Andean Structural Styles
A Seismic Atlas
- 1st Edition - April 26, 2022
- Latest edition
- Editors: Gonzalo Zamora, Andrés Mora
- Language: English
Andean Structural Styles: A Seismic Atlas is a comprehensive reference illustrating the variability in structural styles and hydrocarbon traps that exist in the Andean chain. Th… Read more
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Description
Description
Andean Structural Styles: A Seismic Atlas is a comprehensive reference illustrating the variability in structural styles and hydrocarbon traps that exist in the Andean chain. The Andean chain, stretching over more than 5,000 km (3,000 mi) from Venezuela to Argentina, contains a large number of sedimentary basins which have developed in a wide range of tectonic settings. Some of these basins are highly mature, with hydrocarbon production from Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic sedimentary sequences, while others are still underexplored.
Andean Structural Styles: A Seismic Atlas covers topics including fold types, thrust faults, triangle zones, inversion structures, synorogenic deposits, and growth stratal geometries. These topics are illustrated by thirty-two seismic examples interpreted and uninterpreted, covering most of the Andean basins, and five chapters reviewing the structural styles of the Andes, the complexity of processing seismic in these settings, how analogue models help in the interpretation, and several outcrop analogues. This reference is invaluable to both hydrocarbon exploration of the Andes and researchers and students in the fields of exploration geology and structural geology. Also, those teaching structural geology and seismic interpretation will find a valuable resource with lots of uninterpreted seismic examples that can be used in their lectures.
Key features
Key features
- Includes a vast collection of high-quality, color images
- Features case studies covering the entirety of the Andes Mountain chain
- Presents high-quality seismic data that was previously only available to oil companies
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
SECTION 1: Introduction
1. Tectonic inheritance and structural styles in the Andean fold-thrust belt and foreland basin
2. Seismic imaging in fold-and-thrust belts
3. Analogue modeling as a tool to assist seismic structural interpretation in the Andean fold-and-thrust belt
Section 2: Field analog
4. Folding of a weak boundary zone between an axial and a frontal belt, Chicamocha Valley, Eastern Cordillera of Colombia
5. Natural examples of regional-scale structures from the southern Central Andes and Patagonian Andes
6. Outcrop-scale natural examples of structures from the southern Central Andes
SECTION 3: Colombia
8. Relationships between normal faulting, mud diapirism and thrusting in the trailing part of the Sinú Fold Belt (South Caribbean Deformed Belt), offshore northwestern Colombia
9. Strike-slip fault zone in an oblique convergent margin. Bahia Basin Caribbean margin of Northern Colombia
10. Structural styles of the Upper Magdalena Valley, Northern Andes, Colombia: case studies
11. Forelimb deformation in basement uplifts. Examples from the Sierra de la Macarena, Colombia
12. Seismic expression of structural styles of transpressional thick skin deformation in the southern foothills of Colombia.
13. Structural styles and evolution of the Colombian Eastern Foothills Piedemonte triangle zone
14. Seismic and structural analysis of the San Francisco oil field (Colombia). Structural controls on a complex hydrocarbon charge history
15. La Cira Basement-high; Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia
16. Regional Structure, Trap Mechanisms and Basin Evolution of the Middle Magdalena Basin of Colombia
17. Structural Styles of the Southern Putumayo Basin, Northern Andes, Colombia
SECTION 4: Ecuador
19. The Manabí and Esmeraldas-Borbón forearc basins of Ecuador
SECTION 5: Peru
21. Large transport thrust in the Huallaga Basin (Northern Peruvian Sub-Andean Zone)
22. The San Martín anticline: a classic example of a fault-bend fold in the Camisea fold and thrust belt, Central Andes, Perú
23. The Sagari-Kinteroni Anticline: An Example of an Out-of-Sequence Tectonic Wedge in the Camisea Area, Peru
24. The Candamo antiformal stack, Madre de Dios Basin, Peru
SECTION 6: Bolivia
25. Fault-related fold evolution in the Northern Sub-Andean of Bolivia
26. Transition from thin- to thick-skinned tectonics: example from the Boomerang Hills, Bolivia
27. Structural interpretation in the bolivian southern subandean: from surface to prospect generation
28. Seismic Interpretation challenges in the southern subandean fold and thrust belt of Bolivia
29. Thin Skinned Fold Belt Structural Style in the Argentinean-Bolivian Subandean Foothills, the Madrejones Anticline Example
SECTION 7: Argentina
31. Structural styles, tectonic evolution and petroleum systems of transverse pre-Andean structures: examples from the Cuyo and Neuquén basins
32. Structure beneath the southern Payenia volcanic field, Neuquén Basin, Argentina.
33. Structural development in the frontal Malargüe fold and thrust belt, Neuquén Basin, Argentina
34. Interpreting a complex Triangle Zone in the Agrio Fold Thrust Belt, Neuquén Basin. Argentina
35. Exploration in a thick to thin-skinned transition, Falla Plegada Triangle Zone, Neuquen, Argentina
36. Foothills structure of the Andes of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina and Chile
SECTION 8: Chile
38. Interaction between Inverted and basement-involved reverse faults in the inner forearc of the Central Andes: an example from the Salar de Atacama Basin
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: April 26, 2022
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Gonzalo Zamora
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