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About this Micro Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT)
This Micro VILT will focus on the processes and styles of salt-related deformation using a combination of subsurface and outcrop examples from around the world. It will examine a full range of topics from the large-scale depositional and tectonic settings of salt basins, to intermediate-scale aspects such as salt-sediment interaction, to the small scale of the mechanics of salt flow. Training Objectives:- To provide participants with a solid background in the fundamentals of salt tectonics and the impact of salt on various aspects of the petroleum system
- To teach practical tools for interpreting seismic data in salt basins and exploring for hydrocarbons in salt related traps
- Layered evaporite sequences
- Tectonic setting of evaporite basins
- Mechanics of halite deformation
- Intrasalt deformation
- Hydraulic head
- Definitions of common terms
- Thin-skinned extension
- Thick-skinned extension
- Thin-skinned contraction
- Diapir initiation and reactivation
- Thick-skinned contraction
- Strike-slip salt tectonics
- Differential loading
- Passive diapirism
- Near-diapir deformation
- Salt dissolution
- Emplacement of salt sheets
- Sheets and canopies
- Trap
- Reservoir
- Hydrocarbons
- Seal
- Seismic interpretation guidelines
- Course close out