Tectonic, foreland-basin origins of Upper Ordovician black gas shales in the Appalachian Basin of eastern United States

Joint sets that enhance production from Middle and Upper Devonian gas shales of the Appalachian Basin

Terry Engelder, a leading authority on the recent Marcellus gas shale play, received his B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University (1968), his M.S. degree from Yale University (1972), and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (1973). He is currently a professor of geosciences at Penn State and has previously served on the staff of the U.S. Geological Survey, Texaco, and LamontDoherty Earth O...

Tectonic control on coarse-grained foreland-basin sequences: An example from the Cordilleran foreland basin, Utah

Figure 1. A: Map of Charleston-Nebo salient and northernmost Book Cliffs showing rock units, thrust faults (dashed where buried), key seismic coverage (gray lines), measured stratigraphic sections (1–7; 8 is location of additional Blackhawk sandstone samples), and wells. Rock units: KTs—Cretaceous–Tertiary strata (North Horn and younger formations), Kmv—Cretaceous Mesaverde Group (Blackhawk, Ca...

Foreland basin systems

A foreland basin system is defined as: (a) an elongate region of potential sediment accommodation that forms on continental crust between a contractional orogenic belt and the adjacent craton, mainly in response to geodynamic processes related to subduction and the resulting peripheral or retroarc fold-thrust belt; (b) it consists of four discrete depozones, referred to as the wedge-top, forede...

The chronology of the Eocene tectonic and stratigraphie development of the eastern Pyrenean foreland basin, northeast Spain

Abundant and clearly exposed relationships between structures and syntectonic sedimentary rocks in the southern Pyrenees make this area particularly suitable for detailed studies of the sequential development of a collisional orogenic belt. During the Pyrenean orogeny, major shortening occurred in the eastern Pyrenees in Eocene and early Oligocene times. Unto now, individual tectonic and deposi...

Miocene deposits in the amazonian foreland basin.