Course leader: Andy Chadwick

Corporate course objectives:

To ensure that participants understand and have practical experience of:

• the tectonic principles and processes underlying sedimentary basin evolution.
• a range of techniques required for basin analysis.

Participants will gain a new understanding of the structural geology of sedimentary basins with emphasis on mechanisms of basin subsidence and inversion in terms of extensional and contractional lithospheric processes.

Who should attend:

Field staff and other geoscientists required to work on sedimentary rocks, sedimentary basins, and/or their associated faults. Experience in seismic interpretation would be an advantage and a basic knowledge of physics and mathematics is necessary.

Course outline:

• Mechanical properties of the continental lithosphere
• Crustal extension, isostatic and geometrical constraints, balanced cross-sections
• Lithospheric extension, backstripping and subsidence analysis, numerical models
• Fault analysis, fault populations, fractal distributions
• Stress-fields, fault reactivation and seismicity
• Basin inversion, depth of burial/uplift studies
• Practicals and case studies

Duration of course: 4-5 days

Contact Training for course fees, scheduling and availability

 

• School of Field Geology