Norphlet Geology and 3-D Geophysics of Fairway Field Mobile Bay, Alabama

Chip Story

GCAGS Transactions

... miles of lateral offset of the northern graben system with decreasing offset to the south. Conjugate normal faulting and extensional wrench faulting...

An Oil Prone Frontier Basin

Lane Franks, Daire Sloan, Mark Sloan, Chris J. Matchette-Downes

GEO ExPro Magazine

... to the south of the Tethys Ocean 225 Ma (million years ago). At this time the Seychelles is understood to have been conjugate to both Northern...

Multi-fault 2D forward models in extensional rift systems of deepwater Brazil: A useful tool for predicting reservoir, source, and maturity

Shamik Bose, Brian J. Darby, Michael A. Sullivan

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... grabens. Introduction Rifting across the conjugate margins of Brazil and West Africa initiated in the early Cretaceous, although the exact timing...

Tectonic Features of the Northwestern Maverick Basin

Matt Gose

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

..., the north 15° east trending faults would correspond to conjugate Riedel shear direction, and the faults trending in a north 15° west direction could...

Seismic Fracture Identification and Horizontal Drilling: Keys to Optimizing Productivity in a Fractured Reservoir, Giddings Field, Texas

Nanette Kuich

Bulletin of South Texas Geological Society

... is consistent with patterns observed in outcrop (Reaser, 1988). It appears that a conjugate set of fractures may be developed locally in the formation...

Tectonostratigraphic Framework of the Lower Keraudren Formation, Bedout Sub-Basin: Interplay of Tectonics and Sedimentary Systems

Jon Minken, Melissa Thompson, Jack Woodward, Fred Fernandes, Rylan Fabrici

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

..., G., Dempsey, C., and Hurren, C. (2018). Interpretation of a Permian conjugate basin margin preserved on the The APPEA Journal 843 outer Northwest...

Offshore Namibia: The sleeping giant deep-water hydrocarbon frontier has awakened

Marcio Rocha Mello

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

.... Brown, G. C. Tari, M. Nemcok, and S. T. Sinha, eds., Conjugate divergent margins: Geological society: Special Publications, 369, 249–266, doi: https...

Tectonic History of Southwestern Utah

Wm. Lee Stokes, Edgar B. Heylmun

Utah Geological Association

... features of the transition zone is the large amount of fracturing. Conjugate and polyhedral sets of fractures are common, and in many places...

Enhanced Oil Recovery … Utilising Captured CO2

David Bamford

GEO ExPro Magazine

... aspects of African E&P, with particular emphasis on new ideas for plays and prospects, the geology of the continent and its conjugate margins...

Know Your Faults!

Rasoul Sorkhabi

GEO ExPro Magazine

..., University of Oregon, Eugene Conjugate normal faults cut the Noonday Dolomite (about 800 Ma) at the entrance to Mosaic Canyon, Death Valley National...

Paleogene Yucatan back-arc basin in the northern Caribbean: Ridge and fracture zone geometry in oceanic crust, depth-to-Moho, and Cenozoic sedimentary fill

Juan Pablo Ramos, Paul Mann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... of the Conjugate Basins, Tectonics, and Hydrocarbons (CBTH) consortium at the University of Houston for their continued financial support. 3 Second International...

Species Concepts and Foraminifera

E. Ann Butler

GCAGS Transactions

... with protoplasm. They are formed into free flagellate zoospores (gametes). They leave the test and conjugate to form embryos (zygotes) the shell of which...

Front Matter

AAPG Special Volumes

... along one predominant deep, low-angle, normal detachment fault of the conjugate set of faults along the rift (Lister et al., 1986). The near-surface...

AI-assisted structural interpretation of complex faulting and salt across the shelf and slope of the Camamu subbasin, northeastern Brazil

Sean Romito, Ana Krueger, Paul Mann

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

..., Structural architecture and nature of the continent-ocean transitional domain at the Camamu and Almada Basins (NE Brazil) within a conjugate margin setting...

Structural Problems Pertaining to Petroleum Exploration in Wyoming

D. L. Blackstone Jr.

Tulsa Geological Society

... a conjugate set of fractures such as would be expected across the plunging fold. The pattern of deformation here is believed to be due to stresses during...

Wrench Fault Tectonics in Northern Irian Jaya

W. Waschsmuth, F. Kunst

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... antithetic members of a conjugate set of faults in a wrench system, with a NE-SW oriented maximum principle stress (Fig. 5). East of the Irier Mountains, E...

Promising Portugal

UPEP/ENMC

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... Conjugate Margins Interest in Portugal is increasing, aided by the relative accessibility of the country and attractive concession and fiscal systems...

Late Carboniferous Tectonostratigraphy in the Avalon Terrane of Southern New Brunswick

R. Damian Nance

Atlantic Geology

... thrusting (D2 ) and backthrusting (D3 ) produced conjugate fold sets coaxial with Fi that verge both NW (F2 ) and SE (F3 ). Associated axial planar...

Argentina: The Final Atlantic Margin Frontier

Ian Davison, Ian Steel

GEO ExPro Magazine

... of Barremian to Aptian age have recently been discovered in wells on the conjugate Namibian margin in the deepwater (Mello, 2012); and similar source...

Plate Tectonic Evolution of Gulf of Mexico and Adjacent Regions: The Overall Framework

Robert S. Dietz

New Orleans Geological Society

... is not mid-oceanic with respect to the pertinent conjugate points. It also provides a model for building-up the Bahama basement to sea level...

Benin: The Low Cost, High Impact Frontier

Emma Tyrrell, Peter Elliott, Matt Lofgran, Blandine Biaou

GEO ExPro Magazine

... Ocean, onshore exploration success has been prolific in the conjugate Potiguar Basin of Brazil. With approximately 1,200 wells drilled and over 100...

Insights into Exploration: Tools for a New Era

Kasper Storrs, Colette Lyle, Christine Yallup, Jonathan Wilson, Richard James

GEO ExPro Magazine

... control (Figures 3c). In frontier areas, prediction can also be driven by information on conjugate margins, well-understood analogues, or even...

The Role of Spaced Cleavage on the Porosity and Permeability within a Reservoir Unit

Paul A. Thorn, David R. Lageson

Montana Geological Society

... in the Mississippian Castle Reef Dolomite just below the Rierdon Formation, where a conjugate joint set has been completely cemented. Other units...

Structural Analysis of Sedimentary Basins: An outline of a 3-hour short course presented to the New Orleans Geological Society, April 29, 1981

Dr. John C. Crowell

New Orleans Geological Society

.... They are closely related. Pure shear is irrotational Complex conjugate systems and fracture intersections (both faults and joints). Figure, Lower p. 5...

FRONTMATTER: The Antarctic Continental Margin Geology and Geophysics of the Western Ross Sea

Circum Pacific Council Publications

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