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Explorer Historical Highlights By J. Michael Party

Permian: A Basin Full of Stories

Even from the beginning, the discovery well gave a hint that the Permian Basin was going to be a major oil province. That well was the Santa Rita #1 – Santa Rita, the patron Saint of the Impossible.

Added on 01 May, 2012

Explorer Article By Susan Eaton

Series Takes Geology Into Living Rooms

For the beauty of the earth: Canadian geology professor Nick Eyles has become an award-winning media sensation thanks to his books and TV series that entertain and inform the public by showcasing the best of earth’s geologic wonders.

Added on 01 May, 2012

Explorer Foundation Update By Natalie Adams

Recipients Announced for Weeks Grants

Recipients of this year’s L. Austin Weeks Undergraduate Grants have been announced by the AAPG Foundation, which sponsors the annual program that supports educational expenses.

Added on 01 April, 2012

Explorer Article By Dave Cook

AAPG Marrakech Meeting Draws 200-Plus Delegates

The AAPG Europe Region joined with the Moroccan Association of Petroleum Geologists to hold the second International Joint MAPG and AAPG Conference and Exhibition in Marrakech in early October.

Added on 01 December, 2011

Explorer Historical Highlights By Peter Purcell

Aussie North Rankin Discovery Was Game-Changer

It was nearly midnight on a Saturday late in June 1971 when BOCAL’s new palynologist Barry Ingram telephoned chief geologist Peter Kaye to tell him the gas discovery in North Rankin-1 were in Triassic sediments.

Added on 01 November, 2011

Explorer Emphasis Article By Barry Friedman

Borehole to Probe Volcano

Geology professors Juergen Thurow and Christopher Kilburn on a mission: To drill into a volcano in Italy's Campi Flegrei, to better analyze the patterns there of uplift and of fracturing.

Added on 01 October, 2011

Explorer Emphasis Article By Susan Eaton

Researchers Retrace Giant's 'Stepping Stones'

A chance to visit and study awe-inspiring coastal geology will be offered at the third Central and North Conjugate Margins Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Added on 01 October, 2011

Explorer Article By Susan Eaton

Rigorous G&G Science Underpinning the Project

Play Fairway study available for free: 400-KM integrated dataset used in study .

Added on 01 July, 2011

Explorer Article By Susan Eaton

Study Indicates Scotia Fairway Potential

A Fairway to paradise? Nova Scotia’s offshore energy industry is in the global spotlight after an enticing assessment of resources in the Scotian Basin.

Added on 01 July, 2011

Explorer Article By David Brown

Do You Know the Mississippian?

A new hydrocarbon play in Kansas and Oklahoma is drawing interest to possibilities in several Mississippian formations.

Added on 01 May, 2011

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

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

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

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