Geological Cross Sections: Part 6. Geological Methods

Jeremy M. Boak

AAPG Special Volumes

... be oriented perpendicular to depositional strike (dip or transverse section) to show facies changes toward or away from the basin margin. Strike sections...

Reduction of Gross Rock Volume Uncertainty in a Salt Flank Structure Using Dipmeter and Image Log Data

Carmen Garcia-Carballido, Aadam Styles, Michael Poppelreiter

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and troughs. This technique involves tangent diagrams, analysis of azimuth and dip plots (against depth), combined azimuth versus dip plots and the projection...

Statistical Determination of Mean Strike and Dip: Example from Basal Tuscaloosa, Eastern Alabama: ABSTRACT

F. A. Pontigo, Jr., W. C. Parker, W. F. Tanner

AAPG Bulletin

...Statistical Determination of Mean Strike and Dip: Example from Basal Tuscaloosa, Eastern Alabama: ABSTRACT F. A. Pontigo, Jr., W. C. Parker, W. F...

ABSTRACT: Effect of Slope Processes on Shallow Salt Body Orientation, Northwest Gulf of Mexico, by Joseph Carl Fiduk; #91003 (1990).

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Stress Analysis of the Casper Mountain — Emigrant Gap Anticline Juncture, Natrona County, Wyoming

William C. Beck, Arthur E. Burford

Wyoming Geological Association

... was active. Return to the initial stress orientation is suggested by strike-slip faults that offset folded strata. Deformation of Casper Mountain...

Notches Dome Field Development

Mitch Meyer, John Starck

Wyoming Geological Association

... barrels of water per day (BWPD). These new wells found approximately 2 MMBO of new reserves structurally down dip of a field producing 360 BOPD...

The South Crawford Mountain Prospect, Rich County, Utah: A Case History

Valen D. Ott, Eric C. Potter, Kenneth R. Kreckel

Utah Geological Association

... was spudded in the Mississippian Brazer Dolomite and drilled into the steep east dip on the eastern flank of the fold. After the hole was deviated...

Statistical Analysis of Regional Facies Change in Ordovician Cobourg Limestone in Northwestern New York and Southern Ontario

L. Lippitt

AAPG Bulletin

... variable is accurate only to the first order of magnitude. For example, if an analysis is made of sand texture per entage versus strike distance, the data...

Analogue Study of Basement Fractured Reservoirs in Kotopanjang Area, Central Sumatra

Hendra Niko Saputra, Benyamin Sapiie

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of fracture, distance, strike and dip, trace length, thickness, mineral filled, and cutting relationship. All of data are analyzed using stereographic...

Dip Direction Indicator: NOTES

Wayne Pryor

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... with a compass. This indicator can be readily used in determining the direction of dip and strike of either consolidated or unconsolidated rocks, where...

Locating massive syneresis fractures in shale: An experimental study

X. Wang, L. Pan, L. Li, H. C. Lau, M. Zhang, H. Wang, and N. Cai

AAPG Bulletin

... 1 was a long strike line and steeply dipping structure, with a strike length of 27 cm (∼11 in.) and a dip angle of 65°. Model 2 had a short strike (16...

Southwest Lake Arthur Field, Cameron Parish, Louisiana: Case Histories

Vito A. Gotautas, George E. Gordon, Johnnie Johnson, Clyde Lee

AAPG Special Volumes

... definition and drilling. They demonstrated east and south dip but could not prove west dip because of the severe weathering problems associated with shooting...

Petroleum Geology in the United States

Gerald M. Friedman, Sharon A. Poissant

Petroleum History Institute

... Coast. It was there that the method of "dip shooting" was initiated, allowing the mapping of subsurface structures with no correlatable horizons (Owen...

Paleocurrent Analysis of Severely Deformed Flysch-type Strata-a Case Study from South Georgia Island

R. H. Dott, Jr.

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to their original spatial positions involves the familiar straight-forward rotation of master stratification around the strike line through the dip angle...

Geometry and Mechanisms of Folding Related to Growth Faulting in Nordheim Field Area (Wilcox), De Witt County, Texas

Lee T. Billingsley

GCAGS Transactions

.... They include: a) the upward movement of folds relative to regional dip, b) the shift of fold crests along dip and strike at various depths and c...

ABSTRACT: Kinematic Characteristics of Reactivated Versus Newly Formed Strike-Slip Zones in Frontal Fold-Thrust Belts: Examples from the Alps, by G. Schoenborn; #91021 (2010)

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Effect on SAGD Performance of Horizontal Well Orientation with Respect to Inclined Shale Layers and Point Bars; #41334 (2014)

Amir Zamani and Ron Zakariasen

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..., steam moves upward following a pathway along the dip of the beds. However, in the case where SAGD well-pairs are placed parallel to the strike...

Surface Fracture System of South Texas

Donald C. Barton

AAPG Bulletin

..., but not much, displacement of the cap rock. The dip of the fracture planes has not been determined satisfactorily. The trends of the fractures...

Surface Fracture System of South Texas

Donald C. Barton

AAPG Special Volumes

..., and a little, but not much, displacement of the cap rock. The dip of the fracture planes has not been determined satisfactorily. The trends...

Transition–Zone Seismic Surveys in Southeast Asia

R. E. Sheriff, Palmer L. Greene, Harold Reaves

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and source-to-hydro-phone distance. Surveys up rivers are especially useful for reconnaissance because the processing can determine the strike direction...

Symbols for Dip and Strike: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

O. Dreher

AAPG Bulletin

...Symbols for Dip and Strike: GEOLOGICAL NOTES O. Dreher 1927 868 870 11 8. (August) Dip and strike of the formations are generally marked...

Chief Tool of the Petroleum Exploration Geologist: The Subsurface Structural Map

Louie Sebring, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... be used with caution. Determination of the dip and strike of faults is best determined by contouring on the fault plane. The reflection seismograph...

A Graphic Method For Depicting Horizontal Direction Data On Vertical Outcrop Photographs

Neil S. Davies, William J. McMahon, Anthony P. Shillito

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... not will be cut obliquely to the dip and strike of many key surfaces. While geometric characteristics, and the relationship between depositional forms...

Abstract: Along-Strike Variation in Displacement and Structural Style Across Mechanical Stratigraphy: An Example from Northwest Alberta, Canada, by Gregory S. Soule and Glenn Larson; #90039 (2005)

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Outcrop and Seismic Expressions of Coral Reefs, Carbonate Platforms, and Adjacent Deposits in the Tertiary of the Salalah Basin, South Oman

Jean R. F. Borgomano, Jeroen M. Peters

AAPG Special Volumes

... (Figure 4). The interpretations of three dip lines and one strike line are displayed in the Figures 8, 9, 10, 11. The consistent record...