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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the understanding of the structural, temporal, and thermal evolution of rifted continental margins has significantly evolved over the past several decades, critical outstanding questions remain, especially concerning ...

The Eocene Upper Wilcox clastic wedge represents the second major pulse of terrigenous material into the Gulf of Mexico basin. Recent interest in the Wilcox has been reinvigorated by the drilling of the Baha prospect in ...

The Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin chronicles late Miocene through Pleistocene sedimentation into the newly rifting Gulf of California. Initial rifting in the basin began around 8.0 Ma, subsequently followed by sedimentation ...

The Cline Shale is an organic-rich mudrock that was deposited in the Midland Basin during the latest Pennsylvanian. Deposits of the Cline Shale are restricted to basinal facies and contain great lateral and vertical ...