazzan gas accumulation, a giant combination trap in the Cambrian Barik Sandstone Member, Sultanate of Oman: Implications for Cambrian petroleum systems and reservoirs

John A. Millson, Jamie G. Quin, Erdem Idiz, Peter Turner, Ahmed Al-Harthy

AAPG Bulletin

... prevegetative, partly aqueous weathering environment.Depositional ModelThe layer cake correlation scheme and the facies types and their distribution imply...

Depositional Environments Defined by Dipmeter Interpretation

J. A. Gilreath, J. S. Healy, J. N. Yelverton

GCAGS Transactions

... environments, such as found in deep water, lead to "layer-cake" deposition, and appear as uniform dip magnitudes on the dipmeter plot. Thus, the scatter...

A Virtual Conversation on the Impact of Geostatistics in Petroleum, Production, and Reservoir Engineering

T. C. Coburn, P. W. M. Corbett, A. Datta-Gupta, J. L. Jensen, M. Kelkar, D. S. Oliver, C. D. White

AAPG Special Volumes

... worried about optimal layering in heterogeneous reservoirs; but the models were still typically layer cake and deterministic in nature. Geostatistics has...

Multi-Bench, Multi-Well Interference in Unconventional Reservoir: Field Observations and Numerical Studies in the Texas Delaware Basin

Hamid Behzadi, Yongduk Shin

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., where the fluid is in the retrograde condensate window. Reservoir properties were populated as layer-cake models from the closest representative...

Architecture and Directional Scales of Heterogeneity in Alluvial-Fan Aquifers: REPLY

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

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... characterization of subsurface heterogeneity in non-layer-cake aquifers is of great importance in successful remediation of contaminated groundwater (Freeze...

Reservoir Characterization of the Bakken Petroleum System - A Regional Data Analysis Method (Phase I of II)

Kaushik Gangiredla, Donald Westacott

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... volumes. Sequence Stratigraphy Most published models use a layer cake approach to describe the makeup of the Bakken formation, although natural...

Passive-Roof Duplexes and Pseudo-Passive-Roof Duplexes at Mountain Fronts: A Review

Mark Cooper

CSPG Bulletin

... layer cake or gentle wedge but is more complicated, possibly with abrupt changes in the original thickness of the units across the basin-controlling...

Discovery to Development: A Subsurface Case History of the Kitan Oil Field, Timor Sea

D. Wheller, G. Ellis, Y. Suhardiman, R. Yokote, D. Selvaggi, J. Derrij, G. Maniscalco

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... noteworthy flooding episode. This layer was assumed in the geological reservoir model to act as a production barrier and sealing in a production time frame...

Radar Structure of Earthquake-Induced, Coastal Landslides in Anchorage, Alaska

Walter A. Barnhardt, Robert E. Kayen

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... of coarsegrained outwash overlying thick clay deposits of Bootlegger Cove Formation, the same layer-cake stratigraphy present at Government Hill. Hansen (1965...

Case Histories in South Louisiana Salt Dome Geology

New Orleans Geological Society

... uniform or layer-cake deposition, i.e., internal convergence is minor or absent. Usually the plug and core/mound-stages are separated by an unconformity...

Trans-Pecos Tectonism and Its Effect on the Permian Basin

Ralph L. Horak

West Texas Geological Society

... consisted of extensive shallow-water shelf deposits resulting in a “layer-cake” stratigraphy dominated largely by carbonates but with occasional influxes...

Sedimentology of a Tempestite: Episodic Deposition in the Cardium Formation, Pembina Oilfield Area, West Central Alberta

Fed F. Krause

CSPG Special Publications

... one sandstone bed. The “Upper Sand” possesses a complicated internal geometry that does not lend itself to “layer-cake” correlations, suggesting...