TENTATIVE LIST OF PAPERS
The following is a tentative list of papers for the conference. Permissions are still need to be
finalized for some and work assignments change with time. Check back periodically to check for
additions and deletions, but this update should be fairly firm. (updated November 19, 2013)
James Pindell, Rod Graham, and Brian Horn: Some common themes observed at rifted margins.
Rod Graham, James Pindell, and Brian Horn: Stratigraphic examples of rapid collapse of outer
continental margins.
Grant Wach: Petroleum systems in eastern and western Central Atlantic margin basins, from
outcrop and subsurface data.
James Coleman: Overview of the origin, depositional histories, and petroleum systems in basins
of the Eastern United States.
Katya Casey: Crustal type and tectonic evolution of the Equatorial Atlantic transform margin:
Implications to exploration.
Malcolm Ross and Lorcan Kennan: Crustal types and opening models for the Gulf of Mexico.
Kim Thomas and others: Structure of the West Florida Continental Margin. (POSTER ONLY)
Josh Rosenfeld: Status of the Gulf of Mexico Eocene drawdown hypothesis, new data.
Mark Longacre: Do thermal gravity Anomalies exist at rifted continental margins?
James Pindell and A. Levander: Lithospheric structure and tectonic history of northern
America 1: Plate kinematics and the geological record.
South
A. Levander, J. Masy, M. Bezada, F. Niu, and J. Pindell: Lithospheric structure and tectonic
history of northern South America 2: Mantle seismic tomography.
Luke Jensen, J. Pindell, F. Sanchez, and L. Kennan: Regional geology, tectonics, and
paleography of the Cretaceous Colombian passive margin basins: a predictive lens towards
unconventional prospectivity.
Katie McDonough and Brian Horn: Sequence stratigraphic prediction of deep-water exploration
plays in a frontier basin: Offshore Tanzania and Mozambique.
Frank Love: South Atlantic volcanic to non-volcanic rifting: Geodynamic impact on the pre-salt
play.
David S. Lewis, Ross Ensley, and Mark Leander: New insights into timing and distribution of
late syn-rift subsidence from detailed well ties and seismic mapping, Campos Basin, Brazil.
Christina von Nicolai, M. Scheck-Wenderoth, N. Schoedt, J. Andersen, and D. Quirk: Tectonic
evolution of the Kwanza Basin offshore Angola – insights from 3D crustal scale structural
modeling and backstripping.
Barbara Radovich and Chuck Connors: Multi-Age Plays in Offshore Nigeria; Deep Cretaceous
plays of a transform margin, new ideas in thick lower Tertiary Basin shales, and hidden plays on
flanks of Miocene shale structures.
Stuart Lake and Neil Frewin: Structure, evolution, and petroleum system of the Tano Basin,
Ghana.
A. Lowrie and others: Transportation of fluids from ocean through sediments and crust to
mantle, both ascending and descending, as geologically reasonable in the northern Gulf of
Mexico. (POSTER ONLY).
E. R. Lundin, T.F. Redfield, and G. Perón-Pindivic: Rifted continental margins: geometric
control on crustal architecture and melting.
Jack Casey: Formation of oceanic core complexes at spreading centers and implications for rifted
margins.
Liz Jolley: On Trinidad, TBA
Rui Pena Dos Reis and Nuno Pimentel: Petroleum systems of the Lusitanian basin (western
Iberian margin)- geological framework and implication for deep offshore exploration.
J.A. Covault, T. Sun, C. Carvajal, K. Milikin, A. Fildani, M. Pyrcz, and L. Zarra: Source-to-sink
sediment budgets for Paleogene Gulf of Mexico deep water stratigraphic predictions.