Application of a ramp/flat-fault model to interpretation of the Naga thrust and possible implications for petroleum exploration along the Naga thrust front

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2023-2045

  Kent, W Norman ^a   Hickman, Robert G ^b   Dasgupta, Udayan ^c  

^a Kent GeoScience Associates   (United States)

^b Structural Solutions   (United States)

^c HOEC   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THRUST BELTS;

HYDROCARBONS; OPTIMIZATION; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

ANTICLINE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TERTIARY;

INDIA;

EID: 0036997371     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Archibald, R. D., 1992, Managing high-technology programs and projects: New York, Wiley and Sons, 384 p.
2. Berger, P., et al., 1983, Assam-Arakan basin: Schlumberger Well Evaluation Conference India, p. 1134-1170.
3. Bhandari, L. L., R. C. Fuloria, and V. V. Sastri, 1973, Stratigraphy of Assam Valley: AAPG Bulletin, v. 57, p. 643-654.
4. Carmalt, S. W., and B. St. John, 1984, Giant oil and gas fields, in M. T. Halbouty, ed., Future petroleum provinces of the world: AAPG Memoir 40, p. 11-53.
5. Corps, E. V., 1949, Digboi oil field, Assam: AAPG Bulletin, v. 33, p. 1-21.
6. Dahlen, F. A., J. Suppe, and P. Davis, 1984, Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges: Cohesive Coulomb theory: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 6, p. 10,087-10,101.
7. Das Gupta, A. B., and A. K. Biswas, 2000, Geology of Assam: Bangalore, India, Geological Society of India, 169 p.
8. Dutta, S., and S. Ray, 1993, Improvement of seismic data under "schuppen" thrust belt in Nagaland, India, in S. K. Biswas, Alok Dave, P. Garg, J. Pandey, A. Maithani, and N. J. Thomas, eds., Proceedings of the second seminar on petroliferous basins of India: Dehra Dun, India, Indian Petroleum Publishers, v. 1, p. 437-458.
9. Elliot, D., 1976, The energy balance and deformation mechanisms of thrust sheets: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. 283A, p. 289-312.
10. Handique, G. K., and B. Bharali, 1981, Temperature distribution and its relation to hydrocarbon accumulation in upper Assam Valley, India: AAPG Bulletin, v. 65, p. 1633-1641.
11. Krishna Rao, V. V., and K. L. Parasad, 1982, Exploration in the "schuppen belt" of Nagaland: Bulletin of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission, v. 19, p. 213-220.
12. Mallick, R. K., and S. V. Raju, 1995, Application of wireline logs in characterization and evaluation of generation potential Paleocene-lower Eocene source rocks in parts of the upper Assam basin, India: The Log Analyst, v. 36, p. 49-60.
13. Mathur, L. P., and P. Evans, 1964, Oil in India: 22nd Session International Geological Congress Proceedings, p. 7-52.
14. Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, 1994, Information docket, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh blocks: Government of India, 26 p.
15. Mitra, S., 1990, Fault-propagation folds: geometry, kinematic evolution and hydrocarbon traps: AAPG Bulletin, v. 74, p. 921-945.
16. Oil India Limited, 1952, Geologic atlas of the Assam-Arakan region, map sheet 83, M/7, M/8, M/11, M/12, M/15, and M/16: scale 1:63,360.
17. Patil, M., 1993, Geological approach for locating the subthrust structures and source areas in schuppen belt of Nagaland, in S. K. Biswas, Alok Dave, P. Garg, J. Pandey, A. Maithani, and N. J. Thomas, eds., Proceedings of the second seminar on petroliferous basins of India: Dehra Dun, India, Indian Petroleum Publishers, v. 1, p. 437-458.
18. Prasad, B. N., and K. S. Mani, 1983, Distribution of seismic velocities as related to basin configuration in upper Assam Valley: Journal of the Association of Exploration Geophysicists, v. 111, p. 25-33.
19. Raju, S. V., and N. Mathur, 1995, Petroleum geochemistry of a part of upper Assam basin, India: a brief overview: Organic Geochemistry, v. 23, p. 55-70.
20. Ranga Rao, A., and M. K. Samanta, 1987, Structural style of the Naga overthrust belt and its implication on exploration: Bulletin of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission, v. 24, p. 69-109.
21. Rath, S., and R. Devi, 1999, Paleocene-lower Eocene petroleum system in parts of upper Assam basin, northeast India: Proceedings of the Third International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition, PETROTECH-99, p. 41-48.
22. Rath, S., B. Bharali, and A. K. Sethi, 1994, Seismostratigraphic analysis and relative sea level changes in parts of upper Assam basin with special reference to Paleocene Eocene formations: Offshore Southeast Asia, 10th Conference and Exhibition, OSEA-94070, p. 1-15.
23. Rich, J. L., 1934, Mechanics of low-angle overthrust faulting as illustrated by Cumberland thrust block, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee: AAPG Bulletin, v. 18, p. 1584-1596.
24. Saikia, M. M., and T. K. Dutta, 1980, Depositional environment of source beds of high-wax oils in Assam basin, India: AAPG Bulletin, v. 64, p. 427-430.
25. Saint Bezar, B., D. Frizon de Lamotte, J. L. Morel, and E. Mercier, 1998, Kinematics of large scale tip line folds from the High Atlas thrust belt, Morocco: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 20, p. 999-1011.
26. Suppe, J., 1983, Geometry and kinematics of fault-bend folding: American Journal of Science, v. 283, p. 684-721.
27. Suppe, J., 1985, Principles of structural geology: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 537 p.
28. Suppe, J., and D. A. Medwedeff, 1990, Geometry and kinematics of fault-propagation folding: Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae, v. 83, p. 409-454.
29. Tearpock, D. J., and R. E. Bischke, 1991, Applied subsurface geological mapping: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 648 p.
30. Vail, P. R., R. M. Mitchum, and S. Thompson, 1977, Global cycles of relative changes of sea level: AAPG Memoir 26, p. 99-116.
31. Visvanath, S. N., 1997, A hundred years of oil: a narrative account of the search for oil in India: New Delhi, India, Vikas Publishing House, 175 p.
32. Woodward, N. B., S. E. Boyer, and J. Suppe, 1989, Balanced geological cross-sections: an essential technique in geological research and exploration, short course in geology, v. 6: Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, 132 p.