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Geology

1991

Seismology

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A Seismic Analysis Of Black Creek And Wabumun Salt Collapse Features, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Neil Lennart Anderson, Robert James Sidford Brown Jan 1991

A Seismic Analysis Of Black Creek And Wabumun Salt Collapse Features, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Neil Lennart Anderson, Robert James Sidford Brown

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

These salt remnants and their associated collapse features are often associated with structural or stratigraphic traps. As a result of the relationships between dissolution and hydrocarbon entrapment, the distribution (areal extent and thickness) of these salt remnants is of significant interest to the explorationist. Seismic information about the thickness and the extent of these salts should be used together with well log control to generate subsurface distribution maps. These maps will facilitate both the delineation of prospective structural and stratigraphic play fairways and the determination of the timing of salt dissolution. In addition, an appreciation of regional salt distribution will …

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Differential Compaction Of Winnipegosis Reefs: A Seismic Perspective, Neil Lennart Anderson, Evan K. Franseen Jan 1991

Differential Compaction Of Winnipegosis Reefs: A Seismic Perspective, Neil Lennart Anderson, Evan K. Franseen

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Winnipegosis Formation reefs in southern Saskatchewan are typically encased in the thick, apparently incompressible salts of the Prairie Evaporite. Illustrates the usefulness of seismic data to separate postdepositional compaction features from primary features to determine the primary morphology of a reef better and to determine the relative amounts of postdepositional compaction with the different reef environments.

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