ABSTRACT: A COMPILATION OF OSL GEOCHRONOLOGY COLLECTED BY THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: WHAT THE AGES TELL US AND HOW THEY WILL BE USED; #90114 (2010)

Shannon A. Mahan, Jonathan Matti, Christopher M. Menges, and Robert E. Powell

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... intersections between the fault systems, and span multiple physiographic provinces, including the Peninsular Ranges, the Transverse Ranges, the Mojave...

Modern and Ancient Analogs Provide Geological Control and Scale for Reservoir Layering and Property Distribution in a ‘Wet’ Eolian Depositional System, Saudi Arabia

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Statistical Curvature Analysis Techniques for Structural Interpretation of Dipmeter Data

C. A. Bengtson

AAPG Bulletin

... of the structural setting. The bulk curvature and related transverse and longitudinal structural directions of any well's setting can usually be determined...

Laboratory Study Shows How Real Perforations Affect Unconventional Fracture Initiation

Fokko Doornbosch, Quan Guo, Carlos E. Guedes, Carlos E. Baumann

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... and pressures: 1) In-plane perforating enhances transverse fracture initiation. 2) Spiral perforating resulted in multiple transverse fractures. 3) Oriented...

Optimización de Migración Pre-Apilado en Tiempo Tipo Kirchhoff para Datos Sísmicos 3D en los Llanos Orientales [PAPER IN SPANISH] Migration Optimization of Pre-Stack Kirchhoff Time Type of 3D Seismic Data in the Eastern Plains

María Isabel Prieto, José María Jaramillo

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... horizontal, el medio se clasifica como transversalmente isotrópico con un eje de simetría vertical (VTI, Vertical Transverse Isotropy) (Yilmaz, 1987...

Analyzing BeefŽ Fractures: Genesis and Relationship With Organic-Rich Shale Facies

Mohammed Al Duhailan, Steve Sonnenberg, Mark Longman

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for a vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) system. Anisotropy in shales is caused by preferred orientation of anisotropic mineral grains and thin bedding...

Rock Mechanical Behavior at the Inch Scale in a Thinly Laminated Unconventional Formation

Smaine Zeroug, Bikash K. Sinha, Ting Lei, John Jeffers

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... waves propagating in these directions. This is referred to as vertical transverse isotropy (VTI), and the acoustics of the interval of interest...

Downhole Microseismic Mapping of More Than 400 Fracturing Stages on a Multiwell Pad at the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site (HFTS): Discussion of Operational Challenges and Analytic Results

Neil A. Stegent, Cody Candler

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... component is the accuracy of the velocity model used to analyze the microseismic data set. Anisotropic modeling [i.e., 3D vertical transverse isotropy...

Chapter 12: Microseismic Monitoring in Early Haynesville Development

Peter M. Duncan, William B. Barker, Leo Eisner, Peter G. Smith, Kevin Smith, Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

AAPG Special Volumes

... (also known as vertically transverse isotropy or VTI) (Thomsen, 1986), is the more likely cause of the travel time errors in the predictions made...

Mechanical Characterization, Anisotropy, and Failure Pattern of Unconventional Reservoirs for Wellbore Stability and Fracture Enhancement

Aly Abdelaziz, Kareem Aboayanah, Matthew G. Adams, Giovanni Grasselli

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

...°, and 90° with respect to the bedding planes. Transverse isotropy of the mechanical properties is evident in the various sections of the Buckinghorse...

Chapter 9: The Zafarani and Tangawizi Giant Gas Discoveries: Two Very Different Play Openers Offshore Tanzania

Clemens Pirker, Nadya Badmaeva

AAPG Special Volumes

... amplitude response of the data, especially below top Cretaceous. Shale is known to potentially exhibit a strong degree of vertical transverse isotropy...

Limitations of Reflection Seismograph

L. E. Nugent, Jr.

AAPG Bulletin

... (transverse waves are rarely identified in exploration seismology), and, since the basic principles of seismic theory closely follow those of optical theory...

Elastic Anisotropy of Source Rocks: Implications for Hydrocarbon Generation and Primary Migration

Lev Vernik , Charles Landis

AAPG Bulletin

... the transverse isotropy with the symmetry axis normal to the bedding, the 3-D velocity distribution and velocity anisotropy were calculated from...

Deformation at Lateral Ramps and Tear FaultsCentrifuge Models and Examples from the Canadian Rocky Mountain Foothills

John M. Dixon, Deborah A. Spratt

AAPG Special Volumes

.... The culminations terminate abruptly above the buried transverse structure, and associated folds plunge in opposite directions off the ends...

Donets Riftogen: Zonality, Dislocation, Oil-Gas Potential

E. V. Tomashunas, Yu. G. Lapchinskiy, I. V. Vysochanskiy, A. T. Murich

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...; 3-zones of transverse deep (mantle) faults of Archean age; 4-zones of transverse deep (crustal) faults of Early Proterozoic age; 5-direction of strike...

Observations of Induction Dielectric Measurements and Their Role in Determining Thermal Maturity of Organic Mudrocks

John C. Rasmus, Dean Homan, Gong Li Wang, Natalie Uschner

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... for a simple two-coil triaxial tool in a homogeneous formation with traverse isotropy for both conductivity and dielectric constant. Assuming...

Impact of Pore Pressure on Modeled Hydraulic Fracture Geometry and Well Spacing in the East Duvernay Shale Basin, Canada

Farhan Alimahomed, Eric Wigger, Matthew Drouillard, Gabriel Garcia Rosas, Christen Kolbeck

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., Biot’s coefficient α was computed as a function of mineralogy and elastic properties. Equation 1 shows the vertical-transverse isotropy (VTI...

Abstract: Relaxing the Near-Surface assumption in Estimating 3C Receiver Orientations: Azimuth-Stack Power Optimization of Reflected PS Data; #90187 (2014)

Nirupama (Pam) Nagarajappa, Peter Cary, and Chuck Ursenbach

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... the azimuthal-stack power of the transverse component. We test this method on real 3C/3D dataset where the true orientation of the H1 component is known...

Fluvial Morphology and Sediment-Flux Steering of Axial-Transverse Boundaries in an Experimental Basin

Sean D. Connell, Wonsuck Kim, Chris Paola, Gary A. Smith

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...Fluvial Morphology and Sediment-Flux Steering of Axial-Transverse Boundaries in an Experimental Basin Sean D. Connell, Wonsuck Kim, Chris Paola, Gary...

Oil-Gas Prospects of Upper Devonian Sediments of North Part of Kos’Yu-Rogov Depression [Timan-Pechora]

V. N. Danilov

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

..., Noriyshor, Verkhnerogov, and Nertsetin. See figure 1. These are on the Vorkuta transverse high. Figure 1. Tectonic map of north part of Kos’yu-Rogov...

Sedimentary Environments of Coastal Plains and their Continental Shelves

W. Armstrong Price

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by longshore drift, powered by breakers, forms beach ridges, barriers and transverse bars in river and inlet mouths, smoothing shorelines and preventing...

Abstract: Laramide Left-Slip Evolution and Tectonic Implications of the North Owl Creek Fault System, Wyoming, by E. D. Paylor, II and A. Yin; #91017 (1992).

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Abstract: Provenance Analysis Based on Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology (AFTT): An Example from the Western Transverse and Southern Coast Ranges (WTR/SCR), California, by L. A. Wahrmund; #90987 (1993).

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Abstract: Seismotectonics of the South Coast Region, California, by H. Magistrale; #90992 (1993).

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Abstract: An Overview of Southern California Crustal Deformation Studies and Their Tectonic Interpretation, by K. W. Hudnut; #90981 (1994).

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