Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Tsunami Hazard Along the Eastern African Coast from Mega-Earthquake Sources in the Indian Ocean
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   Chapter 2 Preliminary Tsunami Hazard Map for Africa
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   Chapter 3 The AD 365 Crete Earthquake/Tsunami Submarine Impact on the Mediterranean Region
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   Chapter 4 The AD 365 Alexandria (Egypt) Tsunami, Revisited
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   Chapter 5 Seismotectonics of the Easternmost Cyprus Arc: Implications for Tsunami Hazard Assessment
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   Chapter 6 Seismic Hazard and Risk in Africa, a Hidden Hazard in an Extreme Vulnerable Context
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   Chapter 7 Seismotectonics of the Khurutse Region, Botswana
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   Chapter 8 Kinematic and Elastic Modeling of Fault-Related Folds: Examples from Active Structures of the Tell Atlas (Northern Algeria )
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    Chapter 9 Magmatic Rifting and Seismicity in Afar and Northern Main Ethiopian Rift (MER)
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    Chapter 10 Architecture and Evolution of the Kivu Rift Within the Western Branch of the East African Rift System: Implications for Seismic Hazard Assessment
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    Chapter 11 Stress Transfer and Poroelasticity Associated to Major Earthquakes: From the East African Rift to the African–Eurasian Plate Boundary
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    Chapter 12 Seismic Risk in Ghana: Efforts and Challenges
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    Chapter 13 Toward an African Seismological Data Center
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    Chapter 14 An Overview of the Seismic Hazard in Sudan
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    Chapter 15 Seismic Hazard Assessment in Kenya and Its Vicinity
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    Chapter 16 Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for the Main Cities Along the Continental Section of the Cameroon Volcanic Line
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    Chapter 17 Assessing Seismic Hazard for the Democratic Republic of Congo and Its Vicinity Based on New Seismic Zoning Source Model
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    Chapter 19 AEON Transdisciplinary Natural Baseline in the Karoo (South Africa)
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    Chapter 20 Active Deformation in Tunisia from Continuous GPS Data
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    Chapter 21 Active Deformation in Northern Algeria from Continuous GPS Measurements and Recent Seismic Data
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    Chapter 22 How InSAR Can Help on the Seismic Hazard Assessment
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    Chapter 23 Surface Deformation Monitoring from SAR Interferometry for Seismic Hazard Assessment Around Major Active Faults: Case of Zemmouri Earthquake (Algeria)
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    Chapter 24 The Use of an ELMI for Measuring the Movement of the Trougout and the Ajdir-Imzouren Faults—(North East of the RIF) MOROCCO—Between 2017 and 2019
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    Chapter 25 Land and Sea Earthquakes Triggered by Groundwater Fluctuation Due to the Hydrologic Cycle in South Korea
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    Chapter 26 Advances in Archaeoseismology
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    Chapter 27 Possible Tectonic Styles of Future Earthquakes from Seismic Moment Tensors of Previous Events: An Example in Italy
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    Chapter 28 Stress Transferred by the May 2010 Beni-Ilmane Seismic Sequence
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    Chapter 29 Contribution of the Pleiade Satellite Image Processing in the Characterization of the Active and Seismogenic Structures in the Tell Atlas (Northern Algeria)
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    Chapter 30 Historical and Archeoseismic Investigations in Kairouan Region (Central Tunisia): Evidence for the 9 October 859 AD Large Earthquake
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    Chapter 31 Algerian’s Seismic Catalogue Completeness from Historical Instrumental Monitoring, Archeoseismological and Paleoseismological Studies
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    Chapter 32 Analysis of the Bejaia Seismic Sequence of 2012–2013, Northeastern, Algeria
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    Chapter 33 The Hammam Melouane Seismic Sequences (North Algeria) 2014–2016
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    Chapter 34 Statistical Study of Earthquake Swarms in Northeastern Algeria with Special Reference to the Ain Azel Swarm; Hodna Chain, 2015
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    Chapter 35 Deep Rupture Process of the 3rd of April, 2017 Earthquake in Stable Continental Region, Botswana
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    Chapter 36 Moho Depth Variation and Crustal Velocity Structure in Northern Algeria by Teleseismic Receiver Function Analysis
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    Chapter 37 Shear Velocity Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle of North Algeria from Rayleigh Wave Dispersion Analysis
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    Chapter 38 S-Wave Velocity Structure in the City of Oued Fodda, Northern Algeria, by Inversion of Rayleigh Wave Ellipticity
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    Chapter 39 Studying the Evolution of Earthquake Network Measures for the Main Shock of the 24th of June 2015 in Egypt
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    Chapter 40 On Detecting Changes in Earthquake Occurrence Rates Through Trend Reversal
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    Chapter 41 High-density Seismic Network for Monitoring Alentejo Region (Portugal) and Mitidja Basin Region (Algeria)
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    Chapter 42 Seismic Sources and Their Statistics: An Application to Kachchh Rift Basin (India)
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    Chapter 43 Source and Path Characteristics of Chamoli Region, India
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    Chapter 44 Earthquake Early Warning Systems: Methodologies, Strategies, and Future Challenges
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    Chapter 45 Status of Seismic Hazard Modeling of Active Faults in Oran City, (Northwestern Algeria)
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    Chapter 46 Large Earthquakes and Active Faulting in the Gafsa-Metlaoui Region (South Tunisia): Implications on the Seismic Hazard Assessment
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    Chapter 47 Is the Seismic Hazard in Tunisia Underestimated? An Archaeoseismological Study
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    Chapter 48 Preliminary Fault Instability Analysis of Mw 6.5 Pidie Jaya, Aceh 2016 Earthquake (Indonesia)
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    Chapter 49 The Perturbation of Background Stress Field Along Sunda Subduction Margin During 2004 Mw 9.1 Off-Sumatra Earthquake
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    Chapter 50 Azimuth Dependence in Topographical Site Effects: Case of ABZH Broadband Station (North of Algeria)
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    Chapter 51 Seismic Site Response Assessment Using Predominant Periods and Shear Wave Velocity Estimation in Nador (N-E of Morocco)
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    Chapter 52 On the Influence of Earthquakes and Soil Characteristics on the Seismic Response and the Performance of Isolated Bridges
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    Chapter 53 Dynamic Stability of Anchored Retaining Walls
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    Chapter 54 Thermal Anomaly and Land Surface Temperature Associated with the Abuja, Nigeria Earth Tremor of 7th September 2018
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    Chapter 55 Porosity Model Construction Based on ANN and Seismic Inversion: A Case Study of Saharan Field (Algeria)
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    Chapter 56 The Study of the Regional Seismic Line of the Western Desert (Iraq)
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    Chapter 57 Fusion of Seismic Attributes Using Evidence Theory
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    Chapter 58 Seismic Data Compression: A Survey
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    Chapter 59 Edge Detector Radon Transform for Seismic Multiple Attenuation
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    Chapter 60 A Comparison Between Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing and Geophone Detection for Passive Seismic Monitoring
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    Chapter 61 A Weighted Metric for Semi-blind Seismic Data Quality Assessment
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    Chapter 62 Reservoir Properties of Source Rocks from Well and Seismic Data: A Case Study of Geca Field, Onshore Niger Delta (Nigeria)
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    Chapter 63 Porosity and Permeability Prediction in Triassic Reservoirs of HassiR’mel Field (Algeria) from Well Logs Data Using Fuzzy Logic
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    Chapter 64 Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for Lithofacies Classification of Ordovician Unconventional Tight Sand Reservoir from Well-Logs Data (Algerian Sahara)
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    Chapter 65 Integrated Well Log Analysis and 1D PS Modeling in Assessment of Maturity and HC Generation Potential of the Sources Rocks in Wichian Buri Sub-Basin, Thailand
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    Chapter 66 Gravity Data Assessment as Support to Explore Surface and Subsurface Structural Elements of a Challenged Area Case Study: Northern East Tunisia
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    Chapter 67 The Relationship Between Surface Atmospheric Potential Gradient Drop and Earthquake Precursors
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    Chapter 68 Key Issues in the Research on Loess Flow Slides Under Hydraulic and Gravitational Soil Erosion
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    Chapter 69 Determination of Sedimentary Thickness of Parts of Middle Benue Trough, Northeast Nigeria, Using High-Resolution Aeromagnetic Data
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    Chapter 70 Geological and Geophysical Characterization Using Electrical Resistivity Imaging of Certain Landslides at Djimla region (Jijel, Northeast Algeria)
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    Chapter 71 Computer Technology for Modeling the Sources of Magnetic Anomalies in the Layers of the Earth’s Crust
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    Chapter 72 Singular Spectral Analysis Applied to Magnetotelluric Time Series Collected at Medea (Algiers, Algeria) to Detect Electromagnetic Signal Signature Associated with Earthquake: First Results
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    Chapter 73 Migration of GPR Data Based on Phase-Shifting Interpolation Method in Attenuation Media
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    Chapter 74 Characterizing the Subsurface Structure Using 3-D Magnetotelluric Inversion: A Case Study of M'rara Basin, Algerian Sahara
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    Chapter 75 Design of New Model for Water Saturation Based on Neural Network for Low-Resistivity Phenomenon (Algeria)
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    Chapter 76 Change in Streaming Potential with Earthquakes
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    Chapter 77 Radio Direction Finding for Short-Term Crustal Diagnosis (Italy)
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    Chapter 78 Application of Electrical Imaging and Seismic Tomography in the Study of Viaduct Site in Tabellout, Jijel, Northeast Algeria
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    Chapter 79 A New Method to Determine In Situ Stress Based on Borehole Cross-Sectional Shape Measuring Technique
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    Chapter 80 Geo-Investigations on the Qarat Kibrit Salt Dome Faulting System South of Adam, Oman—In Search of Anomalies Favorable for Uranium and Associated Minerals
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    Chapter 81 Volume of Clay Estimation Using Artificial Neural Network Case Study: Berkine Basin Southern Algeria
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    Chapter 82 Establishing an Inverse Dependence Between Hawaiian Volcanoes Through Change-Point Detection
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    Chapter 83 Explore the Suitability of Rafah Coastal Aquifers for Sustainable Development Using Geophysics and Remote Sensing
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    Chapter 84 The Application of Glauconite for High-Resolution Stratigraphic Interpretations of Eocene Succession
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    Chapter 86 Molecular Geochemistry of the Mamu Formation Sediments in Anambra Basin, Nigeria
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    Chapter 87 Petroleum Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Levant Basin
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    Chapter 88 Petroleum Generation Potential of the Lower Palaeozoic Organic Matter-Rich Shales in the Central Part of the Baltic Sedimentary Basin
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    Chapter 89 Organic Matter in Condensed Section of Oligocene Shales in CuuLong Basin, Vietnam
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    Chapter 90 The Geochemical Characterization of the Pelagian Domain, North-Eastern Tunisia Near Lampedusa: Oil–Oil and Oil-Source Rock Correlations
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    Chapter 91 Origin of Oil Stains in a Well Located in Hammamet Gulf in the Sicily-Tunisia Channel
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    Chapter 92 Investigation of Rheological Properties of Heavy Oil Deposits
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    Chapter 93 Swelling Performance of Paraffinic Crude Oil Under Carbon Dioxide Injection
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    Chapter 94 Polymer-Coated Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Water-Wet Berea Sandstone Core Plugs
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    Chapter 95 Experimental Analysis of Low Salinity Waterflooding in Tertiary Recovery Mode in Geleki Oil Field of Upper Assam Basin, India
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    Chapter 96 Performance of Oil-Based Demulsifier and Water Clarifier for Treating Oil Emulsion Stabilized by Fine Sands in Oilfield Under Low Salinity Waterflooding
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    Chapter 97 Application 4D-Microtomography for Oil Displacement Experiments
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    Chapter 98 The Numerical Simulation of Effects of Porosity, Permeability and Fluid Saturation on Heat Dissipation in an Oil Reservoir
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    Chapter 99 Unconventional Reservoir Characterization: Permeability Prediction in Shale Gas Reservoirs from Well-Logs Data Using Neural Network. Application to the Barnett Shale (USA)
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    Chapter 100 Shale Volume Estimation in Unconventional Tight Sand Reservoir from Well-Logs Data Using Neural Network Enhanced by the Spectral Mineralogical Neutron Measurements with an Application to Algerian Sahara
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     Chapter 101 Development of a Local Correlation Between Static and Dynamic Elastic Properties for Three Main Carboniferous Carbonate Reservoir Rocks in the Volga-Ural Region
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     Chapter 102 Ecofriendly Lubricant Solutions for the Exploration and Exploitation of Oil and Gas Resources
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     Chapter 103 Development and Rheological Properties of a Local (Nigerian) Organophilic Clay as a Constituent of Oil-Based Drilling Fluid
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     Chapter 104 Potential of a Blend of Low-Grade Nigerian and Commercial Grade (Wyoming) Bentonitic Clays as Constituents of Water-Based Drilling Fluids
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     Chapter 105 Presence of NaCl as Strategy for Improving the CO 2 Replacement Process in Natural Gas Hydrate Reservoirs
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     Chapter 106 Simulation on the Dynamic Variation of Properties During Deflagration Fracturing in Screen Completed Well
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     Chapter 107 Risk Analysis of Gas Pipeline Laid in Permafrost
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     Chapter 108 Implementation of a Process for the Treatment of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil Using Petroleum Produced Water
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     Chapter 109 Reconstruction of Late Hercynian Paleostress from Vein Data; Case Study of the Panasqueira Mine, Portugal
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     Chapter 110 Stratigraphy and Structural Style of the Maghrebides Belt Foreland: Souk Ahras Sellaoua Unit Case (External Domain, NE Algeria)
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     Chapter 111 Underlying Geological Structure of the Northern Edge of the Mitidja Basin and the Sahel Fold Near Tipasa Town (Algiers, Algeria) Using Magnetotellurics: First Results
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     Chapter 112 Subsurface Structural Trends from Gravity Data Analysis (Northern Tunisian Atlas)
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     Chapter 113 Najd-Related Transpressional Deformations in the Atalla Shear Zone (Eastern Desert, Egypt)
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     Chapter 114 Role of Pre-existing Structures During the Opening of the Red Sea, Western Saudi Arabian Margin
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     Chapter 115 Subsurface Structure of Saudi Cross-Border City of NEOM Deduced from Magnetic Data
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     Chapter 116 Structural Evolution for AJJAJ Shear Zone, Northwestern Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia
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     Chapter 117 Interpretation of Aeromagnetic and Geochemical Data for Tectonic and Structural Setting of Granitic Rocks Around Bishewa Area, Southwestern Nigeria
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     Chapter 118 Effect of the Movement Across a Surface Breaking, Inclined, Locked, Finite Strike-Slip Fault in Visco-elastic Medium of Burger’s Rheology
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     Chapter 119 Major Kinematic Revolutions: The Underside of the Maps
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     Chapter 120 Exhumed Lower Continental Crust and Proto-oceanic Crust Interactions? The BasAlg and ArcMal Deep Seismic Projects
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     Chapter 121 Seismo-stratigraphic Mapping Guided by Magnetic Anomalies Stripes: Assessing Opening Models for the Eastern Algerian Oceanic Domain
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     Chapter 122 Vertical Movements and Source-to-Sink Systems of the Rifted Margin of NW Africa: Surprises Continue
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     Chapter 123 Evolutionary Geological Models of the Central-Western Peri-Mediterranean Chains
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     Chapter 124 Pliocene to Quaternary Tectonic Inversion of the Algerian Margin Along the Spiral Transect of Kabylies (North Central Algeria)
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     Chapter 125 Early Exhumation of the Beni Bousera Peridotite-Granulite Unit (Internal Rif, Morocco) Inferred from Its Metasedimentary Cap; A New View on Some Marbles and Regional Implications
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     Chapter 126 Magnetotelluric Modelling of the Central Hoggar (Tuareg Shield, NW Africa) Lithospheric Structure
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     Chapter 127 Tectonophysics Modeling of Baimka Ore Zone (Western Chukotka)
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     Chapter 128 Geotectonics and Geodynamics of Kazakhstan Paleozoides from the Plume Tectonics Position (Kazakhstan)
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     Chapter 129 Post-Mesozoic Evolution of the Eastern Flank of the Mongol–Okhotsk Orogenic Belt
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     Chapter 130 Fission Track Cooling Ages in the Brazilian Central Plateau Linked to Orogenies and Continental Break-Up
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     Chapter 131 Tectonic and Geodynamic Controls on Petroleum Systems in Compressional Basins
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     Chapter 132 The Crustal Configuration and Deep Structures Related to the Pre-salt Oil/gas Objectives of the Eastern Maghreb: Need for Deep Seismic Imaging
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     Chapter 133 New Structural and RSCM Thermometric Data from the Variscan Orogen of Morocco: Insight into the Extension-To-Compression Transition
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     Chapter 134 Reconstruction of the Hot Shale Distribution in Geological Outcrops Cross the Murzuq Basins, SW Libya
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     Chapter 135 Assessing Net Rock of Oil Reservoirs by Combining the Morphology of Geological Units and Simulated Images of Rock Types: A Case Study
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     Chapter 136 Wellbore Stability Analysis Based on 3D Geo-Mechanical Model of an Algerian Southeastern Field
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     Chapter 137 Vertical Movements and Petroleum System Modelling in the Southern Chotts Basin, Central Tunisia
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     Chapter 138 Salt Tectonics and Mineralization Processes in NE Algeria
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     Chapter 139 New Insight on the Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Aptian-Albian Play in Central Tunisia
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     Chapter 140 The Cenomano-Turonian Facies Through the Algerian-Tunisian Confines (Region of Tebessa): Correlations, Subsidence and Source Rock
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     Chapter 141 Characterization of the Fractured Eocene Carbonate Reservoir of Dyr Syncline (Tebessa, North-Eastern Algeria)
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     Chapter 142 Effects of Aptian–Albian Tectonic Instabilities on Sedimentation and Petroleum Systems in Northwestern Tunisia
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     Chapter 143 Comparative Surface–Subsurface Studies of Upper Cretaceous Carbonates in Central Tunisia. Erosion, Resedimentation Processes, and Petroleum Implications
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     Chapter 144 Tectono-Sedimentary Evolution of the Uranium Deposits in the DASA Graben (Northern Niger)
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     Chapter 145 Impact of Bioturbation on Quality of Early-Middle Miocene Shoreface Reservoirs, Coastal Swamp Depobelt, Niger Delta Basin (Nigeria)
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     Chapter 146 Orientation of Maximum Horizontal Stress in Pilot Well of Akan Oilfield, Russia
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     Chapter 147 Geological Structure and Hydrocarbon Bearing Prospects of the Northwestern Part of the Persian Gulf Basin (The Western Desert of Iraq)
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     Chapter 148 The Glacial Episodes of the Arabian Peninsula