Dear all,
2 DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
19-20 OCTOBER 2005 Geological Society of London, Burlington House Piccadilly
Compressional deformation within passive margins:
Nature, causes and effects
Tectonics Studies Group Petroleum Group
Themes
Neotectonics
Deformational mechanisms and processes
Cenozoic of the Atlantic margin
Impacts on depositional systems
Impacts on hydrocarbon systems
Global examples
On a global scale, passive margins are an increasingly important focus
for hydrocarbon exploration. Traditional play types on these margins
often include syn-rift structural traps and post-rift stratigraphic
traps and structural closures often associated with salt tectonics.
However, though fairly common on most passive margins, compressional
features have only relatively recently attracted significant attention
regarding their hydrocarbon exploration potential.
Passive margins are far from tectonically quiescent, and this conference
will examine the nature, distribution, and timing of compressional
deformational structures within these margins and also assess their
impact on the development of depositional and hydrocarbon systems and
ocean circulation patterns (gateway formation). In particular, the
conference hopes to advance understanding regarding large-scale
mechanisms responsible for the formation of region-wide compressional
structures. Within the NE Atlantic for example, there is no known
mechanism that can satisfactorily explain the regionally complex
distribution and timing of compressional features that have been
reported in the area that includes the Norwegian, Faroese, UK and Irish
continental margins
Abstract Submission deadline: 31st May 2005
Please forward abstracts to: [log in to unmask]
Conveners:
Tony Dore, Statoil ([log in to unmask])
Robert Gatliff ([log in to unmask]), Howard Johnson ([log in to unmask]) & Derek
Ritchie ([log in to unmask]), British Geological Survey
Bob Holdsworth, University of Durham ([log in to unmask])
Erik Lundin, Norwegian Geological Survey ([log in to unmask])
For registration and further details please contact Lydia Dumont on:
Tel +44 (0) 20 7434 9944 or Email: [log in to unmask]
Happy New Year to you all!!
Bob H
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Prof Bob Holdsworth,
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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