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Oceanography Department
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Dalhousie Geodynamics: Research: Salt Tectonics: Continental Margin Salt Tectonics Driven by Gravitational Spreading

           Salt Tectonics

      Papers

• Gemmer, L., Beaumont, C., and Ings, S. (2005). Dynamic Modelling of Passive Margin Salt Tectonics . Effects of Water Loading, Sediment Properties, and Sedimentation Patterns. Basin Research, 17: 383-402.

• Gemmer, L., Ings, S.J., Medvedev, S. and Beaumont, C. (2004). Salt tectonics driven by differential sediment loading: Stability analysis and finite element experiments. Basin Research, 16: 199-219.


• Ings, S., Beaumont, C., and Gemmer, L. Numerical Modeling of Salt Tectonics on Passive Continental Margins: Preliminary assessment of the Effects of Sediment Loading, Buoyancy, Margin Tilt, and Isostasy. 24th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference proceedings: 36-68. (On CD Rom - ISSN: 1544-2462).
  
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      Abstracts (*invited)

• *Ings, S., Beaumont, C, and Shimeld, S. Salt tectonics at passive continental margins: Results from numerical models and case study application, offshore Nova Scotia. Submitted for the Geological Association of Canada (GAC) – Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) - Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) – Canadian Society of Soil Science joint meeting in Halifax, 2005.
  
  
• *Ings, S. and Beaumont, C. Formation of salt withdrawal mini-basins: Insights from margin-scale numerical models. Accepted for the 2005 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Annual Convention, Calgary, Alberta.
  
  
• Ings, S., Gemmer, L., and Beaumont, C. 2004. Forward modeling of salt tectonics responce to sedimentary loading and basement subsidence. American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Abstracts vol. 13.
  
  
• Ings, S., Gemmer, L., and Beaumont, C. 2003. Passive Margin Salt Tectonics: Effects of Margin Tilt, Sediment Progradation, and Regional Extension. CSPG 2003 Convention Abstracts.
  
  
• Gemmer, L., Ings, S., and Beaumont, C. 2003. Passive Margin Salt Tectonics - Insights From Dynamic modeling. CSPG 2003 Convention abstracts.
  
  
• Ings, S., Gemmer, L., and Beaumont, C. 2003. Numerical modeling of passive margin salt tectonics: effects of sediment progradation and margin tilting. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 35, No. 3.
  
  
• Gemmer, L., Ings, S., Medvedev, S., and Beaumont, C. 2002. Viscous creep of substratum and its tectonic effect on viscous and brittle overburden: Applications to salt basins and continental plateaus. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 34, No. 6.
  
  

  
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