MARGIN EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT
The goal of this session is to foster new insights about the structure and development of the Nova Scotia-Morocco and other Central Atlantic margins. We invite oral and poster-only submissions that involve numerical and/or analogue modelling; seismic imaging and interpretation focused on passive margin development controls, or which represent case studies from the Nova Scotia-Morocco segment, other Central Atlantic margins; or relevant global analogues. Possible topics include:
• Processes that control rifting and breakup, from distributed extension to the rift-to-drift transition
• Margin segmentation by transform and transfer faulting, and other mechanisms
• Uplift and subsidence history, sedimentation, and plate tectonic reconstructions
• Distribution and timing of magmatism
• Evolution of evaporite basins
PETROLEUM SYSTEMS
Papers and posters submitted for this session should address parameters used in assessing petroleum systems, including proven systems and current hydrocarbon production with emphasis on basins of the Central Atlantic conjugate margins. Possible topics include:
• Descriptions of known, hypothetical, and speculative petroleum systems in Central Atlantic conjugate margin basins
• Role of salt tectonics in heat flow and petroleum systems development
• Imaging, provenance, transport, and distribution of deep-water reservoir sands
• Heat flow in relation to various phases of rift/drift transition
• Reservoir/seal analysis
• Overpressure
• Documenting deep-water erosional unconformities, paleo-temperature and paleo-water depth
• Influence of late-phase slow rifting and subsequent drifting on hydrocarbon generation and expulsion
• 3D and 4D basin model simulation
• Influence of drift phase compressive events on petroleum systems
• Volcanic events (Central Atlantic Magmatic Province or CAMP))and its influence on thermal maturity of source rocks • Source rock development, organic facies and anoxic events
• Source rock kinetics and timing of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion
• Hydrocarbon charge mechanisms / migration conduits
PRODUCTIVE FIELDS & ANALOGUES
This session will examine geological and geophysical analogues of hydrocarbon discoveries and producing fields within the Central Atlantic petroleum environment. Comparisons and reviews of existing petroleum fields on both sides of the Atlantic are welcome with particular attention to the exploration reasoning that led to these discoveries. We would also invite submissions that focus on newer exploration technologies; e.g., seismic imaging and amplitude analysis, electromagnetic detection of hydrocarbons and other techniques to reduce exploratory risk. Other possible topics include:
• Reservoir petrology
• Overpressure
• Stratigraphic studies; e.g. sequence stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, etc.
• Depositional models
• Core studies
