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Carl,

 

Can you send me a word document of the TSG programme so I can put it on the website? I’ve had a lot of emails asking what the order of play is.

 

Thanks

 

Jen.

 

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Jennifer Claire Martin

 

Postgraduate Student (Structural Geology)
Reactivation Research Group

Department of Earth Sciences

Durham University

Science Site

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Durham

County Durham

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From: Tectonics & structural geology discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carl Stevenson
Sent: 18 December 2009 17:16
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Subject: TSG programme

 

Dear all,

Here is a sneaky peek at the programme for the TSG meeting in Birmingham in January.

 

tsglogohi-1_b&w2010 meeting program       WM Pan Blk U

 

Tuesday 5th January

 

18 30 onwards                     Wine reception in the Lapworth Museum

                                                Registration desk open in Lapworth Museum

Poster hanging

 

Wednesday 6th January

 

08 00 – 09 15                       Registration desk open in Lapworth Museum (until lunch)

                                                Arrival tea, coffee and refreshments

09 15                                     Welcome – Professor Tim Reston

09 30                                     Technical programme day 1 – talks and posters

                                              

Session 1: Reducing uncertainty and risk

09 30 – 09 45

The Freyja project: uncertainty analysis of geological interpretations

*Euan Macrae, Clare Bond, Zoe Shipton

09 45 – 10 00

The influence of Structural and Stratigraphic uncertainties on fault seal analysis and reservoir compartmentalisation of deep water fan systems

Wood, A., Paton, D, Cook, A.

 

10 00 – 10 15

‘De-risking the prospect’ Incorporating structural uncertainty in petroleum systems modelling: A case study from the Judd Basin, U.K.

S. M. Clarke, H. Johnson & J. Rodriguez

 

10 15 – 10 30

Test-driving the Virtual Seismic Atlas – finding analogues and authoring content

Rob Butler and Taija Torvela

10 30 – 10 45

The number of km-scale impact craters yet to be found on Earth is c. 800

Stewart, S. A.

10 45 – 11 00

Discussion period

Chair: Nicola De Paulo

 

11 00 – 11 30                      Break with tea, coffee and refreshments

 

 

Session 2: Neotectonics and active basins

11 30 – 11 45

Afterslip on the L’Aquila earthquake (M6.3) surface rupture captured in 4D using a Terrestrial laser scanner (TLS)

*Wilkinson M., McCaffrey K.J.W., Roberts G., Cowie P.A., Phillips R.J. & Michetti, A.

11 45 – 12 00

High resolution monitoring of creep of the Mam Tor landslip, Derbyshire

Ernest Rutter and Sam Green

12 00 – 12 15

Fault Lubrication and Earthquake Propagation in Thermally Unstable Rocks

N. De Paola,T. Hirose, T. Mitchell, G. Di Toro, C. Viti and T. Shimamoto

12 15 – 12 30

Late Cenozoic reactivation of polydeformed basement in the Chinese Beishan region north of Tibet

Cunningham Dickson and  Jin Zhang

12 30 – 12 45

Normal-Fault Architecture and Deformation Processes in Poorly Consolidated Sediments within an Actively Extending Basin, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

*Sian Loveless, Victor Bense and Jenni Turner

12 45 – 13 00

Discussion period

Chair: Steve Jones

 

13 00 – 14 30                      Lunch and posters

 

Session 3: Palaeostress and brittle tectonics

14 30 – 14 45

Combination of paleostress and paleomagnetic data: case studies from the Pannonian Basin

Fodor, L.I., Márton, E

14 45 – 15 00

Seismites reveal long-term earthquake behavior of the Dead Sea Fault

Shmuel Marco

 

15 00 – 15 15

The stress state of the brittle upper crust during early Variscan tectonic inversion and its influence on high-pressure compartments

Van Noten, K., Muchez, P. & Sintubin, M.

15 15 – 15 30

Characterising brittle reactivation in basement: an example from the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland

*J. C.  Martin, R. E. Holdsworth, K. W. J. McCaffrey, A. Conway & M. Krabbendam

15 30 – 15 45

Palaeostress reconstruction in the Lufilian Arc and the Kundulungu foreland (Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo): in search of evidence of incipient active rifting

*Kipata, M.L., Delvaux, D., Sebagenzi, M.N., Cailteux, J.-J. & Sintubin, M.

15 45 – 16 00

Discussion period

Chair: Steve Rippington

 

16 00 – 16 30                      Break with tea, coffee and refreshments

 

Session 4: Posters

16 30 – 17 30

 

Thursday 7th January

 

08 00 – 09 15                       Registration desk open in Lapworth Museum (until lunch)

                                                Arrival tea, coffee and refreshments

09 15                                     Technical programme day 2 – talks and posters

 

Session 5: Mapping and remote sensing

09 15 – 09 30

The origin and evolution of the Cretaceous northwest Sirt Basin, Libya, based on remote sensing interpretation and well data analysis

*Khalifa M. Abdunaser, Ken J.W. McCaffrey

09 30 – 09 45

InSAR mapping of an active Iranian salt extrusion

Ian Alsop, Pedram Aftabi, Mahasa Roustaie, Christopher J. Talbot

09 45 – 10 00

Geology of the Ordovician Tyrone Igneous Complex, Northern Ireland

Cooper, M. R., Crowley, Q. G., Hollis, S. P., Noble, S. R., Roberts, S., Chew, D., Earls,  G, & Herrington, R..

10 00 – 10 15

Polyphase deformation in the Lake Hazen region, at 82o north on Ellesmere Island: implications for the tectonic evolution of the High Arctic

Stephen Rippington, Robert Scott, Helen Smyth, Simon Kelly

10 15 – 10 30

A ruck, a ramp and imbricate stack, but no culmination – the Dundonnell sector of the Caledonian Moine Thrust Belt, Northwest Highlands of Scotland.

Leslie, A.G., Goodenough, K.M.& Krabbendam, M.

10 30 – 10 45

Discussion period

Chair: Sam Spendlove

 

10 45 – 11 15                      Break with tea, coffee and refreshments

 

Session 6: Margins

11 15 – 11 30

Evidence for Quaternary convergence between the North American and South American plates, east of the Lesser Antilles

Patriat M., Pichot T., Westbrook G.K., Umber M., Deville E., Bénard F., Roest W., Loubrieu B. and the ANTIPLAC cruise party

11 30 – 11 45

Thermal weakening localizes intraplate deformation along the southern Australian continental margin

Simon P. Holford, Richard R. Hillis, Martin Hand, Mike Sandiford

 

11 45 – 12 00

Structural Controls on the Evolution of the Southeastern Brazilian Continental Margin

*Ashby, D.E., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Holdsworth, R.E., Almeida, J.C.H., Oliver, J.

13 00 – 12 15

Detachment faults during continental breakup and beyond

Tim Reston

12 15 – 12 30

Cenozoic history of Britain and Ireland: Implications of modern dynamic support for the Paleocene underplating idea, and quantification of plate boundary drivers of Cenozoic structural inversion

Stephen M Jones

12 30 – 12 45

Discussion period

Chair: Ken McDermott

 

12 45 – 14 15                      Lunch and posters

 

Session 7: Novel approaches and applications I

14 15 – 14 30

Calculated petrophysical properties of rocks from CPO analysis by EBSD in a section across the Moho in Cabo Ortegal (N Spain)

Sergio Llana-Fúnez, Dennis Brown, Ramón Carbonell, Joaquina Álvarez-Marrón, David Martí, Matthew Salisbury

14 30 – 14 45

Linking sill morphology to emplacement mechanisms

*Nick Schofield, Carl Stevenson, Tim Reston

14 45 – 15 00

Cone sheet emplacement in sub-volcanic systems: a case study from Ardnamurchan, NW Scotland

*Craig Magee, Carl Stevenson and Brian O’Driscoll2

15 00 – 15 15

Contrasting magnetic susceptibility fabrics on opposite fold limbs: cause and implications

Debacker, T.N.., Seynaeve, N., Sintubin, M. & Robion, P.

15 15 – 15 30

Characterising the role of basin margin structure on finite strain patterns across a ‘cleavage’ front from the Variscides of southern Ireland

*Parker, C., Meere, P., Stevenson, C., Mulchrone, K.

15 30 – 15 45

Discussion period

Chair: Carl Stevenson

 

15 45 – 16 15                      Break with tea, coffee and refreshments

 

 

Session 8: Posters

16 15 – 17 30

 

17 30 – 18 00                       AGM Chaired by Professor John Wheeler

18 00 – 18 30                       Wine and posters

 

19 00                                      TSG conference dinner, Noble Room, 2nd floor, Staff House

 

Friday 8th January

 

08 00 – 09 30                       Registration desk open in Lapworth Museum (until lunch)

                                                Arrival tea, coffee and refreshments

09 15                                     Technical programme day 3 – talks and posters

 

Session 9: Novel approaches and applications II

09 15 – 09 30

Fault stepping and drainage evolution in the Corinth basin rift, Greece

Turner, J.A., Leeder, M.R. and Finch E.

09 30 – 09 45

A geological investigation into fault weakening mechanisms revealed in deep drill core from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD)

Bob Holdsworth, Esther van Digglen, Hans De Bresser, Steve Smith

09 45 – 10 00

K-white mica thermo-barometry, conodont colour alteration index and vitrinite reflection: methods to distinguish nappes in a complex diagenetic to low-grade metamorphic nappe pile

Kövér, S. & Fodor, L. I.

 

10 00 – 10 15

3D Pulsating flow and possible strain pattern in general shear zones

David Iacopini, Rodolfo Carosi, Paris Xypolias

10 15 – 10 30

Fault and fracture patterns in low porosity chalk

David Sagi, Nicola De Paola, K.J.W. McCaffrey & R.E. Holdsworth

10 30 – 10 45

Discussion period

Chair: Tim Reston

 

10 45 – 11 15                      Break with tea, coffee and refreshments

 

Session 10: Modelling and strain analysis

11 15 – 11 30

Spatial analysis, structural geology and mineral exploration

Julian Vearncombe and Susan Vearncombe

11 30 – 11 45

Reconciliation of contrasting theories for joint spacing in layered sequences

Schöpfer, M.P.J., Arslan, A., Walsh, J.J., & Childs, C.

11 45 – 12 00

3D numerical modelling of the evolution of fault zone internal structure

Schöpfer, M., Childs, C. & Walsh, J.J.

12 00 – 12 15

Structural modelling of possible contaminant pathways below nuclear installations

*Richard Haslam, Stuart Clarke, Peter Styles & Clive Auton

12 15 – 12 30

Strain analysis from point fabric patterns: A new objective method

Lisle, Richard J

12 30 – 12 45

Discussion period

Chair: John Wheeler

 

12 45 – 14 15                      Lunch and posters

 

Session 11: Seismic analysis, interpretation and integration

14 15 – 14 30

Length-throw relationships in an evaporite-detached extensional fault array: The Bremstein Fault Complex, offshore mid-Norway

Wilson, P.., Elliott, G. M., Gawthorpe, R. L.., Jackson, C. A-L. & Hansen, S.

14 30 – 14 45

Geological and structural evolution of the Rosaria Mare intraplatform Basin and its tectonic implications (Adria/Apulia plate boundary, SE Italy)

Felici, F., Turco, E., Pierantoni, P. P., &  Milia A.

14 45 – 15 00

Linking fault geometry with wall-rock deformation: 3-D seismic investigation deepwater Niger Delta

*Jibrin, B., Turner, J.P., Westbrook G.K., Bretan, P.

15 00 – 15 15

Different interpretations of thrust trajectories and strain distribution in a fold-and-thrust belt

­Torvela, T., Butler, R. W. H. & Bond, C.

15 15 – 15 30

Discussion period

Chair: Nick Schofield

 

15 30 – 16 00                       close

 

16 00 – 16 30                       Departing tea, coffee and refreshments

 

 

Saturday 9th January

 

Post meeting workshop: Move2010 for teaching and research

In collaboration with Midland Valley Exploration Ltd.

 

Midland Valley Exploration’s Academic Initiative’s began three years ago and now, between the Field Mapping Initiative and the Academic Software Initiative, nearly 200 academic geosciences departments worldwide are using Move.

 

This workshop aims to introduce Move2010 to academic users and to highlight a few potential uses in teaching and research. We will go through some hands-on exercises from the Move2010 tutorials and discuss some current uses in academic teaching and research including field mapping.

 

Contact Carl Stevenson: [log in to unmask]

Midland Valley will be represented by Dr Ruth Wightman

 

Workshop itinerary:

09.00 - 09.20 Introduction to Move and the rationale behind the ASI

09.20 - 11.00 Move2010 hands-on exercise - 2DMove

11.00 - 11.30 Refreshment break

11.30 - 12.30 Move2010 hands-on exercise - 3DMove

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch (Lapworth Museum)

13.30 - 14.00 Introduction to structural analysis - 4DMove

14.00 - 15.00 Examples of using Move in teaching and research

15.00 - 16.00 Examples of using Move in field mapping

16.00 - 16.30 Refreshment break

16.30 - 17.30 Participant Examples / Q&A

 

Cost - £7.50 (on arrival)

Places are limited to 30

 

 

Posters

 

The Origin and Nature of Cenozoic Faulting in North East Ireland

*Anderson, H., Walsh, J.J. & Cooper, M.R

 

The impact of strain, bedding plane friction and overburden pressure on joint spacing

Arslan, A., Schöpfer, M. P. J., Walsh, J. J., Childs, C.

 

Influence of deep transverse fault zones on the prospectivity, geometry and spatial arrangement on some hydrocarbon-related structures, Zagros fold and thrust belt, northern Iraq

Banks, G.J.

 

Analysis of structural lineaments and their relationship with paleotension fields responsable for the formation of cenozoic brittle structures, Espirito Santo State (SE Brazil)

*Bricalli, L.L., Cianfarra, P., Salvini,F. & Mello,C.L.

 

3D modelling of ore deposits geometry in the Variscan basement of SE Sardinia (Italy).

Cristina Buttau, Antonio Funedda, Andrea Dini, Stefano Naitza.

 

Incorporating structural uncertainty into petroleum systems modelling to reduce exploration risk

S. M. Clarke, M. Littler, H. Johnson, M. Quinn, J. Rodriguez, S. Stoker & P. Ware

 

The Fluid Flow Evolution During the Seismic Cycle Within Overpressured Fault Zones in Evaporitic Sequences

N. De Paola, C. Collettini, D.R. Faulkner

               

The Cantabrian Thrust  Belt:  basin history of  the North Gondwana passive margin  - rifting, glaciation? more rifting then collision.

*Helen Doherty, Tim Ferriday, Michael Kelly, Michael Montenari, Steven Rogers & Graham Williams

 

Structural evolution and fluid flow in the Wealden and Hampshire basins, southern England, U.K.

*Salah Eldin M. Elgarmadi, Graham Potts, and Richard Worden

 

A geometrical relationship between imbricate thrust structures and their generated topography of mass-transport deposits (MTD’s); implications for the accommodation of sediment laden gravity-driven flows.

*Fairweather, L. I. D. & Kneller, B. C.

 

A layer cake model as a stratigraphic classification of mass-transport deposits (MTDs); from palaeo-flow directions and macro-scale structures, Paganzo basins, Argentina.

*Fairweather, L. I. D., Kneller, B.C., Dykstra, M. & Milana, J.P.

 

Characterising fracture systems within upfaulted basement highs in the Hebridean Islands: an onshore analogue for the Clair Field

*Franklin,B. S. G., 2nd Holdsworth R. E., McCaffrey K.J. W., Krabbendam M., Conway A. & Jones R

 

Modelling continental margin extension using combined rigid/deformable plate tectonic reconstructions

Munoz, A.A., Glover, C.T., Harris, J.P., Goodrich, M., Hudson, L. & Ady, B.

 

Laccolithic emplacement of the Northern Arran Granite, Scotland: a new model based on Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility

*Grove, C and Stevenson, C. T

 

Consequences of Anisotropic Poroelasticity due to Fluid-Saturated Damage

Healy, D.

 

Structural analysis of fold and thrust structures from deepwater west Niger Delta.

Iacopini D., Grimaud J-L., Butler R.W.H.

 

Application of dip-related seismic curvature attributes to map surface fault geometry: Examples from deepwater Niger Delta

*Jibrin, B., Turner, J.P., Westbrook G.K., Huck, A., & Hemstra, N.

 

Magma plumbing in the Judd Basin, North Atlantic, from opacity rendered 3D seismic data

*Adam Linnell, Carl Stevenson, Nick Schofield

 

Fault-related fracturing in carbonate damage zones: field analysis and modeling from Central Apennines (Italy)

*Mannino I., Salvini F., Cianfarra P.

 

How to Form a Rifted Margin – Fault, Fault and Fault Some More

*Ken McDermott , Tim Reston & Jonathon Turner

 

Examining the low-angle normal fault system of north-west Kea based on a new geological map

Müller, M.., Grasemann, B. & Iglseder, C.

 

Interactions between strike-slip faults, Westward Ho!: domino vs conjugate

*Casey W. Nixon, David J. Sanderson, Jonathan M. Bull and Stephen Dee

 

Quantification of Curvature and Fracture Distributions in Outcrop-Scale Periclines

Pearce, M.A., Jones, R.R., Smith, S.A.F. & McCaffrey, K.J.W.

 

The Sardic Phase.

Puddu C.

 

The interpretation of major fault zone properties using three integrative approaches

Taylor, R.L., Rutter, E. H. & Faulkner, D.R.

 

The effects of crystallographic anisotropy on fracture development and acoustic emission in quartz

Timms, N.E., Healy, D., Reyes Montes, J.M., Collins, D., Prior, D.J., & Young, R.P.

 

The Virtual Seismic Atlas – utilising web-based material in Earth science research.

Torvela, T. & Butler, R. W. H.

 

Visualising and understanding structural geology from the field to the lab: using Move as an aid in teaching and research.

Wightman, R.H., Bond, C.E., Scherrenberg, A., Similox-Tohon, D.

 

(*student presentation)

 

Merry Christmas everyone

And a happy New Year

I look forward to seeing everyone coming to TSG at the meeting in January

 

Carl

 

Dr Carl Stevenson

tel: +44 (0) 121 4146136

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Lecturer in Geology

Geosystems Research Group

http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/stevensonct.shtm

Earth Sciences

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

University of Birmingham

Edgbaston

Birmingham, UK

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