| Structural Geology for Petroleum Exploration Syllabus Proposed series of lecture sessions Session 1 – Introduction • Goals • Rock Deformation • Stress & Strain • Contour Maps and Three-Point Problems Three-Point Problem Exercise Map Interpretation Session 2 – Geologic Structures • Classical View • Tectono-Stratigraphy Interrelationship of folds to faults Interrelationship of stratigraphy to structure Faults Griffith Cracks Coulomb’s law Anderson’s Theory Session 3 – Compressional Tectonics • Thrust Faults & Secondary Structures • Predictive Cross Sections Arc (Busk) Method Kink Method Kink Method Exercise Session 4 – Compressional Tectonics • Fault Bend Folds & Exercise • Dip Spectra Analysis Session 5 – Compressional Tectonics • Ramp-Flat identification in Seismic • Fault Propagation Folds & Exercise • Growth Strata Session 6 – Compressional Tectonics • Geologic Cross Section Exercise • Seismic Interpretation Fault Bend Fold Exercise Fault Propagation Fold Exercise • Slip Ratio Check • Quick Look Analysis for Cross Sections Session 7 – Extensional Tectonics • Listric Faults & Fault Geometry • Balancing Normal Faults Slip Line Inclined Shear Constant Displacement Constant Heave Constant Bed Length Passive Margins Structures Session 8 – Extensional Tectonics • Planar Normal Faults • Normal Faults & Seismic Interpretation • Seismic Fault Displacement Analysis • Growth Strata • Fault Patterns & Rift Basin Evolution Session 9 – Transform Tectonics • Plate Tectonics and Strike-slip Faults • Recognizing Strike-slip Faults Geomorphic Features Geologic Features • Geometry of Homogeneous Strain (review of concepts) Session 10 – Transform Tectonics • Deformation Models • Associated Structures Bends & Step-Overs Pull-Apart Basins Restraining Bends & Flower Structures En Echelon Structures • Balancing Cross-Sections with Strike-slip Fault Session 11 – Inversion Tectonics • Plate Tectonics & Structural Inversion • Review of Extensional Fault Geometry • Transpression, Inversion & Fault Reactivation • Inversion Model & Permutations • Inversion Animation • Examples from Northern Arabian Plate Session 12 – What we have learned with regards to the Focus Area |