http://www.aapg.org/members_only All things AAPG and the Geosciences Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:51:40 CST FeedMe, by the Nowhere Man (http://thenowhereman.com/hacks) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:25:15 CST http://www.aapg.org/members_only 1265055915 <a href="http://www.aapg.org/members_only"><img src="http://search.datapages.com/data/open/covers/feb10rss.jpg" alt="December 2009 Bulletin Cover" /><br> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:23:24 CST http://www.aapg.org/members_only 1265055804 <i>Havard D. Enge and John A. Howell</i><br><br><br><b>Clinoforms impact fluid flow</b><br>Two ancient river-dominated delta systems were digitally mapped to recreate their clinothem and clinoform geometries in geocellular reservoir modeling software. Laser scanning was used to build virtual outcrops for quantitative reservoir characterization as well as for input in reservoir modeling.<br> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:22:01 CST http://www.aapg.org/members_only 1265055721 <i>Khaled R. Arouri, Pierre J. Van Laer, Mark H. Prudden, Peter D. Jenden, William J. Carrigan, and Adnan A. Al-Hajji</i><br><br><b>Compartmentalization: The key component</b><br>Petroleum inclusions exist in parts of the Ghazal Field, and their discovery in this traditional gas play was unexpected. Compartmentalization preserved light oil along the southern rim of the field that appears to have escaped flushing by subsequent charges that occurred further north.<br> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:20:21 CST http://www.aapg.org/members_only 1265055621 <i>Ian A. Kane, Vicky Catterall, William D. McCaffrey, and Ole J. Martinsen</i><br><br><b>A model of submarine channel evolution</b><br>Lateral surface tilting, a common deformation style in extensional settings, has a significant effect on channel evolution with the potential to affect the resultant configuration of the channel system. This study in the Pliocene of the Nile Delta slope has architectural implications for other systems.<br> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:16:50 CST http://www.aapg.org/members_only 1265055410 <i>Kevin J. Smart, David A. Ferrill, Alan P. Morris, Barron J. Bichon, David S. Riha, and Luc Huyse</i><br><br><b>A powerful tool for subsurface deformation</b><br>Geometry and strain evolution from the Big Brushy Canyon monocline were tracked so that fold shape, cumulative extension, and layer-parallel shear strain could be compared to field observations. This geomechanical modeling approach provides a powerful tool for site-specific subsurface deformation prediction.<br> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:13:11 CST http://www.aapg.org/members_only 1265055191 <i>Margarita Diaz-Molina and M. Belen Munoz-Garcia</i><br><br><b>Understanding meander belt architecture</b><br><br>This paper presents three-dimensional reconstructions, estimates differences in sand fraction and connectivity, and discusses controls including estimations of ancient river sizes from exposures of sandstone meander belt deposits in the Loranca Basin, Spain.<br>