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oa The Mud Volcanoes Tectonic Setting and Associated Hydrocarbon Migrations - New Insight from Barbados, Trinidad and Sicily
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, EAGE Conference on Geology and Petroleum Geology of the Mediterranean and Circum-Mediterranean Basins, Oct 2000, cp-109-00103
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-14-6
Abstract
In convergent margins, tectonic wedges (especially thick - accretionary prisms) are frequently affected by shale diapirism and mud extrusion processes which influence both the structural evolution and the fluid dynamics within the tectonic wedge.