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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
AAPG Special Volumes
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In August 1990, AAPG's Science
Director, Gary Howell, first suggested to one of us the idea of holding
a Hedberg International Research Conference on "Salt Tectonics" with worldwide
scope. After a formal meeting with him in May 1991, the three compiling
editors accepted the task of convening the symposium, which was held in
Bath, U.K., on September 13-17, 1993.
The timing of this conference
was propitious. The preceding four years had seen an explosive expansion
in papers dealing with salt tectonics. In particular, this field of study
had just passed through a major conceptual breakthrough based on three-dimensional
The program of the Bath conference
was the largest and most comprehensive ever dealing with salt tectonics.
Some 46 papers were presented orally and another 34 displayed as posters
interspersed with discussion sessions that continued well beyond the day's
proceedings. Invitations to the 75 attendees were deliberately skewed to
attract a majority of contributions from industry to ensure release of
abundant new geological and geophysical This volume is the result.
To ensure prompt publication of an affordable book, the length was restricted
to 21 chapters (coincidentally the same number of papers as in Memoir 8)
out of the 80 papers presented at the conference. Not all the presenters
were able to contribute full-length papers, but nevertheless we were able
to be highly
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preserves
the wide geographic coverage of the conference and includes both detailed
regional syntheses of classic areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico and the
North Sea, as well as preliminary investigations of equally fascinating
but less-explored regions of salt tectonics, such as the deep-water Santos
Basin (Brazil), offshore Yemen (Red Sea), Parry Islands (Arctic Canada),
and the Nordkapp Basin (Barents Sea). We hope that the investigations of
salt tectonics presented in this volume will serve as classic examples
of a wide range of structural styles involving evaporites. We also offer
these examples as case studies that can be applied as guides to petroleum
and mineral exploration in other salt basins around the world. With this
broad scope, this book is entitled Salt Tectonics: A Global Perspective.
The organization of the book
has a structure similar to that of the Bath conference. A historical review
chapter is followed by four chapters on section balancing and modeling
(later chapters also incorporate modeling research, but their focus is
more geographic). The next 16 chapters are organized along geographic lines
in loose order of their current hydrocarbon production, from the Gulf of
Mexico, where mature exploration has been invigorated by the subsalt play,
to remote reaches of the Arctic Ocean, where exploration is in its infancy.
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