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AAPG NEW RELEASE
Course Manual and Atlas of Structural
Styles on Reflection Profiles from the
Niger Delta, by Deborah E. Ajakaiye
and Albert W. Bally, AAPG Continuing
Education Course Note 41, 䉷2002,
107-page spiral-bound illustrated book
accompanied by a packet containing
thirty-seven 11 ⳯ 17 in. figures. ISBN
1-89181-190-7, catalog number 905-
02, list price $28; AAPG Member price
$22. Available from the AAPG Book-
store; 918-584-2555; book-
store@aapg.org; http://
bookstore.aapg.org.
This publication represents a unique
documentation of the wide variety of
structural styles in the offshore Niger
Delta region. Twenty-five seismic pro-
files are presented for their structural
and sequential stratigraphic interpreta-
tion. Each is accompanied by instruc-
tions and discussion and keyed to a line
drawing of a regional profile. These ma-
terials, together with background infor-
mation and a reprint of a key article,
not only provide a realistic context for
geologic education but they are also
highly relevant to global deep-water
exploration.
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgement
Background
Objective and Methodology
Comments on Stratigraphy
Glossary of Selected Seismic Strati-
graphic Terms
Tectonic Setting of the Niger Delta
(Reprint of Doust and Omatsola,
1989)
Exercises
Part A: Relatively Undeformed
Dahomey—Western Niger Delta
Passive Transform Margin
Introduction
Exercise 1: Dahomey Passive Margin
Exercise 2: Dahomey Margin Gravita-
tional Slide
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Contents
Exercise 3(a) and 3(b): Seaward-Dip-
ping Growth Faults (Deformed
Western Niger Delta)
Exercise 3(c): Extensional Graben Sys-
tem (Deformed Western Niger
Delta)
Exercise 4: Channel Systems
Exercise 5: Channel Systems
Part B: Deformed Western Niger Delta
Exercise 6: Compressional Lateral
Ramp System
Exercise 7: Crestal Collapse Structure
Exercise 8: Shale Structures—With-
drawal Syncline
Exercise 9(a): Landward- and Seaward-
Dipping Growth Faults
Exercise 9(b): Landward-Dipping
Growth Fault System
Exercise 10: Toe Thrust System
Exercise 11: Shale Diapirs
Part C: Deformed Eastern Niger Delta
Introduction
Exercise 12: Toe Thrust System
Exercise 13: Graben Dominated by a
Landward-dipping Fault
Exercise 14: Shale Diapir and Graben
System
Exercise 15: Toe Thrust System
Exercise 16: Compressional Lateral
Ramp
Exercise 17: Strike Profile across a
Shale Diapir
Exercise 18: Lateral Ramp System
Exercise 19: Seaward-dipping Growth
Fault System
Exercise 20: Seaward- and Landward-
dipping Growth Faults
Exercise 21: Landward-dipping Growth
Faults
Exercise 22: Compressional Shale
Structures
Selected References
NEW RELEASES
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Applied Subsurface Geological Map-
ping with Structural Methods, 2d ed.,
by Daniel J. Tearpock and Richard E.
Bischke, edited by Laurence G. Walker
(2003). 854 p. Published by Prentice
Hall, Inc. Available through the AAPG
Bookstore, P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, Okla-
homa 74101-0979 (http://book-
store.aapg.org). Price $120.00, AAPG
members $95.00, Geological Society
members $110.00.
Impacts in Precambrian Shields, edited
by Jüri Plado and Lauri J. Pesonen
(2002). Impact Studies Series, series
editor Christian Koeberl. 336 p. Pub-
lished by Springer-Verlag New York,
Inc., 333 Meadowlands Parkway, Se-
caucus, New Jersey 07094. Price
$99.00.
Geodynamics of the Lithosphere, by
Kurt Stüwe (2002). 449 p. Published
by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 333
Meadowlands Parkway, Secaucus, New
Jersey 07094. Price $69.95.
Calcium Carbonate: From the Creta-
ceous Period into the 21st Century, ed-
ited by F. Wolfgang Tegethoff in col-
laboration with Johannes Rohleder and
Evelyn Kroker (2001). 342 p. Pub-
lished by Birkhäuser Verlag, remittance
to Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 333
Meadowlands Parkway, Secaucus, New
Jersey 07094. Price $135.00.
Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinc-
tions: Impacts and Beyond, edited by
Christian Koeberl and Kenneth G.
MacLeod (2002). Geological Society of
America Special Paper 356. 746 p.
Published by the Geological Society of
America, 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box
9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301. Price
$170.00.
Ancient Seismites, edited by Frank R.
Ettensohn, Nicholas Rast, and Carlton
E. Brett (2002). Geological Society of
America Special Paper 359. 190 p.
Published by the Geological Society of
America, 3300 Penrose Place, P.O. Box
9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301. Price
$72.00.