Taphonomy of modern marine Bahamian microbialites

Noah Planavsky, Robert N. Ginsburg

PALAIOS

... m long and Ͻ500 m wide at depths of 5–10 m. The bar is ornamented by a series of sand waves 1–2.5 m high (Dill et al., 1986). These waves move seaward...

Anatomy of a Ramp Margin Sequence: Facies Successions, Paleogeography, and Sediment Dispersal Patterns in the Muskiki and Marshybank Formations, Alberta Foreland Basin

A. Guy Plint, Brett Norris

CSPG Bulletin

.... In offshore (> 100 km) areas, storm waves approached from the north and associated geostrophic bottom flows were directed parallel to shore, toward the south...

Oil Exploration Analysis of Recent Carbonate Facies

Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping

GCAGS Transactions

... sediments: protected areas of Florida Bay and west of Andros Island; very little water movement except for wind driven waves stirring up the bottom; water...

Wavelet analysis of well-logging data from oil source rock, Egret Member, offshore eastern Canada

Andreas Prokoph, Frederik P. Agterberg

AAPG Bulletin

... window to a location (depth) t. We selected the Morlet wavelet (Morlet et al., 1982) as the basic function y(a,b), because its sinusoidal shape makes...

Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Deltaic Depositional Sequences 1: Influence of the Rate and Magnitude of Sea-Level Change

Bryan D. Ritchie, Rob L. Gawthorpe, Stuart Hardy

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...-like basin margin subject to sinusoidal sea-level cycles of different amplitude, and to asymmetric sea-level cycles (Fig. 2B, C). In a companion paper...

Locomotion Traces Emplaced by Modern Stalkless Comatulid Crinoids (Featherstars)

Reed A. Myers, Carolyn M. Furlong, Murray K. Gingras, John-Paul Zonneveld

PALAIOS

... epirelief. Running traces consist of semi-bilaterally symmetrical collections of one to three straight to semi-sinusoidal grooves and associated ridges...

The Transition Between Sheet-Like Lobe and Basin-Plain Turbidites in the Hecho Basin (South-Central Pyrenees, Spain)

Eduard Remacha, Luis P. Fernandez, Eudald Maestro

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., the profile of velocity vs. time during the passage of a train of solitary waves has a sinusoidal form with stepwise reversals and a mean shear velocity...

Fracture Characterization in Contrasting Platform Carbonate Facies in Permian Limestone Outcrops, Muak Lek and Chumphae Areas, Central-Northeast Thailand, #50509 (2011)

Rahmat Utomo, John Warren, Winarno Susanto

Search and Discovery.com

... as a microresistivity contrast that comprise the sinusoidal line in FMI. On the other hand, the constructed FMI of a Chumphae pseudowell does not show...

Re-Using Old Formation MicroScanner Logs to Help Understand Reservoir and Fracture Development at the Dover East Field, Southwestern Ontario, Canada; #20252 (2014)

Dragan Andjelkovic, Simon Brame, and Timo Von Rudloff

Search and Discovery.com

... observed on the image. Partially open fracture is seen as a conductive dark band that has more than 50% of sinusoidal trace and is frequently bed bounded...

Depositional Environments and Sediment Characteristics of the Colville and Adjacent Deltas, Northern Arctic Alaska

A.S. Naidu, T.C. Mowatt

Houston Geological Society

... and the sediment types on the coastal beach are the result of an interplay of ice-stress conditions, erosion-deposition effected by normal waves...

Sand Bodies on Muddy Shelves: A Model for Sedimentation in the Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway, North America

Donald J. P. Swift, Dudley D. Rice

Special Publications of SEPM

... to the pressure gradient slope Water parcels in the the more 1980 ing bottom sediment because associated storm waves produce a high frequency...

Erosional Current Marks of Weakly Cohesive Mud Beds

J. R. L. Allen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... was supercritical and its free surface bore very low sinusoidal waves about one meter in wavelength. Bed erosion was rapid, though not as fast...

Recent, Temperate, Sub-Photic, Carbonate Sedimentation: Rockall Bank, Northeast Atlantic

Terence P. Scoffin, E. Torbjorn Alexandersson, George E. Bowes, Julian J. Clokie, George E. Farrow, John D. Milliman

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., 1964, Freak ocean waves: Oceanus, v. 10, p. 12. DRAPER. L., AND SQUIRE, E. M., 1967, Waves at ocean weather ship station India (59°N 19°W): Trans...

Fundamentals of sequence stratigraphy

Wolfgang Schlager

Special Publications of SEPM

... with symmetrical sea-level waves invariably produces a FST. Even an asymmetric fluctuation with rapid fall of 1.25 m/ky is insufficient to suppress FST...

Controls on Evolution of Cambrian-Ordovician Passive Margin, U.S. Appalachians

J. F. Read

Special Publications of SEPM

... had developed by the Middle to Late Cambrian, then the rimmed platform effectively blocked the effects of oceanic waves on the platform interior...

Hydraulic-Jump and Hyperconcentrated-Flow Deposits of a Glacigenic Subaqueous Fan: Oak Ridges Moraine, Southern Ontario, Canada

H.A.J. Russell, R.W.C. Arnott

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., AND YOKOKAWA, M., 2001, Theoretical study on breaking of waves on antidunes, in Peakall, J., McCaffrey, B., and Kneller, B., eds., Sediment Transport...

A Numerical Model of Grand Canyon

Henry N. Pollack

Four Corners Geological Society

... elevation. Figure 2. Simple models of topographic development shown modifying a sinusoidal profile. To solve the equation for a particular erosional system...

Marine Seismic Sources: Part XIII: The Far Field Response of an Air Gun Array

Martin Landrø, Lasse Amundsen

GEO ExPro Magazine

... term in the series has simple trigonometric depth dependence of sinusoidal form. There are two major observations to be made: first, the amplitude...

Abstract: Identification of Deltaic Facies with 3-D Seismic Coherency and the Spectral Decomposition Cube: A Study From South Marsh Island Area, Gulf of Mexico

John A. Lopez, Greg Partyka, Norm L. Haskell, and Susan E. Nissen

Houston Geological Society Bulletin

... in the seismic wavelet within the analysis window. The sinusoidal character of the seismic wavelet is removed, and what remains is principally geologic...

Extended Abstract: Dynamical Systems Theory of Shelf-Clinoform Stratigraphy

Michael A. Simms

GCAGS Transactions

..., and sinusoidal eustatic variation with amplitude of 50 m (164 ft) and period of 60 kyr. The differential equations of the system are shown in Figure...

Fracture characterization from core and image log integration at Tengiz and Korolev fields, Kazakhstan

Ted Playton, Evan Earnest, Fermín Fernández-Ibáñez, Assem Bibolova, Dana Tolessin, Ilyas Tussupbayev, and Bagdat Toleubay

AAPG Bulletin

... experience; (2) different vintages of data and interpretations; (3) data quality; (4) induced fractures; (5) nonfracture sinusoidal features; and (6...

Abstract: 3D Facies Architecture of a Dryland Shadow Bar, Umbum Creek, Central Australia; #90063 (2007)

Search and Discovery.com

The Impact of Shear-Wave Splitting on the Imaging of P-S Data

Search and Discovery.com

...-S reflections arrive from different shot-to-receiver azimuths, the variation in traveltime is obviously visible by the sinusoidal variation...

Targeted Horizontal Well Applications in a Heterogeneous Waterflood Unit: Vacuum Glorieta West Unit, Vacuum Field, Lea County, SE New Mexico, by Ata Sagnak, Garrett Luig, Greg Hinterlong; #90029 (2004)

Search and Discovery.com

Using the Circumferential Borehole Imaging Log to Identify and Orient Vertical Fractures in the Austin Chalk

Bruce R. Noblett, L. Pat Howard

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... a fracture slices a wellbore the exit point represents the down dip direction of that fracture and is shown as the trough of the sinusoidal curve...