Andean Structural Styles. A Seismic Atlas

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
7. Thrust sequence in the Sinu Fold Belt (South Caribbean Deformed Belt), offshore northwest Colombia
8. Relationships between normal faulting, mud diapirism and thrusting in the trailing part of the Sin? 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
18. An appraisal of basin development at the trailing edge of the Northern Andes, SW Ecuador
NW Peru
19. The Manab? and Esmeraldas-Borb?n forearc basins of Ecuador

SECTION 5: Peru
20. Situche Complex, Mara?on Basin. Peru
21. Large transport thrust in the Huallaga Basin (Northern Peruvian Sub-Andean Zone)
22. The San Mart?n anticline: a classic example of a fault-bend fold in the Camisea fold and thrust belt, Central Andes, Per?
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
30. Structural styles of the Villa Uni?n-San Isidro basement-involved fold and thrust belt, Northern Ischigualasto-Villa Uni?n Basin province of La Rioja, Argentina
31. Structural styles, tectonic evolution and petroleum systems of transverse pre-Andean structures: examples from the Cuyo and Neuqu?n basins
32. Structure beneath the southern Payenia volcanic field, Neuqu?n Basin, Argentina.
33. Structural development in the frontal Malarg?e fold and thrust belt, Neuqu?n Basin, Argentina
34. Interpreting a complex Triangle Zone in the Agrio Fold Thrust Belt, Neuqu?n 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
37. Inverted structures in the western Central Andes thrust belt front
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

Authors

Gonzalo Zamora Geology Department, Repsol Exploration, Madrid, Spain. Gonzalo Zamora is Structural Geology and Tectonics Manager at Repsol with over 18 years of experience in the oil industry. He holds a PhD in Structural Geology and MSc in Tectonics. He has 14 years of experience working in the Andes of Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru, and is familiar with the geology of Ecuador and Colombia. Dr. Zamora has published several papers in international journals and books, and is the editor of the AAPG Memoir 117 "Petroleum Basins and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia,� and the SP490 "Fold and Thrust Belts: Structural Style, Evolution, and Exploration� of the Geological Society of London. As part of the Structural Geology Specialist Group at Repsol, he also has experience in Spain, the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Morocco, The Urals (Russia), and Ireland. Andr�s Mora Exploration Department, Ecopetrol, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Andr�s Mora is Regional Studies Leader at Ecopetrol Brazil. He holds a PhD in Geology and has over 20 years of experience in the oil industry, mostly as a structural and exploration geologist, focusing on areas including the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Per�, and offshore Brazil. He has published several papers in international journals and books and has edited a number of special issues for the AAPG and books for the Geological Society of London.