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This year’s AAPG Section meeting schedule starts right after the convention in Houston -- and the first one is about as far away from Texas as you can get in the United States.

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Bridging the gap: Thanks to a new AAPG publication, the divide between industry and academia regarding the worlds of exploration and earthquake detection is overcome.

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Houston abstract deadlines are October 4

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AAPG members and concerned scientists throughout the world are exploring the humanitarian, scientific, cultural and political ramifications of tsunamis.

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Disasters lead to globalization ... at least that's the perspective of Simon Winchester based upon his study of Krakatoa and reflecting upon the December tsunami.

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Annual Meeting Technical Program

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AAPG's second annual Winter Education Conference, which includes 11 different courses over five days, will be held Feb. 14-18 in Houston.

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Recent technological developments plus a new understanding of the region’s geology are making the icy and harsh waters offshore Labrador attractive.

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Speakers are now picked and preparing for this year's AAPG Distinguished Lecture slate of talks, both in the United States and around the world.

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U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution establishing deep ocean resources as a benefit for all of mankind.

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DL Abstract

For well over a century there have been conflicting indications of the strength of the crust and of faults and what controls them.  Much of our ignorance comes quite naturally from the general inaccessibility of the crust to measurement--in contrast with our understanding of the atmosphere, which is much more accessible to observation as well as more rapidly changing.  Crustal strength is best understood in deforming sedimentary basins where the petroleum industry has made great contributions, particularly in deforming petroleum basins because of the practical need to predict. In this talk we take a broad look at key issues in crustal strength and deformation and what we can learn from boreholes, earthquakes, active fault systems, and toy models.

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Request a visit from John Suppe!

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VG Abstract

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

Request a visit from Juan I. Soto!

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DL Abstract

While there are many habitats that are associated with the deposition of organic-rich marine and lacustrine source rocks, one important pathway is linked to the onset of increased basin subsidence associated with major tectonic events. A key aspect is that this subsidence is spatially variable, with the uplift of basin flanks contemporaneous with the foundering of the basin center, resulting in a steeper basin profile.

Request a visit from Kurt W. Rudolph!

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