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Field Trips > Field Trip 5
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AAPG International Conference
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Dates:
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Thursday-Saturday,
October 28-30 begins and ends in Monterrey, Mexico at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel; participants will meet between 3:00 and 6:00 p.m. on Thursday and return by 6:00 p.m. Saturday |
The La Popa lentil, 350 meters thick, is a Paleocene reef that developed adjacent to an elongate salt wall, now largely evacuated to form the La Popa weld, which runs along the slope below the lentil and figures prominently in day two of Field Trip #5.Photo courtesy of Timothy Lawton |
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Leaders:
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Kate Giles and Timothy Lawton, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces; and Mark Rowan, Independent Consultant, Boulder, Colorado | |
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Fee:
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US
$1,085 includes guidebook, ground transportation, lodging, breakfasts, lunches, and one dinner |
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Limit:
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21 persons | |
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Content:
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2.2 CEU | |
Contact InformationIf you have questions regarding this field trip, please contact:
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Exploration and development geologists, geophysicists, and managers who are working in salt basins.
- Improve understanding of salt and associated halokinetic stratal and structural features
- Relate progressive structural deformation to stratigraphy within the new concept of halokinetic sequences
- Observe variability of stratal and structural geometry adjacent to salt structures in terms of diapiric evolution, basin paleogeography, sediment dispersal pathways, and petroleum exploration and exploitation strategies
- Discern structural and stratigraphic features related to halokinesis versus regional shortening
This field trip will examine exceptional outcrop exposures in Northeast Mexico of structural and sedimentologic features related to halokinesis. The salt structures examined in detail are a passive salt stock with a large overhang and a 25-kilometer-long vertical salt weld. The seminar is aimed at providing outcrop scale-detailed examination of near-diapir salt-sediment interaction, development of halokinetic sequences, and nature of near-diapir faults and folds at several different stratigraphic and structural levels. Participants will also examine the effects of regional shortening on diapiric systems and will compare them to salt-cored detachment folds in the area.
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