NAPE Quiz

Evaporitic salt sheets are important in

Petroleum Exploration due to....?

• Formation of turtle structures

• Diapir formation

• Perfect trap seal

• All of the above

Gamma Ray and Resistivity are typically used to log

wells. In a clean sandstone reservoir with

hydrocarbons present, which is the most likely

Gamma Ray (GR) and Resistivity (Res) response?

• Low GR, high Res

• Low GR, low Res

• High GR, high Res

• High GR, low Res

Which are characteristics of normal faults?

• Hanging wall moves up relative to the

  footwall

• Hanging wall moves down relative to the

  footwall

• Extensional deformation triggers faulting

• Both B & C

The term “growth fault” means which of the following?

• Any normal fault associated with sedimentary rocks

• A fault radiating from a larger fault in which both faults

  grow same time

• A fault in a sedimentary rock sequence formed

  contemporaneously and continuously with deposition

• Thrust faults whose displacement has grown through

  time

Shales are important in Petroleum

Geoscience studies due to....?

• Possible top-seal to reservoirs

• Possible generation of hydrocarbons

• Preservation of sedimentary structures in

  core studies

• All of the above

The depositional sequence (fundamental unit of

sequence stratigraphy) is defined by:

• Maximum flooding surfaces which are easiest

  to correlate

• Sequence Boundaries at the top and base

• Highstand Systems Tracts

• Lowstand Systems Tracts

Arrange the grain sizes for sedimentary rocks in the correct

order from small to large

• Clay, silt, sand, granules, pebbles, cobbles, boulders

• Clay, silt, sand, pebbles, granules, cobbles, boulders

• Clay, silt, sand, granules, cobbles, pebbles, boulders

• Clay, silt, sand, pebbles, granules, boulders, cobbles

In geological studies, arkose contains which of the

following minerals which gives it a reddish color?

• orthoclase

• calcite

• aragonite

• quartz

Global climate change is being attributed to the

atmospheric increase in what two gases produced by

human activities?

• oxygen and hydrogen

• ozone and methane

• nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide

• methane and carbon dioxide

Which of the following is a metamorphic

rock?

• sandstone

• marble

• granite

• quartz