Shale Domes*

D.E. Powley

Search and Discovery Article #60001 (1999)

*Revised from an Amoco Production Company report; presented here with permission of Amoco Production Company and through the efforts of the author, D.E. Powley, and E.A. Beaumont.

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This article contains a review of shale domes. It contains discussions of the types of shale domes, the genesis of shale domes, the traps associated with shale domes, and effects shale can have with other structures.