Characteristic Geometries of Distal Fine-Grained Fans Based on Mississippi Fan, Jackfork, and South Africa Studies

Arnold H. Bouma, Daniel J. Rozman, Donald E. Rehmer, Samuel K. Huisman

GCAGS Transactions

... can travel farther and, more or less, straight out, provided no diapirs or other highs are present. The Gulf of Mexico has had sediment transported...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Scaling up Local Measurements of Hydrologic Properties of the Queen City and Sparta Aquifers, Texas Gulf Coast: Establishing Regional Groundwater Flow Models

Nicot, Jean-Philippe, Deeds, Neil E., and Dutton, Alan R.,

GCAGS Transactions

... of burial and sand-thickness correlations with hydraulic conductivity on a variety of settings along the Gulf Coast. Sediment compaction occurs...

3D Stratigraphic Interpretation of Quaternary Sediments in the Mensa and Thunder Horse Intraslope Basins, Mississippi Canyon, Northern Deep Gulf of Mexico

Jorge Diaz, Paul Weimer, Geoff Dorn, Renaud Bouroullec

GCAGS Transactions

... and influenced the sediment thickness in individual sequences, and the location of channel systems. INTRODUCTION The Mensa-Thunder Horse minibasins...

Predicting Reservoir Variation through Simulation of Turbidite Deposition over Restored Paleotopography: A Case Study from the Western Atwater Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico, #40497 (2010)

Christopher S. Lerch, John R. Tabor, Brendon J. Hall

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... in the Western Atwater Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico, exhibit significant variations in gross reservoir thickness, character and quality within individual...

Depositional Processes at the Lower Wilcox Shelf…Slope Transition Zone

Mariana I. Olariu, Hongliu Zeng

GCAGS Journal

..., 2022, Tectonic preconditioning of recurrent largescale canyon incisions; example from Cretaceous and Paleogene of northern Gulf of Mexico, Marine...

Cyclic Sedimentation in the Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Abo-Hueco Transitional Zone (Lower Permian), Southwestern New Mexico

Greg H. Mack, W. C. James

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the Abo outcrop with the subsurface gas-producing Abo red beds of east-central New Mexico, in Zidek, J., ed., Guidebook for Field Trip to the Abo Red Beds...

Time-Rock Correlation: The Essential Element in Depositional Models

Wayne M. Ahr

GCAGS Transactions

... example of a ramp in the rock record is the Jurassic Smackover Formation of the ancestral Gulf of Mexico (Fig. 4). The Smackover consists...

Structural Geology and Evolution of the Mississippi Fan Fold Belt, Deep Gulf of Mexico (1)

PAUL WEIMER and RICHARD T. BUFFLER

AAPG Bulletin

..., southwestern Gulf of Mexico: AAPG Memoir 29, p. 319-327. Cook, D., and P. D'Onfro, 1991, Jolliet field thrust fault structure and stratigraphy, Green...

Fluvial Morphology and Sediment-Flux Steering of Axial-Transverse Boundaries in an Experimental Basin

Sean D. Connell, Wonsuck Kim, Chris Paola, Gary A. Smith

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... with an emphasis on the Rio Grande in New Mexico and Colorado, U.S.A. A field example of a fluvial fan is in the San Luis Basin of southern Colorado, where...

Is Drilling in Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Uncorking Bad Genies?

Paul Aharon

GCAGS Transactions

.... S., Pfeiffer, D. S., and Sheiman, J. L., 1994. Geologic models and reservoir geometries of Auger Field, deepwater Gulf of Mexico: in, Weimer, P., et al...

Jolliet Field Thrust Fault Structure and Stratigraphy Green Canyon Block 184, Offshore Louisiana

Douglas Cook , Peter D'Onfro

GCAGS Transactions

... Field thrust fault is possibly the most extensively documented example of compressional deformation in the Gulf of Mexico. Other examples have been...

Basin Architecture, Salt Tectonics, and Upper Jurassic Structural Styles, Desoto Canyon Salt Basin, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Grant MacRae , Joel S. Watkins

AAPG Bulletin

... other areas with a comparable thickness of overlying sediment. The DSCSB is one of the major peripheral salt basins in the northern Gulf Coast...

High-Frequency Glacioeustatic Cyclicity of the Miocene in Central Texas and Western Louisiana and its Applications in Hydrocarbon Exploration

Qiucheng Ye , William E. Galloway , Robley K. Matthews

GCAGS Transactions

..., Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 150, 50 p.. Gulf of Mexico Chronostratigraphic Correlation Chart, 1993, Geco-Prakla, Inc...

Chapter 14 (Case Histories of Three-Dimensional Seismic Surveys)—Case History 10: Value of Geophysics in the Production of Bay Marchand Field

William L. Abriel, William Haworth

AAPG Special Volumes

.... This is the story of how geophysics has helped Chevron produce more oil and gas from Bay Marchand than from any other field in the Gulf of Mexico. From 1938 until...

Examples of Shelf to Basin Modern Turbidite System Depositional Patterns in the Gulf of Mexico: Potential Analogues for Subsurface Petroleum Systems

Hans Nelson, John Damuth, and Hilary Olson

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... SYSTEM: POTENTIAL ANALOGUE FOR FRIO AND WILCOX PLAYS IN THE NORTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO •MISSISSIPPI FAN TURBIDITE SYSTEM: EXAMPLE OF MIXED TURBIDITE...

Salt tectonics driven by sediment progradation: Part IMechanics and kinematics

Bruno C. Vendeville

AAPG Bulletin

... Gulf of Mexico), crustal flexure in response to sediment loading has commonly tilted the base of the evaporites landward, making seaward gliding...

Model of Upper Cenozoic Geologic Evolution of the Louisiana Slope

Allen Lowrie

GCAGS Transactions

.... C., 1984, Total Sediment Thickness, in Buffler, Richard T., Stanley D. Locker, William R. Bryant, Stuart A. Hall, and Rex H. Pilger, Jr., (eds.) Gulf...

Genetic Stratigraphic Sequences in Basin Analysis II: Application to Northwest Gulf of Mexico Cenozoic Basin

William E. Galloway

AAPG Bulletin

... North America provided an abrupt surge of terrigenous clastic sediment for the northwestern Gulf of Mexico during the Paleocene, and this ongoing influx...

Eolian Sequence Stratigraphy--A Conceptual Framework: Chapter 16: Recent Developments in Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy

Gary Kocurek, Karen G. Havholm

AAPG Special Volumes

... (eolian sand sea) in which the length (x) is parallel to flow, sediment transport, and bed-form migration. The length could be the entire dune field...

Dynamic Response of Deepwater Depositional Systems to Growth of the Mississippi Fan Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico

Ciaran J. O'Byrne , Joydeep K. Haldar, Richard Klecker , Arthur E. Berman and John Martinez

GCAGS Transactions

... calibration of seismic facies geometries from extensive (50+) field and dry hole studies throughout the Gulf of Mexico combined with local well control...

ABSTRACT: An Analysis of the Thickness and Emplacement of a Shallow Salt Sheet in the Northeastern East Breaks Area, Gulf of Mexico, by J. E. Desantis and P. F. Gabbard; #91019 (1996)

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Controls of aeolian dune height on cross-strata architecture: White Sands Dune Field, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Feifei Zhao, Benjamin T. Cardenas, Wonsuck Kim

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-day dune field (McKee and Moiola 1975; Langford 2003; Kocurek et al. 2007). Fig. 1. Location of White Sands Dune Field in southern New Mexico...

Regressive Coastal Deposits on Quaternary Continental Shelves: Preservation and Legacy

Michael E. Field, Fabio Trincardl

Special Publications of SEPM

... demonstrated with examples from the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific shelves gradation depends or falling but on its ability of sediment Thus a not only relative...

Deep Sea Sediments and Their Sedimentation, Gulf of Mexico

David K. Davies

AAPG Bulletin

... distinct sources have contributed terrigenous sediment to the Gulf of Mexico during the Quaternary: (1) the Apalachicola, (2) the Mississippi, (3...

Shelf-wide Erosion, Deposition, and Suspended Sediment Transport During Cyclone Winifred, Central Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Michael K. Gagan , Allan R. Chivas, Andrew L. Herczeg

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... indices of fine sediment transport, northwest Gulf of Mexico: Jour. Sed. Petrology, v. 52, p. 307-321. KACHEL, N. B., AND SMITH, J. D., 1986...