VOLUME 90 • NUMBER 4 • APRIL 2006

OT H E R F E AT U R E S 3 - D A N ATO M Y O F A S U P E R G I A N T :
M A R AC A I B O B A S I N , V E N E Z U E L A
Previews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Special Issue Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . v Introduction to the Maracaibo Basin theme issue
Paul Mann and Alejandro Escalona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
House of Delegates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
Geoscience Meetings Calendar . . . . . 580 Regional geologic and tectonic setting of the Maracaibo supergiant basin,
western Venezuela
Education Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 Paul Mann, Alejandro Escalona, and María Verónica Castillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Instructions to Authors . . . . . . . . . . . 656 Tectonic controls of the right-lateral Burro Negro tear fault on Paleogene
Memorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697 structure and stratigraphy, northeastern Maracaibo Basin
Alejandro Escalona and Paul Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Book Releases and Reviews . . . . . . . 699
Deep structure of the Mérida Andes and
Sierra de Perijá mountain fronts, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela
Leonardo Duerto, Alejandro Escalona, and Paul Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Cretaceous to Holocene structural and stratigraphic development
in south Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, inferred from well and
ON COVER— Oblique view from the three-dimensional seismic data
southwest of the 50,000-km2 Maracaibo María Verónica Castillo and Paul Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
Basin, Venezuela, using 90-m resolution Deeply buried, Early Cretaceous paleokarst terrane,
topographic data collected by NASA’s southern Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela
Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission in María Verónica Castillo and Paul Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
2000 and obtained through the CGIAR
Consortium for Spatial Information Sequence-stratigraphic analysis of Eocene clastic foreland basin
(http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/). The dark area deposits in central Lake Maracaibo using high-resolution well
in the center of the image corresponds to correlation and 3-D seismic data
Lake Maracaibo (maximum water depth Alejandro Escalona and Paul Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
is 35 m). Two orthogonal seismic reflection Early and middle Miocene depositional history of the
lines provided by PDVSA show the major Maracaibo Basin, western Venezuela
sequences and structures beneath the lake José I. Guzmán and William L. Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
area (cf. A. Escalona and P. Mann beginning
on p. 479 of this issue). As a host to 14 giant An overview of the petroleum system of Maracaibo Basin
oil fields and with a past cumulative Alejandro Escalona and Paul Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
production of 30 BBOE, the Maracaibo Petrophysical and seismic properties of lower Eocene
supergiant basin is the most prolific clastic rocks in the central Maracaibo Basin
oil basin in the western hemisphere. Alejandro Escalona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Image was prepared using Fledermaus
visualization software provided by
IVS3D (for an animation of this image ACKNOWLEDGMENTS—
see http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/ AAPG thanks
projects/cbth/). The Geology Foundation and the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson
School of Geosciences
at The University of Texas at Austin
Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)
and the AAPG Foundation for financial support of this
issue of the Bulletin
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