Structural Styles Influenced by Shale and Salt (AAPG)
Room C147/148/154
Co-Chairs: B. Vendeville and B. Trudgill
8:00 -- Introductory Remarks
8:05 -- J. N. Monroe: The Origin of Shale Diapirs, Salt Dome Initiation, and Sedimentary Volcanism
8:25 -- S. Stewart, P. Bentham: Shale and salt hold key to improved seismic interpretation
8:45 -- S. J. Ings, L. Gemmer, C. Beaumont: Forward Modeling of Salt Tectonic Response to Sedimentary Loading and Basin Subsidence
9:05 -- G. M. Apps, F. J. Peel: The Relationship between Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Systems, Salt Tectonics, and Compressional Folding in the Central US Gulf of Mexico
9:25 -- M. G. Rowan, K. F. Inman, J. C. Fiduk: Physical and Temporal Linkage between Proximal Loading and Extension and Distal Deposition and Contraction in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin
9:45 -- Break
10:00 -- T. A. Reed, M. J. Cook, A. R. Stephens, K. A. Doud: The East Breaks Fold Belt: An Anomalous Contractional Regime of the Western Gulf of Mexico
10:20 -- R. H. Camerlo, S. A. Smith: Deformation Associated with Emplacement of Allochthonous Salt in the Perdido Fold Belt, Gulf of Mexico
10:40 -- J. C. Fiduk, G. Brush, L. E. Anderson, P. B. Gibbs: Variations in Structural Style of Salt Bodies and Related Structures in the Espirito Santo Basin, Offshore Brazil
11:00 -- E. Costa, C. Cavozzi, N. Doglioni: Morphology and Kinematics of Deformed Salt-Bearing Areas Investigated by Physical Modeling
11:20 -- I. C. Higuera-Diaz, M. P. Fischer, M. S. Wilkerson: Three-dimensional Geometry and Kinematics of an Evaporite-cored Detachment Fold Complex: An Example from the Sierra Madre Oriental, NE Mexico