oa Enhancing Structural Analysis with the Fourier Transform - An Example from the Berkine Basin, Algeria

The primary challenge of structural geologists in the petroleum industry is to characterize the spatial distribution of folds, faults, and joints in the subsurface and to understand how these features effect the migration and entrapment of hydrocarbons. In most cases, subsurface data are insufficient to accurately characterize rock deformation at the desired scale. As a result, conceptual models are invoked to help translate sparse data sets into structural interpretations. The selection of an appropriate model is often lelt to intuition or is based on a "common perception" that has not been verified.