Folks
We are organizing a session on continental and marine fold and thrust
belts at the forthcoming meeting of GSA in Houston, October 2008. We
see this as an exciting opportunity (in conjunction with a parallel
session at the 2008 IGC in Oslo this August) to meet, compare/contrast,
and discuss both continental and marine fold and thrust belts using
integrated approaches and insights from both academia and industry. So -
please put in abstracts to the GSA system - deadline 3rd June.
Best wishes
Rob Butler
(on behalf of the convenor team...)
Co-Conveners:
Hermann Lebit, Marathon Oil Co., Houston, TX, USA
Luke A. Jensen, Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc.,
Houston, TX, USA
Terry Pavlis, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX, USA
Rob Butler, Univ. of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Call for Papers:
Session T81. Continental and Marine Fold and Thrust Belts
<http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2008AM/top/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=22282>
(Abstract deadline: JUNE 3RD)
GSA Joint Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, USA / 5-9 October, 2008
Cosponsored by:
GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division
IUGS Task Group on Structural Geology and Tectonics
Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
Scientific Category: Tectonics; Structural Geology;
Geophysics/Tectonophysics/Seismology
Synopsis:
This session aims to compare and contrast continental fold and thrust
belts with their increasingly explored marine equivalents by integrating
academic and industry perspectives. Fold-and-thrust belt boundary
conditions, tectono-stratigraphic architectures, kinematics, and
mechanics will be presented via a multidisciplinary approach.
Extended Details:
Continental fold and thrust belts spectacularly express lithospheric
deformation processes, and their study pioneered our understanding of
plate-scale convergence in modern structural geology and tectonics.
Marine fold and thrust belts, equally impressive, became increasingly
eminent in the past decades due to extensive geophysical data
acquisition spurred by offshore exploration along various continental
margins. Though individual fold and thrust systems may have developed
under considerably different boundary conditions, they reveal remarkable
similarities in internal architecture and style of deformation. This
session's intention is to bring together scientists from academia and
industry to discuss the similarities and differences in fold and thrust
belt architectures, the underlying kinematics and mechanics in the
context of different tectono-stratigraphic settings, comparisons between
exhuming thrust belts versus contraction within areas of deposition, and
geohazards associated with submarine thrust belts.
The symposium is not particularly focused on tectonic regions, but we
anticipate participation from invited and volunteered speakers on the
following systems:
- Alpine-Carpathian-Caucasus
- Mediterranean-North Africa-Middle East
- Himalaya-SE Asia-West Pacific
- South Atlantic-Caribbean-Gulf of Mexico
- Western North America
We foresee a session uniting workers from industry, geological surveys,
and the academic community who endeavour to understand these systems
from different perspectives.
We welcome contributions from a multi-disciplinary spectrum of relevant
approaches focusing on fold and thrust belt development that may regard
local to regional studies, analogue/numerical experiments, or
application of innovative technologies.
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
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