GEOL 6650 - Basin Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Exploration

• Know how to construction of balanced cross sections.
• Know how to recognize structural styles on the basis of exploration data.
• Know the structural geometry of detached normal faults and understand their seismic expression.
• Know the structural geometry of wrench faults and understand the occurrence of hydrocarbons and seismic expression of wrench faults in transform margin settings.
• Know the styles of normal faulting and the regional structure of interior rifts, and understand the occurrence of hydrocarbon in graben settings and the seismic expression and analysis of extensional fault blocks.
• Know the tectonics and basins of convergent margins.
• Know the various basin models and their classification.
• Know the various passive margin basins, understand salt tectonics, diaspirism and the seismic expression, and know how to analyze the growth history of salt domes.
• Understand plate tectonics and plate driving mechanisms.
• Understand the concept of structural styles and their plate tectonic settings.
• Understand the structural geometry and hydrocarbon occurrences in foreland basement uplifts and their seismic expression.
• Understand the structural style and hydrocarbon occurrences in intracratonic basins.
• Understand the structures and hydrocarbon occurrences in overthrust belts and their seismic expression.