A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR 3-D FLEXURAL-SLIP RESTORATION, P.A. Griffiths et. al., #40038

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Chasing the Faults within a Permian Carbonate Using Wide Azimuth Seismic Data - A Thailand Case Study, #41016 (2012)

V. W. T. Kong, M. Lawlor, C. E. Hinz

Search and Discovery.com

... family patterns from each of the sorted shot-to-receiver azimuth sets portray a slightly different illumination of the continuity and development...

Source Mechanism Analysis to Determine Optimal Wellbore Orientation in the Eagle Ford Play; #41196 (2013)

Cherie Telker

Search and Discovery.com

... for information that will optimize their reservoir production. Drilling the wellbore orthogonal to the anticipated fracture direction opens maximum...

3-D seismic Data in Delineating Productive Ismay Algal Mounds in Southern Paradox Basin, Utah, By, R.O. Louden, D.D. Lehman, W.E. Johnson and D.L. Edwards, Search and Discovery Article #40048 (2002)

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A Diagnostic Approach to Identify Complex Fracture Geometries in Unconventional Reservoirs Using a Semi-Analytical Model

Zhiming Chen, Xinwei Liao, Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Xiaoliang Zhao, Xiaojiang Li, He Sun

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... geometry using a micro-seismic map. In the geometry, the fractures developed with two distinct, orthogonal orientations. Here we call this type...

A Technique for Processing Undisturbed Marine Sand Sediments and Reconstructing Fabric and Porometry

Kenneth J. Curry, Maritza Abril, Jana B. Avant, Conrad Curry, Richard H. Bennett, Matthew H. Hulbert

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... in Fig. 6. Figures 6A and 6B represent two sets of eight consecutive planes (polished sediment surfaces 50 µm apart). Figure 6C represents one set...

Fractured Reservoir Characterization Using Multicomponent Seismic Surveys

Thomas L. Davis, Robert D. Benson

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... are recorded, one vertical and two orthogonal horizontal. Likewise, three components of ground motion are induced at each source location. O I l o...

Heartburn in Predicting Natural Fractures: The Effects of Differential Fracture Susceptibility in Heterogeneous Lithologies

John C. Lorenz

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... pattern that strikes E-K and display short, younger, orthogonal cross fractures. However, some lenses contain only a later, ENE fracture set, some lenses...

Closing the loop between acquisition and processing: Data-driven volumetric SNR estimation versus acquisition design predictions

Andrey Bakulin, Ilya Silvestrov, Pierre Leger

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... good agreement between the two sets, both clustering around 𝑆𝑁𝑅 𝑆𝑁𝑅 line with reasonable deviations. Figure 4: Cross-plot of theoretical...

Chapter 10. Planetary Fracturing: Global and Regional Systems of Lineaments on the Earth, Mars and the Moon

G. N. Katterfeld

Utah Geological Association

... sets of fractures” of which one is orthogonal and the other diagonal in relation to the network of meridians and parallels. J. Umbgrove (1947...

Granitic Bornhardts: Their Morphology, Characteristics and Origins

C. R. Twidale

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... by systems of steeply inclined orthogonal or rhomboidal joints and their convexupward profiles are associated with sets of convexupward sheet fractures...

Relations Between ERTS Lineaments, Aeromagnetic Anomalies and Geological Structures in North-Central Nevada

Don W. Levandowski, Ted V. Jennings, W. Terry Lehman

Utah Geological Association

... lineaments form two approximately orthogonal pair sets: N25°W-N73°E and N8°E-N78°W. The age and origin of the pair set formation is as yet unknown...

Pebble Shape (and Size!): DISCUSSION

Alex Woronow

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... that these misconceptions generate. Illenberger (p. 759) criticizes Sneed and Folk (1958) for producing two shape indices that, he contends, are not orthogonal...

Using Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry to Recognize Lateral Versus Forward Accretion Bedforms in the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, NE Alberta, Canada

Derek A. Hayes, Eric R. Timmer, Michael J. Ranger, Jeffrey L. Kavanaugh, Murray K. Gingras

CSPG Bulletin

... the succession is one large point-bar consisting of several lateral accretion sets or a number of smaller, stacked point-bars consisting of one to two...

Constraints on Natural Fracture and In-situ Stress Trends of Unconventional Reservoirs in the Permian Basin, USA

David Forand, Vincent Heesakkers, Kenneth Schwartz

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

..., differences in fracture orientation exist. The Delaware Wolfcamp typically has two orthogonal fracture sets, and all fracture trends rotate throughout...

Tectonic Implications of Oriented Lakes and Lineaments in Northeastern Bolivia

George Plafker

Utah Geological Association

... Guapore two sets of near-vertical, mutually perpendicular joints trending N. 55° W. (h01 joints or longitudinal joints) and approximately N. 35° E...

Geometry and Mechanical Relationship of Folds to Thrust Fault Propagation Using a Minor Thrust in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

S.P. Brown, J. H. Spang

CSPG Bulletin

...------------------------ The fracture sets are nearly orthogonal and crudely normal to bedding. For convenience, the two sets will be referred...

Multi-Disciplinary Data Integration for Inverse Hydraulic Fracturing Analysis: A Case Study

Arash Dahi Taleghani, Ping Puyang, Joel LeCalvez

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... There are existing numerical solutions that could model hydraulic fracturing in naturally fractured reservoirs. Zhang et al. (2007) introduced a two...

Reservoirs in Fractured Rock: Geologic Exploration Methods

David W. Stearns, Melvin Friedman

AAPG Special Volumes

... be subdivided into two major classes: regional orthogonal fractures and structure-related fractures. Without further explanation this categorization...

Chapter 5. Eastern United States: Early Jointing and Cumulative Fracture Patterns

Richard P. Nickelsen

Utah Geological Association

... GULF COAST: Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., v. 58, no. 1, p. 71–78. Gay, S. Parker, Jr., 1973, PERVASIVE ORTHOGONAL FRACTURING IN EARTH...

Origin of coast-perpendicular extensional faults, western Gulf of Mexico: The relationship between an early-stage ridge and a late-stage fault

Ramon H. Trevino, Bruno C. Vendeville

AAPG Bulletin

... H. Trevino, Bruno C. Vendeville 2008 951 964 92 7 An area near Corpus Christi, Texas, comprises two large, coast-parallel, listric-normal growth...

Characterizing the Fracture Network at Yucca Mountain, Nevada Part 1. Integration of Field Data for Numerical Simulations

D.S. Sweetkind, L.O. Anna, S.C. Williams-Stroud, J.A. Coe

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... joints (Barton, 1984) consists of three mutually orthogonal joint sets: two subvertical sets, trending northwest and northeast, and one subhorizontal...

Lineament Tectonics: An Approach to Basin Analysis and Exploration

Catherine I. Elliott

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...-scale lineaments. He often referred to these as 'corridors' because lineaments appeared as zones along which two parallel edges could be identified...

Fracture Studies on the Upper Cretaceous Pictured Cliffs Sandstone and Fruitland Formation, Northern San Juan Basin, La Plata County, Colorado

Steven M. Condon

Four Corners Geological Society

... occur in two sets, a face cleat and a butt cleat. There appears to be a clockwise rotation from northwest to northeast of the J1 joint set...

Characteristics of Natural Fractures in the Austin Chalk Outcrop Trend

Kevin P. Corbett, M. Friedman, D. V. Wiltschko, J. Hung

South Texas Geological Society Special Publications

... by fractures of the major set. They are highly variable in strike- and dip-length with the former controlled by the spacing of the two ordered sets...