Advanced Structural Geology
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Advanced Structural Geology Course
Introduction:
This is an advanced course in structural geology, which exposes the student to the different structural features, both micro- and macroscopic; how they develop, analysis techniques, interpretation of structures with respect to tectonic processes. The practical aspect enables a student to work backward thereby unraveling the deformational history of the rocks.
The course has a basic skills component to bring the participants up to a common level from which they can tackle the more specialist elements. Advanced structural geology and properties of rocks in the subsurface are taught through course elements in large scale structural geology, reservoir rock properties, and geo-mechanics.
Course Objectives:
Geology is so fundamental to the petroleum industry that knowledge of its basic principles is desirable for all persons associated in any way with the industry. Petroleum geology is based on observation and utilizes many other sciences. The basic principle that “the present is the key to the past” is the concept that processes that acted on the earth in the past are very similar to or the same as those operating today. The geologist’s conclusions are derived by:
- Observing the results of the earth’s history and processes
- Reconstructing the events giving rise to certain formations and their arrangement
- Predicting where oil accumulations might occur
- To reconstruct the conditions and processes that control the development of complex plastic and brittle deformation systems
- To deduce large structures of the earth from small –scale geologic structures
- To understand the concepts and criteria for rock deformation
- To understand the structure of the earth and the controls for distribution of the structures.
- To investigate the concepts of stress, strain, deformation mechanisms and methods of strain measurement.
Who Should Attend?
All persons associated in any way with the oil industry, especially Mud Loggers, well site geologists, pressure engineers, Mud engineers, and Drilling engineers.
Course Outlines:
Petroleum System Module
- Introduction to petroleum geology and Petroleum system
- Structural geology and subsurface mapping
- Reservoir sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy
Exploration Module
- Exploration geophysics
- Exploration geochemistry
Rock mechanics:
Complex plastic and brittle deformation systems, stress and strain, strain analysis, joints, shear fractures, shear zones, fault mechanics, fault classification &terminology, fold geometry and classification, fold mechanics, complex folds.
Fabrics and structural analysis
Foliations- cleavage, lineations, lineament analysis, diagram techniques, construction and interpretation of block diagrams and contour maps
Geotectonics:
Global geotectonic hypotheses, regional tectonic analysis of Precambrian shields and platforms, orogenic belts & rift zones, magma associations related to plate tectonics, structural framework.
