Description
Book SynopsisThe late Daniel J. Tearpock was a noted scientist, teacher, and author of several popular applied books and papers on geological mapping. He was also an entrepreneur and led the international petroleum consultancy and training company Subsurface Consultants & Associates, LLC (SCA). He was the lead author of previous editions of this book and helped create the basics of correctly applied geological mapping technics and principles.
Richard E. Bischke, PhD, president of PCGS, has been involved with teams within major oil and gas companies that had discoveries from Louisiana and Venezuela to the Philippines. He has worked in 19 different countries and was previously chief exploration geophysicist at IntEx, LLC, and chief structural geophysicist for SCA.
James C. Brenneke is retired from Shell Oil (US), where he worked in research, exploration, and production; he also served in BP's deep-water Gulf of Mexico production orga
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Subsurface Mapping
- Chapter 2: Contouring and Contouring Techniques
- Chapter 3: Directionally Drilled Wells and Directional Surveys
- Chapter 4: Log Correlation Techniques
- Chapter 5: Integration of Geophysical Data in Subsurface Mapping
- Chapter 6: Cross Sections
- Chapter 7: Fault Maps
- Chapter 8: Structure Maps
- Chapter 9: Interpretation of Three-Dimensional Seismic Data
- Chapter 10: Compressional Structures: Balancing and Interpretation
- Chapter 11: Extensional Structures: Balancing and Interpretation
- Chapter 12: Strike-Slip Faults and Associated Structures
- Chapter 13: Growth Structures
- Chapter 14: Isochore and Isopach Maps
