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Explorer Geophysical Corner

This month's column, the second in a four-part series dealing with regional plate kinematics ('Arm Waving, or Underutilized Exploration Tool?'), is titled 'Kinematics: Key to Unraveling Basin Histories.'

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

An unfortunate fact of geology is that most datasets, including seismic, rarely allow for a unique interpretation of a geological problem.

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Explorer Article

In the past decade AAPG's Distinguished Lecture program has become a global effort. The 1999-2000 speaker season, fully support by the AAPG Foundation to keep the costs low, is combining with SEG for the first jointly sponsored Distinguished Lecturer.

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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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