Fracture patterns and petrophysical properties of carbonates undergoing regional folding : A case study from Kurdistan, N Iraq

Acknowledgements The authors thank the Ministry of Natural Resources in Iraqi Kurdistan Region for permission to publish this paper. Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. and HKN Energy Ltd. are acknowledged for providing the subsurface datasets. Great thanks to Colin Taylor at the University of Aberdeen for his assistance in the laboratory work. Thoughtful reviews by two anonymous referees improved the clarity of the paper. Graham Banks is thanked for his helpful and constructive review on a late version of the manuscript, which has significantly improved this paper.Peer reviewedPostprin

Emplacement of sandstone intrusions during contractional tectonics

Acknowledgments We acknowledge the support of sponsoring companies of Phase 3 of the Sand Injection Research Group (SIRG). We are very grateful to John Waldron and Jessica Ross for the constructive reviews of the manuscript. We also wish to thank and acknowledge the continuing help and access provided by the Bureau of Land Management.Peer reviewedPostprin

Tectonic signals documented in gravel and silt beds : A comprehensive review of the eastern Tibetan plateau

Acknowledgements This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42207239) and National Nonprofit Fundamental Research Grant of China, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (IGCEA1906). We gratefully acknowledge the editors of the journal and the anonymous reviewers for their useful and detailed comments and suggestions to improve the original submission.Peer reviewedPostprin

Sandstone intrusions along different types of faults and their effect on fluid flow in siliciclastic reservoirs

We are very grateful to companies sponsoring Phase 3 of the Sand InjectionResearch Group (SIRG). We acknowledge the continuing help provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in California.Peer reviewedPostprin

The effect of rock type on natural water flooding and residual oil saturation below free water level and oil water contact : A case study from the Middle East

Acknowledgments The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the support of Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society (AFES) and Baker Hughes for their sponsorship and Emerson for providing Geolog software for development of this study.Peer reviewedPostprin

Sub-seismic scale folding and thrusting within an exposed mass transport deposit : A case study from NW Argentina

This work was carried out with support from CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) - Brazil, BG - Brazil and the University of Aberdeen. We would like to thank the following geologists for their support, camaraderie and countless hours of fieldwork: Arthur Giovannini, Claus Fallgatter, Victoria Valdez, Qun Liu, Carla Puigdomenech, Guilherme Bozetti and Roberto Noll Filho. We thank Christopher Jackson and an anonymous reviewer, whose constructive comments and criticism helped to improve the manuscript.Peer reviewedPostprin

Sandstone-filled normal faults : A case study from central California

We acknowledge the support of sponsoring companies of Phase 3 of the Sand Injection Research Group (SIRG). We would like to thank Chris Morley and another anonymous reviewer for constructive comments, and the editor for efficient handling of this paper. We also wish to thank and acknowledge the continuing help and access provided by the Bureau of Land Management and in particular Greg Middleton without whose enthusiasm and support our research would have been much more challenging.Peer reviewedPostprin

A Paleoseismic Record Spanning 2-Myr Reveals Episodic Late Pliocene Deformation in the Western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibet

Acknowledgments This research was inspired by Prof. Lin Ding's comments on the doctoral thesis proposal of Yin Lu in May 2014 at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, China. We thank Profs. Todd Ehlers, Erwin Appel, and Oliver Friedrich for fruitful discussions in the early stage of this research. We appreciate the editor Germán Prieto for handling our manuscript, Jérôme Nomade and one anonymous reviewer for constructive reviews. We thank Werner Fielitz for comments, A. Koutsodendris, K. S. Nakajima, and H. Campos for help with lab work, and W. Rösler and H. Schulz for help with core sampling. Financial support was provided by the German Research Foundation (# FR2544/13-1 to O. Friedrich) and the University of Liege under Special Funds for Research, IPD-STEMA Program (R.DIVE.0899-JF-G to Y. Lu).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Block generation, deformation and interaction of mass transport deposits with the seafloor : An outcrop-based study of the Carboniferous at Cerro Bola, NW Argentina

The research presented here was carried out with support from CNPq-Brazil (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) in partnership with Shell-Brazil. We thank Massimo Moretti and an anonymous reviewer, whose constructive comments and criticisms helped to improve the text, their efforts are highly appreciated. Finally, we thank Kei Ogata, Gian Andrea Pini and Andrea Festa for editing this volume.Peer reviewedPostprin

A Continuous 13.3-Ka Paleoseismic Record Constrains Major Earthquake Recurrence in the Longmen Shan Collision Zone

FUNDING This study is supported by the National Nonprofit Fundamental Research of China Institute of Geology China Earthquake Administration (IGCEA 2126, 1906), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41572346)Peer reviewedPublisher PD