Geology of Huntington Beach Oil Field, California

Hoyt S. Gale

AAPG Bulletin

... coarser-grained sediments from adjoining land surfaces, forming layers of sand on the ocean bottom; when the storms had passed, the accumulation of ooze...

The Internal Framework of the Southwestern Florida Bank

F. Jeanne Shaub

GCAGS Transactions

... structure of South Florida Bank derived from Ocean Bottom Seismometer refraction profiles: AAPG Bulletin, abstract. Freeman-Lynde, R.P., 1983, Cretaceous...

Application of Pleistocene Climate Models to Gulf Coast Stratigraphy

Allen Lowrie , M. L. McDaniel-Lowrie

GCAGS Transactions

... Ciesielski, 1982, Bottom-current erosion along a traverse in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: Marine Geology, v. 46, pp. 329-341...

Geology and Discovery of Prudhoe Bay Field, Eastern Arctic Slope, Alaska: Case Histories

Dean L. Morgridge, William B. Smith Jr.

AAPG Special Volumes

... problems in accurate evaluation of the state-owned waterbottoms. Experimental shooting proved that marine geophones planted on the ocean bottom, used...

Surface Amplitude Data: 3D-Seismic for Interpretation of Sea Floor Geology (Louisiana Slope)

Harry H. Roberts

GCAGS Transactions

... are being transported up faults to the ocean bottom. Hard Bottom Areas Two areas, Green Canyon block 140 and Garden Banks block 189, contain sizeable...

Cross-Laminations in Graded Bed Sequences

K. Jinghwa Hsu

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...). Currents with such a range of velocity should also be able to erode a poorly consolidated silty bottom (Sundborg, 1956). That ocean bottom sediments...

Inter-Turbidite Bottom Current Orientation from Trace Fossils with an Example From the Silurian Flysch of Wales

T. P. Crimes, J. D. Crossley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., have numerous vertical shafts opening on to the ocean floor and orientation of the system parallel with bottom currents would facilitate water flow...

Marine Sonoprobe System, New Tool for Geologic Mapping

C. D. McClure , H. F. Nelson , W. B. Huckabay

AAPG Bulletin

... along side the hull of the boat, converts the electrical pulses into acoustic pulses and directs them toward the ocean bottom. Acoustic energy reflected...

Tides and their seminal impact on the geology, geography, history, and socio-economics of the Bay of Fundy, eastern Canada

Con Desplanque, David J. Mossman

Atlantic Geology

..., a wave approaching an island that rises very steeply from the ocean bottom, will pass the island unchanged, whereas a wave approaching an island surrounded...

Sedimentary History of Upper Ordovician Geosynclinal Rocks, Girvan, Scotland

John f. Hubert

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... sandstones may have been deposited in relatively shallow water from waning ocean bottom currents that flow southwest across the regional southeast...

Out Into the Surf and Beyond: the Why, How and Where of Offshore Oil Exploration from Bristol Bay to Point Loma from the 1890s to the 1980s

L. Rogers Hardy

Petroleum History Institute

... in California in the early 1950’s of the world’s first dynamically positioned drillships with blow out preventers (BOP’s) on the ocean bottom, separate from...

Model for Fine-Scale Movements Associated with Climate and Sea Level Changes along Louisiana Shelfbreak Growth Faults

Allen Lowrie

GCAGS Transactions

... and Embley, 1984; Ledbetter and Ciesielski, 1982). These ocean bottom currents transport and erode sediments. The occurrence of a hiatus in a sea floor...

Flow Markings, Groovings, and Intra-Stratal Crumplings as Criteria for Recognition of Slope Deposits, with Illustrations from Silurian Rocks of Wales

John Lyon Rich

AAPG Bulletin

... the waters are repeatedly agitated by waves; the continental slope, extending downward from wave base; and the relatively flat ocean bottom...

Structural Controls on the Formation of Bottom-simulating Reflectors Offshore Southwestern Taiwan from a Dense Seismic Reflection Survey

Philippe Schnurle, Char-Shine Liu

AAPG Special Volumes

..., M. Vanneste, and C. Berndt, 2003, Ocean-bottom seismometer investigations in the Ormen Lange area offshore mid-Norway provide evidence from shallow...

Gulf of Mexico tectonic history: Hotspot tracks, crustal boundaries, and early salt distribution

Dale E. Bird, Kevin Burke, Stuart A. Hall, John F. Casey

AAPG Bulletin

.... O'Brien, Jr., and F. J. Shaub, 1986, Crustal structure of the south Florida platform, eastern Gulf of Mexico: An ocean-bottom seismograph refraction study...

Sedimentological and geochemical insights into the opening of the Cretaceous interior seaway: The Lower Cretaceous Skull Creek Formation, Colorado

Patrick M. Sullivan, Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Brian T. Hankins, and James W. Hagadorn

AAPG Bulletin

... strong ocean bottom currents. The most striking feature of FA2 is the bioclastic calcarenites of facies 4, which scour into facies 5 and contain a variety...

GEO 2008 - Middle East Conference and Exhibition, March 2-5, 2008, Manama, Bahrain - Abstracts, #90077 (2008)

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Integrated Seismic and Gravity Data Modeling: Basement Structure in the Gulf of Mexico

Dale E. Bird, Barbara J. Radovich, Jerry Moon

GCAGS Transactions

... seismic reflection data. The composite lines consist of long-offset Pre-Stack Depth Migrated (PSDM) marine streamer, legacy onshore, and Ocean Bottom Cable...

Case History of Recent Field Exploitation using 3-D Seismic in East Bay Field, South Pass 24 and 27), Offshore Louisiana

Ben D. Sydboten, Jr., Mark S. Rutherford, and Dan P. Hurley

GCAGS Transactions

... Transition Zone System for intermediate water depth from 0-60 feet (480 channel Sercel 368 digital recording system), and 3- Ocean Bottom Cable (OBC...

Sand Intrusions Reveal Increased Reserves

Halfdan Carstens

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Edge, November 1999, p. 1306-1312) by a team from Chevron and Schlumberger. Using ocean-bottom cables they acquired 3D shear-wave data over the Alba...

Imaging Deep into the Gulf of Mexico

Thomas Smith

GEO ExPro Magazine

... storms like Hurricane Katrina (pictured above) can change the sea bottom, move structures (Pictured is the Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. Ocean Warwick...

From raw seismic data to quantitative interpretation via cloud-based FWI

Henry A. Debens

Australian Energy Producers Journal

... offsets available in ocean-bottom surveys. This limits refraction coverage at depth such that these surveys must rely more heavily upon pure-reflection...

Foreword for Geophysical Part of Field Trip

R. E. Kropschot, James E. Walker

Pacific Section of AAPG

... that they will operate in the presence of seismic motion of the ocean bottom. Although a different system is used in the two models to accomplish this, both systems...

4D Seismic … Status and Future Challenges

Lasse Amundsen, Martin Landrø

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., H. Nakstad and M. Eriksrud, 2006, Field trial of fibreoptic multi-component sensor system for application in ocean bottom seismic, 76th Ann...

Innovative High Trace Density Design with Broadband Seismic Data Acquisition in the Cooper„Eromanga Basins, Australia

John Archer, Milos Delic, Frank Nicholson

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... includes time processing of land and ocean bottom datasets. Frank Nicholson has worked in the industry since the 1980s, beginning his career...