Chapter 3: Tools and Techniques for Studying Mudstones

O. R. Lazar, K. M. Bohacs, J. Schieber, J. H. S. Macquaker, T. M. Demko

AAPG Special Volumes

... of C vary depending upon the precise mechanisms of organic-carbon production and the subsequent degree of oxic degradations, and are thus very useful...

Background for American Petroleum Geology: Chapter 3

Edgar Wesley Owen

AAPG Special Volumes

... rational analogy supports the supposition; and we may hope one day to find an abundance of those two most useful substances. (Maclure, 1817, p. 56.) Maclure...

Diagenetic Overprints - Unconformities the Lower Cretaceous Greensand Group, North Celtic Sea

Sharon A. Stonecipher

Special Publications of SEPM

.... This unit, which marks the Albian-Cenomanian boundary, is the most useful and consistent log correlation marker in the Greensand. An upper siltstone...

X-ray tomographic microscopy as a means to systematically track experimental decay and fossilization

Tara Selly, James D. Schiffbauer

PALAIOS

... towards identifying mechanisms that facilitate fossil preservation as well as biases that are inherent in the interpretation of fossils (Behrensmeyer...

The Early Cambrian Problematic Fossil Volborthella: New Insights from the Basin and Range

James W. Hagadorn, Ben Waggoner

Pacific Section SEPM

..." in building skeletons by a combination of facultative and active mechanisms. Volborthella tenuis is an enigmatic Lower Cambrian fossil, represented by small...

Predicting Hydrocarbon Generation and Expulsion in the Southern Apennines Thrust Belt by 2-D Integrated Structural and Geochemical Modeling: Part IStructural and Thermal Evolution

Simone Sciamanna, William Sassi, Roberto Gambini, Jean-Luc Rudkiewicz, Fausto Mosca, Carlo Nicolai

AAPG Special Volumes

... the conclusions about the validity of our proposed geometry and assumed accumulated thrust displacement. The methodology used in this work is a useful tool...

Time of Hydrocarbon Expulsion, Paradox for Geologists and Geochemists

H. H. Wilson

AAPG Bulletin

... through empirical data from source-rock envelopes at different depths and in different lithologies. Study of lenticular traps also will provide useful...

Thermal and Compaction Processes in a Young Rifted Basin Containing Evaporites: Gulf of Lions, France (1)

JEAN BURRUS and FRANCOIS AUDEBERT

AAPG Bulletin

... (1) the basin-forming mechanisms, and (2) the intrasedimentary processes that influence the temperature history, and thus, the maturation of source...

Characteristics of Microzonation Modelling in Reservoir Evaluation

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Relationships of Cratonic and Continental-Margin Tectonic Episodes

L. L. Sloss, Robert C. Speed

Special Publications of SEPM

... terranes and sedimentation are interactions Therefore direct responses to plate the term craton remains useful in identifying sedimentary tectonic...

Variations of Density and Porosity with Depth in Deep-sea Sediments

Edwin L. Hamilton

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the DSDP have been made by three routine methods: small-syringe weight/volume, section weight/volume, and the Gamma Ray Attenuation Porosity...

Hydrocarbon plumbing systems of salt minibasins offshore Angola revealed by three-dimensional seismic analysis

Katrine J. Andresen, Mads Huuse, Niels H. Schodt, Lene F. Clausen, Lars Seidler

AAPG Bulletin

.... The far stack volume was, however, useful for the evaluation of the fluid content in the amplitude anomalies because anomalies also appearing in the far...

Correlation of Resource Plays and Biodiversity Patterns: Accumulation of Organic-Rich Shale Tracks Taxonomic Turnover

Jennifer D. Eoff

GCAGS Journal

...). A number of feedback mechanisms associated with widespread volcanism during rapid tectonic-plate movements increased the concentrations of CO2...

Leaf margin analysis: A new equation from humid to mesic forests in China

Tao Su, Yao-Wu Xing, Yu-Sheng (Christopher) Liu, Frédéric M.B. Jacques, Wen-Yun Chen, Yong-Jiang Huang, Zhe-Kun Zhou

PALAIOS

... and Dilcher, 2003; Greenwood, 2005a; Royer et al., 2009), and edaphic conditions (Greenwood et al., 2004). Even with the uncertainty of mechanisms of genome...

Upper Cretaceous Geology of the Celtic Sea

A. J. Weighell, M. R. Dobson, R. J. Whittington, L. J. Delanty

CSPG Special Publications

...., and Roberts, D. G., 1978. Rifting, crustal attenuation and subsidence in the Bay of Biscay. Nature 275, p. 706-711. Curry, D., Hamilton, D., and Smith...

Adventures in groundwater monitoring: Why has it been so difficult to obtain groundwater data near shale gas wells?

Daniel J. Soeder

Environmental Geosciences (DEG)

...; Brantley et al., 2014), but such reports are not especially helpful for defining the mechanisms of release or the migration pathway of the contaminants...

The Role of Seismic in Play Type and Prospect Development: Eastern Canning Basin

Ted Jacobson

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... of the Canning Basin. The permit contains many of the geological en• vironments and provides most of the acquisition pro• blems encountered elsewhere...

Implications of Vitrinite-Reflectance Suppression for the Tectonic and Thermal History of the Malay Basin

Douglas W. Waples, Mahadir Ramly, Warren Leslie

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... the prerifting heat flow. In this case we don't know either value precisely, but we have information that is useful in establishing reasonable limits for each...

Quantitative Image Analysis For Geologic Core Description

Roger J. Barnaby

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... descriptions are useful to evaluate core datasets for possible errors or data problems. Lastly, although hand-drawn geologic core descriptions may...

Integration of Core Data with Well Logs for Geomechanical Property Determination and Monitoring in the Argentinean Vaca Muerta Shale Formation

Maxwell Willis, Azra N. Tutuncu

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... to in different parts of the basin as either the Sierras Blancas or Catriel) is a clastic reservoir deposited through eolian and lacustrine mechanisms (Vergani...

Experimental and Numerical Investigation into the Feasibility of Gas Injection in Waterflooded Reservoirs

S. Sakthikumar, K. Madaoui, B. Thiebot, L. Bouvier

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of the above will depend on the particular context. Useful work has been done in clarifying the influence of the parameters controlling the efficiency...

Swash„Groundwater„Beach Profile Interactions

Evans Waddell

Special Publications of SEPM

... sufficiently high frequency to allow for an insight into the actual physical mechanisms and 2 because the pertinent first order parame ters were...

Analysis of common pre-treatments in grain-size analysis (using a grain-size standard)

Adam J. White, Stephanie S. Kienast, Markus Kienast, Jessica C. Garwood, Paul S. Hill

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... near the bottom of a glass aperture tube. Each individual aperture tube is useful for measuring particles ∼ 2–50% of its orifice size (Beckman Coulter...

Linking sediment flux to river migration in arid landscapes through mass balance

Alessandro Ielpi, Mathieu G.A. Lapôtre

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... erodibility and bend geometry. Our model sheds new light on the driving mechanisms of channel mobility in dryland streams and may find application...

Recognition of the Shelf-Slope Break Along Ancient Tectonically Active Continental Margins

Raymond V. Ingersoll, Stephan A. Graham

Special Publications of SEPM

... due to the fragmen tation and attenuation of continental crust by mul faults and lower crustal extension As transform tectonics dom tiple splay...