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Overview

Thomas H. Shipley is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering as key subfields.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Oil and Gas Production Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods

Thomas H. Shipley has contributed to multiple recent publications centered on well logging data from ocean drilling programs. Notable papers include:

  • ODP Leg 156, Hole 948D - Well Logging Data, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • ODP Leg 156, Hole 948C - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • DSDP Leg 66, Hole 493 - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • DSDP Leg 66, Hole 492B - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ODP Leg 156, Hole 949C - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their work frequently appears in the following publication venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Thomas H. Shipley has collaborated extensively with various researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • J. Casey Moore
  • Yujiro Ogawa
  • Peter Blum
  • Juichiro Ashi
  • Warner Brückmann

Best Publications

  • Seismic Evidence for Widespread Possible Gas Hydrate Horizons on Continental Slopes and Rises

    T. H. Shipley;M. H. Houston;R. T. Buffler;F. J. Shaub

  • Structure of the Nankai Trough Accretionary Zone from multichannel seismic reflection data

    G. F. Moore;T. H. Shipley;P. L. Stoffa;D. E. Karig

  • Estimates of heat flow derived from gas hydrates

    M. Yamano;S. Uyeda;Y. Aoki;Thomas H Shipley

  • Seismically inferred dilatancy distribution, northern Barbados Ridge decollement: Implications for fluid migration and fault strength

    Thomas H. Shipley;Gregory F. Moore;Nathan L. Bangs;J. Casey Moore

  • Quantitative detection of methane hydrate through high-resolution seismic velocity analysis

    Warren T. Wood;Paul L. Stoffa;Thomas H. Shipley

  • Evolution of the Nankai Trough décollement from the trench into the seismogenic zone: Inferences from three-dimensional seismic reflection imaging

    Nathan L. Bangs;Thomas H. Shipley;Sean P.S. Gulick;Gregory F. Moore

  • Seamount subduction erosion in the Nankai Trough and its potential impact on the seismogenic zone

    Nathan L.B. Bangs;Sean P.S. Gulick;Thomas H. Shipley

  • Comments on the growth of accretionary wedges

    Eli A. Silver;Martha J. Ellis;Nancy A. Breen;Thomas H. Shipley

  • Abnormal fluid pressures and fault-zone dilation in the Barbados accretionary prism: Evidence from logging while drilling

    J. C. Moore;T. H. Shipley;D. Goldberg;Y. Ogawa

  • Three-dimensional seismic imaging of the Costa Rica accretionary prism: Structural diversity in a small volume of the lower slope

    Thomas H. Shipley;Kirk D. McIntosh;Eli A. Silver;Paul L. Stoffa

  • Underthrust sediments, fluid migration paths, and mud volcanoes associated with the accretionary wedge off Costa Rica, Middle America Trench.

    Thomas H. Shipley;Paul L. Stoffa;Donald F. Dean

  • Relations between mud volcanoes; thrust deformation, slope sedimentation, and gas hydrate, offshore north Panama

    Donald L. Reed;E. A. Silver;J. E. Tagudin;Thomas H Shipley

  • Sediment accretion, subduction, and dewatering at the base of the trench slope off Costa Rica: A seismic reflection view of the décollement

    Thomas H. Shipley;Gregory F. Moore

  • Equatorial Pacific Seismic Reflectors as Indicators of Global Oceanographic Events

    Larry A. Mayer;Thomas H. Shipley;Edward L. Winterer

  • Fluid accumulation and channeling along the northern Barbados Ridge decollement thrust

    Nathan L. B. Bangs;Thomas H. Shipley;J. Casey Moore;Gregory F. Moore

  • Structure of the Costa Rica convergent margin, offshore Nicoya Peninsula

    G. L. Christeson;K. D. McIntosh;T. H. Shipley;E. R. Flueh

  • Evidence and mechanisms for forearc extension at the accretionary Costa Rica Convergent Margin

    Kirk D McIntosh;Eli Silver;Thomas H Shipley

  • Unconformities of the North Atlantic

    P. R. Vail;R. M. Mitchum;T. H. Shipley;R. T. Buffler

  • Three‐dimensional architecture of the Nankai accretionary prism's imbricate thrust zone off Cape Muroto, Japan: Prism reconstruction via en echelon thrust propagation

    S. P. S. Gulick;N. L. B. Bangs;T. H. Shipley;Y. Nakamura

  • Geology and tectonic evolution of a juvenile accretionary terrane along a truncated convergent margin: Synthesis of results from Leg 66 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, southern Mexico

    J. Casey Moore;Joel S. Watkins;Thomas H. Shipley;Kenneth J. McMILLEN

  • Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, 170 Scientific Results

    E.A. Silver;G. Kimura;T.H. Shipley

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory F. Moore
Gregory F. Moore University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nathan L. Bangs
Nathan L. Bangs The University of Texas at Austin
Paul L. Stoffa
Paul L. Stoffa The University of Texas at Austin
Eli A. Silver
Eli A. Silver University of California, Santa Cruz
Larry A. Mayer
Larry A. Mayer University of New Hampshire
Edward L. Winterer
Edward L. Winterer University of California, San Diego
Millard F. Coffin
Millard F. Coffin University of Tasmania
J. Casey Moore
J. Casey Moore University of California, Santa Cruz
Gail L. Christeson
Gail L. Christeson The University of Texas at Austin
Roger L. Larson
Roger L. Larson University of Rhode Island

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