Problems in Seismic Stratigraphy

L. Montadert

AAPG Special Volumes

... sequences on seismic reflection profiles. They use seismic reflection to infer sedimentary facies through time by calibrating seismic stratigraphic sequences...

Precise Sediment Density Determination by Gamma-ray Attenuation Alone: NOTES

Robert B. Whitmarsh

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... to the normal gamma-ray attenuation measuring technique yet gives results accurate to at least 0.02 gm/cc. The principle is that a first estimate...

5-D Interpolation Compensates for Poor Sampling, by Daniel Trad; #41504 (2014).

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Optimization of Offshore Platform Layouts

B. Cote

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... according to the "neapolitan slice" principle. Any danger zone should be placed leeward of the prevailing wind of a lesser danger zone. Thus each zone...

Dating and Correlation, A Review

D. J. McLaren

AAPG Special Volumes

... understanding of time: the relative ordering of events of earth history. The tool used for putting events in order is the principle of positional End...

Airphotos in Environmental Studies

William V. Knight

Tulsa Geological Society

.... The reader may be familiar with the stereoscopic viewers and pictures that are available in many camera shops. The principle used and the results...

Weathering of Glacial Tills in Indiana: II. Heavy Minerals

N. Bhattacharya

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of least resistant and most resistant minerals in the different stages of profile development: this aspect of mineral variation also necessitates a special...

Abstract: Regime Rays: Visualizing the Fermat/Snell Loci in Homogeneous Anisotropic Media; #90171 (2013)

William J. Vetter

Search and Discovery.com

... the remarkable ‘principle of least action’ of Maupertuis [1746], [also Leibniz, Euler, Hamilton, Feynman,… ]. At any rate, what manifests from this hypothesis...

Role of Petroleum Geologist in Development of Law of Oil and Gas

George A. Wilson

AAPG Bulletin

... how the then prevailing geological information, or misinformation, as the case might have been, affected the development of the law from time to time...

Note 40--Subdivision of Precambrian: an Interim Scheme to Be Used by U.S. Geological Survey: STRATIGRAPHIC COMMISSION

Harold L. James

AAPG Bulletin

...; rather, the scale should be an instrument with which to investigate that history. The scheme explicitly sets aside, for the time being at least...

New Oil and Gas Development in Oklahoma

C. W. Shannon , F. G. Rockwell

AAPG Bulletin

... time there are 25,000 wells in the State, producing either oil or gas or both The extent of the explorations and the intensity of development...

ABSTRACT: Geologic and Palynologic Reconnaissance of Lower and Middle Pennsylvanian Strata in the Western Kentucky Coal Field

C. F. Eble, S. F. Greb, D. A. Williams

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... in a coastal 1 deltaic setting at a time when western Kentucky was located close to the equator. This paper addresses the temporal variability...

Problem of Secondary Tilt--Harker's Solution Corrected

Edmund M. Spieker

AAPG Bulletin

... the problem deserves attention. In any event as Harker's solution is presented without qualification in the works here cited and at least one other...

Stratigraphic Classification and Nomenclature: STRATIGRAPHIC COMMISSION

W. P. Woodring

AAPG Bulletin

... of Biostratigraphy," Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Vol. 35, No. 12, pp. 2582-96. HEDBERG, H. D. (1952), "Report 2--Nature, Usage, and Nomenclature of Time...

Arbitrary Cut-Off in Stratigraphy: REPLY TO DISCUSSION

Harry E. Wheeler, V. Standish Mallory

AAPG Bulletin

.... We find ourselves agreeing in principle, at least, with the arguments that Fischer advances against the arbitrary cut-off. Let us hasten to explain...

Pre-Cretaceous Rocks of Northwestern Honduras: Basement Terrane in Sierra de Omoa: REPLY

Gregory S. Horne

AAPG Bulletin

... be bracketed in time by two rocks with the other in order to effect a reliable correlation. Wilson ignores this basic principle when he interprets both...

Abstract: Comparing Modern And Ancient Turbidite Channels And Channel-Like Elements: Insight For A First Principle Approach To Exploration And Exploitation Of Deep-Water Reservoirs, by W. R. Morris and W. R. Normark; #90928 (1999).

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ABSTRACT: Hydrocarbon Microseepage: A Significant but Underutilized Geologic Principle with Broad Applications for Petroleum Exploration and Production, by Schumacher, Dietmar; #90142 (2012)

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Abstract: Target-Oriented Imaging for Continous Seismic Reservoir Monitoring; #90319 (2018)

Hongwei Liu, Mustafa Al-Ali

Search and Discovery.com

... of the operator are correct. According to this principle, the differential time shift (DTS) gathers can be generated by time correlating the focusing operators...

Detailed Stratigraphic Architecture of the Mesaverde Group Determined from Principle-Component Analysis of 3D Seismic Data, Mamm Creek Field, Piceance Basin, Northwest Colorado; #20095 (2010)

Jay Scheevel, Steve Cumella

Search and Discovery.com

...Detailed Stratigraphic Architecture of the Mesaverde Group Determined from Principle-Component Analysis of 3D Seismic Data, Mamm Creek Field...

Aspects to the Resolving Power of 3D Seismic Surveys

Wolfgang Houba

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... alternatingly. This procedure delivers two subsurface lines at the same time during one ship's course. The principle view is presented in Fig. 6 where...

Channel Sequences and Braided Stream Development in the South Canadian River, Hutchinson, Roberts, and Hemphill Counties, Texas

L. G. Kessler, II, Fred G. Cooper

GCAGS Transactions

... channel system. At least eight aggradational channel sequences (including the present channel system) exist in this portion of the Canadian River valley...

Porosity Development in the Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Colorado: Abstract

S. M. Billo

CSPG Special Publications

... Formation in the Boulder region, Colorado, provides a good model that illustrates this principle. The pore space of the stratiform Niobrara limestone...

Limitations of Methods of Drilling and Testing Wildcat Wells: Abstract

Parke A. Dickey

Tulsa Geological Society

... are not well adapted to the detection and reliable evaluation of oil-producing formations. The very principle of rotary drilling requires the sealing off...

Part I: Tribute to Hugh Dinsmore Miser

Tulsa Geological Society

... are for an outstanding geologist, a man of high principle, and a friend...