AAPG 2013 Annual Convention and Exhibition, May 19-22, 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; - Abstracts, #90163 (2013).

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Control of grain size of brittle minerals on fracture development in shale under compression: Insights from numerical experiments

Qingfeng Meng and Fang Hao

AAPG Bulletin

... properties and fracture behavior is not well understood. We have used the discrete element method to simulate unconfined rock tests on digital shale...

Fracture system evolution within the Cardium sandstone, central Alberta Foothills folds

William R. Jamison

AAPG Bulletin

.... 44, p. 1524–1530 and 1572–1577. Muehlberger, W. R., 1961, Conjugate joint sets of small dihedral angle: Journal of Geology, v. 69, p. 211–219, doi...

Quantification of fold curvature and fracturing using terrestrial laser scanning

Mark A. Pearce, Richard R. Jones, Steven A. F. Smith, Kenneth J. W. McCaffrey

AAPG Bulletin

... from the LIDAR data, are used to calculate fracture densities. The rich data sets produced by this method provide statistically robust estimates...

Geological Aspects of the Quail Creek Dike Failure

Chad Gourley

Utah Geological Association

... joint pole percentages indicate a conjugate joint set striking N 23°W and N 83°W with near vertical dips. The implied principal stress direction...

Ultra-Deep Sub-Salt Hydrocarbon Exploration Targets: Dead Sea Rift Zone - Implications from Ultra-Deep U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko, Permian, and Tarim (China) Basins Successes, #11260 (2019).

Samuel A. Epstein, Elizabeth Chinn McDade, Allan Spector, Howard R. Feldman,

Search and Discovery.com

... are lagoonal carbonates and mudstones. The Paleozoic reservoir contained oil preserved due to a regional low geothermal gradient. The basin underwent...

Lineaments: Their Role in Tectonics of Central Rocky Mountains

R. A. Hoppin

AAPG Bulletin

... to be the left-slip set of a conjugate system. However, this horizontal slip commonly is not demonstrable, and there are cases where offsets...

Chapter 1: The Santos Basin Pre-Salt Super Giant Petroleum System: An Incredible Journey from Failure to Success

M. R. Mello, W. Peres, S. P. Rostirolla, O. A. Pedrosa, Jr., A. Piquet, S. Becker, P. O. Yilmaz

AAPG Special Volumes

.... J. Post, D. E. Brown, G. C. Tari, M. Nemcok, and S. T. Sinha, eds., Conjugate divergent margins: London, Geological Society, Special Publications 369...

A Carbonate Dilaform, Brooking Springs, Canning Basin, WA

Brian W. Logan, David J. Frances, Maritsa Economo

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... the pressure gradient and are then injected into dilating cavities. Dilation Cavities There are three basic classes of cavities: 1) tabular, 2...

Vein Formation in Cretaceous Carbonates in the Laramide Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt of Eastern Mexico

H. Ferket, R. Swennen, S. Ortuo-Arzate, M. C. Cacas, F. Roure

AAPG Special Volumes

... gradient and induce overpressures at some other site (Ramsay and Huber, 1987). Burial and tectonic compactions also lead to pressure solution...

Geometry of the Hanging Wall Above a System of Listric Normal Faults--A Numerical Solution

Renato M. Darros de Matos

AAPG Bulletin

.... 273-286. Matos, R. M. D. de, 1991, The conjugate half-graben geometry: an example from the Apodi graben, Potiguar basin: Geological Society...

Relationships Between Silica Diagenesis, Deformation, and Fluid Flow in Monterey Formation Cherts, Santa Maria Basin, California

Richard J. Behl

Pacific Section SEPM

...). c = oxygen isotope data (Pisciotto, 1978; Pisciotto, 1981), recalculated with 8180 = 0%o SMOW. d= stratigraphic, compositional, & thermal gradient...

Middle and Late Ordovician Shelf Activation and Foredeep Evolution, Central Appalachian Orogen: Chapter 4

Gary G. Lash

AAPG Special Volumes

... through gradient analysis of fossil assemblages: Lethaia, v. 15, p. 229-246. Cohen, C. R., 1982, Model for a passive to active continental margin...

Tectonic Evolution of the Outer High of Santos Basin, Southern Sao Paulo Plateau, Brazil, and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Paulo Otavio Gomes, Bill Kilsdonk, Tim Grow, Jon Minken, Roberto Barragan

AAPG Special Volumes

.... C. Fiduk, 2003, The evolution of the synrift and transition phases of the central/southern Brazilian and west African conjugate margins...

THE LOWER CRETACEOUS MANNVILLE GROUP OF SASKATCHEWAN - A TECTONIC OVERVIEW

J. E. Christopher

Saskatchewan Geological Society

... by assuming an average valley gradient of 0.37 m/km (2 feet per mile). This value is taken as a minimum for flowage. The measured length of the course...

Quaternary Geology of Avery Island, Louisiana

Whitney J. Autin , Richard P. McCulloh , A. Todd Davison

GCAGS Transactions

... side of the island would have taken longer to accumulate. However, differential rates of uplift, total relief, and slope gradient are also factors...

High-Temperature Diagenesis in Shallow Chalk Reservoir, Skjold Oil Field, Danish North Sea: Evidence from Fluid Inclusions and Oxygen Isotopes

Jorgen Jensenius

AAPG Bulletin

... inclusion studies suggest a precipitation temperature of the infilling calcite significantly above what it should be, applying today's geothermal gradient...

FORELAND DEFORMATION IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE RUBY RANGE OF SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA

Russell G. Tysdal

Montana Geological Society

..., The down-structure method of viewing geologic maps: Journal of Geology, v. 58, p 55-72. Oliver, J.E., 1980, Seismic...

Production-induced fault compartmentalization at Elk Hills field, California

Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart, David A. Ferrill, Nathaniel E. Reish, Peter F. Cowell

AAPG Bulletin

..., 2000, Crossing conjugate normal faults: AAPG Bulletin, v. 84, p. 15431559, doi:10.1016/S0191-8141(99)00017-6.Ferrill, D. A., A. P. Morris, and R. N...

Subsurface Geology of the Warfield Structures in Southwestern West Virginia: Implications for Tectonic Deformation and Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Central Appalachian Basin

Dengliang Gao , Robert C. Shumaker

AAPG Bulletin

... and northern bends. The middl segment is parallel to the New York-Alabama lineament (a northeast-trending magnetic gradient); the southern...

Analysis of Reservoir Properties of Faulted and Fractured Eolian Thrust-Belt Reservoirs (OFR-529) 2008

Dustin Keele, James Evans

Utah Geological Survey

..., the pink stain tends to pervade the surface and obscure the quartz grains. The Gazzi-Dickinson point counting method was used to determine...

Evaluating the Effect of Natural Fractures on Production from Hydraulically Fractured Wells Using Discrete Fracture Network Models

Thomas Doe, Alfred Lacazette, William Dershowitz, Clifford Knitter

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., and Tomographic Fracture Imaging™ (TFI), which is a surface-based passive seismic monitoring method that images a much larger volume of rock is covered...

Wrench Faulting in Selected Areas of the Permian Basin

G. Pat Bolden

West Texas Geological Society

... that the very long N 54° to 62° W lineaments are P shears. The set oriented N 86° ±E are the Riedel shears and the N 36° E are conjugate Riedel shears...

Mechanics of low-relief detachment folding in the Bajiaochang field, Sichuan Basin, China

Andreas Plesch, John H. Shaw, David Kronman

AAPG Bulletin

.... Applications of the restoration method therefore directly benefit the petroleum geoscientist on a variety of levels, from better understanding trap...

Undoing the paradigm of lithofacies control on carbonate reservoir properties through advanced rock typing

Ousmane Mangane, Jeroen Kenter, Tarek Mecheri, Jean Borgomano, and Christophe Nussbaumer

AAPG Bulletin

... properties. We challenge this paradigm by introducing a petrophysical rock-typing method that is unbiased by sedimentological concepts. The advanced rock...