Salt and Sediment Dynamics / Edition 1

by Ian Lerche, Kenneth Petersen

Overview

Salt and Sediment Dynamics presents a thorough treatment of salt and sediment interactions and the implications of such interactions for sub-salt exploration. The book emphasizes and utilizes recent discoveries on many aspects of salt and sediment interactions, provides the theoretical framework for interpreting the increasing amount of available data on salt and sediments, and develops a self-consistent dynamical evolution model of salt structures and their interaction with surrounding sediments.
The model developed in the text consists of an evolving salt structure that influences sediment motion with self-consistent evolution of sediments and salt shape. The resulting stress and strain in the sediments and the thermal focusing effects of the salt are evaluated. The salt and sediments in the model are consistent with observed geometries, a result of having freely adjustable, observation-controlled model parameters.
In addition, the book describes case histories in a variety of geological settings, thus explaining aspects of the genesis and development of salt structures, of their impact on sedimentary structural evolution, and of the impact of sediments on salt masses.
The techniques developed by the authors expand the current state of knowledge regarding the evolution and dynamics of salt structures and increase the potential for effective sub-salt hydrocarbon exploration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849376849
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/1995
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Lerche, Kenneth Petersen

Table of Contents

Introduction; Section A Facets of Salt and Sediment Interactions; 1: Salt Velocity from Temperature and Thermal Indicator Anomalies: Lulu-1, Danish North Sea; 2: Salt Insertions in Sedimentary Sequences: Impacts on Temperature and Thermal Maturation; 3: Salt Insertions in Sedimentary Sequences: Impacts on Sediment Distortion and Sediment Fracturing; 4: Simple Estimates of Dynamical, Thermal, and Hydrocarbon Maturity Factors; 5: Integrated Model Requirements; Section B Self-Consistent Salt and Sediment Dynamics; 6: Modeling Present-Day Salt Shapes; 7: Deposition and Deformation of Sedimentary Beds Around an Evolving Salt Shape; 8: Modeling Stress-Strain Development Through Time; 9: Thermal Focusing of Heat; Section C Applications and Case Histories; 10: North Louisiana Salt Basin — Test Case I; 11: Norwegian-Danish Basin — Test Case 2; 12: Pseudo-3-D Modeling of the Combined Evolution of Salt and Sediments: A Danish North Sea Example; 13: General Summary