Now it is getting confusing! The conference title ' Stress controls on
faulting, fracturing and igneous intrusion in the Earth's crust' would deter
me from submitting an abstract about impactite intrusions or salt diapirs,
but I suspect I would intuitively - Eric has a point here - have been
equally discouraged by ' Stress controls on faulting, fracturing and
intrusion in the Earth's crust'. So perhaps it would have to be 'any kind
of intrusion' rather than simply 'intrusion'!! On the other hand if
impactites - not really being tectonic - are beyond the pale, then one
really would have to specify 'igneous and sedimentary intrusions' or
'igneous intrusions and sedimentary injectites'. Back to Zoe!
Bill Chuch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zoe Shipton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
> We could always change the title of the conference to "Stress controls on
> faulting, fracturing and intrusion/injection of magmas, melts, salt and
> other sediments in the Earth's crust" but it'd be a bit cumbersome.
>
> It's been fascinating hearing about the enormous variety in
> intrusion/injection types, and we'd welcome abstracts on any of these
> topics. The theme of the conference is stress, and I imagine there's a
> whole lots of interesting data out there related to stress driving or
> influencing "non-igneous" intrusions.
>
> Look forward to reading your abstracts in April...!
>
> Zoe
>
> Alan Gibbs wrote:
>> For those of you who may have missed these things have a look at:
>> http://pgc.lyellcollection.org/content/6/133.abstract
>>
>> More if you google "clastic injectites" which will give you some insight
>> into how big and potentially interesting these things are. Injectite or
>> intrusion folks? alan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jackson, Christopher
>> A -
>> L
>> Sent: 26 November 2009 15:14
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Seems like we are straying into a discussion about 'forcibly-intruded'
>> clastic dykes (typically injected upwards) vs. 'passively-emplaced'
>> clastic
>> dykes which fill in long-lived, open fractures (i.e. ones forming in
>> metamorphic basement as Bob describes below). This is OK, as long as we
>> are
>> al clear on what we are talking about.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> P.S. Bob: I'll have one of the JSG pre-prints if you don't mind!
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dr Christopher A-L Jackson
>> Statoil Senior Lecturer in Basin Analysis Department of Earth Science &
>> Engineering Imperial College Prince Consort Road London
>> SW7 2BP
>> ENGLAND
>> email: [log in to unmask]
>> web: www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.jackson
>> phone: +44(0)2075947450
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of HOLDSWORTH R.E.
>> Sent: 26 November 2009 14:35
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
>>
>> Christine and all,
>>
>> We here at Durham have had some interest in clastic infills in
>> crystalline
>> rocks - including ones that have been injected. For example, try Beacom
>> et
>> al. 1999 for examples within the Lewisian Gneisses:
>>
>> Beacom, L.E., Anderson, T.B. & Holdsworth, R.E. 1999. Using basement
>> hosted
>> clastic dykes as syn-rifting palaeostress indicators: an example from the
>> basal Stoer Group, Scotland. Geol. Mag. 136, 301-310.
>>
>> I'll send you - and anyone else who want one - a reprint separately.
>>
>> More recently, Rich Walker who has just submitted his PhD here has found
>> similar features in Tertiary basalts in the Faroe Islands and is about to
>> start a post doc studying equivalent features for a further 2.5 years
>> funded
>> by a major oil company (contract pending, so i'll refrain from naming
>> names). If you want I can send a pre-print of a paper we are about to
>> submit
>> to JSG on these, though they are mostly sediment fills with only minor
>> injectites. He will be presenting some of his work as a poster at AGU if
>> you
>> want to come and find him or me.
>>
>> Finally, we also have two PhD students funded by a consortium of
>> companies
>> associated with the Clair field, west of Shetland who are studying
>> fracture
>> systems in the crystalline basement of the Lewisian Complex of NW
>> Scotland
>> (Jen Martin, Ben Franklin). Many of these fracture systems are associated
>> with clastic fills and/or injectites.
>> Jen will also be presenting some of her work as a poster at AGU. The
>> companies are interested in this work as a substantial volume of oil is
>> hosted in fractured basement in the Clair Field.
>>
>> Fianlly, you might also want to seek out these possibly related papers:
>>
>> Richter, D. 1966. On the New Red Sandstone Neptunian Dykes of the Tor Bay
>> Area (Devonshire). Proceedings of the Geological Association, 77,
>> 173-186
>>
>> Wright, V., Woodcock, N.H., Dickson, J.A.D. 2009. Fissure fills along
>> faults: Variscan examples from Gower, South Wales. Geological Magazine,
>> Cambridge
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Bob Holdsworth
>>
>> Prof Bob Holdsworth,
>> NERC KE Fellow,
>> Reactivation Research Group,
>> Dept of Earth Sciences,
>> University of Durham,
>> Durham DH1 3LE,
>> UK
>> Tel +44(0)1913342299
>> Fax +44(0)1913342301
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christine Siddoway
>> Sent: 26 November 2009 13:39
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
>> Importance: High
>>
>> Greetings, Carl and others,
>> AMS on sandstone intrusions: Mike Petronis and I have an investigation
>> underway of sandstone dikes within crystalline rock in the Front Range of
>> Colorado. Our recent abstract with initial results is at:
>> http://aapg09.mapyourshow.com/2_1/sessions/session.cfm?ScheduledSessionI
>> D=15
>> 32. The scale of the intrusions, incidentally, is 5 cm to >7 meters,
>> with
>> many exceeding 2 m in width.
>>
>> I'd like to now ask, can any list members tell me of other examples of
>> clastic dikes within a crystalline host? My web searches yield little!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christine Siddoway
>>
>>
>> On 11/26/09 4:24 AM, "Carl Stevenson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Sedimentary intrusions - does anyone know of any AMS (anisotropy of
>> magnetic
>>> susceptibility) work on these?
>>>
>>> Desperately resisting getting drawn in to a semantic debate, I think
>> 'igneous
>>> intrusion' is fine. I guess it is as opposed to igneous extrusion -
>> lavas and
>>> ash etc. Sometimes in when subvolcanic roots are exposed it is
>> actually
>>> equivocal. There are instances when ash can fall back into a vent.
>>>
>>> An example I am aware of is:
>>> ALMOND, D. C. 1977. Sabaloka Igneous Complex, Sudan. Philosophical
>>> Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series a - Mathematical
>> Physical
>>> and Engineering Sciences, 287, 595-633.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Carl
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stu Clarke
>>> Sent: 26 November 2009 10:23
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
>>>
>>> Don't you hate it when someone gets that email in just before
>> you......
>>> I too have no particular stand on terminology, but I too was surprised
>> by
>>> the stated scale of sedimentary intrusions. I have examined large
>> scale
>>> sedimentary intrusions in deltaic settings and currently work with
>>> colleagues using oil-industry datasets on the same thing. I don't
>> think
>>> sedimentary intrusions have to be small scale......
>>>
>>> Stu
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Macdonald,
>> Professor
>>> David I. M.
>>> Sent: 26 November 2009 10:11
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
>>>
>>> Dear Eric
>>> I have no particular stand on the terminology for igneous rocks, but
>> you are
>>> incorrect in your assertions on the scale of sedimentary intrusions.
>> Salt
>>> is a sedimentary rock which can be injected through kilometers of
>> strata in
>>> bodies hundreds of metres to kilometers across. Anyone who has ever
>> worked
>>> on deltas can point to mud diapirism on a similar scale. Even the
>> humble
>>> sand injection feature is much larger than you make out; your
>> description
>>> seems to be of sand filling pre-existing cracks, whereas most sand
>>> injections are of a fluid slurry under pressure. These intrusions can
>> be
>>> huge. In the Mesozoic forearc basin of the Antarctic Peninsula,
>> sandstone
>>> dykes have been mapped with MINIMUM dimensions: 6 km long, cutting 350
>> m of
>>> strata, and 1 m wide. For more examples, see, among other papers:
>>>
>>> Hurst A. & Cartwright J. A. Eds. 2007. Sand Injectites: Implications
>> for
>>> hydrocarbon exploration and production. Memoir 87 American
>> Association of
>>> Petroleum Geologists
>>>
>>> Hurst A., Cartwright J. & Duranti D. 2003. Fluidization structures
>> in
>>> produced by upward injection of sand through a sealing lithology. In:
>>> Subsurface sediment mobilization (eds. Van Rensbergen P.,Hillis
>> R.,Maltman
>>> A. J. & Morley,C.K.), Geological Society Of London, London, 123-127
>>>
>>> Jonk R., Hurst A., Duranti D., Mazzini A., Fallick A. E. & Parnell J.
>>> 2005.The origin and timing of sand injection, petroleum migration and
>>> diagenesis: the Tertiary petroleum system of the South Viking Graben,
>> North
>>> Sea. AAPG Bulletin, 89, 329-357
>>>
>>> Hurst A. & Duranti D. 2004. Fluidisation and injection in the
>> deep-water
>>> sandstones of the Eocene Alba Formation (UK North Sea). Sedimentology,
>> 51,
>>> 3, 503-529
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>> David Macdonald
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eric Essene
>>> Sent: 26 November 2009 07:39
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
>>>
>>> Rob,
>>> The term igneous intrusions is functionally a terrible term, a
>>> distinction without a difference. More than 99.9% (or more?) of the
>>> time it means igneous rocks where the term is redundant. If one talks
>>> about sedimentary intrusions it is on a meter scale feature, commonly
>>> even less--I have seen some down to cm scale. When they formed and well
>>> afterward they did not look like dikes, just fractures filled with loose
>>> sediment. I discount the poor term "sandstone dikes" as needing yet
>>> another confusing term.
>>> On the other hand salt domes are metamorphic (recrystallized) but
>>> not molten rock, well a little brine. They were not in the sedimentary
>>> group during formation. Yes, we have diapirs of metamorphic rock,
>>> although a lot of those gneiss domes probably have a little melt. I
>>> would agree about metamorphic diapirs but simply would not call them
>>> metamorphic intrusions to avoid confusion on a transitional rock.
>>> Gneiss domes are a nice description for them.
>>> It must be exceedingly rare for igneous petrologists/geochemists
>>> to be presenting data on "sand dikes". Salt domes are much larger
>>> but are as they form. Do you know of any igneous petrologist/ geochemist
>>> who would report on them in your symposium? So "sandstone dikes" are
>>> fractures filled with loose clastic material and water, salt diapirs are
>>> all metamorphic and may have brine, gneiss domes are often partial melts
>>> then at least partly igneous, and the term "igneous intrusion" is
>>> clearly redundant to the average passerby. Is this really a useful
>>> terminology?
>>> cheers,
>>> eric
>>>
>>> On Nov 26, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Butler, Robert wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>> Actually - there are lots of non-igenous intrusions in basins -
>>>> sandstone dykes through 100s metres of strata. Not to mention mud
>>>> diapirs, salt etc etc.... gas chimneys....
>>>> go google!
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list
>>> [[log in to unmask]
>>>> ] On Behalf Of Eric Essene [[log in to unmask]]
>>>> Sent: 26 November 2009 05:09
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: Anderson Stress Meeting: September 2010 reminder
>>>>
>>>> Rob, Zoe, and all,
>>>> Igneous intrusions as opposed to all those sedimentary plutons?
>>>> The phrase is nearly always meaningless and should not be used.
>>>> Sounds like a great trip.
>>>> cheers,
>>>> eric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Butler, Robert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all
>>>>> As we get our diaries together for 2010 we thought it timely to remind
>>>>> you of the conference next year:
>>>>>
>>>>> Stress controls on faulting, fracturing and igneous intrusion in the
>>>>> Earth's crust
>>>>>
>>>>> A meeting to commemorate the work of Ernest Masson Anderson on the
>>>>> 50th anniversary of his death.
>>>>>
>>>>> 6-8 September 2010 at the University of Glasgow, UK
>>>>>
>>>>> Organisers: Zoe Shipton, Rick Sibson, Dave Healy, Rob Butler
>>>>>
>>>>> We will send out details of the meeting ("First Circular") in
>>>>> January - Abstract deadline will be end April with a preliminary
>>>>> programme drawn up through May.
>>>>> We are also planning a fieldtrip to the Hebrides and NW Scotland to
>>>>> examine a variety of faults and the Tertiary igneous complexes.
>>>>> Again - further information will be included in the first circular.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope to see a bunch of you in Scotland next September!
>>>>> Zoe, Rick, Dave and Rob.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No
>>>>> SC013683..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No
>>>> SC013683..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No
>> SC013683.
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