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Seismo-Turbidites: Implications for Active Tectonic Margin Stratigraphy, Lithology, and Petroleum Reservoirs

C. Hans Nelson3, Chris Goldfinger4, Julia Gutierrez-Pastor1 and John E. Damuth6

1Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Avda. de la Palmeras, Granada, Spain
2Turbidite Research Group, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
3Blaustein Visting Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
4College of Oceanic and Atmostpheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
5Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
6Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX.

October 7, 2014 Tuesday 1:15 A.M. GCAGS, Lafayette, Louisiana

Abstract

The field of turbidite paleoseismology has advanced rapidly during the past few years following the proof of paleoseismic turbidites (Fig. 1) (e.g., Adams, 1990; Nakajima and Kanai, 2000; Nelson et al., 2000; Gutierrez-Pastor et al., 2009). The evidence shows that there are common patterns and types of seismo-turbidites generated by earthquakes in active tectonic margins (e.g., Nelson et al., 2012, 2013; Gutierrez-Pastor et al., 2013). Earthquakes generate mass-transport deposits (MTDs) plus megaturbidite, multipulsed, stacked, and homogenite seismo-turbidites.

AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90196 © 2014 GCAGS, Lafayette, Louisiana, October 5-7, 2014