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Rio Grande, 9f sediments
ripple marks, 50 chemical weathering and, 38
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risks, in petroleum exploration, 151, 165–167, 181 clastics, 35–38
rivers, channel shifting by, 9f continental depositional environment, 47–52
rock cycle, 30, 30f facies, 60–61, 60f
rock salt, 68, 109 glacier transport of, 47, 47f
gravity and, 41–42
rock stratigraphic units, 61, 73 impact of physical factors in transport of, 44–45, 44f
rock types lithification, 61–64
changes in, 64 marine environments and, 55–59
continental drift and, 19, 20f mass movement of, 42–43
overview of, 29–30 nonclastics, 40
transitioning, 60–61 in organic theory, 1
rockslides, 42, 42f origins of, 35–40
Rocky Mountain Overthrust Belt, 81, 102 overlapping characteristics of, 49f
rollover anticline, 101, 101f physical weathering and, 36–38
royalty payments, 152, 156 pyroclastics, 38, 39f
stratification of, 70, 70f
stream transport, 44–46
transitional environments, 52–55
sabkhas, 51 transport of, 41
salt domes, 68, 99, 110, 120 wind transport of, 46, 46f
samples, 11. See also core samples seeps, oil and gas, 107, 107f, 116, 116f
San Andreas Fault, 26, 26f, 81 seismic data, 114
sand, 35, 36t, 62, 62f. See also beaches seismic reflection profile, 125
sand dunes, 52 seismic surveys
sandbars, overlapping characteristics of, 49 data from, 121–122
sandstone early methods of, 123
cementation and, 63 explosive methods, 124
classification of, 66, 66f marine methods, 126–128, 126f, 127f
during Earth’s formation, 18 modern land methods, 124–126, 124f
geologic processes and, 8 ocean bottom cable (OBC) seismic acquisition,
petroleum migration in, 90 127–128
physical weathering, 38 seismology, 120–121
satellite images, 114 technology for interpretation of, 144
satellites, for transferring data from ship to shore, 128 seismic waves, 124–126, 124f
saturated hydrocarbon, 84 seismogram, 120, 121f
scarp, 8, 8f seismographs, 120, 123
schist, 32 seismology, 120–121
scour marks, 50 seismometer, 123
screen liners, 196 Seismos, 124
seafloor magnetic anomalies, 21, 21f sequence stratigraphy, 139
sealing fault, 100 severance taxes, 159
seawater, 40 shale
sebkhas, 51 during Earth’s formation, 18
secondary migration, 89, 89f, 91–93 overview of, 32, 67, 67f
sedimentary rock petroleum migration in, 90
as a source rock, 89
catastrophism view and, 6
classification of, 64–69 shale shaker, 170, 170f
during Earth’s formation, 18 shaped charge, 195
fossils and, 11 shear modulus, 188
overview of, 32, 32f shear velocity, 188
sedimentary particles in, 35–41 shelf environment, 56–58
studying geologic past in, 71–72 shoestring sand, 103, 103f
using faunal succession to determine age, 77 shoreface, 54, 54f

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