Gravitational Collapse at Continental Margins
Products and Processes
| Organised by: | Main Geological Society events | |||
| Petroleum Group and Tectonic Studies Group |
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| Date: | 28-29 October 2008 |
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Venue: | The Geological Society (Burlington House) |
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Large-scale gravitational collapse is an important but poorly understood mode of deformation and mass transport at continental margins. Often spectacular seismic data acquired over the past 20 years image extensive deformation systems characterised by zones of thin-skin faulting and folding developed at the outer self and continental slope. Driven by body forces within the sedimentary prism, basal detachments kinematically link upslope extensional faulting to downslope thrust belts, with many analogies with smaller subaerial slope failures.
Contributions were invited from academia and industry that use case history and/or modelling-based studies to address the following issues:
Contributions were invited from academia and industry that use case history and/or modelling-based studies to address the following issues:
- Structural geometry
- Rates and scales of deformation
- Kinematic links between extension and contraction
- Decollement mechanics
- Interplay between faulting, folding and horizontal compaction
- Interactions between deposition and deformation
- Role of gravity sliding vs. gravity spreading
- Implications for geotechnical stability and human hazard
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Convenor contact details: |
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| Name: | Dr Jonathan Turner |
| Address: | School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences |
| University of Birmingham | |
| Birmingham | |
| Postcode: | B15 2TT |
| E-Mail: | j.p.turner@bham.ac.uk |
Convenor contact details: |
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| Name: | Professor Rob Butler |
| Address: | Department of Geology & Petroleum Geology |
| University of Aberdeen | |
| Aberdeen | |
| Postcode: | AB24 3UE |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| E-Mail: | r.butler@see.leeds.ac.uk |
Office contact details: |
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| Name: | Alys Hilbourne |
| Address: | Geological Society |
| Burlington House | |
| London | |
| Postcode: | W1J 0BG |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Telephone: | +44 (0) 20 432 0981 |
| Fax: | +44 (0) 20 494 0579 |
| E-Mail: | alys.hilbourne@geolsoc.org.uk |