Week 4: Mechanism of Sedimentary Basin Formation Basin due to Lithospheric Stretching
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Course Material
- Week: 1 The Foundation of Sedimentary Basins, Compositional and Rheological Zoning of Earth and Plate Motion
- Week: 2 Classification Scheme for Sedimentary Basins, Types of Sedimentary Basins
- Week: 3 Physical State of the Lithosphere, Stress and Strain, Heat Flow, Conduction, Convection, Gravity and Isostacy
- Week 4: Mechanism of Sedimentary Basin Formation Basin due to Lithospheric Stretching
- Week: 5 Basins due to Flexure, Geometry of Deflection, Flexural Rigidity of Oceanic and Continental lithosphere
- Week: 6 Basins associated with Strikeslip Deformation, The Structural Pattern of Strikeslip Fault system and Basin in Strikeslip zones
- Week: 7 Long term Eustacy and Epierogeny, Mantle Processes, Dynamics, Supercontinent Cycles, Dynamic Topography and Eperiogeny
- Week: 8 Accommodation and Shoreline Shifts, Allogenic Controls on Sedimentation, Sediment supply, Energy Flux, Sediment Accommodation
- Week: 9 The Sedimentary Basin Fill and The Sediment Routing System
- Week: 10 The Basin Stratigraphy, Process Stratigraphy, Driving Mechanism and Numerical Simulation
- Week: 11 Subsidence and Thermal History, Geohistory Analysis, Paleotemperatures in Basins
- Week: 12 Application to Petroleum Play Assesment, Petroleum System Charge, The Reservoir, The Regional Topseal and Trap
- Week: 13 Petroleum System Modeling An Exploration Tool
- Week: 14 Introduction to Basin Modeling, Geological Processes, Structure of a Model, Modeling Workflow, Structural Restoration
- Week: 15 Heat Flow Analysis, ID, Thermal Conductivity, Specific Heat Capacity, Radiogenic Heat, SWI Temperatures
- Week: 16 Risk Analysis in Basin Modeling
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- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Mr. Abdul Hannan
