Internal Architecture, Bedforms and Geometry of Turbidite Channels

Conference Convenors

Mike Mayall (BP), Ian Kane (Statoil), Bill McCaffrey (Leeds University)

This conference aims to bring together workers on modern, outcrop, experimental and seismic studies in order to consolidate our knowledge and better integrate our understanding on the internal architecture and bedforms in turbidite channels.

Turbidite channels are major conduits and repositories of sediment in the deep sea and they form important hydrocarbon reservoirs in many slope and basin-floor settings. Substantial advances in our understanding of the external geometry and gross internal architecture of turbidite channels have been made over the last fifteen years or so, largely in response to improvements in seismic image resolution.

Sufficient data is now becoming available, through detailed analysis of outcrops, experimental work and studies of modern systems, to focus on the detailed internal constituents of these channels, and link them to the evolution of the gross channel form.

The two-day conference will have both oral and posters sessions, and will facilitate: characterisation of the ranges of internal fill style, links to associated flow processes; consolidation of terminology; analysis of future research directions.

Confirmed Speakers

• Bill Arnott - Stratal Architecture of Highly-Confined and Poorly-Confined Deep-Marine Sinuous Channel Systems - An Outcrop Perspective.
• Rick Beaubouef - Application of high-resolution, outcrop-based, fluid simulation modeling of deep-water channel reservoirs; how much detail do we need?
• Dave Hodgson - Degradational and aggradational processes recorded in outcrop and core from submarine channel-levee systems in the Laingsburg Karoo, South Africa.
• Steve Hubbard - Internal architecture and depositional history of outcropping slope channels in the Cretaceous Tres Pasos Formation, Chile.
• David Mohrig - A laboratory perspective on the processes controlling the arrangement of deposits that build and fill submarine channels.
• Jeff Peakall - Submarine channel processes: towards process-driven intra-channel architecture models.
• Kevin Pickering - Facies and Architecture of submarine channels from outcrop studies.
• Carlos Pirmez - Title TBC
• Russell Wynn - Erosion, bypass and deposition within deep-water channels: new insights from the modern seafloor.

Registration will be available for the conference at the Geological Society website on 1 February.

Please submit titles and abstracts (300 word limit) of talks or posters to Mike Mayall mayallmj@bp.com

Submission deadline 1 May 2011.

Registration is now open.

Register online with a credit or debit card. This will take you to the University of Leeds online store and you will receive an email receipt when you have successfully registered and paid. Further details about the location and timings of the event will be sent nearer the time. The deadline for online registration is 10am Monday 13 June 2011.

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Download the form below for offline registration (payments other than by credit/debit card). Details of where to send the form are on page two of the document. You will receive an email confirmation that you are registered. The deadline for offline registration is Wednesday 8 June 2011

Special publication

We aim to publish the conference papers in a Special Issue of Marine and Petroleum Geology soon after the conference.

In order to make this a rapid publication route the submission deadline will be 30 June 2011. Authors: please register your interest as soon as possible with Ian Kane IANK@statoil.com .