Industrial Structural Geology: Principles, Techniques and Integration (Geological Society Special Publication)

vi, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: Industrial structural geology : principles, techniques and integration: an introduction -- Interpretational variability of structural traps : implications for exploration risk and volume uncertainty -- Trapping of buoyant fluids in fault-bound structures -- The association of folds and fractures and the link between folding, fracturing and fluid flow during the evolution of a fold-thrust belt : a brief review -- The role of fluid pressure in contractional systems : examples from the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains -- Structural model creation : the impact of data type and creative space on geological reasoning and interpretation -- A unified approach to measuring structures in orientated drill core -- A method for characterizing basement rocks from borehole images -- 3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning : an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland -- Five anomalous structural aspects of rift basins in Thailand and their impact on petroleum systems -- The crustal architecture of the Faroe-Shetland Basin : insights from a newly merged gravity and magnetic dataset -- Structural geology and well planning in the Clair Field -- The missing complexity in seismically imaged normal faults : what are the implications for geometry and production response? -- Predicting subseismic fracture density and orientation in the Gorm Field, Danish North Sea -- Unlocking stranded resources in naturally fractured reservoirs using a novel approach to structural reconstructions and palaeostress field modelling: an example from the Hoton field, southern North Sea, UKCS.…