"Fold-Thrust Belts:
Petroleum Potential, Global Setting, Geodynamics"
Dr. Dietrich Roeder of Murnau Geodynamics Inc. will present a short course, "Fold-Thrust Belts:
Petroleum Potential, Global Setting, Geodynamics,"
based on a course by Dietrich Roeder and Steven Boyer (AAPG Denver, June 3, 2001).
The two course themes, which alternate through the course, are encyclopedic-descriptive
and analytic-theoretic.
The encyclopedic/descriptive part is based on a global inventory of FTB data, being compiled by Murnau Geodynamics Inc. This first part reviews the structural styles of FTBs, typical production and oil systems in FTBs, the tectonics of FTB-related basins, and regional-to-global aspects of FTB geodynamics. The analytical and theoretical part deals with thrust sequences and strain propagation, with the physical and geodynamic background for the variations in structural styles. This part also deals with the geometry and dynamics of FTB-related basins, as well as with geological mechanisms of entrapping commercial hydrocarbons in FTB and their foredeep basins.
| Date: |
March 7, 2003 |
| Time: |
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Place: |
UT Bureau of Economic Geology (map)
Main Conference Room, First Floor |
Registration deadline is February 15.
Contact Lisa Gahagan (lisa@ig.utexas.edu) for more information and to register for the course.
Special thanks to Murnau Geodynamics Inc. for contributing towards this short course.
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