Layer rotation around vertical fault overlap zones: Observations from seismic data, field examples, and physical experiments

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 181-192

  Rykkelid, Erling ^a   Fossen, Haakon ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Drag; Fault overlap zones; Fault sealing

Indexed keywords

OVERLAP ZONES;

HYDROCARBONS; LITHOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SANDSTONE;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

FAULT GEOMETRY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; ROTATION; SEALING;

EID: 0036477896     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(02)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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