Siliciclastic Shelf Margins Revisited:
Source-to-sink within a sequence stratigraphy framework
Date: Friday, September 30th and Saturday October 1st
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: GeoEcoMar conference room, 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul St, Bucharest
Instructors: Ron Steel and Cornel Olariu
(Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
Fee: to be established
Includes: Course notes and refreshments
Limit: min 10 persons max 40 persons
Content:
This short course will present new ideas on morphology, architecture and accretion of shelf and shelf margin prisms. The source to sink sediment transfer will be discussed within the framework of the sequence stratigraphy.
The course will focus on (1) shelf transit principles and the importance of supply, sea-level, shelf width and shelf/coastal plain gradient, (2) shelf and shelf-slope break variability; shelf morphology in high- and low-supply conditions, (3) evolution and architecture of sediment-delivery systems (deltas) on the shelf, (4) slope channels, sediment deposition vs. bypass on the slope and hyperpycnal flow as a new slope-delivery mechanism, (5) sea-level driven lowstand vs. supply-driven highstand models for shelf margin accretion and fans and (6) rules of thumb for predicting deepwater sands.
Lectures will be interspersed with well-log and seismic exercises.
Who should attend: The course is aimed to people with a wide range of knowledge from senior students (with knowledge of sedimentology and basic sequence stratigraphy) to industry geologists that work on sedimentary systems.
Instructor's bio:
Ron Steel is Professor and Davis Centennial Chair at the University of Texas Austin and Sixth-Century Chair of Sedimentology at University of Aberdeen, UK. He has a PhD from University of Glasgow in 1971, and worked for Norsk Hydro in Norway 1982-1990. He has held academic chairs at the University of Bergen and University of Wyoming before coming to Texas. He has interests in shelf margins, in tidal processes and in sedimentation and tectonics.
Cornel Olariu is a research associate at the University of Texas. He earned a geology engineering degree in 1995 from the University of Bucharest, and an M.S. degree in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2005 both in geological sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is interested in clastic sedimentology with focus on shallow water depositional systems and more specifically on mechanisms of sediment transfer from shallow to deep water.
