AAPG: Comparative Salt Tectonics: Similarities and Differences between Salt Basins
Room Ballroom G
Co-Chairs: B. Vendeville and M. G. Rowan
1:25 -- Introductory Remarks
1:30 -- W. U. Mohriak, Sr, R. P. Azevedo, Sr, J. Boavida, Sr: Comparative Salt Tectonics of South Atlantic Sedimentary Basins - the Western African and Eastern Brazilian Conjugate Margins
1:50 -- P. Unternehr, P. De Clarens: Comparative Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Salt Basins
2:10 -- R. K. Goldhammer: The Influence of Syndepositional Salt Tectonics on Carbonate Platform Development and Stratal Architecture: Examples of Gravitationally-Driven Extension and Rafting (Aptian-Albian Carbonates of the South Atlantic Basins, Upper Jurassic of the Gulf Of Mexico)
2:30 -- F. J. Peel: Styles, Mechanisms and Hydrocarbon Implications of Syndepositional Folds in Deepwater Fold Belts; Examples from Angola and the Gulf of Mexico
2:50 -- S. H. Hall: Comparison between Salt-Related Compressional Structures in Mauritania and the US and Mexican Gulf of Mexico
3:10 -- Break
3:20 -- I. Davison: Narrow and Wide Salt Basin Comparisons
3:40 -- G. Tari, P. Ashton, J. Molnar, M. Sorgenfrei, P. Thompson, D. Valasek: Comparison between the Salt Basins of Morocco and Madagascar
4:00 -- P. Krzywiec, B. Trudgill: The Role of Salt during Basin Extension and Inversion: a Comparative Study of the Southern North Sea and Mid-Polish Trough
4:20 -- V. Gaullier, B. Vendeville, L. Loncke, A. Maillard, J. Mascle: Role of Basement Architecture during Salt Tectonics in the Northwest and Southeast Mediterranean: Comparison between the Rhone and Nile Deep-Sea Fans
4:40 -- M. G. Rowan: Turtle Structures and Expulsion Rollovers: Lessons Derived from a Comparison between the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan