Continental Drift and Scientific Revolution

David B. Kitts

AAPG Bulletin

... occasionally by episodes of rather sudden change in theoretical foundation. Kuhn presented the essentials of this view early in "The Structure of Scientific...

Investigation of Possible Shallow Gas Accumulations Associated with Pockmarks on the Otago Slope Southeast of New Zealand

Jasper Hoffmann, Andrew Gorman, Gareth Crutchley

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... velocities. Ostrander (1984) described the influence of the Poisson’s ratio on the variation of the P-wave reflection coefficient with reflection angle. He...

Simple Approximations for Estimating Quickly the Motion and Timing of Salt Diapir Rise, Overhang Development, and Associated Thermal Anomalies from Present Day Observations: Case Histories from the Gulf of Mexico and Danish North Sea

I. Lerche , R. O. Thomsen

GCAGS Transactions

...µ. For typical sedimentary material the ratio of P-wave speed to shear wave speed is Vp2/Vs2 = ( + 2µ)/µ 3 so that µ. Hence the Lame elastic constant...

Geostatistical Earth modeling of cyclic depositional facies and diagenesis

Thomas Le Blévec, Olivier Dubrule, Cédric M. John, and Gary J. Hampson

AAPG Bulletin

...: Mathematical Geology, v. 28, no. 4, p. 453–476, doi:10.1007/BF02083656. Carle, S. F., and G. E. Fogg, 1997, Modeling spatial variability with one...

Sediment characteristics of some Nova Scotian beaches

Edward Bryant

Atlantic Geology

... is temporally stable. On a dissipative foreshore, where wave energy is dissipated across a surf zone, size gradings are weakly developed (0.1 m m / k m...

AAPG Studies in Geology No. 50, (Section Title: Reservoir Permeability, Modeling, and Simulation Studies) Chapter 16: 3-D Fluid-Flow Simulation in a Clastic Reservoir Analog: Based on 3-D Ground-Penetrating Radar and Outcrop Data from the Ferron Sandstone, Utah

Craig B. Forster, Stephen H. Snelgrove, Siang Joo Lim, Rucsandra M. Corbeanu, George A. McMechan, Kristian Soegaard, Robert B. Szerbiak, Laura Crossey, and Karen Roche

AAPG Special Volumes

... provides an unusually detailed foundation for simulating fluid flow through the three-dimensional permeability structure of a channel sandstone reservoir...

Theoretical Aspects of Continental Drift

Harold Jeffreys

AAPG Special Volumes

... Lomnitz law of damping: Royal Astron. Soc. Monthly Notices, v. 147, p. 295-301. Jeffreys, Harold, and B. S. Jeffreys, 1966, Methods of mathematical...

Basement Reactivation in the Alberta Basin: Observational Constraints and Mechanical Rationale

Gerald M. Ross, David W. Eaton

CSPG Bulletin

..., southern Cordillera, Canada. Geology, v. 24, p. 467-470. Figure 13. Examples of finite element models that calculate the vertical deflection of an elastic...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: New Geochemical Software Technology to Characterize Reservoir Systems in the Llanos Basin, Colombia: Cutting Costs and Learning More

Rick Schrynemeeckers, Suhas Talukdar, Javier Paez, and Uriel Sanchez

GCAGS Transactions

... to smallest. The RSDs indicate the mathematical differences between the oils that cannot readily be observed by just a visual comparison...

Claude Shannon Versus Gus Archie: Information Theory as a Guide to Log Evaluation Without Petrophysics, #41480 (2014).

Paul E. Devine

Search and Discovery.com

...) Abstract Around 1950 Gus Archie, working at Shell Oil, changed petroleum exploration by developing a theoretical foundation for e-log interpretation based...

Refracturing Vs. Infill Drilling - A Cost Effective Approach to Enhancing Recovery in Shale Reservoirs

Edgar Urban, Daniel Orozco, Alfonso Fragoso, Karthik Selvan, Roberto Aguilera

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

....N. 1946. The Distribution of Stress in the Neighborhood of a Crack in an Elastic Solid. Proc. of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and ...

Brazos River Bar: A Study in the Significance of Grain Size Parameters

Robert L. Folk, William C. Ward

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The gravel foundation outcrops at the surface as a V-shaped area pointing downstream (fig. 1). The highest elevation is at the point of the "V...

Transformation of Weight--and Number--Frequencies for Phi-Normal Size Distributions: NOTES

Basanta K. SAHU

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the mathematical theory of transformation of weight and number frequency for phi-normal (log-normal) size distributions, which confirms the empirical results...

Keep an Eye on Your Basement! … The 3D Version

Search and Discovery.com

... sort out tightly grouped solutions from mathematical noise. For 2D Werner calculations, we have optimized the matrix inversion to focus on the best...

Pressure Transient Behavior of Unconventional Reservoirs: Combined Effect of Spatial Variation and Stress-Dependence of Formation Permeability

Ayon Kumar Das, Hassan Hassanzadeh

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... than that of the stimulation ratio at the late times. Pressure propagation profiles for different sets of model parameters were generated. The effect...

Seismic Methodologies Adapted for Use in Acoustic Logging, #41666 (2015).

Shreya B. Ley, Partha Biswas

Search and Discovery.com

... render image data mostly unusable. For shear wave anisotropy, fractures are simply inferred and, for many reasons, that inference cannot be relied...

Introduction: A Geological Perspective on Climate

Eric J. Barron, George T. Moore

Special Publications of SEPM

... component of the science. Definitions of climate which stem from mathematical rather than observational approaches to research emphasize the causes...

Regularization strategies for Seis2Rock-based petrophysical inversion of prestack seismic data

Miguel Corrales, Juan Romero, Nick Luiken, Hussein Hoteit, Matteo Ravasi

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... functions from synthetic AVO gathers generated from elastic well logs. These carefully derived functions are then used to transform seismic pre-stack data...

A Comparison of Fractal Methods for Evaluation of Hydraulic Fracturing Surface Roughness

Abbas Movassagh, Xi Zhang, Elaheh Arjomand, Manouchehr Haghighi

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

...). Fractal analysis based on height measurements can enable us to tackle the limitation of conventional linear elastic fracture mechanic theories for treating...

Flume Experiments on Lower-Flow-Regime Bed Forms in Coarse Sand

Warren R. Costello, John B. Southard

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-wave coupling and of sand transport in bed-form troughs. In both geometry and hydraulic ralationships, the 2D dunes and 3D unes in our flume runs...

Abstract: Further on the Predictive Volcanic Eruption Trends: A Theoretical Approach to Geophysical Survey; #90255 (2017)

Emetere Eterigho

Search and Discovery.com

... was carried via mathematical experimentation of a conductive model capable of transmitting heat flux signal within several kilometers from the magma...

Ubiquity of Wave-Dominated Deltas In Outer-Shelf Growth-Faulted Compartments

Mariana Iulia Olariu, Cornel Olariu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Ubiquity of Wave-Dominated Deltas In Outer-Shelf Growth-Faulted Compartments Mariana Iulia Olariu, Cornel Olariu 2015 768 779 Vol. 85 (2015) No. 7...

Novel Monitoring Technology Helps to Make Informed Decisions and Maximize the Efficiency of Completion Strategy

Sergey Parkhonyuk, Roman Korkin, Artem Kabannik, Andrey Fedorov, Max Nikolaev, Fedor Litvinets

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to interpret pressure data in real time in the field or by using software and mathematical methods (Nolte and Smith 1981). With the boom...

A new high-resolution seismic wavelet definition and vibroseis sweep signal design

Zhenbo Nie, Huazhong Wang, Shen Sheng

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... seismic wavelet definition and vibroseis sweep signal design Zhenbo Nie*, Huazhong Wang, and Shen Sheng, Wave Phenomenon and Intelligent Inversion Imaging...

Sedimentology, facies architecture, and sequence stratigraphy of a Mississippian black mudstone succession—The upper member of the Bakken Formation, North Dakota, United States

D. Borcovsky, S. Egenhoff, N. Fishman, J. Maletz, A. Boehlke, and H. Lowers

AAPG Bulletin

.... Grabowski, Jr., 2002, Sequence stratigraphy in fine-grained rocks: Beyond the correlative conformity (abs.): 22nd Annual Gulf Coast Section SEPM Foundation...