New Evidence for Long-Term, Salt-Related Deformation at Upheaval Dome, SE Utah; #10756 (2015)

Patrick J. Geesaman, Bruce D. Trudgill, Thomas E. Hearon IV, Mark G. Rowan

Search and Discovery.com

.... Multiple interpretations for its origin have been proposed, but the two remaining viable hypotheses are at opposite ends of the geologic spectrum: one...

The importance of the degree of cataclasis in shear bands for fluid flow in porous sandstone, Provence, France

Gregory Ballas, Roger Soliva, Jean-Pierre Sizun, Antonio Benedicto, Thibault Cavailhes, Suzanne Raynaud

AAPG Bulletin

...% and a permeability reduction of three to five orders of magnitude compared to the host rock. Field observations of iron hydroxide precipitations around the bands...

Chapter 16: Controls on Stratal Record: Mechanisms and Contingencies Affecting Sediment Supply and Accommodation

Kevin M. Bohacs

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Passey, M. Rudnicki, W. L. Esch, and O. R. Lazar, 2013a, The spectrum of fine-grained reservoirs from “shale gas” to “shale oil”/tight liquids: Essential...

Rock Mechanical Behavior at the Inch Scale in a Thinly Laminated Unconventional Formation

Smaine Zeroug, Bikash K. Sinha, Ting Lei, John Jeffers

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... with the sonic data within an acousto-elastic model to quantify the maximum horizontal stress magnitude and rock third-order nonlinear constants. Another rock...

"Deweyville" Terraces and Depostits of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain

Michael D. Blum , Robert A. Morton , James M. Durbin

GCAGS Transactions

... annual discharge and/or extreme high magnitude floods during the late Pleistocene glacial period. This paper builds on the idea of a broader...

Dynamic Environments: Reconnaissance Mapping, Geologic and Geomorphic, of Continental Shelf of Gulf of Mexico

W. Armstrong Price

GCAGS Transactions

... evaluation would somewhat reduce regional contrasts in energy shown (Figure 5), but probably not change the order of magnitude. Bottom friction...

Dilatancy and the Mean Normal Stress: Unconventional Concepts Needed for Leak Assessment of Tubular Connections

Gang Tao, Malcolm A. Goodman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... the knowledge of API connection sealability under the full spectrum of load conditions. Finite Element Model The connection FEA model was developed...

Facies Mosaics Across the Persian Gulf and Around Antigua-Stochastic and Deterministic Products of Shallow-Water Sediment Accumulation

Bruce H. Wilkinson, Carl N. Drummond

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of various sediment types have been mapped in detail across each region and in part because the two largely occur at opposite ends of the spectrum...

Seismogenic Deformation Structures in Microbialites and Mudstones, Silurian Lockport Dolomite, Northwestern Ohio, U.S.A.

Charles F. Kahle

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are seismogenic. It is postulated that two earthquakes, one with a magnitude < 5, and another with a magnitude > 5, caused the formation...

Early Cretaceous Transgressions and Regressions in the Southern Interior Plains

W. G. E. Caldwell

CSPG Special Publications

... transgression can be identified as an early phase of the Greenhorn Marine Cycle, a cycle which, like the Kiowa-Skull Creek cycle, was first established...

Chapter 8: Insights into the Petroleum Prospectivity of Lebanon

F. H. Nader

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Dubertret, 1955; Walley, 1998). Nader and Swennen (2004b) discussed the significance of an early phase of karstification (ca. Late Jurassic to Early...

Abstract: Quantifying the Uplift Magnitude Caused by the Messinian Salinity Crisis and its Impact on the Eastern Mediterranean Petroleum Systems, by Al-Balushi, Abdulaziz N.; Fraser, Alastair; Allen, Philip A.; Jackson, Christopher A.; #90163 (2013)

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Gravimetric Exploration in the Edwards Trend Area of South Texas

Maynard P. Jones

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... of detecting the gravimetric influence of any geological feature of significant magnitude. To state this principle in other terms, the mesh of your net...

Vertical Sequence and Sand Body Shape in Alluvial Sequences

J. D. Collinson

Dallas Geological Society

... Sandstone: J. Sediment. Petrol., v. 41, p. 129-138. Elliott, T., 1976, The morphology, magnitude and regime of a Carboniferous fluvial-distributary...

Vertical Sequence and Sand Body Shape in Alluvial Sequences

J. D. Collinson

CSPG Special Publications

... Sandstone: J. Sediment. Petrol., v. 41, p. 129-138. Elliott, T., 1976, The morphology, magnitude and regime of a Carboniferous fluvial-distributary...

The Exploratory Significance of Gravity in the Anadarko Basin

R. L. Scott

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... be recognized within this spectrum are east-west, ± N 15°W, and ± N 70° West. Another dominant fault direction is of the transverse type and exhibits...

Reddell Salt Dome of Louisiana: Geotemperatures and Halokinetics

Madhurendu Bhushan Kumar

GCAGS Transactions

..., there exists a wide spectrum of concepts ranging from "slow and continuous" movement of salt (Trusheim, 1960; Bodenlos, 1970) to a "surge" of salt...

Utility of Mechanical Facies for Rock Classification, Characterization, and Correlation: Reservoir Characterization: Petrophysical Formation Evaluation and Rock Description

K. A. Alhilali, G. Shanmugam

AAPG Special Volumes

..., influence the magnitude of the sigma function. Furthermore, the sigma function is a dimensionless quantity, with a large range of sensitivity (from 1...

Structure, Seismic Data, and Orogenic Evolution of Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains

A. W. Bally, P. L. Gordy, G. A. Stewart

CSPG Bulletin

... of western North America, showing location of report-area. End_Page 341------------------------ phase into a fold belt characterized by peel...

Chemical Huff and Puff for Shale Oil Recovery Using Surfactants, Nanoparticles and Ketones

Ahmed Aboahmed, Kishore Mohanty

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... in an oven at 90°C for one week. Any signs of haziness, phase separation, or precipitation were considered indicators of aqueous instability. Following...

Stratal Architecture, Lithofacies, Environmental Setting, Depositional Processes, and Associated Geological Characteristics of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk in Louisiana

Robert G. Loukcs, Christopher K. Zahm, Toti E. Larson, Laura C. Zahm, Peng Zeng

GCAGS Journal

... pressures, and the averages are used. Permeability can be calculated by the analytical solution of a flow equation from the late-phase pressure data...

Sequence stratigraphic and paleoecologic analysis of an Albian coral-rudist patch reef, Arizona, USA

Kelly E. Hattori, Charles Kerans, Rowan C. Martindale

PALAIOS

... of local environmental conditions over a spectrum wider than what corals could typically survive. For example, the evolution of rudist bivalves...

Source-to-Sink Analysis of a Transtensional Rift Basin from Syn-Rift to Uplift Stages

Jialin Wang, Chaodong Wu, Tianqi Zhou, Wen Zhu, Yanxi Zhou, Xi Jiang, Disheng Yang

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that are dominated by intermediate–acidic rocks with minor participation of basaltic rocks (Gao and Wedepohl 1995). The age spectrum of the Permian–Triassic...

Lack of synsedimentary chemical alteration in polar carbonates (Ross Sea, Antarctica): Resolution of a conundrum

Tracy D. Frank, Noel P. James, Aaron I. Shultis

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... material. In providing a cold-water end member for the spectrum of synsedimentary diagenetic processes, results highlight specific differences...

Cyclostratigraphy of Late Cambrian Carbonate Sequences: An Interbasinal Comparison of the Cordilleran and Appalachian Passive Margins

David Osleger

Pacific Section SEPM

... differences exist between the two coeval platforms. The Late Cambrian of the Utah-Nevada Cordilleran passive margin is characterized by a spectrum...