Greetings From Oil Country: Shared Images of a Burning Oil Tank Across Five States

Victoria Manning, Jeff Spencer

Petroleum History Institute

... generally 30 feet high and 90 feet wide. They were made of 5 by 10 foot riveted iron plates that tapered from a thickness of one-half inch on the bottom...

Breaking the 5km Barrier: Superlaterals Delivery Challenges. Are they Feasible in Vaca Muerta?

Julio Palacio, Walid Ben Ismail, Richard Walker, Roberto Cruz Nemer, Jorge Arias

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... pipe with high torque connections provides a good balance between the mechanical and the hydraulics loads. Tapered strings can be utilized to manage rig...

Sedimentology and Petrology of Profundal Lacustrine Sediments, Mahogany Zone of the Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Northwest Colorado

George J. Grabowski Jr., David R. Pevear

Special Publications of SEPM

... boudinage. Sedimentary Boudinage Discontinuous lenses of carbonate and tuffaceous sediment which have rounded or tapered ends are common throughout...

Section Two: Initiation and Development of Salt Diapirism and Growth Faulting Under the Continental Slope and Continental Shelf

New Orleans Geological Society

...-penetrant structures have formed above and around them. Note the downward-tapered penetrant plug with conical crest on the left, which has developed...

History of Oil Development in the Santa Barbara Channel

W. E. Kennett

Pacific Section of AAPG

... of a ten-foot length of five-inch drill collar with fins welded to the upper end and the lower end tapered to receive a removable two-foot length of two-inch...

EARLY SYMBIOTIC INTERACTIONS IN THE CAMBRIAN

OLEV VINN

PALAIOS

... with the tapered end of the tube in contact with the seafloor FIG. 1.—Marcusodictyon encrusting the shell exterior of the lingulate brachiopod...

INSIGHTS INTO THE TAXONOMY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF THE BEAD BED' CRINOID (ECHINODERMATA: CRINOIDEA) BASED ON NEW MATERIAL FROM THE LOWER SILURIAN BRASSFIELD FORMATION OF EAST-CENTRAL KENTUCKY

JAMES R. THOMKA, CARLTON E. BRETT

PALAIOS

... partial columns confirms the interpretation of Floricolumnus (col.) columnals as portions of a dististelar attachment structure that was tapered...

Early freshwater diatoms from the Upper Cretaceous Battle Formation in western Canada

Peter A. Siver, Maria Velez, Monica Cliveti, Pier Binda

PALAIOS

.... Valves were centrally swollen, tapered to rounded apices, and estimated to be approximately 45–50 lm long (n ¼ 3). Striae were short, restricted...

The Bison and the Blow Fly: Using Puparia of the Black Blow Fly (Phormia Regina: Diptera, Calliphoridae) to Constrain the Season of Death and Taphonomic History of an Early Historic-Age Bison, Carson City, Nevada, USA

Stephen M. Rowland, Terry L. Whitworth, Michele Jones, John Dooley, Eric Chameroy, Thomas Gordon

PALAIOS

... and about 3 mm wide. They are fusiform in shape, with the anterior end more tapered than the posterior end (Fig. 4). The characteristics...

Structure and Stratigraphy of a Small Plio-Pleistocene Depocenter, Louisiana Continental Shelf (1)

William M. Spindler

GCAGS Transactions

... Pliocene time until early Pleistocene time, then the growth tapered as the locus of deltaic activity shifted basinward. Growth of the large salt dome also...

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) of earth materials in the weathering profile over a porphyritic biotite granite at the Kuala Lumpur … Karak Highway in Peninsular Malaysia

John Kuna Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... had a constant wall thickness of 0.3 cm, except towards one end where the lower 1.5 cm tapered to a wall thickness of 0.15 cm to provide a cutting edge...

Characterizing a weathering profile over the Kuantan Basalt

John Kuna Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... a constant wall thickness of 3 mm except at one end where the lower half tapered to a thickness of 1.5 mm to provide a cutting edge. Moisture contents...

Drained shear strength parameters of saprock from a weathering profile over porphyritic biotite granite at Km 31 of the Kuala Lumpur - Karak Highway, Peninsular Malaysia

John Kuna Raj

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... a constant wall thickness of 0.2 cm except towards one end, where the wall tapered to provide a cutting edge. Prior to sampling, the tubes were externally...

Problematic Receptaculitid Fossils from Western Utah and Eastern Nevada

Stephen B. Church

Utah Geological Association

... forms show uppermost portions of the axiomorph to consist of meroms with shortened merom shafts forming a tapered apical rim around the broad lacunar...

Significance of Texture and Density of Alluvial Deposits in the Middle Rio Grande Valley

Stafford C. Happ

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... at the top and tapered on the outside to a cutting edge at the bottom.(FOOTNOTE 4) The tube was forced vertically into the sediment by tapping...

Regional Structure and Development of the Peace River Arch, Alberta: A Paleozoic Failed-Rift System?

Douglas J. Cant

CSPG Bulletin

... of the uplift probably tapered off by the late Paleozoic -- continued subsidence in the Mesozoic may have resulted from the accretion of allochthonous...

Novel Diversion Case Studies for Improved Near-Wellbore Connection between Wellbore and Hydraulic Fracture

William P. Scanlan, Kyle Pierskalla, David W. Sobernheim, Roberto Boehringer

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

.... The apparatus is made up of a split cylinder that has a flat face on one half and a tapered face on the other half of the cylinder. A diversion slurry...

Lima-Indiana Trend--U.S.A. Cincinnati and Findlay Arches, Ohio and Indiana

Brian D. Keith, Lawrence H. Wickstrom

AAPG Special Volumes

..., into the early 1900s, before it also tapered off there for the same reasons. The oil boom was not as large a promotional success as was natural gas...

Stratigraphic Condensation and the Redeposition of Economic Phosphorite: Allostratigraphy of Oligo-Miocene Shelfal Sediments, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Kurt A. Grimm

Special Publications of SEPM

... are discontinuous, linear to gently curved fracare extremities; tures that are tapered at their distal extremities; lengths of these isolated, range 2r...

Variations in Detachment Levels, Ramp Angles and Wedge Geometries Along the Alberta Thrust Front

Deborah A. Spratt, Donald C. Lawton

CSPG Bulletin

... would eliminate any evidence of a ramp there, also. In the Wildcat-Jumpingpound area, the wedge is a thinly tapered (350-500 m thick) zone of duplexing...

Late Quaternary Coastal Units and Marine Cycles: Correlations between Northern Gulf Sectors

Ervin G. Otvos, Wade E. Howat

GCAGS Transactions

... downcutting could have shaped such symmetrical, oval-elongated, narrow, smoothly tapered forms was left unexplained. The inferred 10 m of additional...

Cyclostratigraphic Approach to Earths History: An Introduction

Alfred G. Fischer, Bruno D'Argenio, Isabella Premoli Silva, Helmut Weissert, Vittoria Ferreri

Special Publications of SEPM

...., this volume; Maurer et al., this volume) illustrates secular changes in sedimentary response. While multi-tapered Fourier spectra continue to find...

Quantifying the Induced Stresses During Stacked, Multi-Stage, Multi-Well Completions, to Define Stimulation Sequencing and Optimize Pad Productivity

Roberto Suarez-Rivera, Egor Dontsov, Bradley Abell

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... aspects of perforation erosion, tapered perforation configurations, landing well selection, and others which can be conducted at the stage or multi-stage...

Magnetic Anomalies of the Northern Gulf of California: Structural and Thermal Interpretations: Chapter 22: Part III. Regional Geophysics and Geology

O. Sanchez-Zamora, P. Doguin, R. W. Couch, G. E. Ness

AAPG Special Volumes

... zeroes beyond the ends of the tapered subgrids (Foote, 1985), we can better locate the frequencies fmax at which the maxima occur. Figure 12...

Structure of the Atlantic Margin of the United States

John A. Grow

AAPG Special Volumes

...), and a more gradual or tapered transition into and out of the rift stage crust is seen here. The Early Cretaceous and Jurassic shelf edge on line 5...