doi:10.2204/iodp.sp.308.2005
Gulf of Mexico Hydrogeology
Overpressure and fluid flow processes in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: slope stability, seeps, and shallow-water flow
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Table of Contents
- TITLE PAGE
- PUBLISHER'S NOTES
- ABSTRACT
- SCHEDULE FOR EXPEDITION 308
- INTRODUCTION
- BACKGROUND
- SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
- DRILLING STRATEGY
- PROPOSED DRILL SITES
- LOGGING and DOWNHOLE MEASUREMENTS PLAN
- SAMPLING STRATEGY
- REFERENCES
- TABLES
- FIGURES
- Figure F1. Overpressure results with rapid sedimentation.
- Figure F2. Low-permeability sediments deposited on a high-permeability aquifer.
- Figure F3. Flow focusing effects on slope instability and fluid migration.
- Figure F4. Gulf of Mexico continental slope.
- Figure F5. Brazos-Trinity Basin #4.
- Figure F6. High-resolution seismic data basemap.
- Figure F7. Dip seismic section 3020.
- Figure F8. Strike seismic Line 3045.
- Figure F9. Ursa Basin location and bathymetry.
- Figure F10. Cross section A-A'.
- Figure F11. Gamma ray, resistivity, porosity, and pressure.
- Figure F12. T2P penetrometer.
- SITE SUMMARIES
- APPENDIX OF USEFUL REFERENCES
- SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPANTS (updated 15 June 2005)
Publication date: 27 April 2005
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