Experiments on Wedge-Shaped Deep Sea Sedimentary Deposits in Minibasins and/or on Channel Levees Emplaced by Turbidity Currents. Part II. Morphodynamic Evolution of the Wedge and of the Associated Bedforms

Benoit Spinewine, Octavio E. Sequeiros, Marcelo H. Garcia, Rick T. Beaubouef, Tao Sun, Bruno Savoye, Gary Parker

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... configurations, such as the entrance into a zone of much lower slope and/or lateral confinement, or the passage into a confined minibasin, may trigger...

Allochthonous salt initiation and advance in the northern Flinders and eastern Willouran ranges, South Australia: Using outcrops to test subsurface-based models from the northern Gulf of Mexico

Thomas E. Hearon, IV Mark G. Rowan, Katherine A. Giles, Rachelle A. Kernen, Cora E. Gannaway, Timothy F. Lawton, and J. Carl Fiduk

AAPG Bulletin

... of ramp-to-flat geometries, and 2 of flat-to-ramp transitions. Stratal geometries adjacent to feeder diapirs range from a minibasin-scale megaflap...

Sedimentary and Structural Features of the Plio-Pleistocene Timor Accretionary Wedge, Timor-Leste

S. Poynter, A. Goldberg, D. Hearty

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... WABS_2013_SP&AG \ 5602.dgn S. Poynter et al. N Extensional minibasin Slope escarpment w ed ge Elevation time (ms) -300 -600 -1200 -1500 Rugose...

Challenges in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: An Overview

David T. Lawrence

GCAGS Transactions

... to be further defined and evaluated for application in the salt minibasin and unconfined stope and basinal regimes (see Sangree et al, 1990; Vail...

Regional Seismic Interpretation Comparisons Across Deepwater Discoveries of the Gulf of Mexico and the Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil

Andrew E. Hannan, Dianna L. Shelander, Roberto Fainstein, George A. Jamieson

GCAGS Transactions

... are deepwater turbidite sandstones. Differences between these regions include reservoir age, timing of trap formation, and minibasin geometry. Regional seismic...

The Blasillo Field (Upper Miocene), Salina del Istmo Basin, Southeastern Mexico, Part 1: Regional Setting and Petroleum Geology

Humberto Torres-Sastré, Paul Weimer, Renaud Bouroullec, James Adson

GCAGS Transactions

... del Istmo Basin in the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico. This field is present in a minibasin that is surrounded by several shallow allochthonous...

Predicting Sedimentary Facies in the Gulf of Mexico Region from the Combination of Bathymetry, Gravity, and Magnetic Data Using Fractal Geometry

Victor J. Mistretta

GCAGS Transactions

..., Surging versus continuous turbidity currents: Flow dynamics and deposits in an experimental intraslope minibasin: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p...

Numerical Investigation of Hydrocarbon Transport by Solitary Waves in the Eugene Island Field, Gulf of Mexico Basin, #20235 (2014)

Ajit Joshi, Jeffrey A. Nunn

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... of the Eugene Island minibasin? Base case curve extrapolated f B t l t d from Revil and Cathles (2002) Hypothesis: Solitary waves could be responsible...

Origin of Supra-Salt Synclines in the "Post Diapiric" Jurassic Morrison Formation, Big Gypsum Valley, Colorado; #51584 (2019)

Alondra Soltero, Richard Langford, Katherine Giles

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.... The lower beds of the Morrison onlap the tilted strata flanking the diapir, indicating continued minibasin subsidence and diapir rise that continued...

Index of Figures

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Origin and Evolution of the Middle Miocene Submarine-Fan System, East-Central Gulf of Mexico

Combellas-Bigott, Ricardo I. and Galloway, William E.

GCAGS Transactions

... during the deposition of the MCAVLU Fan were a bathymetrically complex minibasin setting. Because of the difference in structural overprint...

Integrating an exploration OBN into a full-scale prospect maturation workflow: Gulf of Mexico Lower Tertiary

Scott Yurman, Marcus Cahoj

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the inboard Paleogene. Its trapping elements are an up-dip weld against a primary minibasin, weld against a secondary minibasin, and a large salt diapir...

GCAGS 54th Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, October 10-12, 2004; #90032 (2004)

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Allochthonous Salt Initiation and Advance in the Northern Flinders and Eastern Willouran Ranges, South Australia: Using Outcrops to Test Subsurface-Based Models from the Northern GOM; #30344 (2014)

T. E. Hearon, M. G. Rowan, K. A. Giles, R. A. Kernen, C. E. Gannaway, T. F. Lawton, J. C. Fiduk

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.... Variable stratal geometries adjacent to steep salt include (1) minibasin-scale folding, (2) tabular and tapered composite halokinetic sequences...

Salt Tectonics within the Offshore Asturian Basin: North Iberian Margin, #11020 (2017).

Matthew Fleming, Gonzalo Zamora, Jorge Gallastegui

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... of the offshore Asturian Basin is strongly related to salt tectonics. We present new interpretations showing minibasin-scale halokinetic features...

Early Post-Salt Differential Topography and Its Impact on Source Rock and Shallow-Water Carbonate Facies Distributions: Examples from the Jurassic of the North Atlantic and the Southern Gulf of Mexico, #11101 (2018).

Rob Forkner, Nick Ettinger

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... Assif El Hade section, near Tirzi, Morocco. - Rapid facies changes into salt withdrawl minibasin. - Callovian-Oxfordian age. - Dark, restricted-type...

Multiscale stratigraphic analysis of a structurally confined submarine fan: Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Ireland

David R. Pyles

AAPG Bulletin

... sandstone, and architectural elements between the Ross Sandstone and the ponded phase of the northern Gulf of Mexico minibasin-fill successions, imply...

Petroleum geology of the Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, western DeSoto Canyon, and western Lloyd Ridge protraction areas, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Traps, reservoirs, and tectono-stratigraphic evolution

Renaud Bouroullec, Paul Weimer, and Olivier Serrano

AAPG Bulletin

... al. (2017c, this issue). We address the relationship between the trap styles, the ages of reservoirs, the subbasin and minibasin formation...

A Seismically Defined Ancient Anoxic Intraslope Basin in Hardin County, Texas - Potential Source and Seismic Pitfall

Steve J. Blanke, Lynn C. Meibos, Paul S. Kline

GCAGS Transactions

... of these cases, organic richness was attributed to anoxic seafloor conditions in isolated, confined intraslope minibasin settings. Williams and Lerche...

Garden Banks 460 #1

Barry Gouger

Houston Geological Society

... complexes in the suprasalt minibasin. Reservoir Depth 14900' TVD Amplitude y/n Yes Hydrocarbon Expected g/o Oil-60%, Gas-40% Reservoir Facies...

Garden Banks 785 #1 and #1st

Michael E. Mitch New

Houston Geological Society

...   Play Description Combined stratigraphic/structural trap in Pliocene ponded interval along eastern portion of Titan minibasin. Critical pre-drill risk...

Application of Foraminiferal Litho-Biofacies in the Interpretation of Deep-Water Depositional Environments and Reservoir Properties [Abstract]

Paul N. Lawless, Richard H. Fillon

New Orleans Geological Society

... environment, e.g., within a confined minibasin, in the path of episodic turbidity flows, or on elevated microhabitats that develop on relief created...

Salt Geometry and Subsalt Trapping in the Enchilada Area, NE Garden Banks, Offshore Louisiana

Brad A. Robison , Rocco Detomo Jr. , R. David Garner , Arie Speksnijder , Michael J. Styzen

GCAGS Transactions

... a secondary prodeltaic minibasin above the salt. Sediment loading in the Chimichanga area has resulted in a corrugated top of salt with associated faulting...

Introduction

Friedemann Baur, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, and Kenneth E. Peters

AAPG Bulletin

... on the Thunder Horse minibasin in the Gulf of Mexico. Two-dimensional basin modeling results were combined with rock physics models to honor spatial trends...

Abstract of 2006 AAPG/GSTT Hedberg Conference

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