Atlas of Structural Geological Interpretation from Seismic Images

ACHYUTA AYAN MISRA, Exploration, Reliance Industries Ltd., Reliance Corporate Park, Thane Belapur Road, Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai, India. SOUMYAJIT MUKHERJEE, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Contributors


Preface


Acknowledgements


Part I


1 Introduction to Seismic Data


2 Seismic Structural Analysis


Part III Faults


3 Normal Faults in the Crawford Spur Area, Viking Graben, United Kingdom


4 Normal Faults Bounding Rift Grabens in Krishna-Godavari Basin, India


5 Bitsminda Anticline: South Kura Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt, Georgia


6 Diffraction and Refraction Occurring in a Fault Zone in Corinth Gulf, Greece as Seen by Vertical Seismic Profiling


7 Horst Inversion Within a Decollement Zone During Extension Upper Rhine Graben, France


8 Interpretation of a Vertical Seismic Profile Diffraction Occurring at a Basement Sedimentary Cover Interface in the Rhine Graben, France


9 Clara Inversion Anticline, Adriatic Sea, Italy


10 Emma Inversion Structure, Adriatic Sea, Italy


11 Inversion in the Umiat Basin (Part 1) National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPRA), North Slope, Alaska


12 Inversion in the Umiat Basin (Part 2) National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPRA), North Slope, Alaska


13 Complex multiphase inversion tectonics in the southern East Shetland Platform, offshore United Kingdom


14 Impact of Activation of a Syn-Depositional Normal Fault on Sedimentation in Greater Mid North Sea High


15 Imaging Normal Faults Using a High Frequency Source and Dual Sensor Streamers


16 Understanding Sinkholes Using Shear Wave Reflection Seismic Imaging in N Germany


17 Post-earthquake Subsurface Structure for Reconstruction Planning Using Shear Wave Reflection Seismic Imaging in Banda Aceh, Indonesia


18 Shallow Detachment Along a Transform Margin in Cauvery Basin, India


19 Normal Faulting Related to Differential Compaction on the 85 DegreesE Ridge in the Bay of Bengal, India


20 Polygonal Fault System in Late Cretaceous Sediments of Cauvery Deepwater Basin, India


21 Transfer Zone Geometry in the Offshore Cauvery Basin, India


22 Synrift Grabens and Inversion in the Cauvery Offshore Basin on the East Coast of India


23 Pull-Apart Basin in the Offshore Cauvery Palar Basin, India


24 Sedimentary Deformation Features Produced by Differential Compaction and Buoyancy in the Offshore Palar Basin, East Coast of India


Part II Folds


25 Compression Folds and a Strike-Slip Fault in Flowing Evaporites, Red Sea


26 Didigori Syncline and Anticline: Kura Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt, Georgia


27 Compressional Folds in the Active North Ecuador South Colombia Margin


28 Fault Propagation Folds in the Active North Ecuador South Colombia Margin


29 Antiformal Stacks and Hinterland Dipping Duplexes in the North Ecuador South Colombia Margin


30 Didigori Syncline and Didigori Anticline: Kura Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt, Georgia


Part IV Mobile Substrates Shale and Salt


31 Compressional Salt-Related Structures in the Western Quele Area, Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin, China


32 Reactive Salt Diapir, Southern Precaspian Basin, Middle Asia


33 Detection of Potential Slide Planes in Onshore Urban Areas Using Shear Wave Reflection Seismics


34 Detection of Mobile Quick-Clay Layers Using Shear Wave Reflection Seismics


35 Growth Fault-Thrust Belts with Single Detachment in the Krishna Godavari Basin, India


36 Growth Fault-Thrust Belts with Multiple Detachments in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, India


37 Growth Fault-Thrust Belts with a Small Translation Zone in Mumbai the Offshore Basin, India


38 Growth Structures and Unconformities in the Upper Evaporites, Red Sea


Part V Tectonic and Regional Structures


39 BABEL4: Crustal Structures of the Precambrian Svecofennian Accretionary Orogen in the Fennoscandian Shield


40 BABEL7: Crustal-Scale Extension Associated with the Formation of the Baltic Sea Paleorift, Fennoscandian Shield


41 BABEL3 and 3a: Crustal-Scale Structures of the Precambrian Svecofennian Accretionary Orogen in the Fennoscandian Shield


42 Magma-Poor Rifting in the Indian Eastern Continental Margin


43 The Ratnagiri Fracture Zone: A Paleo Oceanic-Fracture-Zone in the Mumbai-Ratnagiri Offshore Region, West India


44 Normal Faults on the Undergoing Plate in an Arc-Continent Collision at East Timor, N Timor Sea


45 The Gop Rift: A Paleo Slow Spreading Centre, Offshore Gujarat, India


46 Transform Margin in the Cauvery Basin, Indian East Coast Passive Margin


47 Proximal and Distal Margin Examples from the Eastern Continental Passive Margin of India


48 Distal Margin Examples from the Continental Passive Margin of Gabon


Part VI


7 Pitfalls in Interpretation.