Animated axial surface mapping: The multimedia companion
- Texaco EPTD, Houston, TX (United States)
- Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
This newly expanded version of AAPG`s first DataShare Disk brings to life the concepts and applications of a new method of structural trend analysis. Through the dynamic use of color, sound, animation, and humor, this multimedia companion to the May 1994 article on Axial Surface Mapping introduces the reader (or viewer) to the concepts of rigid-block translation, fault-bend folding, and axial surface mapping. Animated models of growing fault-bend folds allow the viewer to see in four dimensions. The axial surface map shows the horizontal plane; the folding lines show depth planes; and the animations show the structure and its two-dimensional map changing with time and increasing slip. The animations create theoretical map patterns under varying, but controlled conditions that can be compared to axial surface maps from real data. The model patterns are then used to interpret seismic data and axial surface maps from a producing gas field in offshore California and from an exploration play in Pennsylvania.
- OSTI ID:
- 159926
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951094-; ISSN 0149-1423; TRN: 95:006835-0024
- Journal Information:
- AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 79, Issue 9; Conference: Meeting of the Mid-Continent Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists: technology transfer - crossroads to the future, Tulsa, OK (United States), 8-10 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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