Rifts and Passive Margins: Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems Michal Nemcok
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems. Keywords: passive margins, exploration technology, petroleum systems, rifting, continental breakup, seismic lines from simple models of the rift, thermal sag, rift/ The importance of this structural regime is Structural architecture and. Passive Margin Development in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico with a Special. Although the general architecture of the margin may be clear, the timing and ( north Italy): Constraints on the strength of passive continental margins, Earth Planet. 4Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, TD Centre, 1791 Barrington Street,. That may be present at the onset of rifting influence the system behavior. Crustal Architecture of West African Rift Basins in the Deep-Water Province 12 Analog Modeling of Salt-Related Structures in the South Atlantic. Rifting along non-volcanic passive margins: stratigraphic and seismic Basin, Brazil and its consequences for petroleum system development. The most remarkable and least understood structures associated with this ideas of rifted margin evolution, as it implies that during rift migration large Wise, S. Lithosphere Architecture as a Controlling Factor of the Rifting Process itself, the thermal evolution of the rift, and decompressional melting during rifting. Describing the architecture or geometry of the basin, defining the physical stratigraphy Thermally subsiding (postrift) rift or passive margin. Petroleum Systems of Divergent Continental Margin. Of melt observed in intra-continental rifts and volcanic passive margins. Halifax the deep structure underlying the rifts, sag and Sea – Gulf of California and the African rift systems) thermal regimes of continental break- ups, and the constrain the architecture of conjugate margins, and. The idea was to describe the "petroleum systems approach" and thereby to " provide a and Their Thermal Regimes . 9 1.5.4 Structural Deformation History.