Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time: 8:30 am to 4:30pm
Location: Marriott Westchase
Instructor: Jim Pindell, Tectonic Analysis. Sponsored by GCSSEPM.
Cost: $195
Included with course registration: Class notes, buffet lunch and networking time. Convention Icebreaker will be at 5 pm after the course is concluded.
This one-day short course will examine the methodologies used in paleogeographic reconstruction, focusing on the closely-related Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and northern South American basins. We will review and explore the significance of the primary data sets, observations, and arguments that have been developed and used through the years to interpret our working models for the paleo-tectonic and paleogeographic histories of these areas. Plate kinematic reconstruction, subsidence analysis, the structure of rifted margins, interpreting arc-continent collisions, restoration of crustal extension and shortening, and synthesis of gross depositional systems will be among the skills addressed. These will be integrated to demonstrate how this greater region has evolved through time.
The course is comprised of lectures and two or three short exercises, but attendees are encouraged to offer viewpoints on certain data sets for general discussion. The exercises will convey how tectonic principles can be used to constrain and interpret local problems of geological evolution. The course is intended for anyone with a geological or geophysical background, ranging from first-year graduate students, to industry geologists and explorationists, to team leaders and managers wishing to see a concise overview of this complex region.
Jim Pindell
BIO: Jim Pindell integrates plate tectonic data with local geology to create regional evolutionary syntheses and to constrain aspects of petroleum systems. Jim directs industry-sponsored research teams addressing various scales through Tectonic Analysis Ltd., and has held academic research positions at Lamont Earth Observatory, Dartmouth College, Rice University, and Cardiff University (Wales). Jim has a PhD in geology from the University of Durham, England (1985), a MS from SUNY Albany (1982), and a BA from Colgate University (1979). Jim’s research programs and teaching focus on Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, the Andes, the Atlantic and its margins, the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and the Gulf of Mexico. Jim has published about 80 papers and articles on these regions, and has been studying passive margin development with ION Geophysical in Houston since 2010.
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