D'E'O'S' Away Day, October 24th, 2003: Research Plans and Ideas from Steve Flint and Dave Hodgson St

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D.E.O.S. Away Day, October 24th, 2003 Research
Plans and Ideas from Steve Flint and Dave Hodgson
(Strat Group)

• Sediment transport across the shelf edge and
  storage/bypass on the submarine slope profile
  (with POL)
• - Linking of observational datasets such as Hi
  Res 3-D
• seismic and borehole information with
  modelling of
• sediment transport and delivery to the shelf
  edge by POL.
• - Problem is fundingrecent application for NERC
  Ocean
• Margins round was unsuccessful (awaiting
  feedback)
• Discriminating very high frequency allocyclicity
  (Milankovitch cycle components) in the clastic
  sedimentary record and their effects on fluid
  flow
• - 5th order stratigraphic cycles are now
  identified in
• the deposits of most depositional environments
  but
• position in sequence hierarchy has both
  positive and
• negative effects on geometry and connectivity
  of sands.
• - Interested in comparative analysis of icehouse
  vs
• greenhouse periods of earth history.
• - Plans to expand this work and link perhaps to
  RWo
• and to Manchester

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Controls on Tectono-Stratigraphic
Development of Sedimentary Basins
Accommodation / sediment supply history -
Ongoing analysis of stratigraphic development of
basins with particular emphasis on
retro-arc foreland basins (Karoo, South Africa
and Western Interior (USA) and strike-
slip basins of Pacific Russia. - Largely
oil industry-funded - Current, past and
future working with Graham Potts and Nick Kusznir