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Submarine slope systems: processes,
products and prediction
Date:
28th - 30th April
2003
Venue:
The University of Liverpool.
Organisations:
Supported by The Petroleum Group and
BSRG.
Theme:
Submarine slopes provide the critical, yet
commonly overlooked, link between shallow-water and deep-water sedimentary
environments; providing a sensitive record of sediment supply, accommodation
creation and tectonic processes and their interactions during basin filling.
Recent interest in submarine slope systems has been fuelled by the discovery of
large hydrocarbon fields in morphologically complex slope settings (e.g. Gulf
of Mexico, offshore Angola). Improved case studies and generic models for the
stratigraphic evolution of submarine slope systems, therefore, is a pertinent
issue. The stratigraphic response to the interplay between parameters that
control the evolution of submarine slope systems, e.g. slope gradient,
topographic complexity, sediment flux and calibre, base level change, tectonic
setting, is complex.
This proposed Geological Society meeting aims to bring together
international researchers with a wide range of geological expertise from
industry and academia working on modern and ancient (outcrop and sub-surface)
submarine slope system.
Invited keynote speakers
from Industry and Academia will be announced in the next few months. It is
anticipated that there will be a formal Geological Society Special Publication
resulting from this meeting.
Suggested presentation themes:
- Impact of
active tectonics on the stratigraphic evolution of slope systems
- Behaviour and
routing of gravity flows on topographically complex slopes
- Sculpturing
and sediment remobilization on dynamic submarine slopes
- Computer
modelling of shelf edge and slope systems
- Improved
palaeogeographic reconstructions using ancient slope systems
- Nepheloid
layers, isopycnal surfaces and resuspension of sediment
- Carbonate
slope systems
- Controls on
shelf-edge/slope break delta systems
Proposed Field excursions:
Carboniferous Gull Island
Fm., Co. Clare, Ireland
Silurian Welsh Basin
Carboniferous Pennine
Basin
Deadline for abstracts:
13th December 2002, see the
website below for registration details.
Website:
http://www.slope2003.net
Convenors:
D.M. Hodgson & S.S. Flint - The
University of Liverpool.
T.R. Garfield - ExxonMobil, Houston,
USA.
Contact:
Address: Stratigraphy Group, Department of
Earth Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP.
Tel: +44 (0) 151
794 5141
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