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Geomechanics and Hydraulic Fracturing Technical Interest Group (TIG)

Explorer Director’s Corner By Rick Fritz

Our Goal: No Geologist Left Behind

As part of the focus on providing the best science, AAPG is reviewing all of our products and services against the needs of the membership.

Added on 01 August, 2009

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Alexandra Kirshner,Bruce Hart

A Powerful Tool for Mapping Faults

In this month's Geophysical Corner the authors illustrate the use of a technique known as corendering to assist fault interpretations in a structurally complex area.

Added on 01 June, 2009

Explorer Emphasis Article By Vern Stefanic

‘Exceptional’ Is Denver’s Big Draw

Rocky Mountain high: AAPG turns the spotlight on Denver for its 94th Annual Convention and Exhibition, which starts June 7 at the Colorado Convention Center.

Added on 01 June, 2009

Explorer Division Column EMD By Laura Wray

EMD Program Looks to Future

AAPG’S Energy Minerals Division (EMD) will respond to heightened awareness of global energy issues by offering an extensive and diverse selection of sessions, short courses, field trips and forums at the upcoming 2009 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, set for June 7-10 in Denver.

Added on 01 May, 2009

Explorer Article By Larry Nation

Cuba Needs Big Scale Exploration

A personal connection with a legendary geologist Hollis Hedberg triggered Georges Pardo’s personal connection with Cuba – and that bond has led to a new AAPG book on the island’s geology.

Added on 01 May, 2009

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

Rocky Mountains Get Deep Study

The eye of the beholder: Everyone knows Colorado is a beautiful state. The big question is, how did it get that way?

Added on 01 May, 2009

Explorer Article By Louise Durham

Shale Calls for the Unconventional

Your shut door, our open window: Current fiscal realities have stalled some projects, but two geologists say now is the perfect time to consider better ways to evaluate shale gas potential.

Added on 01 May, 2009

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Bob Hardage

Hey, Who Overturned These Strata?

The methodology described here may benefit those who are confronted with the problem of interpreting complex structures from limited-quality 3-D seismic images.

Added on 01 January, 2009

Explorer Article By James Wilson

Dead Sea Geology Promise Unmet

The Dead Sea is a geological treasure chest, with salt features, mineral-rich waters, natural asphalt, and - most tantalizing of all – oil prospects.

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Article By Susan Eaton

Conjugate Margins Ideas Shared

New exploration opportunities have turned the global spotlight to the topic at hand at the Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference.

Added on 01 November, 2008

DL Abstract By Kurt W. Rudolph

Tectonic Controls on Source Rock Deposition

While there are many habitats that are associated with the deposition of organic-rich marine and lacustrine source rocks, one important pathway is linked to the onset of increased basin subsidence associated with major tectonic events. A key aspect is that this subsidence is spatially variable, with the uplift of basin flanks contemporaneous with the foundering of the basin center, resulting in a steeper basin profile.

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Added on 14 September, 2023

DL Abstract By John Suppe

Probing What Makes the Crust Strong (or Weak): Insight from Boreholes, Earthquakes, Active Fault Systems, and Toy Models

For well over a century there have been conflicting indications of the strength of the crust and of faults and what controls them. Much of our ignorance comes quite naturally from the general inaccessibility of the crust to measurement--in contrast with our understanding of the atmosphere, which is much more accessible to observation as well as more rapidly changing. Crustal strength is best understood in deforming sedimentary basins where the petroleum industry has made great contributions, particularly in deforming petroleum basins because of the practical need to predict. In this talk we take a broad look at key issues in crustal strength and deformation and what we can learn from boreholes, earthquakes, active fault systems, and toy models.

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Added on 14 September, 2023

VG Abstract By Juan I. Soto

Salt versus Shales in Continental Margins and Orogens

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

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Added on 26 June, 2019

VG Abstract By Juan I. Soto

How Orogens Could Collapse Forming Sedimentary Basins: The Case of the Betic-Rif Orogen

The Betic hinterland, in the westernmost Mediterranean, constitutes a unique example of a stack of metamorphic units. Using a three-dimensional model for the crustal structure of the Betics-Rif area this talk will address the role of crustal flow simultaneously to upper-crustal low-angle faulting in the origin and evolution of the topography.

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Added on 26 June, 2019

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