Vol. 45 - N. 1 SUPPLEMENT Bollettino di Geofisica teorica ed applicata An International Journal of Earth Sciences Guest Editors: G. Bertotti, S. Buiter, P. Ruffo and G. Schreurs From Mountains to Sedimentary Basins: Modelling and Testing Geological Processes Extended Abstracts of the GeoMod2004 International Conference Emmetten – Lake Lucerne Switzerland 9-11 June 2004 Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia ISSN 0006-6729 e di Geofisica Sperimentale Responsibility for all statements made in B.G.T.A. lies with the authors Cover design and typesetting: Nino Bon Studio Grafico – Trieste Printing: Stella Artigrafiche – Trieste Authorized by the Tribunale di Trieste, n. 242, September 17, 1960 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE From Mountains to Sedimentary Basins: Modelling and Testing Geological Processes 9-11 June 2004 Emmetten – Lake Lucerne Switzerland EXTENDED ABSTRACTS GEOMOD2004 9-11 JUNE 2004 – EMMETTEN - LAKE LUCERNE SPONSORS ENI E&P Division EAGE-SEG Italian Section Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam University of Bern Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada IASPEI - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior IFP - Institut Français du Pétrole ISES - Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Sciences Max und Elsa Beer-Brawand-Fonds (Bern, Switzerland) SANW - Swiss Academy of Sciences SNF - Swiss National Science Foundation 4 GEOMOD2004 9-11 JUNE 2004 – EMMETTEN - LAKE LUCERNE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ATILLA AYDIN - Stanford University, USA JEAN BRAUN - ANU, Canberra, Australia JEAN-PIERRE BRUN - Géosciences Rennes, France ROGER BUCK - Lamont-Doherty, Palisades, USA BERNARD COLLETTA - IFP, Rueil Malmaison, France STEPHAN DUPPENBECKER - BP Exploration, Sunbury-on-Thames, UK CLAUDIO FACCENNA - Università Roma Tre, Italy ONNO ONCKEN - GFZ, Potsdam, Germany ADRIAN PFIFFNER - University of Bern, Switzerland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GIOVANNI BERTOTTI - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands SUSANNE BUITER - Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada PAOLO RUFFO - Eni E&P Division, Milan, Italy GUIDO SCHREURS - University of Bern, Switzerland CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ANGELA MARCHETTO - EAGE-SEG Italian Section 5 CONTENTS Session 1 - Surface Processes LANDSCAPE, STRUCTURE AND NEOTECTONICS IN THE SWISS AND FRENCH PREALPES KLIPPEN BELT . .1-01 C. Bonnet, J. Mosar MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF ACTIVE THRUST FAULT SURFACE RUPTURES: ANALOGUE MODELING . .1-02 C. Bonnet, J. Malavieille, S. Dominguez, H. Philip RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UPLIFT, EROSION AND SEDIMENT FLUX: INSIGHTS FROM EXPERIMENTAL MODELING . .1-03 S. Bonnet, A. Crave, J. Babault RECENT ADVANCES AND CURRENT PROBLEMS IN MODELLING SURFACE PROCESSES AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH TECTONICS AND CRUSTAL DEFORMATION . .1-04 J. Braun COMPLEX FAULTING SEQUENCES CONTROLLED BY DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY IN 3D EXPERIMENTAL DEFORMATION OF DOUBLY-VERGENT COULOMB WEDGES. .1-05 M. Del Castello, K.R. McClay, G.A. Pini EVALUATION OF RECENT COLLISION-RELATED TECTONIC PUSH IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN-CAUCASUS ZONE: FEM MODELLING APPROACH . .1-06 M. Jarosin´ ski EROSION AND EXHUMATION IN ACCRETIONARY OROGENS: EXPERIMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL APPROACHES . .1-07 E. Konstantinovskaia, J. Malavieille UNDERSTANDING AND ANALYZING LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC VARIABILITY TO FORECAST RESERVOIR POTENTIAL . .1-08 M. Perlmutter NUMERICAL MODELLING OF DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EROSION, DEPOSITION AND 3-D (THIN PLATE) DEFORMATION . .1-09 G.D.H. Simpson THE IMPACT OF CURVILINEAR HINGE SECTORS ON GROWTH STRATA PATTERNS IN CONTRACTIONAL FAULT-BEND AND FAULT-PROPAGATION FOLDING . .1-10 S. Tavani, F. Storti, F. Salvini MODELING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN EROSION AND TECTONICS IN THREE-DIMENSIONS – EXAMPLES FROM NEW ZEALAND AND TAIWAN . .1-11 P. Upton, P.O. Koons, K. Mueller, Y. Chen Session 2 - Orogenesis WHAT CONTROLS THE MODES OF TECTONIC SHORTENING IN CENTRAL ANDES? . .2-01 A. Babeyko, S. Sobolev COMBINING TECTONIC SHORTENING AND SURFACE EROSION . .2-02 A. Babeyko, T. Vietor, S. Sobolev EFFECT OF HORMUZ SALT ON DEFORMATION STYLE OF ZAGROS FOLD-THRUST BELT . .2-03 A. Bahroudi, H.A. Koyi SUBDUCTION AND PLATE MOTION IN LABORATORY . .2-04 N. Bellahsen, C. Faccenna, F. Funiciello COMPRESSIVE DEFORMATIONS OF HOT ANALOGUE LITHOSPHERES AND POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS TO PRECAMBRIAN TECTONICS . .2-05 F. Cagnard, J.P. Brun, D. Gapais 7 CONTENTS THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRAIN PARTITIONING IN ANALOGUE VERSUS NUMERICAL MODELS OF CONVERGENT OROGENS . .2-06 A.R. Cruden, M.B. Nasseri, R. Pysklywec 2.5 D THIN-SHELL GRAVITATIONAL MODELING IN THE WESTERN/CENTRAL ALPS: COMPARISON WITH SEISMOTECTONIC SYNTHESIS . .2-07 B. Delacou, C. Sue, J.D. Champagnac, M. Burkhard, C. Allanic, N. Béthoux SOME KEY INGREDIENTS FOR SIMULATION OF OROGENIC PROCESSES AT GEOLOGICAL AND SEISMIC TIMESCALES . .2-08 S. Ellis, G. Schreurs, B. Stöckhert NUMERICAL MODELING OF EXHUMATION FLOWS AND P-T PATHS IN SUBDUCTION ZONES . .2-09 T.V. Gerya THE SEISMIC POTENTIAL OF THE INSUBRIA REGION (SOUTHERN ALPS): INSIGHTS FROM TOPOGRAPHIC AND RHEOLOGICAL MODELING . .2-10 F. Giardina, A.M. Michetti, L. Serva, C. Doglioni FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS OF SUBDUCTION AND MOUNTAIN BUILDING PROCESSES: CONCEPTS AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS . .2-11 A. Hampel, A. Pfiffner PHASE DEPENDENT STRAIN PARTITIONING IN OBLIQUELY CONVERGENT SETTINGS . .2-12 A. Hoffmann-Rothe, N. Kukowski, O. Oncken LITHOSPHERIC INSTABILITIES AND THE CENTRAL ANDEAN OROGENESIS . .2-13 L. Husson, Y. Ricard MODELLING THE DEFORMATION FRONT OF FOLD-THRUST BELTS CONTAINING MULTIPLE WEAK HORIZONS . .2-14 H.A. Koyi, M. Sans, A. Bahroudi MATERIAL AND FLUID FLUX AT CONVERGENT MARGINS: WHAT ENDS UP IN THE FOREARC? . .2-15 N. Kukowski COMPLICATED FOLDING AND 3D-MODELING OF PRECAMBRIAN FORMATIONS . .2-16 E. Laine WHICH PARAMETERS CONTROL KINEMATICS AND MASS TRANSFER WITHIN SUBDUCTION CHANNELS? . .2-17 J. Lohrmann, N. Kukowski, C.M. Krawczyk, O. Oncken TESTING THE MINIMUM DISSIPATION THEORY IN SAND-BOX EXPERIMENTS . .2-18 B. Maillot, H.A. Koyi NUMERICAL MODELLING OF ASYMMETRIC SINGLE- AND MULTI-LAYER FOLDS . .2-19 N. Mancktelow STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF FOLD-THRUST STRUCTURES DEVELOPED IN ANALOG (CENTRIFUGE) MODELS . .2-20 T.E. Noble, J.M. Dixon CRUSTAL SCALE BUCKLING IN THE PRESENCE OF THERMAL ANOMALIES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ARCHEAN . .2-21 A.P. Peschler, K. Benn, W.R. Roest INTERPRETING STAGE WARPING EVENTS USING 3D SIMULATION: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE PLATTENGNEIS SHEAR ZONE, EASTERN ALPS . .2-22 M. Putz, K. Stüwe, M. Jessell, P. Calcagno ANALOGUE EXPERIMENTS OF INDENTATION TECTONICS AND BREAK-OFF: INSIGHT TO ARABIA INDENTATION . .2-23 V. Regard, C. Faccenna, J. Martinod, O. Bellier 8 CONTENTS THE ROLE OF INDENTER RHEOLOGY DURING CONTINENTAL COLLISION: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATION TO THE EASTERN ALPS . .2-24 J.C. Robl, K. Stüwe COEVAL SHORTENING, THICKENING AND OROGEN-PARALLEL EXTENSION: LABORATORY MODELS APPLIED TO THE EASTERN ALPS . .2-25 C.L. Rosenberg, J.P. Brun, F. Cagnard, D. Gapais DEFORMATION OF UNCONFORMABLE SEQUENCES: A FIELD CASE STUDY AND PRELIMINARY ANALOGUE MODELLING . .2-26 E. Saura, H.A. Koyi, A. Teixell GROWTH OF AN OROGENIC WEDGE BY FRONTAL ACCRETION: FIRST RESULTS OF A NUMERICAL MODEL STUDY . .2-27 C. Selzer, S. Buiter, A. Hampel, A. Pfiffner MODELING SUBDUCTION OROGENY IN THE CENTRAL ANDES . .2-28 S. Sobolev, A. Babeyko GEOMETRICAL MODELLING OF COMPRESSIONAL ANALOGUE SANDBOX EXPERIMENTS: WHAT THE DIFFERENCES MEAN . .2-29 D.C. Tanner, J. Adam NUMERICAL AND ANALOGUE MODELLING OF METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT . .2-30 C. Tirel, J-P. Brun, E. Burov, D. Sokoutis OBLIQUE RAMPS AFFECTING THE NORTHERN APENNINE FRONT: INSIGHTS FROM SEISMIC DATA AND ANALOGUE MODELS . .2-31 G. Toscani, A. Ravaglia, S. Seno INFLUENCE OF THE INITIAL GEOMETRY OF LATERAL STRENGTH VARIATIONS DURING CONTINENTAL CONVERGENCE: AN ANALOGUE MODELLING STUDY . .2-32 E. Willingshofer, D. Sokoutis, J-P. Burg ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL MODELLING OF ACCRETIONARY PRISMS WITH GRANULAR MATERIALS . .2-33 Y. Yamada, S. Ueda, K. Kaneda, K. Baba, T. Matsuoka VELOCITY AND STRESS DISTRIBUTIONS DURING CONTINENTAL COLLISION; INSIGHTS FROM DISCRETE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS . .2-34 Y. Yamada, A. Tanaka, T. Matsuoka Session 3 - Sedimentary Basins A 3D IMAGE OF THE VENETIAN FORELAND BASIN (NE ITALY) THROUGH A 2D (PLANFORM) ANALYSIS. .3-01 C. Barbieri, D. Garcia-Castellanos RELATING VERTICAL MOVEMENTS AND STRESS/STRAIN FIELDS IN SEDIMENTARY BASINS AND ADJACENT OROGENS FOLLOWING THE MAIN STAGES OF CONTRACTION: MODELLING AND REALITY OF LITHOSPHERIC/CRUSTAL BUCKLING . .3-02 G. Bertotti FORMATION OF EXTENSIONAL SEDIMENTARY BASINS: THE ROLE OF SURFACE PROCESSES IN MODE SELECTION . .3-03 S.J.H. Buiter, R.S. Huismans, C. Beaumont PASSIVE EXTENSION IN SALT-BEARING PASSIVE MARGINS: NEW INSIGHTS BY ANALOGUE MODELING . .3-04 E. Costa, C. Cavozzi, N. Doglioni FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF SEDIMENTARY BASIN ARCHITECTURE AND HYDROCARBON MIGRATION . .3-05 S.M. Clarke, S.D. Burley, G.D. Williams, A.J. Richards, D.J. Merredith 9 CONTENTS LITHOSPHERIC MEMORY, STATE OF STRESS AND RHEOLOGY: NEO-TECTONIC CONTROLS ON EUROPE’S CONTINENTAL TOPOGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTARY BASINS . .3-06 S. Cloetingh, F. Beekman, P. Andriessen, G. Bada, L. Matenco, P. Ziegler, D. Garcia-Castellanos, D. Sokoutis, N. Hardebol, P. Dezes CENTRIFUGE MODELLING OF PERIODIC INSTABILITIES DURING CONTINENTAL EXTENSION . .3-07 G. Corti INTERACTION BETWEEN NORMAL FAULTS AND PRE-EXISTING THRUST SYSTEMS IN LABORATORY PHISICAL MODELS . .3-08 S. Lucia, G. Corti, M. Bonini, F. Sani, F. Mazzarini USE OF STRATIGRAPHIC MODELLING IN SEDIMENTARY BASINS . .3-09 D. Granjeon, J.-M. Daniel THE ROLE OF STRESS ORIENTATION ON FAULT REACTIVATION: AN ANALOGUE MODELLING