Techniques for including large deformations associated with salt and fault motion in basin modeling

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 551-564

  Mello, Ulisses T ^a   Henderson, Michael E ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin modeling; Meshing; Salt motion; Topological data structures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DEFORMATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SALT DEPOSITS; TOPOLOGY;

BASIN MODELING; FAULT MOTION; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; MESHING;

TECTONICS;

BASIN MODELLING; DEFORMATION; MESHING; SALT TECTONICS;

EID: 0031205849     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(97)00015-9     Document Type: Article

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