An Analysis of a Seismic Reflection from the Base of a Gas Hydrate Zone, Offshore Peru (1)

JOHN J. MILLER , MYUNG W. LEE , and ROLAND VON HUENE

AAPG Bulletin

... by an acoustic basement with refraction-survey velocities greater than 5 km/s (Hussong and Wipperman, 1981) (Figure 2). The prominent BSR usually occurs...

Results of the Use of Regulated Directional Reception of Seismic Waves

V. I. Meshbey

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... also between the Meotis and the Sarmatian and between the Pontian and the Meotis. Seismic studies by the method of reflected waves gives information...

A Field Guide for the Stratigraphy and Coastal Processes of the Louisiana Chenier Plain and Louisiana Chenier Plain Microfossil Associations

Raymond T. Kaczorowski, Robert E. Gernant

Lafayette Geological Society

... view can be straight, concave towards the Gulf, or convex towards the Gulf. Coastal and offshore bathymetry (reflected in wave refraction patterns...

Characteristics of Heat Flow through Diapiric Salt Structures on the Texas Continental Slope

Seiichi Nagihara , Lila M. Beckley , E. William Behrens ,, John G. Sclater

GCAGS Transactions

... stratigraphy suggest that these effects alone can produce a significant positive anomaly (probably 20%) and should be reflected in thermal modeling...

Petroleum Developments in Far East in 1959

Godfrey F. Kaufmann

AAPG Bulletin

... 12 party-months of seismograph surveying, mostly by the reflection technique but with some refraction profiles. One gravity-meter crew operated for 9...

Neogene Basin Formation in Relation to Plate-Tectonic Evolution of San Andreas Fault System, California

M. C. Blake, Jr. , R. H. Campbell , T. W. Dibblee, Jr. , D. G. Howell , T. H. Nilsen , W. R. Normark , J. C. Vedder , E. A. Silver

AAPG Bulletin

... is reflected in island-arc volcanic activity which lasted at least until 20 m.y. ago along the east edge of Baja California near Concepcion Bay...

Seismic Structure and Stratigraphy of Northern Edge of Bahaman-Cuban Collision Zone

M. M. Ball , R. G. Martin , W. D. Bock , R. E. Sylwester , R. M. Bowles , D. Taylor , E. L. Coward , J. E. Dodd , L. Gilbert

AAPG Bulletin

.... Nafe, and J. Hennion, 1966, Seismic-refraction study of continental margin east of Florida: AAPG Bulletin, v. 50, p. 1972-1991. Sorensen, F. H., L. W...

Extensional Tectonics and Stratigraphy of Hibernia Oil Field, Grand Banks, Newfoundland

A. J. Tankard , H. J. Welsink

AAPG Bulletin

... and timing of ocean opening are also reflected in the pattern and timing of basin development (Welsink and Tankard, in press). Figure 1 shows the principal...

Petroleum Source Rocks, Organic Maturation and Thermal History of the Queen Charlotte Basin, British Columbia

R.M. Bustin

CSPG Bulletin

.... 337-371. Hole, J.A., Clowes, R.M. and Ellis, R.M. 1993. Interpretation of three-dimensional seismic refraction data from western Hecate Strait...

Geophysical Evidence for Ancient Sea-Floor Spreading from Alpha Cordillera and Mendeleyev Ridge: Evolution of Arctic Ocean Basin

John K. Hall

AAPG Special Volumes

.... A crustal gravity model based on a continuous 600-km-long gravity and bathymetric profile and on one unreversed refraction measurement from Station Alpha...

Three-dimensional structure of experimentally produced clay smears: Implications for fault seal analysis

N. Bozkurt Ciftci, Silvio B. Giger, Michael B. Clennell

AAPG Bulletin

... mechanism. We assume that increasing the phyllosilicate content of the wall rock sequence is reflected in the content of the fault rocks. Consequently...

Late Cretaceous and Paleocene Atlantic Sea-Floor Spreading and Alpine Collision: Chapter 7

Peter A. Ziegler

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the collision of the Alpine-Carpathian nappe systems with the passive margin of the Helvetic Shelf. This is reflected by the intra-Senonian gradual...

Models of Subsidence Mechanisms in Intracratonic Basins, and Their Applicability to North American Examples

Garry Quinlan

CSPG Special Publications

... reflection lines that may not be very sensitive to the existence of such features. There are apparently no refraction data from the Michigan Basin...

Tertiary Province of United States Gulf Coast, After 1920: Chapter 14

Edgar Wesley Owen

AAPG Special Volumes

... Coast prior to 1929 used the refraction method. The initial work by the Germans consisted entirely of line surveys. This procedure was unsuccessful...

Seismic Investigation of a Surface Collapse Feature at Weeks Island Salt Dome, Louisiana

Richard D. Miller, Jianghai Xia, Richard S. Harding, James T. Neal, John W. Fairborn, Don W. Steeples

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

.... E., and Voigt, J. O. (1982). The use of seismic refraction and mine-to-surface shooting to delineate salt dome configuration and map fracture zones...

Notes on Cenozoic Sedimentation in the Gulf Coast Geosyncline, U.S.A.

George C. Hardin Jr.

Houston Geological Society

.... America Bull., v. 63, p. 1193-1200 Cram, I.H., Jr. 1961, A crustal structure refraction survey in South Texas: doctoral dissertation, Rice University...

The Geology of the South Polar Region

C. G. Morgan

Tulsa Geological Society

... prospecting for petroleum, but with peculiar variations. Both reflection and refraction profiles were used. Development of the Program The use of seismic...

Electric Prospecting by the Telluric Currents Method

A. M. Zagarmistr, M. N. Berdichevskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... profiles of the correlation method of refraction waves and deep seismic sounding). Figure 5. Schematic structural map of the north part of the Shatilkov...

The Geology of the Andaman Sea Basin

J. Aung Khin

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

..., along the latitude between the Nicobar Island in the west and Phuket Island in the east. It is noticed that the seismic refraction observed is up...

Main Features of the Deep Subsurface of the Eastern Part of the Turkmen SSR

I. M. Alyev, G. Kh. Dikenshteyn, N. Ye. Kravchenko, V. A. Teplitskiy

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

.... In most cases, however, such faults are reflected by very well defined gravity anomalies (gravity steps) and by narrow elongate zones of anticlines...

Half-moon Oolites

Albert V. Carozzi

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... DESCRIPTION The beds characterized by the half-moon oolites are oolitic dolarenites which in reflected light consist of small microcrystalline...

Three-Dimensional Hydrogeologic Characterization of Fractured Carbonate Aquifers Using Ground-Penetrating Radar

Georgios P. Tsoflias, John M. Sharp, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... measurements and require the drilling of wells. Surface geophysical methods of seismic reflection and refraction, resistivity, and low frequency...

Shallow Marine Currents on the Early (?) Triassic Wyoming Shelf

M. Dane Picard, Lee R. High, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of ripple mark crests to parallel bathymetric zones was noted by Hyde (1911, p. 264) and is adequately explained by wave refraction. A common assumption...

Possible Quartz Synthesis During Weathering of Quartz-free Mafic Rock, Jasper County, Georgia

Gene D. Robinson, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... portion of the quartz grain from the larger. In reflected light, this zone is seen to be filled reddish-brown iron oxide-hydroxide. No doubly-terminated...

Cements: PART 1

AAPG Special Volumes

... "flattened rhomb" outline. Siderite has both indices of refraction well above that of balsam and thus does not "twinkle" with stage rotation. 0.06 mm...