Reflected Buried Hills in the Oil Fields of Persia, Egypt, and Mexico

Sidney Powers

AAPG Bulletin

... an unconformity is approximately superposed and parallel. Reflection of former topography in strata overlying buried hills is in many cases obscure owing...

Full-waveform inversion with time-dependent receiver-extension: An efficient inner loop optimization

Mustapha Benziane, Romain Brossier, Ludovic Métivier, Serge Sambolian

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and to force it to become small along iterations. L is the maximum allowed receiver relocalization distance, and α is a tuning parameter, for weighting...

Origin and Distribution of Sands and Gravels on the Northern Continental Shelf Off Washington

K. Venkatarathnam, Dean A. McManus

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., Characteristics of Columbia River sediment and sediment transport: Jour. Sed. Petrology, v. 39, p. 1149-1166. WHITE, S. M., 1968, The mineralogy...

A Comparison of the Play Analysis Technique as Applied in Hydrocarbon Resource Assessments of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Kenneth J. Bird

AAPG Special Volumes

... technique, and our experience suggests that several small modifications in the method would improve its efficiency and enhance its reliability...

Transmitted Infrared Radiation: A Simple Method for Studying Sedimentary Structures: NOTES

Donald C. Rhoads, Daniel J. Stanley

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by an ordinary camera loaded with infrared sensitive film. Sediments are generally more transparent to infrared radiation than to white light...

The Art and Science of Interpreting Stratigraphy From Seismic Data

John A. Andrew

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... and lithostratigraphic information can be interpreted from the visual inspection of high-quality, highfrequency, broad-bandwidth reflection seismic data. When...

Morphology and Origin of Salt Domes of Isthmus of Tehuantepec

H. Contreras V. , M. Castillon B.

AAPG Special Volumes

...), with calcite crystals and very small garnets. These metamorphic rocks are extremely folded. Inasmuch as no detailed study has been made, their thickness...

Composite (VS/VP) Ratios in Transversely Isotropic Geology: Possible Aid for Identifying Organic Contamination in Porous Rocks

Alvin K. Benson

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

... University Press. Waters, K. H. (1987). Reflection seismology. New York: John Wiley and Sons. White, J. E. (1965). Seismic waves: Radiation, transmission...

Pre-drill Reservoir Evaluation Using Passive Seismic Imaging

Charles Sicking, Jan Vermilye, Ashley Yaner

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that was made from data collected during a 3D reflection program and before drilling, shows the zones of highest production. Many wells were drilled...

SARIR FIELD SIRTE BASIN, LIBYA, Desert Surprise Then -- and Now Some Keys to Revisit of Libya; Compiled from articles by C. J. Lewis (1990) and R. M. Sanford (1970); With Database of Field Parameters; Compiled by Jingyao Gong, AAPG Data Systems; Search and Discovery Article #10005 (2000)

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Rate of Salt-Dome Growth: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Maurice Ewing, John Ewing

AAPG Bulletin

..._Page 709------------ The Sigsbee Knolls were discovered during Vema Cruise 3 in 1954. They are small hills, 10-20 km. across, which rise 150-350 m...

Abstract: Diffraction Imaging Applied to Pre-existing 3D Seismic Data to Map Fracture Corridors in an Unconventional Play, by Marianne Rauch-Davies and Alex Berkovitch; #90190 (2014)

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Tectonic setting of Middle Devonian to Lower Carboniferous rocks in the Magdalen Basin

P. Durling, F. Marillier

Atlantic Geology

... Geoscience Centre, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaB2Y4A2, Canada Date Received July 24, 1993 Date Accepted January 5, 1994 Seismic reflection data...

Permeability field imaging: Mapping the geocritical crust’s permeability field

P. A. Geiser, P. E. Malin, S. E. Boyer, and J. R. Geiser

AAPG Bulletin

... can be recorded, for example, using standard three-dimensional seismic reflection receiver technology. These signals, whose source is the permeability...

Extension and Oil Maturity in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, China

D.Q. Su, N. White, D. McKenzie

Circum Pacific Council Publications

...Extension and Oil Maturity in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, China D.Q. Su, N. White, D. McKenzie © Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral...

Sediment provenance and stratigraphic correlations of the Paleogene White River Group in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

Joshua R. Malone, John P. Craddock, David H. Malone

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... to the deposition of volcaniclastic sediments of the White River Group and the small proportions of distinct zircon ages appear to be diagnostic of sources...

A Textural Study of Marine Sediments in a Portion of Cardigan Bay (Wales)

Anthony S. G. Jones

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., AND KING, R. F., 1965, Seismic refraction and reflection surveys in Cardigan Bay, 1964-65: The Geology of the Irish Sea Area, 2nd Colloquium, Resumes...

Seismic Fabric and 3-D Structure of the Southwestern Intracontinental Palmyride Fold Belt, Syria

Thomas A. Chaimov , Muawia Barazangi , Damen Al-Saad , Tarif Sawaf , Mohammed Khaddour

AAPG Bulletin

..., and in one small region by a Paleozoic, probably Ordovician, reflection surface. The Syrian Bouguer gravity map, merged from a number of independent...

The Viking Member in Central Alberta

H. G. Gammell

CSPG Bulletin

.... The sands are subgraywackes, being made up of white quartz and rounded black chert grains secondarily cemented with silica. Glauconite, white chert, kaolin...

Revisiting the Brazilian Equatorial Margin with FWI and its impact on interpretation in an exploratory frontier

Diego Costa, Edmarley Ramos, Giuseppe Loconte, Filipe Rudrigues, Olivier Brachet

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... and push-down distortions indicative of small to-mid scale inaccuracies in the velocity model. Such distortions accumulate with depth, creating wave...

Origin and Diagenesis of Calcitic and Hematitic Nodules in the Jordan Sandstone of Northeast Iowa

David B. Johnson, Keene Swett

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... Sandstone forms a steep face approximately 10 m high (Fig. 2). Fresh surfaces are white to buff colored whereas weathered exposures are yellow to dark brown...

Velocity Dispersion and Attenuation in Vibroseis Data

L. Flora Sun

Search and Discovery.com

... frequency band. Broadband, long-baseline data are desirable to optimize measurements of small velocity dispersion. As for data acquisition geometry, VSP...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Volcanic rifted margin structure and development: A comparison between the NE Atlantic and western Australian continental margins; #90022 (2002)

Sverre Planke, Philip A. Symonds, Christian Berndt

Search and Discovery.com

... volcanic rocks from seismic reflection data. This work has been complimented with 1) seismic time horizon interpretation; 2) seismic anomaly...

Velocity Dispersion and Attenuation in Vibroseis Data

L. Flora Sun

Search and Discovery.com

... frequency band. Broadband, long-baseline data are desirable to optimize measurements of small velocity dispersion. As for data acquisition geometry, VSP...

Two-dimensional stratigraphic forward modeling, reconstructing high-relief clinoforms in the northern Taranaki Basin

Migdalys Salazar, Lorena Moscardelli, and Lesli Wood

AAPG Bulletin

... changes of sea levels; Part 6, Stratigraphic interpretation of seismic reflection patterns in depositional sequences, in Payton, C. E., ed., Seismic...