Microbialites in a high-altitude Andean lake: multiple controls on carbonate precipitation and lamina accretion

Fernando J. Gomez, Linda C. Kah, Julie K. Bartley, Ricardo A. Astini

PALAIOS

... and gradual smoothing of surface morphology. Additionally, hybrid laminae result from a combination of these end members. Differences in microfabric...

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

Garry Quinlan

CSPG Special Publications

... into the Illinois Basin and shows a local gravity high underlying the approximate centre of the basin that persists through several different smoothing...

Deep Channels in Turbidite-Bearing Formations

Roger G. Walker

AAPG Bulletin

..., and that the final cutting process affected only the very bottom of the channel without smoothing out the stepped sides of the higher part. Hand and Emery (1964...

Precambrian Basement Geology of the Permian Basin Region of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico: A Geophysical Perspective

Donald C. Adams, G. Randy Keller

AAPG Bulletin

.... The sides of the cells are vertical and extend between the top and bottom gridded surfaces. The edges of the model are latitudes 29°N and 35°N and longitudes...

Petrophysical characteristics and facies of carbonate reservoirs: The Red River Formation (Ordovician), Williston basin

Lillian Hess Tanguay, Gerald M. Friedman

AAPG Bulletin

.... Images were edited using erosion/dilation techniques to quantify pore shapes and sizes by smoothing the particle boundaries. The feature analysis...

Primary basins and their boundaries in the deep-water northern Gulf of Mexico: Origin, trap types, and petroleum system implications

Robin S. Pilcher, Bill Kilsdonk, James Trude

AAPG Bulletin

... basin surface, is a more complex composite of allochthonous salt and weld surfaces (Figure 2). The top primary basin surface is highly diachronous...

Outcrop-based reservoir characterization of a kilometer-scale sand-injectite complex

Anthony Scott, Andrew Hurst, Mario Vigorito

AAPG Bulletin

... and sills, respectively. Smoothing (spline) functions were used to remove angular contours and to eliminate noise.RESERVOIR ARCHITECTUREA genetically...

Oil distribution in outcropping carbonate-ramp reservoirs (Maiella Mountain, Central Italy): Three-dimensional models constrained by dense historical well data and laboratory measurements

Lorenzo Lipparini, Fabio Trippetta, Roberta Ruggieri, Marco Brandano, and Alessandro Romi

AAPG Bulletin

... development on a Miocene ramp (Maiella, Italy): Key surfaces to track changes in trophic resources in nontropical carbonate settings: Journal of Sedimentary...

Nuclear magnetic resonance characterization of porosity-preserving microcrystalline quartz coatings in Fontainebleau sandstones

Marta Henriques Jácomo, Ricardo Ivan Ferreira Trindade, Marsha French, Éverton Lucas-Oliveira, Elton Tadeu Montrazi, and Tito José Bonagamba

AAPG Bulletin

...-smoothing regularization method (Borgia et al., 1998; Kenyon, 1997), to convert the decay functions into a T2 distribution. The T2F-TREx experiment...

Sedimentology of Reservoir-scale Aeolian-Fluvial Interactions, Wadi Batha, Northern Wahiba Sand Sea, Oman, #51260 (2016).

Steven G. Fryberger, Caroline Y. Hern, Ken Glennie

Search and Discovery.com

... of aeolian bounding surfaces, with examples from the Permian Minnelusa Formation, USA, in C.P. North and D.J. Prosser, editors, Characterization of Fluvial...

Decline Curve Methods

Roswell H. Johnson

AAPG Bulletin

...------------------------------ it is here mentioned because valuable for isographs referred to later. 4. Method of smoothing. a. Curves which are frequently irregular because...

A Model for Estimating Optimal Spacing of the Wolfcamp in the Delaware Basin

Ahmed Alzahabi, Ahmed Kamel, Abdallah Harouaka, A. Alexandre Trindade

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... analytics (Scatter-diagram smoothing) to develop a relationship between two dependent variables EUR and IP over 150 days and Rate of overlap (See Eqs. 1...

Well to Well Interference: Quantifying Connectivity and Understanding How Much is Too Much - A STACK Case Study

Trevor Ingle, Hart Greenwood, Mark Wilkins, Mouin Almasoodi, Kyle Haustveit

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... that using a LOESS smoothing technique that evaluated a 30minute window to generally be appropriate. Experimenting with a range of data filters as a part...

Development of the Basin-In-Basin Honeycomb of Florida Bay and the Northeastern Cuban Lagoon

W. Armstrong Price

GCAGS Transactions

... the marshes. On one flank of a hurricane at a sufficient distance from the center, tides, or rather, the water surfaces, are sometimes lowered, areas formerly...

Sequential vertical gas charge into multilayered sequences controlled by central conduits

M. Foschi, J. A. Cartwright, and C. W. MacMinn

AAPG Bulletin

..., 1999). The interpreted horizons were used to calculate surfaces by using convergent interpolation methods and 25 × 25 m (82 × 82 ft) grid spacing...

The Future of Energy Minerals1

William H. Curry

Earth Science Bulletin (WGA)

... structural pattern of our region. Wyoming crude oil production was 34 MILLION BARRELS in 1943. By smoothing out the mountain ranges and correlating...

Chapter 7: Estimating the Thickness of Thin Beds

Tom Wittick

North Texas Geological Society

...-hatched areas. The difference between the actual gross thickness and the interpreted gross thickness is the error due to the smoothing of the amplitude...

Relating shale thickness to seal potential

Justin Palmer

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... from the dashed line in Figure 3, smoothing variations related to data availability. Second International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy...

Size Distribution of Heavy Minerals in Sediments

John J. W. Rogers

GCAGS Transactions

... is not changed by the total erosion and transportation process. Evidently major streams are capable of "smoothing out" local variations in the supply...

Resolution of InSAR data inversion and its application to identify shallow hazards

Zhishuai Zhang, Kurt Nihei, Andrey Shabelansky, Dimitri Bevc, Joe Stefani, William Milliken, Gwyn Mali

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... by InSAR. 𝐃 is a smoothing operator for regularization. And is the corresponding regularization coefficient. In this work, we use the conjugate gradient...

Estimation of anisotropic parameters from semblance picking using dynamic programming

Hong Liang, Houzhu (James) Zhang, Dongliang Zhang, Hongwei Liu, Xu Ji

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... then apply the proposed workflow on all the 151 CMP gathers (middle points range: 15 𝑘𝑚~45 𝑘𝑚). We apply slight smoothing to the final estimated...

Pre-Mississippian History of the Peace River Arch

G. DEMILLE

CSPG Bulletin

... sedimentation had the effect of smoothing the ancient sea floor and masking the structural configuration of the basement. This becomes obvious if a comparison...

FRONTMATTER: Geology and Offshore Mineral Resources of the Central Pacific Basin

Circum Pacific Council Publications

..., allowed correction, mosaicking, and smoothing of the bathymetry. The sidescan imagery was then geometrically stretched to co-register...

Structure Test Holes Confirm Post-Paleozoic Relief as Indicated by the Seismograph in the Avonlea Area, Saskatchewan

H. B. Sawatzky, R. G. Agarwal, W. Wilson

CSPG Bulletin

... (perhaps due to a lack of refined velocity control), does have a smoothing effect and both suggest that the Nisku is relatively flat in this area...

Estimating the Thickness of Thin Beds

Abilene Geological Society

... and the interpreted gross thickness is the error due to the smoothing of the amplitude curve done by the interpreter. Evaluation of this method from...