NARG Research and Steering Committee Meeting

The NARG Research and Steering Committee Meeting took place on the 19th to the 20th of January in the Williamson Building at the University of Manchester.

Williamson Building
The Williamson Building

The Agenda was as follows:

Research updates - Morocco study

  • Cretaceous Depositional Systems along the Atlantic Passive Margin Morocco:  Source to Sink Study
  • Hinterland Dynamics: timing, source location and delivery
  • Timing and controls on distribution of clastic sediment delivery in the Agadir-Essaouira Basin
  • Timing and controls on distribution of clastic sediment delivery in the Agadir-Essaouira Basin along the Ifni-Tan Tan segment, Morocco
  • Biostratigraphy and establishing a type section for the Early Cretaceous (Barr-Aptian), NW Africa
  • Salt distribution, morphology and mobilisation
  • Carbonate platform and reef deposits from Callovian to Oxfordian in the Agadir-Essaouira Basin
  • Reservoir characterisaton and diagenetic evolution of Callovian to Oxfordian platform and reef deposits: Agadir-Essaouira BasinReservoir characterisaton and diagenetic evolution of Callovian to Oxfordian platform and reef deposits: Agadir-Essaouira Basin
  • Processes and controls of organic enrichment during the Oceanic anoxic event: PhD Jianpang Wang

 Morocco - Forward work plan/ New projects

  • Further work on E Cretaceous systems
  • Triassic rift basins, extensions to east in light of discoveries in the Tendara area?

Mauretania - Forward work plan/ New projects

  • Proposed FT study to unravel basin dynamics. Fieldwork planning

Senegal - Forward work plan/ New projects

  • Offshore seismic study of basin structure and evolution
  • Status of discussions with Petrosen and Universities for joint studies on shore on the Cretaceous depositional systems and petroleum system

The Gambia - Forward work plan/ New projects

  • Offshore seismic study

Updates on NARG Associated Projects

  • Morocco Workshop/Fiedtrip proposal 2017
  • NARG Website
  • Geodatabase

Sponsors, please find more information and the presentations here.

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