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11	Integrated approach to solving reservoir problems and evaluations using sequence stratigraphy, geological structures and diagenesis in Orange Basin, South Africa Adekola, Solomon Adeniyi January 2010 (has links) Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Sandstone and shale samples were selected within the systems tracts for laboratory analyses. The sidewall and core samples were subjected to petrographic thin section analysis, mineralogical analyses which include x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and stable carbon and oxygen isotopes geochemistry to determine the diagenetic alteration at deposition and post deposition in the basin. The shale samples were subjected to Rock-Eval pyrolysis and accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) prior to gas chromatographic (GC) and gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric (GC-MS) analyses of the rock extracts, in order to determine the provenance, type and thermal maturity of organic matter present in sediments of the Orange Basin. The results revealed a complex diagenetic history of sandstones in this basin, which includes compaction, cementation/micritization, dissolution, silicification/overgrowth of quartz, and fracturing. The Eh-pH shows that the cements in the area of the basin under investigation were precipitated under weak acidic and slightly alkaline conditions. The δ18O isotope values range from -1.648 to 10.054 %, -1.574 to 13.134 %, and -2.644 to 16.180 % in the LST, TST, and HST, respectively. While δ13C isotope values range from -25.667 to -12.44 %, -27.862 to -6.954% and -27.407 to -19.935 % in the LST, TST, and HST, respectively. The plot of δ18O versus δ13C shows that the sediments were deposited in shallow marine temperate conditions. / South Africa Unconformities Wireline logs Stratigraphy Reservoir Seismic Facies Lithology Faults Sequence boundaries Systems tract
12	Tectonic History and Present-Day Deformation in the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt Hessami, Khaled January 2002 (has links) <p>This thesis uses various approaches such as observation of satellite images, field investigations, analogue modeling and GPS measurements to constrain deformation of the basement and sedimentary cover of the Zagros fold-thrust belt in time and space.</p><p>Focal mechanism solutions of most earthquakes indicate that deformation in the Zagros basement is due to shortening and thickening through numerous thrust faults. However, observations of strike-slip faulting recognized on satellite images imply that N-S trending faults in the Zagros, inherited from Pan-African basement, rotated about vertical axes to accommodate the convergence between Arabia and central Iran.</p><p>Field studies suggest that southwestward advance of the Zagros front has been recorded by syn-sedimentary structures. These structures indicate that deformation started as early as end Eocene in the northeast of the Simply Folded Zone and propagated progressively to the southwest. The deformation front drove the foreland basin to its present position along the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia. </p><p>Scaled analogue models suggest that the seismicity due to orogenic shortening depends largely on the friction between the cover and its basement. Models show that fold-thrust belts with low tapers shortened above low friction ductile decollements involve several long-lived thrust faults generating low to moderate earthquakes over wide areas at the same time. By contrast, earthquakes with larger magnitudes are expected to occur along a few short-lived thrust ramps in fold-thrust belts with larger tapers shortened above high-friction decollments.</p><p>GPS-derived velocities across and along the Zagros suggest that only about one third (10 ± 3 mm/yr) of the current convergence between Arabia and Eurasia is accommodated within the Zagros by thickening to the east of the Kazerun Fault and thickening and lateral movement to the west. The remaining (21 ± 3 mm/yr) is transferred beyond the Zagros suture to central Iran and the northern Iranian mountains.</p> Earth sciences Zagros Orogeny Unconformities Iran Growth folds Middel East Tectonics Models GPS basement Seismicity Geovetenskap Earth sciences Geovetenskap
13	Tectonic History and Present-Day Deformation in the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt Hessami, Khaled January 2002 (has links) This thesis uses various approaches such as observation of satellite images, field investigations, analogue modeling and GPS measurements to constrain deformation of the basement and sedimentary cover of the Zagros fold-thrust belt in time and space. Focal mechanism solutions of most earthquakes indicate that deformation in the Zagros basement is due to shortening and thickening through numerous thrust faults. However, observations of strike-slip faulting recognized on satellite images imply that N-S trending faults in the Zagros, inherited from Pan-African basement, rotated about vertical axes to accommodate the convergence between Arabia and central Iran. Field studies suggest that southwestward advance of the Zagros front has been recorded by syn-sedimentary structures. These structures indicate that deformation started as early as end Eocene in the northeast of the Simply Folded Zone and propagated progressively to the southwest. The deformation front drove the foreland basin to its present position along the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia. Scaled analogue models suggest that the seismicity due to orogenic shortening depends largely on the friction between the cover and its basement. Models show that fold-thrust belts with low tapers shortened above low friction ductile decollements involve several long-lived thrust faults generating low to moderate earthquakes over wide areas at the same time. By contrast, earthquakes with larger magnitudes are expected to occur along a few short-lived thrust ramps in fold-thrust belts with larger tapers shortened above high-friction decollments. GPS-derived velocities across and along the Zagros suggest that only about one third (10 ± 3 mm/yr) of the current convergence between Arabia and Eurasia is accommodated within the Zagros by thickening to the east of the Kazerun Fault and thickening and lateral movement to the west. The remaining (21 ± 3 mm/yr) is transferred beyond the Zagros suture to central Iran and the northern Iranian mountains. Earth sciences Zagros Orogeny Unconformities Iran Growth folds Middel East Tectonics Models GPS basement Seismicity Geovetenskap Earth sciences Geovetenskap
14	A study of the Patchawarra Formation, Tirrawarra Field, Southern Cooper Basin, South Australia Kennedy, Sean. January 1988 (has links) (PDF) Typescript (Photocopy) Three maps, folded, in back cover pocket. Includes bibliography: leaves [22-24] Geology South Australia Tirrawarra Field Geology Cooper Basin (Qld. and S. Aust.)
15	Controls on reservoir development and quality in a glacial sequence; a study of the late palaeozoic, Cooper Basin South Australia and Queensland, Australia : thesis submitted to the University of Adelaide in fullfillment [sic] of the requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, July 2000 / Chris Cubitt. Cubitt, Chris, National Centre for Petroleum Geology & Geophysics (Australia) January 2000 (has links) At head of title: National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. / CD-ROM contains Appendices (1-10) in PDF. / Includes copies of papers co-authored by the author. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [471]-499 in vol. 2) / System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh or IBM compatible computer with Windows NT. Other requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. / 2 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Studies the provenance and diagenesis of the Merrimelia Formation in South Australia and Queensland; a complex mosaic of glacial facies in which the Tirrawarra Sandstone and Merrimelia Formation exhibit an interfingering relationship, and defines the relationship further. Indicates that the Tirrawarra Sandstone should be included in the Merrimelia Formation as a "facies type" as both the Merrimelia and Tirrawarra sediments form an integrated suite of sediments. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology, 2000?
16	Controls on reservoir development and quality in a glacial sequence; a study of the late palaeozoic, Cooper Basin South Australia and Queensland, Australia : thesis submitted to the University of Adelaide in fullfillment [sic] of the requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, July 2000 / Chris Cubitt. Cubitt, Chris, National Centre for Petroleum Geology & Geophysics (Australia) January 2000 (has links) At head of title: National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. / CD-ROM contains Appendices (1-10) in PDF. / Includes copies of papers co-authored by the author. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [471]-499 in vol. 2) / System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh or IBM compatible computer with Windows NT. Other requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. / 2 v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Studies the provenance and diagenesis of the Merrimelia Formation in South Australia and Queensland; a complex mosaic of glacial facies in which the Tirrawarra Sandstone and Merrimelia Formation exhibit an interfingering relationship, and defines the relationship further. Indicates that the Tirrawarra Sandstone should be included in the Merrimelia Formation as a "facies type" as both the Merrimelia and Tirrawarra sediments form an integrated suite of sediments. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology, 2000?
17	Controls on reservoir development and quality in a glacial sequence; a study of the late palaeozoic, Cooper Basin South Australia and Queensland, Australia : thesis submitted to the University of Adelaide in fullfillment [sic] of the requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, July 2000 Cubitt, Chris. January 2000 (has links) (PDF) At head of title: National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. CD-ROM contains Appendices (1-10) in PDF. Includes copies of papers co-authored by the author. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [471]-499 in vol. 2) Studies the provenance and diagenesis of the Merrimelia Formation in South Australia and Queensland; a complex mosaic of glacial facies in which the Tirrawarra Sandstone and Merrimelia Formation exhibit an interfingering relationship, and defines the relationship further. Indicates that the Tirrawarra Sandstone should be included in the Merrimelia Formation as a "facies type" as both the Merrimelia and Tirrawarra sediments form an integrated suite of sediments. System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh or IBM compatible computer with Windows NT. Other requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Cooper Basin (Qld. and S. Aust.)
18	Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Bisbee Group in the Whetstone Mountains, Pima and Cochise Counties, Southeastern Arizona Archibald, Lawrence Eben January 1982 (has links) The Aptian-Santonian(?) Bisbee Group in the Whetstone Mountains comprises 2375 m of clastic sedimentary rocks and limestones. The basal Glance Conglomerate unconformably overlies the Pennsylvanian-Permian Naco Group. It consists of limestone conglomerates which were deposited in proximal alluvial fan environments. The superadjacent Willow Canyon Formation contains finer grained rocks which were deposited in the distal portions of alluvial fans. The lacustrine limestones in the Apache Canyon Formation interfinger with and overlie these alluvial fan facies. The overlying Shellenberger Canyon Formation is composed mostly of terrigenous rocks derived from westerly terranes. This formation contains thick sequences of fluvio-deltaic facies as well as a thin interval of estuarine deposits which mark a northwestern extension of the marine transgression in the Bisbee -Chihuahua Embayment. The youngest formation (Upper Cretaceous?) in the Bisbee Group, the Turney Ranch Formation, consists of interbedded sandstones and marls which were deposited by fluvial and marine(?) processes. alluvial fans Apache Canyon Formation Aptian Arizona Basin and Range Province Bisbee Group Bisbee-Chihuahua Embayment Carboniferous Cochise County Arizona Comanchean Cretaceous deltaic environment depositional environment environment estuarine environment fluvial environment Glance Conglomerate lithofacies Lower Cretaceous Mesozoic Naco Group North America Paleozoic Pennsylvanian Permian Pima County Arizona Santonian sedimentary rocks sedimentation Senonian Shellenberger Canyon Formation southeastern Arizona stratigraphy Turney Ranch Formation unconformities United States Upper Cretaceous Whetstone Mountains Willow Canyon Formation Geology, Stratigraphic. Sediments (Geology) Geology -- Arizona -- Pima County. Geology -- Arizona -- Cochise County.

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