Alejandro Escalona

Publications

1. Co-editor and author of several publications on a special AAPG bulletin in the Maracaibo basin, Venezuela. To be published on April 2006.

·       Mann, P., Escalona, A. and Castillo, V, in press, Regional geology and tectonic setting of the Maracaibo supergiant basin, western Venezuela.

·       Escalona, A., and Mann, P., in press, Tectonic controls of the right-lateral Burro Negro tear fault on Paleogene structure and stratigraphy, northeastern Maracaibo Basin.

·       Duerto, L., Escalona, A. and Mann, P, in press, Deep structure of the Mérida Andes and Sierra de Perijá mountain fronts, Maracaibo Basin.

·       Escalona, A., and Mann, P., in press, Sequence stratigraphic analysis of Eocene clastic foreland basin deposits in central Lake Maracaibo using high-resolution well correlation and 3D seismic data.

·       Escalona, A. and Mann, P., in press, An overview of the petroleum systems of Maracaibo Basin.

·       Escalona, A., in press, Petrophysical and seismic properties of lower Eocene clastic rocks in the central Maracaibo Basin.

2. Escalona, A., Mann, P and Bolivar Group, 2004, Tectonic reconstructions of sedimentary basins associated with the proto-Maracaibo and proto-Orinoco rivers: New constraints from BOLIVAR and GULFREX seismic data. Abstract and poster AGU Annual convention, San Francisco, California, December 2004

3. Escalona, A., 2003, Regional Tectonics, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir properties of Eocene clastic sedimentation in the Maracaibo basin, Venezuela . PhD Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, 222 p.

4. Escalona, A. and Mann, P., 2004, Regional Tectonics, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir properties of Eocene clastic sedimentation in the Maracaibo basin, Venezuela . Expanded Abstract, AAPG Annual convention, Dallas, Texas, April, 2004.

5. Escalona, A., Sena, A. and Mann, P.,  Basement blocks and basin inversion structures mapped using reprocessed Gulfrex 2D seismic data, Caribbean-South America oblique collisional zone. Abstract and poster AGU Annual convention, San Francisco, California, December, 2003.

6. Escalona, A. and Mann, P., 2003, Three-dimensional architecture and evolutionary history of an Eocene pull-apart basin, Maracaibo basin, Venezuela, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Vol. 20, 141-161.

7. Lucas, Carol MacDonald and Escalona, A., 1998, 3-D characterization of the upper sandstone member, C-2-X sand, east flank of the north dome, Centro Lago Field, Lake Maracaibo: Leading Edge Tulsa, OK, December 1998, Vol. 17, Issue 12, 1748-1752

8. Escalona, A. and Mann, P., 2003, Paleogene depocenter along the NE margin of the Maracaibo basin: Structure along an exhumed, Eocene age lateral ramp fault in western Venezuela. Expanded Abstract, AAPG Annual convention, Salt Lake city, Utah, May, 2003.

9. Duerto, L. and Escalona, A., 1995, Reprocesamiento e interpretación estructural de 350 km de líneas sísmicas 2D en el área de Cerro Negro, Faja Petrolífera del Orinoco. (Unpublished undergraduate senior thesis, Universidad Central de Venezuela) and abstract presented at Congreso Venezolano de Geofísica, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1996.

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