COURSE FEES

Registration deposit 50 €Students* 20 €External 40 €

*Including PhD students. Employees and students of the University of Potsdam are exempted from the fee

REGISTRATION (max. 20 participants)

Write an e-mail to:wichura@geo.uni-potsdam.de

and submit the 50 € deposit on the following Bank account:Henry WichuraIBAN. DE44100500002154217748BIC. BELADEBEXXXPurpose. Basin Analysis your name

OPTIONAL TEXTBOOK

Allen and Allen, 2013, Basin Analy-sis: Principles and Application to Petroleum Play Assessment, Wiley-Blackwell

ORGANIZER

“StRATEGy” Coordination O�ceDr. Henry WichuraUniversity of PotsdamInstitute of Earth and Environmental SciencesKarl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, House 29D-14476 Potsdam-GolmTel. +49/331 977 5791E-mail. wichura@geo.uni-potsdam.de

Webpage. http://www.irtg-strategy.de

LECTURER

Prof. Bernard Coakley, PhD

Bernard Coakley has been a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute since 2002. He earned his PhD in geology at Columbia University, carried out post doctoral research at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and served as an assistant professor at Tulane University before moving to Alaska. Coakley specializes in geophysics and seismology and has a particular interest in Arctic Basin tectonics. He has extensive experience in collecting geophysical data from the Arctic Ocean in a variety of vessels, and has made six trips to the North Pole.

BASINANALYSISOctober 11-14 and 17, 20161-4 pm

B. Coakley

COURSE OBEJECTIVES

Sedimentary basins are formed in a variety of geologic settings. Basins formed in a particu-lar tectonic context (compressive, extension-al or strike-slip) share certain characteristics. Knowing the regional tectonics, we can make useful predictions about the sedimen-tary �ll of a basin. Conversely, for ancient basins, if we understand the basin �ll, we can make useful statements about the ancient tectonic setting. Basins are created and �lled by coupled processes that cause subsidence and generate and deliver sediment to the basin. Even while it accumulates, the sedi-mentary �ll is modi�ed by compaction as well as the transport of heat and reactive �uids through the rock matrix. To read the basin �ll as a record of tectonic and sedimen-tary events, it is necessary to understand how these processes create the sedimentary record in each basin. This course will cover these processes and their interactions, as understood from various observational data-sets (sedimentary and geophysical), as well as the quantitative forward and inverse models commonly used to extract or constrain basin history.

COURSE PROGRAM

TUESDAY OCTOBER 11thPotsdam University, Golm

Introduction to the course• The Development of Geosynclinal Theory• Basins in the Plate Tectonic Environment• Isostasy• Compaction, heat �ow and �uid �ow• Strength and Rheology

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12thPotsdam University, Golm

Extensional Basins• Mantle Dynamics• Mechanisms of crustal stretching• Basins due to Stretching• Subsidence and Thermal History• Measuring Thermal Maturation

THURSDAY OCTOBER 13thPotsdam University, Golm

Basins Formed in Compressional Settings• Basins due to Flexure• Hawaiian Moat Stratigraphy• Foreland Basin Stratigraphy• Strike – Slip Basins

FRIDAY OCTOBER 14thGFZ Potsdam, Telegrafenberg

Stratigraphy and Sea Level• Sloss’s Sequences• Sequence Stratigraphy• Stratigraphic Basin Modeling• Controls on source rock deposition and preservation• Stratigraphic Basin Modeling

MONDAY OCTOBER 17thGFZ Potsdam, Telegrafenberg

Case Studies (and student examples)• Predicting basin characteristics from plate tectonics• US Gulf Coast (Gulf of Mexico)• Colville Trough (Northern Alaska)• Appalachian Basin• Michigan Basin