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Who Should Attend
Geologists and  Geophysicists working on exploration and development projects in the South Eastern Caribbean and North Eastern Latin America area including Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname.
Objectives

The course is designed to review recent results from studies of the main hydrocarbon-bearing and frontier basins of the southeastern Caribbean.

Course Content
Main topics include:
  • Plate tectonic history and paleogeography of the South Eastern Caribbean
  • Defining the Caribbean-South American suture zone
  • Lithospheric deformation including the STEP model
  • Relation of deformational pulses in Trinidad to plate history
  • Middle Miocene unconformity as a widespread marker
  • Model for along-strike changes in deformation from Trinidad to Barbados accretionary prism
  • Correlating belts in Trinidad to offshore areas of the Barbados accretionary prism
  • Model for opening of the Grenada and Tobago basins
  • Structural controls on North Coast Marine Area
  • What is the basement of the Barbados ridge?
  • Explaining variations of structure along the western edge of the Barbados Ridge
  • Possible explanations for oil types on Barbados
  • Defining the lithospheric trace of the subducting Atlantic crust
  • Defining the components of the Barbados accretionary prism
  • Correlations from Trinidad to Eastern Venezuela
  • Development of the Orinoco delta and its deformation in Trinidad
  • Relating hydrocarbon provinces to differing crustal blocks and source blocks
 
Recent Developments in Understanding the Regional Tectonics and Petroleum Potential
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago - Hyatt Regency Trinidad Hotel
No. 1 Wrightson Road
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
868-623-2222
 
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Emily Smith Llinás AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region Director
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