The late Cretaceous-aged Eagle Ford and Boquillas Formations were deposited on the Texas paleoshelf during a major transgressive sequence wherein organic-rich mudrocks accumulated across the paleoshelf. This study investigates ...

Transitional flow deposits are identified, characterized, and placed in a stratigraphic context in the proximal Brushy Canyon Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas. Transitional flows are sand-laden, mud-rich sediment ...

A novel, shallow-investigation, high-resolution 3D (HR3D) seismic acquisition system has been employed, for the first time in the Gulf of Mexico, to characterize CO₂ storage potential and de-risk targets for sequestration. ...

Herein I describe two different projects I completed during the course of my Master’s at The University of Texas at Austin. These projects broadly focused on the application of technology to maintain scientific data for ...

Recent development of gas shales in North America yield worldwide interest in gas production from shale formations. The methodology used in this thesis was to demonstrate multicomponent seismic technology for the ...

Transitional flow deposits (TFDs) include a spectrum of subaqueous sediment-gravity flow deposits that do not fit conventional models for turbidites and debrites. Examples of TFDs are common in submarine lobe strata of the ...

Geophysical applications often require finding an appropriate solution to an ill-posed inverse problem. An example application is interpolating irregular or sparse data to a regular grid. This data regularization problem ...

Natural fractures provide fluid flow pathways in otherwise low permeability reservoirs. These fractures are usually lined or completely filled with mineral cements. The presence of these cements causes very rough fracture ...

P-wave and S-wave multicomponent seismic data respond to lithology and fluid variations differently, providing interpreters with tools that supply additional information about subsurface geology. To interpret multicomponent ...

In this study, amplitude variation with angle (AVA) of different seismic wave modes, P-P, P-SV and SV-P, will be evaluated. AVA analysis can provide important information about reservoir rocks such as lithology, porosity, ...