August 19 - 21, 2008
Museum of Natural Sciences IMAX Theater
Houston, Texas

Convenors:

Scot Fraser (Cobalt International Energy)
Mike Lentini (Cobalt International Energy)
Alastair Fraser (BP)
Rob Gawthorpe (Univ of Manchester)
Andrew Hurst (Univ of Aberdeen)
Dave Reynolds (ExxonMobil Exploration Co)
Tony Doré (StatoilHydro)
Robin Hamilton (Shell International E&P)

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Conference Program:

Tuesday, August 19
Continents to Oceans

0700 - 0835
Registration + coffee

0835 - 0900
Rifts Conference Introduction/Welcome
Mike Lentini and Convenors

BHP Billiton Session
0900 - 0925
Lithospheric stretching - Apparent paradoxes, contradictions and complexities
Scot Fraser, Mike Lentini and H. Scott Sumner

0925 - 0950
Field analogues to understand the evolution of hyper-extended ultra-deep water passive rifted margins: the examples of the Alpine Tethys and the Western Pyrenees/Bay of Biscay (Keynote)
G. Manatschal et al

0950 - 1015
West and South-directed mass wasting from the Galicia Bank: How these may affect interpretations of rifting processes during Atlantic breakup?
Dale S. Sawyer and Stephen A. Clark

1015 - 1055
Break

1055 - 1120
Evolution of the Newfoundland-Iberia Conjugate Margins
Alistair Crosby et al

1120 - 1145
The Transition from Continental to Oceanic crust as recorded by magnetic anomalies along Passive Margins
Shiri Srivastava and Jean-Claude Sibuet

1145 - 1210
Plate motion of Iberia relative to Europe in the Cretaceous: problems with the fit at MO time
Ian Norton, Lawrence Lawver and Lisa Gahagan

1210 - 1330
Lunch

Cobalt International Energy Session
1330 - 1355
Constraints on magma-poor rifting evolution and continental breakup from the Iberia-Newfoundland conjugate margins (Keynote)
Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic and Gianreto Manatschal

1355 - 1420
Shifts in extension centers and the transition from amagmatic rifting to sea-floor extension
Dennis L. Harry

1420 - 1445
Continent Ocean Transitions: Tectonics, magmatism and accommodation space
John R. Hopper

1445 - 1520
An abrupt transition from magma-starved to magma-rich rifting in the eastern Black Sea
Donna J. Shillington et al

1520 - 1545
Break

1545 - 1610
Break-up history of a volcanic margin: Western India and Pakistan
Richard Corfield et al

1610 - 1635
Broad versus Deep: Viewing the Steershead from the Stratosphere
William G. Dickinson et al

1635 - 1700
Geodynamic evolution of extended rift terrains
Dale Bird and Kevin Burke

1700 - 1725
Crustal-scale geometries and architecture along the Northeastern Brazilian Margin Constrained by Seismic Reflection and Potential Field Data and Modelling
O.A. Blaich, J.I. Faleide and F. Tsikalas

1730 - 1930
Wine Reception

Wednesday, August 20
Models to Margins
0730 - 0815
Registration + coffee

BP & Shell Session
0815 - 0835
Introductory Remarks

0835 - 0900
A Tectonic Model of Faulting during Rifting and the Development of the Asymmetry of Conjugate Non-volcanic Margins (Keynote)
Cesar R. Ranero and Marta Perez-Gussinye

0900 - 0925
Sag Basin Development and Rifted Continental Margin Asymmetry (Keynote)
N.J. Kusznir and R.J. Fletcher

0925 - 0950
The extension discrepancy at rifted margins: unrecognised faulting or depth-dependent stretching (DDS)
Tim Reston

0950 - 1015
Dynamical Models of Depth-Dependent Lithospheric Extension at Rifted Continental Margins: Effects of Strong and Weak Lower Crust (Keynote)
Ritske Huismans

1015 - 1055
Break

1055 - 1120
Modeling The Tectonic and Thermal Evolution of Rifted Margins
Lac Lavier and Gianreto Manatschal

1120 - 1145
A global review of intraplate basin evolution in a mantle dynamic and plate kinematic framework
Christian Heine et al

1145 - 1210
The Vertical Expression of a Horizontal Flow: Stratigraphic Manifestations of Transient Mantle Convection
Nicky White et al

1210 - 1330
Lunch

StatoilHydro - ExxonMobil Session
1330 - 1355
Automated Thermotectonostratigraphic Reconstruction of Sedimentary Basins in Frontier Areas
L.H. Rupke et al

1355 - 1420
Mapping crustal thickness and the ocean-continent-transition in the Santos and Campos Basins, Brazilian South Atlantic
Alan Roberts el al

1420 - 1445
Modern Analogue for Interlayered Evaporites and Seaward Dipping Volcanic Reflectors: Danakil Depression, Northern Afar, East Africa
Teunis Heyn et al

1445 - 1520
Testing experimental concepts for oblique rifting with outcrop data from the western U.S.A. and subsurface data from European Basins
Robert Hooper et al

1520 - 1545
Break

1545 - 1610
Identifying and understanding the role of thick skinned crustal elements in basins and margins dominated by thin-skinned deformation: examples from the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic
Rob Hunsdale, Jon Blickwede adn Terje Veum

1610 - 1635
Transition between Oceanic and Continental Rift Systems as exemplified by short-lived, small coean basins
Menno G. Dinkelman et al

1635 - 1700
Observations from the South Atlantic - How Conjugate is the Conjugate Margin?
Michael Lentini and Scot Fraser

1700 - 1725
Geological and geophysical interpretation of the Rio Grande Rise, Southeastern Brazilian margin: extensional tectonics and rifting of continental and oceanic crusts
Webster Mohriak et al

1900 - 2200
Conference Dinner
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Thursday, August 21
Basins to Barrels
0730 - 0815
Registration + coffee

Apache Corporation Session

0815 - 0835
Introductory Remarks

0835 - 0900
HC exploration in rift basins - past, present, future
Larry L. Garmezy and Robin F.M. Hamilton

0900 - 0925
Towards Understanding the Formation of the Gulf of Mexico: Evidence for a Late Triassic Precursory Domal/Rift Flank Uplift and a Volcanic Rifted Margin for the Texas-Louisiana sector of the Gulf of Mexico (Keynote)
Robert J. Stern et al

0925 - 0950
Shallow computed depth to "magnetic basement" relative to correlated Mesozoic well and seismic stratigraphic events in the Gulf of Mexico: Evidence for the nature of Yucatan block rotation?
Richard H. Fillon et al

0950 - 1015
Precessional Forcing of Lacustrine Source Rock Facies: Recent Results from Scientific Drilling in Lake Malawi (Keynote)
Christopher A. Scholz and Robert P. Lyons

1015 - 1055
Break

1055 - 1120
Sedimentation styles and variability of organic matter types in the Triassic, nonmarine half-grabens of west Argentina: implications for petroleum systems in rift basins
Oscar López-Gamundi

1120 - 1145
Structural and climatic controls on evolving drainage systems in extensional basins
Dave Reynolds

1145 - 1210
The role of release faulting in controlling the development and hydrocarbon prospectivity of rift basins
John Underhill

1210 - 1330
Lunch

Ion GX Technology Session
1330 - 1355
A new structural model for the pre-salt Santos Basin, Brazil, based on "bottom-up" basin analysis
J.P. Teasdale and L. Jensen

1355 - 1420
Structure and evolution of the Santos Basin, SE Brazil - oblique extension, strain partitioning and implications for South Atlantic Rift evolution
R.W. Wilson et al

1420 - 1445
The tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the NW Vøring Basin, offshore Norway: the role of transfer zones in rift and passive margin segmentation
D.J. Moy et al

1445 - 1520
Tectono-Stratigraphic Framework and Petroleum Systems of Transtensional Tertiary Rift Basins in Southeast Asia
H. Scott Sumner

1520 - 1545
Break

1545 - 1610
Working Towards Intra-plate Models for SE Asia Rift Basins
Andrew B. Cullen, Paul Reemst and Catalina Acuna

1610 - 1635
A detailed view of rift structure and tectonostratigraphy within the Jeanne d'Arc Basin with regional implications for the Grand Banks region, Newfoundland
I.K. Sinclair et al

1635 - 1700
Oblique inversion of the Fundy rift basin on the passive margin of southeastern Canada
Mark S. Baum et al

1700 - 1725
Indian Continental Margin: Diachronous Rifting, Ridge Jumps and Continental Fragments
Steve Henry, Al Danforth and Sujata Venktraman

1725 - 1735
Wrap-up and concluding remarks