Salt Tectonics, 9781107013315
Hardcover
Unearth Earth’s salty secrets: structures, systems, and seismic insights.

Salt Tectonics

principles and practice

$190.20

  • Hardcover

    510 pages

  • Release Date

    6 February 2017

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Summary

Salt Tectonics: A Comprehensive Guide to Structures, Systems, and Applications

Salt tectonics is a captivating field that explores the evolution and 3D forms of salt structures. Crucially important to the petroleum industry, this textbook offers an unparalleled consolidation of all aspects of salt tectonics, spanning from microscopic to continental scales.

This resource delves into:

  • Evaporite deposition and flow
  • Salt structures
  • Salt systems

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781107013315
ISBN-10:1107013313
Author:Michael R. Hudec, Martin P.A. Jackson
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:510
Release Date:6 February 2017
Weight:1.68kg
Dimensions:283mm x 223mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

‘Unchallenged leaders in their field of research, the authors provide a much needed comprehensive overview of salt tectonics. This book is truly unique and will have a long shelf life, a must-have for anyone studying and interpreting salt structures found on land or inundated offshore. All illustrations have a common layout which greatly aids the reader to quickly grasp the key concepts and principles … My conclusion is that this legacy book showcases state-of-the-art salt tectonics in the fashion of a memorable magnum opus. There can be no doubt: it will quickly become an indispensable handbook for professionals and students who want to understand how salt came to shroud and trap a significant portion of Earth’s hydrocarbon resources.’ Ruud Weijermars, Texas A & M University‘A literary and artistic masterpiece adding new ideas to every branch of salt geology … it will inspire many future generations of salt tectonicians.’ Christopher Talbot, previously at Uppsala University, Sweden‘Since the mid-1980s there has been a complete revolution in our understanding of salt tectonics. Much of this paradigm shift in thinking has been driven by the work of the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory at the University of Texas, and the authors of this new textbook were at the forefront of this research … Now, for the first time, the fruits of these labors are available to the academic community in this new textbook … [T]his is a rich compendium indeed, covering the full spectrum of salt tectonics, from evaporite deposition through salt structures, salt systems and the practical application of salt tectonics in seismic interpretation of petroleum systems. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, with field, model and seismic based examples, this is a superb reference for any graduate student or faculty researcher interested in the field, and a vital resource for geologists and geophysicists working in any system that involves salt tectonics.’ Bruce Trudgill, Colorado School of Mines‘I could not have wished for a better text on salt tectonics, thanks to the combination of very knowledgeable authors, their close industrial contact, superb and plentiful color illustrations and very easy to follow writing. Highly recommend to anyone with an interest in salt tectonics.’ Haakon Fossen, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, Germany‘Introductory classic, reference text, groundbreaking new ideas, this book encompasses all three. It is the first to integrate the vast knowledge of the past hundred years of salt tectonic research into a comprehensive review with a wealth of unpublished data and scale models, at a scale that ranges from basins to microphysics. Lucid, fresh and fascinating, this is the new standard work in this field.’ Janos L. Urai, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University‘Jackson and Hudec’s tour de force clearly and coherently reveals the complexity and importance of the neglected field of salt tectonics. Lavishly illustrated. Truly authoritative. A must-have for academic and industrial practitioners of salt tectonics.’ Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson, Statoil Professor of Basin Analysis, Imperial College, London‘Breathtaking in scope, scholarly in execution, and accessible in style and intent, this is an extraordinary book. No less could be expected from the authors, whose collective knowledge and insight on all matters geologically salty is without equal amongst past and present peers in this demanding branch of the geological sciences. Transcending mineral physics, geochemistry, sedimentology, reflection seismology and ‘boots and hammer’ field geology, each chapter builds an intricately interwoven portrayal of salt as a lubricant for a diversity of geological processes and an archive of past climatic upheavals. Stunningly illustrated and simply yet elegantly written, this is surely a text book to last a century: definitive and comprehensive.’ Joe Cartwright, University of Oxford‘The volume is well written, superbly illustrated and clearly a labour of love, borne from a lifelong devotion to structural geology and halokinesis. … In conclusion, this is an excellent book … it is arguably the most comprehensive textbook on salt tectonics and is essential reading for anyone wishing to get up-to-speed with the latest thinking on the subject.’ John Underhill, Geoscientist‘Many good illustrations, schematics, field examples, seismic images, sandbox model cross sections, and references make it a book worth having for anyone who wants to start a career or further one in salt-dominated environments.’ Gopal Mohapatra, The Leading Edge

About The Author

Michael R. Hudec

Martin P. A. Jackson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology and holds the William L. Fisher Endowed Chair in Geological Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin. He founded the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory at the University of Texas, a consortium dedicated to research on salt tectonics and supported by the oil industry since 1989. He has taught 73 short courses on salt tectonics to geoscientists around the world. His publications have been cited more than 6800 times and have been recognized by five awards from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and from the Geological Society of London.

Michael R. Hudec has been studying salt tectonics for more than 25 years in industry and academia. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas, Austin, where he is Principal Investigator in the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory, a consortium dedicated to research on salt tectonics and supported by the oil industry since 1989. He has led over 100 short courses and field trips on salt tectonics for geoscientists around the world. His publications have been cited more than 1400 times and have been recognized by numerous awards.

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