Unfathomable: The shifting sand of wave base

Eugene C. Rankey, Christian M. Appendini

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... waves leave a sedimentologically discernible record. They reveal that wave-induced horizontal particle velocities and estimates of wave effectiveness...

DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE JURASSIC SYSTEM AND HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATIONS IN THE WAPELLA-MOOSOMIN AREA, SOUTHEASTERN SASKATCHEWAN

L.K. KREIS

Williston Basin Symposium

... in the CNW Wapella 14-2-15-1W2 well. Rocanville C is made up of interbedded sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, and oolitic bioclastic limestone...

Characterization of Utsira Formation around the Sleipner CO2 storage site, central North Sea

Khoirrashif Pratikna, Md Jamilur Rahman, Nazmul Haque Mondol

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... (UiO), Nazmul Haque Mondol (UiO & NGI) Summary The Utsira formation, a 200-250 m thick late Cenozoic sandstone, has been the main reservoir unit...

Investigating Depth Structure Uncertainty for Horizontal Well Placement, Bauer Field, Cooper-Eromanga Basin

Erin Shirley

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... Sandstone, directly overlain by a 4 m oil column in the McKinlay Member. The Bauer Field has been developed by vertical wells targeting the high...

Three-Dimensional Depth Imaging of Seismic Data to Help Delineate Petroleum Reservoirs in the Williston Basin

Alvin K. Benson

Williston Basin Symposium

... prospect. Initially, stacking velocities were used to derive interval velocities for modeling, but this led to incorrect, contradictory...

Where Is My Horizontal Well? Use of Borehole Seismic Where Velocities Vary Laterally

Agus Muharam, Frank Musgrove

Indonesian Petroleum Association

...Where Is My Horizontal Well? Use of Borehole Seismic Where Velocities Vary Laterally Agus Muharam, Frank Musgrove 1998 117 128 Extended offset...

Geology of Portions of Sunwapta and Southesk Map-Areas: Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Richard D. Hughes

CSPG Special Publications

... or sandy limestone first appears as isolated lenses in the upper portion of the sandstone. Olenellid fragments and Bonnia are almost invariably...

Acoustic Properties of "Young" Carbonate Rocks, Odp Leg 166 and Boreholes Clino and Unda, Western Great Bahama Bank

J.A.M. Kenter, F.S. Anselmetti, P.H. Kramer, H. Westphal,, M.G.M. Vandamme

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... cemented to uncemented and compacted background sediments have velocities that, at a given porosity, fall below the time-average equation for calcite...

Hydrodynamics of Carbonate Fecal Pellets

Harold Rogers Wanless, Elizabeth Ann Burton, Jeff Dravis

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... spheres 60 to 25 ercent in diameter. From this data, preliminary estimates can be made of the shear velocities necessary for entertainment of pellet...

Hydraulic Mobility in Fractured Systems of the Cantarell and Ku-Maloob-Zaap Oil Fields, Gulf of Mexico

Peter Birkle, Miguel A. Lozada Aguilar, Esteban Soriano Mercado, Jose de Jesus Torres Villasenor

GCAGS Transactions

..., as prototypes for developing and mature reservoirs, respectively. In the Cantarell case, oil extraction causes increasing lateral groundwater flow velocities up...

Lily Bank, Bahamas: History of an Active Oolite Sand Shoal

Albert C. Hine

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... yr BP. As sea level continued to rise, bankward flow velocities decreased as the reentrant channeling effect decreased. The linear sand ridges, which...

Induced seismicity risk management: The problem of disappearing faults

Doyle R. Watts, Ernest C. Hauser, Mohammad Mohshin, and David F. Dominic

AAPG Bulletin

... Limestone, Conasauga Formation, and the base of the Mt. Simon Sandstone. Two-way travel times, offsets, and velocities determined from an expanded spread...

Sediment Economics of Upper Cretaceous Sandstones Rocky Mountain Region

Alonzo D. Jacka

Wyoming Geological Association

... sandstone   b. Variegated beds, clay shale, fresh water limestone, sandstone and some coal (Inland Floodplain, channel, and lake) 2. Coal-bearing...

The Effects of Grain-Density Variation on Turbidity Currents and Some Implications for the Deposition of Carbonate Turbidites

James M. Hodson, Jan Alexander

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., v. 48, p. 81–105. Cooper, D.J.W., 1989, A longitudinal carbonate fan from the Jurassic of the Oman Mountains: the Guweyza Limestone Formation...

Pigeon Point Formation: An Upper Cretaceous Shoreline Succession, Central California Coast

John H. Tyler

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of the formation include varied types of mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, limestone, and coal, with numerous lithologies intermediate...

New Seismic data from the Great South Basin, South Island, New Zealand

Chris Uruski

Southeast Asia Petroleum Exploration Society (SEAPEX)

... was typified by anomalously low velocities, which created a vertical wipe-out zone. The new data also shows an amplitude anomaly at the well's TD which gives...

2.3 Detached Sediments in Extensional Provinces: 2.3.1 Growth Faults: An Example of a Major Syndepositional Listric Fault

A. F. Christensen

AAPG Special Volumes

... fault plane reflection (acoustic interface) is seen because of significant differences in rock velocities on opposite sides of the fault. Moderately...

Abstract: Seismic Stratigraphy Near the Tunalik Well, North Slope, Alaska, by J. A. Grow, J. J. Miller, C. G. (Gil) Mull, and K. J. Bird; #90958 (1995).

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The Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Georges Bank-Baltimore Canyon Trough Area

R. E. Mattick, J. S. Schlee, K. C. Bayer

CSPG Special Publications

... rocks are considered to be Jurassic sandstone and limestone units. Structural highs with associated draping of Jurassic and basal Lower Cretaceous strata...

An Empirical Study of the Generalized Fluid Method for Hydrocarbon Discrimination

Search and Discovery.com

.... For the first category, Aki and Richards equation emphasized the contribution of variations in the P- and S-wave velocities and density. A reformulation...

Contrasting Styles and Common Controls on Middle Mississippian and Upper Pennsylvanian Carbonate Platforms in the Northern Midcontinent, U.S.A

W. Lynn Watney, Evan K. Franseen, Alan P. Byrnes, Susan E. Nissen

West Texas Geological Society

... and Devils Hollow Members, Lexington Limestone, central Kentucky (USA), in, Pope, M.C., and Harris, M.T., eds., New insights into Late Ordovician...

2D Seismic Refraction Tomography Survey on Metasediment at a Proposed Development Site in Dengkil, Selangor

Umar Hamzah, Abd Rahim Samsudin

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... the subsurface materials based on seismic P-S wave velocities as well as to correlate those data with the lithologic logs and the standard penetration test (SPT...

Truncation Traps on Northwest Border of Gifhorn Trough, East Hannover, Germany: Case Histories

H. A. Hedemann, H. Lorenz with a contribution by D. Bobrink

AAPG Special Volumes

... and delineation of the subcrops; shoestring sandstone bodies also are present. The success encountered in exploration for these traps is a good example...

Depositional Environment of Upper Cretaceous Sussex Sandstone, House Creek Field, Wyoming

Robert R. Berg

AAPG Bulletin

...Depositional Environment of Upper Cretaceous Sussex Sandstone, House Creek Field, Wyoming Robert R. Berg 1975 2099 2110 59 11. (November) Sussex...

The Seismic and Geological Definition of a Reef

R. A. Maxwell, W. Thomsen, F. Wilson

Oklahoma City Geological Society

... when a limestone reef is surrounded by terrigenous material. A lower velocity will occur when a very porous reef is imbedded in well cemented nonporous...