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Middle Miocene To Holocene History Of The Delacroix Island Fault System, Jarrett Leigh Levesh
Middle Miocene To Holocene History Of The Delacroix Island Fault System, Jarrett Leigh Levesh
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
An in-depth field study of the Delacroix Island producing field illustrates the evolution of the east-trending Delacroix Island Fault during the last 13 My. Well log correlations and 3-D seismic interpretation of 22 subsurface bio-stratigraphic horizons across the fault reveal variable stratigraphic thicknesses and displacement. Wells, with well log curve data as shallow as 31 m (100 ft) below the surface, were used to calculate interval thicknesses, expansion indices, sediment accumulation rates, burial history and magnitudes of displacement. Through these analyses, a correlation was found between the positioning of ancient Miocene depocenters over Delacroix Island and a period of increased …