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    Rheologically Reasonable Cross-Sections I: Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

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    This document contains four borehole logs from petroleum sites placed in their structurally correct positions without connecting lines drawn between them. It also contains three cross-section interpretations of the subsurface geology based on the same four borehole logs. The top cross-section shows the most rheologically reasonable interpretation, with strain most evenly distributed. The middle cross-section assumes a kink fold requiring great displacement of rock. The bottom provides an alternative interpretation connecting the borehole logs.

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    This document contains four borehole logs from petroleum sites placed in their structurally correct positions without connecting lines drawn between them. It also contains three cross-section interpretations of the subsurface geology based on the same four borehole logs. The top cross-section shows the most rheologically reasonable interpretation, with strain most evenly distributed. The middle cross-section assumes a kink fold requiring great displacement of rock. The bottom provides an alternative interpretation connecting the borehole logs.

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    This document contains four borehole logs from petroleum sites placed in their structurally correct positions without connecting lines drawn between them. It also contains three cross-section interpretations of the subsurface geology based on the same four borehole logs. The top cross-section shows the most rheologically reasonable interpretation, with strain most evenly distributed. The middle cross-section assumes a kink fold requiring great displacement of rock. The bottom provides an alternative interpretation connecting the borehole logs.

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    Rheologically Reasonable Cross-Sections I: Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

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    This document contains four borehole logs from petroleum sites placed in their structurally correct positions without connecting lines drawn between them. It also contains three cross-section interpretations of the subsurface geology based on the same four borehole logs. The top cross-section shows the most rheologically reasonable interpretation, with strain most evenly distributed. The middle cross-section assumes a kink fold requiring great displacement of rock. The bottom provides an alternative interpretation connecting the borehole logs.

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    Rheologically reasonable cross-sections I Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

    This page shows four logs from petroleum boreholes, placed on


    the page in their structurally correct positions and thus hung in
    preparation for making a structural cross section. No lines have been
    added from log to log; that is left as an exercise for the reader.
    Parts II and III of this series present a favored interpretation and
    some less-favored interpretations or representations.

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    This page shows three cross-sections, all of which interpret the same
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    Rheologically reasonable cross-sections III Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

    This page shows three cross-sections, all of which interpret the same
    geologic information (the same four logs from petroleum boreholes). The
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