Developments in Louisiana Gulf Coast in 1972

Patrick J. Hurley , Ted E. Jacques , N. Eugene Swick

AAPG Bulletin

... primarily in sandstones in structural traps, which are present where southward regional dip is interrupted by salt structures, both piercement and deep...

Hierarchical Architecture of Sequences and Bounding Surfaces In A Depositional-Dip Transect of the Fluvio-Deltaic Ferron Sandstone (Turonian), Southeastern Utah, U.S.A.

Jesse T. Korus, Christopher R. Fielding

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... outcrops at the scale of entire sedimentary systems, from coastal plain to prodelta, for tens of kilometers along depositional strike and dip. Moreover...

Fracture Study of Central Travis County, Texas, A Preliminary Statement

William R. Muehlberger , Andrew E. Kurie

GCAGS Transactions

... in determining how rocks break. REGIONAL SETTING The Balcones fault zone is a belt of dip-slip normal strike faults and related fractures which marks...

Noodle Creek Pool, Jones Country Texas

H. W. Imholz

AAPG Special Volumes

... to be an area of considerable flattening of the dip between subsurface control points which are widely scattered on the east side of the structure. It is believed...

Geological Interpretation of Exploratory Wells

Paul Weaver

AAPG Bulletin

... low regional dip. It is not always too easy to know how a well is located on structure at depth merely from its location with relation to the surface...

Drilling Induced Petal Fractures in Coal Core: A Simple Method of Using These Features in Conjunction with Bore-Wall Breakout to Determine the Angular Relationship between Cleat and Maximum Horizontal Stress as Well as Cleat Azimuth in Vertical Drill-Holes

David Titheridge

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of sedimentary and structural features. The basis of determining dip and strike of planar inclined bedding and faults, is the sinusoidal trace of the feature...

Natural fracture distributions in sinuous, channel-fill sandstones of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah

John C. Lorenz, Scott P. Cooper, William A. Olsson

AAPG Bulletin

... Mountain Formation (east-central Utah) has a consistent west-northwest strike regardless of the local axial orientations of the sinuous channels...

Using Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry to Recognize Lateral Versus Forward Accretion Bedforms in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, NE Alberta, Canada

Derek A. Hayes, Eric R. Timmer, Michael J. Ranger, Jeffrey L. Kavanaugh, Murray K. Gingras

CSPG Bulletin

..., the tool to measure strike and dip of bedding planes is used to generate tadpole plots for the purpose of differentiating lateral accretion sets...

Characteristics and origin of the ultradeep Ordovician fault-karst reservoirs: An example from the Shunbei-Yuejin area, Tarim Basin

Jian Wang, Xintong Wang, Yingchang Cao, Fang Hao, Yuhan Pang, Lu Yun, Haijun Yang, and Mingfeng Xie

AAPG Bulletin

... of the SHB1 and SHB5 strike-slip faults. (A) Horizon dip attribute slice (60 ms below the T74 interface) shows the segmentation of the SHB1 fault. Seismic...

Shaly Sand Analysis as an Indicator of Hydrocarbon Production Potential in the Olmos Formation, Las Tiendas Trend, South Texas

K. T. Barrow , G. B. Asquith , G. L. Causey

GCAGS Transactions

... thickness versus cumulative gas production have a correlation coefficient of +0.79. The cross plots also reveal that wells that do not contain net pay...

Mass-Balance Constraints On Stratigraphic Interpretation of Linked Alluvial–Coastal–Shelfal Deposits From Source To Sink: Example From Cretaceous Western Interior Basin, Utah and Colorado, U.S.A.

Gary J. Hampson, Robert A. Duller, Andrew L. Petter, Ruth A. J. Robinson, Philip A. Allen

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., N., and Bracken, B., 2011, Along-strike and down-dip variations in shallow-marine sequence stratigraphic architecture: Upper Cretaceous Star Point...

Test of New Global Tectonics: REPLY

Mason L. Hill

AAPG Bulletin

... discussion does not contribute to the problem of relating California structures to oceanic tectonics, and his arguments favoring dip-slip over strike...

Tectonic Characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach Fault, Southern California

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Influence of Structural Position on Fracturing in the Austin Chalk

David A. Ferrill, Kevin J. Smart, Ronald N. McGinnis, Alan P. Morris, Kirk D. H. Gulliver

GCAGS Journal

... variability in failure modes (extension versus shear failure), fracture orientations, and fracture intensity (or spacing). Incompetent beds within...

Permeability Anisotropy Related to Meandering-Fluvial Facies Architectural Elements in the Bartlesville Sandstone of North Avant Field, Osage County, Oklahoma

Emeka Obianyor

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... from Core Laboratories. In the horizontal plane, measurements were taken in both strike (Khs) and dip (Khd) directions (Figure 5). In the vertical...

Oil and Gas Developments in South Texas in 1982

Andrew M. Raring

AAPG Bulletin

... is a major and mature exploration target. Main drilling activity is confined to strike belts downdip of massive growth-fault systems across which...

ABSTRACT: Structural Interpretation of the Southern Half of the Sawtooth Salient of the Montana Disturbed Belt

Stephen P. Gardner, Jonathan M . Achuff

Montana Geological Society

... a transition from the northerly strike of the thrust faults of the Sawtooth salient to a northwesterly strike in the Sun River reentrant...

Tertiary Limestone Dikes, Oamaru, New Zealand: ABSTRACT

D. W. Lewis

AAPG Bulletin

... both strike and dip. Flow structures are well developed between 2 vertical layers exposed in strike section along one dike. Limestone filling...

Abstract: 2-D Seismic Interpretation of the Puente Formation Structure Upper Main Zone Waterflood Project, Huntington Beach Field, Orange County, California, by E. W. Cumming; #90992 (1993).

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Middle Tertiary Laumontite Isograd Offset 37 Km by Left-Lateral Strike-Slip on Santa Ynez Fault, California: ABSTRACT

Thane H. McCulloh

AAPG Bulletin

... Conception on the west. Neogene dip separation is locally large, and substantial left-lateral strike-slip is suspected. Total slip, however...

Structural Interpretation from Horizontal Seismic Sections: ABSTRACT

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Bulletin

... dip. Event terminations indicate faults or other discontinuities when they are transverse to structural strike. Faults parallel to structural strike...

Structure and Evolution of the Petroliferous Euphrates Graben System, Southeast Syria

Robert K. Litak, Muawia Barazangi, Graham Brew, Tarif Sawaf, Anwar Al-Imam, and Wasif Al-Youssef

AAPG Bulletin

... profiles and data from 35 wells, we mapped a complex network of numerous branching normal and strike-slip faults, generally striking northwest and west...

ABSTRACT: The Oligocene Frio Depisode in the Subsurface of Burgos Basin, Northeastern Mexico, by José Javier Hernández-Mendoza and William Galloway; #90906(2001)

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ABSTRACT: New Geologic Model for the Cretaceous Reservoir of the La Concepcion Mature Oil Field, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela; #90007 (2002)

Denis Marchal, Elmer Ferro, Enrique Peralta

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... which curve towards each other. The presence of such a relay zone explains the changing dip of folds along the general strike of the structures...

ABSTRACT: Corrected Fracture Evaluation Using Borehole Image Data; #90013 (2003)

Randolph J. Koepsell

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... well, drilled perpendicular to the fracture strike, measuring a fracture density is intuitive. As the well deviation changes in dip and direction...