Anatomy of a normal fault with shale smear: Implications for fault seal

Atilla Aydin, Yehuda Eyal

AAPG Bulletin

... of Suez, Egypt. An alternative method uses the shale gouge ratio, defined as the ratio of the cumulative shale thickness within the throw interval...

TECTONIC FRAMEWORK OF DEPOSITION OF THE CONASAUGA FORMATION

William A. Thomas, Ricardo A. Astini, W. Edward Osborne, German Bayona

Alabama Geological Society

... promontory of Laurentia is conjugate to the \\cstern margin of the Precordillera, and the Alabama-Oklahoma transform margin of the Ouachita embayment...

A Potentially World Class Undrilled Basin

John M Jacques, Mark Bilsland, Ruth Hoult

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., the basin contains up to 17 km of Upper Precambrian to Upper Mesozoic sediments. Palinspastic restoration of the conjugate margins of the North Atlantic...

Hydrocarbon Prospect of Pre Tertiary Basement in Kuang Area, South Sumatra

Sardjito, Eddy Fadianto, Djumlati, Steven Hansen

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... a secondary fracture set striking north 80° west-south 80° east, which is the perpendicular conjugate set to the dominant north-south striking fractures...

Early Cretaceous deepwater rifts of the Camamu-Almada Basin of northeastern Brazil and their implications for the distribution of deepwater source and reservoir rocks

James J. D. McConnell, Paul Mann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... Energy© for offering access to primary datasets used for this study. Additionally, we thank industry sponsors for the Conjugate Basins, Tectonics...

The Antarctic Continental Margin Geology and Geophysics of Offshore Wilkes Land

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... continental margin offered a look at an Antarctic passive-rift margin, a conjugate to the well-studied Australian continental margin. The Ross S e...

Why Exploration Offshore Somalia Could Reveal an Oily Surprise

Richard Hedley, TGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... than 1,000 km2. central Somalia basins as a result of erosion from largely On the conjugate margin in Madagascar, the Karoo has high Precambrian...

Transactions: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies; 2017 Front Matter

James J. Willis, Norman C. Rosen, Jill C. Willis, Dorene B. West

GCAGS Transactions

... Types Produced by Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAE) 1A, 1B, and 2 on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Conjugate Margins 565 Carr, Presly, and Paul Mann...

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John G. Dennis

AAPG Special Volumes

...------------------------- Definition: Joint at an oblique angle, usually near 45°, to the tectonic trend. Commonly in conjugate systems whose axis of intersection...

Fracture Control of P-wave Azimuthal Anisotropy in a Laramide Basement-cored Anticline at Casper Arch, Wyoming: Insights from Correlations with Surface Analogs and Curvature Analyses

Duke Cooley, Eric Erslev

AAPG Special Volumes

.... To determine the Laramide σ1 direction, conjugate strike-slip slickenlines were averaged individually and then bisected, giving an average Laramide σ1...

Mechanical Layer-dependent Fracture Characteristics from Fracture Density vs. Tvd Cross Plots. Examples from Horizontal Wells in Carbonate Reservoirs, North Oman; #90017 (2003)

Sait Ismail Ozkaya, Wilhelm Kolkman, Joachim Amthor

Search and Discovery.com

... of two conjugate sets. Height, length and spacing of dispersed fractures are normally controlled by mechanical layer characteristics. Dispersed fractures...

Pre-existing Zones of Weakness: An Experimental Study of Their Influence on the Development of Extensional Faults, #40631 (2010)

Alissa A. Henza, Martha O. Withjack, Roy W. Schlische,

Search and Discovery.com

... of complex transfer zones (graben shifts) in conjugate fault systems around the Funan Field, Pattani Basin, Gulf of Thailand: Journal of Structural Geology v...

Greenland - The New Arctic Hot Spot?; #10353 (2011)

Martin Damso Bruun, Gregers Dam, Niels-Erik Hamann, and Martin Sonderholm

Search and Discovery.com

... the conjugate margin to South‐West Greenland, but only one of these has been tested in West Greenland. The technical success in the Canadian Hopedale Basin...

Prospectivity and Petroleum Systems Modelling of the Offshore Lamu Basin, Kenya: Implications for an Emerging Hydrocarbon Province, #10700 (2015)

Olivia Osicki, Oliver Schenk, and Duplo Kornpihl

Search and Discovery.com

... in Tanzania and Mozambique indicate hydrocarbon potential in East Africa, as do heavy oil deposits on the conjugate margin in Madagascar. Exploration...

A Tectonostratigraphic History of Orphan Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada, #10703 (2015).

Lynn T. Dafoe, Charlotte E. Keen, Graham L. Williams, Sonya A. Dehler

Search and Discovery.com

...). Similar volcanism may occur on the conjugate margin of south Rockall Bank (Bull and Masson, 1996) and/or south Rockall Basin (Scrutton and Bentley, 1988...

Spatial Distribution of Large-Scale Carbonate Buildups in a Closed Lake System, Lago Strobel, Santa Cruz, Argentina; #51140 (2015)

Cody R. Miller, Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, James M. Ellis

Search and Discovery.com

... the South Atlantic conjugate margins. References Cited Della Porta, G., and F. Barilaro, Non-Marine Carbonate Precipitates: A Review Based on Recent...

Structural Impact of the Yarmouth Arch in the Central Atlantic Opening and on the Southwest Nova Scotian Margin Architecture (Southwest Nova Scotia 2011 PFA Expansion); #30481 (2016)

Dimitri Savva, Tomasz Chrest, Francky Saint-Ange, Adam MacDonald, Matt Luheshi, Laurent Cuilhe

Search and Discovery.com

... with the rifting between the Nova Scotia and Morocco, the conjugate margin. The Shelburne Subbasin is bounded to the NE by the Georges Banks area...

Early Post-Salt Differential Topography and Its Impact on Source Rock and Shallow-Water Carbonate Facies Distributions: Examples from the Jurassic of the North Atlantic and the Southern Gulf of Mexico, #11101 (2018).

Rob Forkner, Nick Ettinger

Search and Discovery.com

..., and I. Atkinson, 2010, Late Jurassic source rock super-highway on conjugate margins of the North and Central Atlantic (offshore East Coast Canada...

Characterisation of Fractured Basement Reservoirs, Cuu Long basin, Vietnam, using 3D Structural Modelling and Discrete Fracture Networks, C. Sanders, T. A. Murray, and E. Thompson, #40027

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Detrital signatures of clastic serpentinite in tectonically diverse settings and interpretation of an example from the Northern Apennines

Sonia Perrotta, Mirko Barone, Kathleen M. Marsaglia, Kitty L. Milliken, Vincenzo Perrone, Salvatore Critelli

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...: a test of the Gazzi–Dickinson point-counting method: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 54, p. 103–116. Johnson, L.E., 1992, Mafic clasts in serpentine...

Basement-Controlled Deformation in Wyoming Province of Rocky Mountains Foreland

John James Prucha , John A. Graham , Richard P. Nickelsen

AAPG Bulletin

... move in to fill the gaps in the second. One possible solution to this problem is the movement of material along fractures which are conjugate...

Precambrian Allamoore and Hazel Formations, a Zone of Simple Shear in the Millican Hills Area, Trans Pecos, West Texas

Gary A. Leaf

West Texas Geological Society

.... Four auxiliary sites (stations 43-46) were located adjacent to the traverse based on the triangulation method. RESULTS Traverse Overview...

Linking Coniacian…Santonian (OAE3) Black-Shale Deposition to African Climate Variability: A Reference Section From the Eastern Tropical Atlantic at Orbital Time Scales (Odp Site 959, Off Ivory Coast and Ghana)

Britta Beckmann, Thomas Wagner, Peter Hofmann

Special Publications of SEPM

... TO AFRICAN CLIMATE VARIABILITY Organic-Matter Composition.— In order to assess the type of OM, we used a multi-method approach (maceral analysis...

The Crustal Structure and Evolution of the Area Underlying the Magnetic Quiet Zone on the Margin South of Australia: Rifted Margins

Manik Talwani , John Mutter , Robert Houtz , Michael Konig

AAPG Special Volumes

... or "oceanization." Deighton and others (1976), among many authors, have proposed a method of crustal thinning. Theirs is based on an earlier model of Falvey...

Late Mesozoic sediment provenance on Georges Bank: Enlargement of river drainages to the Atlantic Ocean in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous

Isabel Chavez, Georgia Pe-Piper, David J. W. Piper, and R. Andrew MacRae

AAPG Bulletin

... syntectonic sedimentation in the Permian to Jurassic Fundy Rift Basin, Atlantic Canada, in relation to the Moroccan Conjugate Margin: Central Atlantic Conjugate...