Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis, 2nd edition is the first in a three-volume series covering Phanerozoic regional geology and tectonics. The new edition provides updates to the first edition's detailed overview of geologic processes, and includes new sections on plate tectonics, petroleum systems, and new methods of geological analysis.
This book provides both professionals and students with the basic principles necessary to grasp the conceptual approaches to hydrocarbon exploration in a wide variety of geological settings globally.
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Table of Contents
1. Regional geology and tectonics of sedimentary basins 2. The Earth: Core, mantle and crust 3. Age of the oceans 4. Plate boundaries and driving mechanisms 5. Plate kinematic reconstructions 6. Resolving geological enigmas using plate tectonic reconstructions and mantle flow models 7. Tectonostratigraphic megasequences and chronostratigraphy 8. Fault classification, fault growth and displacement 9. Thrust systems and contractional tectonics 10. Inverted fault systems and inversion tectonic settings 11. Salt- and shale-detached gravity-driven failure of continental margins 12. Carbonate systems 13. Lake systems and their economic importance 14. Clastic shorelines and deltas 15. Tidal straits: Basic criteria for recognizing ancient systems from the rock record 16. Submarine landslides: Architecture, controlling factors and encironments 17. Turbidites and turbidity currents 18. Controls on reservoir distribution, architecture and stratigraphic trapping in slope settings 19. Geological methods 20. Regional tectonics and basin formation: The role of potential field studies An application to the Mesozoic West and Central African Rift System 21. Wide-angle refraction and reflection 22. An introduction to seismic reflection data: Acquisition, processing and interpretation 23. Sequence stratigraphy 24. Concepts of conventional petroleum systems 25. The accumulation of organic matter-rich rocks within an earth system's framework 26. Modelling fluid flow and petroleum systems in sedimentary basins 27. Tectonic and basin maps of the world