The Deformation Structures of Carbonates
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2022) | Viewed by 3353
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sedimentary basin analysis; petroleum geology; depositional environments; submarine fans; fluvial deposits; carbonates diagenesis; carbonates deformation; sedimentology; sequence stratigraphy; seismic stratigraphy; geochemistry
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Interests: field geology; sedimentology; geochemistry; tectonics; stratigraphy; sedimentary basins; geological processes; petroleum geology; sequence stratigraphy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The nature of deformation structures is a key for understanding the geodynamic conditions in a sedimentary basin. Deformation structures could be developed both after and during the sedimentation processes.
The detailed study of deformation structures is an important tool for hydrocarbon exploration and prospectivity, as they can affect the porosity and permeability of the lithified rock and hydrocarbon fields in general.
Inversion tectonic frequently, from an extensional to a compressional regime, offers the opportunity to have both different deformation structures in the same outcrops. Inversion is important in many orogenic belts where the thick-skinned compressional structures, including inversion structures and huge deformation structures, develop along with thin-skinned deformation structures, above shallow detachments, producing additional deformation structures with different scales.
Many times, and during the extensional regime, normal fault activity produced syn-sedimentary deformation structures that could be formed with two different kinematic processes, seismites and gravity flows. These structures took place just after initial sediment consolidation because, at this time, deposits are weakest and so can be most easily and rapidly expelled on pore fluid.
This Special Issue welcomes high-impact original research and review papers that discuss in general the deformation structures associated with the tectonic setting and link the findings with global models.
Prof. Dr. Avraam Zelilidis
Dr. Nicolina Bourli
Guest Editors
Keywords
- carbonates
- deformation structures
- compressional regime
- slumps
- seismites
- gravity flows
- stratigraphy
- depositional settings
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