ADVANCED STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
- Discipline: Geology
- Level: Advanced
- Duration: 5 Days
This course provides participants with an understanding of rock deformation processes that is appropriate for planning exploration strategies and for developing better interpretations of existing data. It differs from other courses that are primarily descriptive by relating structural geology to a practical approach to Geomechanics. The course emphasizes the role of structural geology in controlling fluid flows in the subsurface.
- Comparative structural geology
- Structural families and styles
- Mechanical principles governing fold and fault geometry
- Predicting structure from stratigraphy
- Folding vs. faulting
- Palinspastic restoration of cross sections
- Structural validation criteria
- Sequential restoration and growth history
- Regional arches and domes
- Compaction and substratal solution
- Wrench faults: simple, convergent, and divergent
- Conjugate and domino-style strike-slip regimes
- Thin-skinned fold-thrust belts
- Fault-related folds
- Duplexes
- Basement-involved contraction
- Vertical and rotational block uplifts
- Inversion: dip-slip to strike-slip
- Thin-skinned extension
- Basement-involved extension
- Half-graben and full graben rift systems
- Domino-style extension
- Diapirs
- Salt sheets
- Roho and counter-regional pseudo extensional fault systems
- Plate-tectonic habitats of structural assemblages
- Tectonic synthesis and exploration project
Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers.
No Prerequisites required for this course