Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis: Volume 1: Principles of Geologic Analysis

Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis, 2nd edition is the first in a three-volume series covering Phanerozoic regional geology and tectonics. The new edition provides updates to the first edition’s detailed overview of geologic processes, and includes new sections on plate tectonics, petroleum systems, and new methods of geological analysis.

This book provides both professionals and students with the basic principles necessary to grasp the conceptual approaches to hydrocarbon exploration in a wide variety of geological settings globally.

Discusses in detail the principles of regional geological analysis and the main geological and geophysical toolsCaptures and identifies the tectonics of the world in detail, through a series of unique geographic maps, allowing quick access to exact tectonic locationsServes as the ideal introductory overview and complementary reference to the core concepts of regional geology and tectonics offered in volumes 2 and 3 in the series

1. Regional geology and tectonics of sedimentary basins Ian James Stewart

2. The Earth: Core, mantle and crust C. Mary R. Fowler

3. Age of the oceans Lucia Perez Diaz

4. Plate boundaries and driving mechanisms Graeme Eagles

5. Plate kinematic reconstructions Graeme Eagles

6. Resolving geological enigmas using plate tectonic reconstructions and mantle flow models Sabin Zahirovic

7. Tectonostratigraphic megasequences and chronostratigraphy Ian James Stewart

8. Fault classification, fault growth and displacement Haakon Fossen

9. Thrust systems and contractional tectonics Rob Butler and Clare Bond

10. Inverted fault systems and inversion tectonic settings Mark Cooper and Marian J. Warren

11. Salt- and shale-detached gravity-driven failure of continental margins Mark G. Rowan

12. Carbonate systems Luis Pomar

13. Lake systems and their economic importance Chris Sladen and Domenico Chiarella

14. Clastic shorelines and deltas M. Royhan Gani

15. Tidal straits: Basic criteria for recognizing ancient systems from the rock record Sergio G. Longhitano and Domenico Chiarella

16. Submarine landslides: Architecture, controlling factors and encironments Nicola Scarselli

17. Turbidites and turbidity currents Roberto Tinterri, Andrea Civa, Michele Laporta and Alberto Piazza

18. Controls on reservoir distribution, architecture and stratigraphic trapping in slope settings Bradford E. Prather

19. Geological methods Patricia Wood Dickerson and William R. Muehlberger

20. Regional tectonics and basin formation: The role of potential field studies - An application to the Mesozoic West and Central African Rift System James Derek Fairhead

21. Wide-angle refraction and reflection Robert S. White

22. An introduction to seismic reflection data: Acquisition, processing and interpretation David R. Cox, Andrew M.W. Newton and Mads Huuse

23. Sequence stratigraphy Octavian Catuneanu

24. Concepts of conventional petroleum systems Jan de Jager

25. The accumulation of organic matter-rich rocks within an earth system's framework Kevin M. Bohacs, Ian O. Norton, Jack E. Neal and Debbie Gilbert

26. Modelling fluid flow and petroleum systems in sedimentary basins Johannes Wendebourg

27. Tectonic and basin maps of the world Albert W. Bally, David G. Roberts, Dale Sawyer and Anton Sinkewich