Horizontal Seismic Sections and Their Utility in Petroleum Exploration

Alistair R. Brown

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... field development: Oil and Gas J., v. 75, no. 37, p. 79-82. Horizontal seismic sections are derived only from very closely spaced data, normally...

Use of Gravity, Magnetic, and Electrical Methods in Stratigraphic-Trap Exploration: Geophysical Exploration Methods

L. L. Nettleton

AAPG Special Volumes

...--pictured above the geologic section--to have the general character expected and an irregularly defined amplitude of 0.3 to 0.4 mgal, which is consistent...

Modeling-based amplitude recovery (MBAR)

Yonghe Sun, Zhemin Tan, Jeff Nealon, James Davenport, Mark Fan, Yuli Zhang, Brian Church

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... data. The measured amplitude distortions in processed synthetic data are used to correct those in the processed field data. Migration tests show...

Assessment of Subsurface Geology in the Mosida Hills, Utah County, Utah, by Integrating Gravity and Magnetic Data

Alvin K. Benson, Andrew R. Floyd

Utah Geological Association

..., and subsurface models. Ambiguities in the geological models were reduced by (1) incorporating data from previous geophysical surveys, surface mapping...

Stratigraphy and Metamorphism of Late Precambrian Rocks in Central Northeastern Nevada and Adjacent Utah

Peter Misch , John C. Hazzard

AAPG Bulletin

... in Paleozoic rocks in some areas. To obtain the data for this study, the field work was supplemented by the study of nearly 1,000 thin sections...

The pore pressure regime of the northern Gulf of Mexico: Geostatistical estimation and regional controls

Scott Morris, Brian Vestal, Kelsey O’Neill, Michael Moretti, Cesar Franco, Nathan Hitchings, Jianmin Zhang, and John D. Grace

AAPG Bulletin

...). With irregularly spaced estimated depths to 0.7 psi/ft (15.8 kPa/m) in hand for each well, they gridded and contoured their observations with a more...

ABSTRACT: MIDDLE MIOCENE OROGENY IN TRINIDAD: RECORD OF CARIBBEAN COLLISSION AND TEMPLATE FOR YOUNGER DEFORMATION

Lorcan Kennan and James Pindell

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

... and seismic data does not allow us clearly pick the exact equivalents of onshore formations in the Columbus Channel, so flattening on these young surfaces...

Results of Geochemical Investigations in Drill Holes

B. P. Yasenev

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... in the region of Madau on the Izat-Kuli and Rustam-Kala uplifts, which are located in the Messerian zone of uplifts. Structural-mapping drilling...

Tectonics of the Pre-Devonian Formations of the Birsk Saddle

Yu. B. Fain, Yu. N. Kukharenko

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... encountered–gabbro-diabases of 10 to 120 m thickness–cutting the older complexes. On a basis of the available geophysical data we can assume the presence...

Carbonate-Mound Reservoirs in the Paradox Formation: an Outcrop Analogue along the San Juan River, Southeastern Utah

Thomas C. Chidsey Jr., Lise Brinton, David E. Eby, Kris Hartmann

Utah Geological Association

... by cementstone textures and irregularly spaced, rounded, cement knob-like features with 3 to 4 inches (7-10 cm) of relief. Rip-up clasts that have been...

History, Geology, Production, and Mineral Resources of the Vipont Mine and Ashbrook Mining District, Box Elder County, Utah

Robert W. Gloyn, Kenneth A. Krahulec

Utah Geological Association

..., Ashbrook district: unpublished U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) record, 18 p. Hunt, S.F., 1921, Vipont district mines...

A Simple Photogrammetric Method to Improve Quantitative Image Analysis in Geoscience Research: RESEARCH METHODS PAPERS

Jesus E. Caracuel, Javier Cardenal, Jorge Delgado-Garcia, Santiago Garcia-Lopez

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and easier method to obtain accurate 2D images for outcrop modeling and mapping. The present methodology describes a simple technique to improve quantitative...

Detailed geophysical measurement of Vs30 for municipal building-code enforcement throughout Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, USA

Aasha Pancha, John N. Louie

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Mapping greatly increased data density in this region and was necessary to better define hazards in both areas. Of particular significance...

Preface

AAPG Special Volumes

... approaches. Two appendices have been provided. Appendix A lists a dataset and demonstrates the application of those data to the evaluation of mapping...

Seismic and Thermal Characterization of a Bottom-simulating Reflection in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Deborah R. Hutchinson, Patrick E. Hart, Carolyn D. Ruppel, Fred Snyder, Brandon Dugan

AAPG Special Volumes

... line shows the limit of the 3-D multichannel data used in mapping the BSR. Faults from Figure 1C are also shown. 2 km = 1.2 mi. Colors indicate...

An Application of Optical Fourier Analysis to the Study of Geological Linear Features in ERTS-1 Imagery of California

Aderbal C. Corrêa, Ronald J. P. Lyon

Utah Geological Association

... and the structural control of ore deposits by regularly spaced fracture systems. The procedure which has been used performs optical Fourier analysis...

Airborne gamma-ray spectrometry inversion signatures of Hicks Dome area

Jessica D. Weihermann, Yaoguo Li, Anne E. McCafferty

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Geological Survey’s Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Day, 2019). Data were collected along flight lines spaced at 200 m over an area that covered...

A Rapid in Situ Survey of Metals in Sediments of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

Scott E. Noakes, Doug K. Dvoracek, John E. Noakes

GCAGS Transactions

... actively involved in the development and application of multi-sensor survey systems for data collection and mapping in aquatic environments (Noakes...

Chapter 6: Fourth and Fifth Days: Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Paleontology, and Paleoecology of Western Kansas

Donald E. Hattin, W. A. Cobban

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... of these rocks evolved to a stage of mapping and description of strata in the first half of the 20th century, and has now given way to studies devoted...

Exploration-Scale Features from High Resolution Gravity and Topographic Datasets and Their Derivatives

James W. Granath, William G. Dickson, Janice M. Christ, Mark E. Odegard

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...-scale "prospecting" and the regional mapping or "screening" to which they have traditionally been applied. Seismic data can be effectively augmented...

Sedimentology and Sequence Architecture of Incised-Valley Fills and Interfluvial Deposits: Upper Mannville Interval (Lower Cretaceous), Little Bow-Turin Area, Southern Alberta

James M. Wood

CSPG Bulletin

... was selected for study because it provides an opportunity to examine the hinterland portions of sequences in an area with closely spaced wells and cores...

Heath-Amsden Strata in Central Montana

Philip A. Mundt

AAPG Bulletin

...) Correlation between outcrops and well sections. The information from numerous wells may help to solve complex surface mapping problems whereas certain surface...

Fracture, Fracture Everywhere: Part I

Rasoul Sorkhabi

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... These investigations include rock observations and structural mapping at micro and macro levels, experimental and analogue works, geometrical...

The Newporte Structure: a Petroliferous, Subsurface Impact Crater, Renville County, North Dakota

Timothy R. Gerlach, Neil L. Anderson, Nels F. Forsman

Williston Basin Symposium

... the interpretation of the available seismic data. The interpretation of the seismic reflection profiles allowed for the mapping of the Newporte structure...

Abstract: Review of Digital Geological Mapping Techniques

Chai Ted Sing

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... to the system can help to speed up the field mapping in open areas. The digitally recorded field observation data can be used directly for the geqlogical...