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Faulting in Poorly Consolidated Sediments – Examples from the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 67th EAGE Conference & Exhibition, Jun 2005, cp-1-00020
Abstract
E039 Z-99 FAULTING IN POORLY CONSOLIDATED Introduction 1 CLASTIC SEDIMENTS – EXAMPLES FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS FERRON SANDSTONE UTAH A. ROTEVATN 1 Å. VASSEL 1 J.A. HOWELL 1 AND J. HESTHAMMER 1 Structural core analysis from the middle Jurassic Brent Group offshore Norway indicates that faulting in reservoir sandstones may have occurred when the sediments were unconsolidated or poorly consolidated (e.g. Hesthammer & Fossen 2001). In the Ivie Creek- Blue Trail Canyon area Central Utah a field study was undertaken in similar type rocks to investigate fault geometries associated with deformation in poorly consolidated sediments as well as the characteristics