Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins From Fold Kinematics to Hydrocarbon Systems

What is the important geologic information recorded in Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins (TBFB) on the evolution of orogens? How do they transcript the coupled influence of deep and surficial geological processes? Is it still worth looking for hydrocarbons in foothills areas? These and other questions are addressed in the volume edited by Lacombe, Lav?, Roure and Verg?s, which constitutes the Proceedings of the first meeting of the new ILP task force on "Sedimentary Basins", held in December 2005 at the Institut Fran?ais du P?trole, on behalf of the Soci?t? G?ologique de France and the Sociedad Geologica de Espa?a. This volumes spans a timely bridge between recent advances in the understanding of surface processes, field investigations, high resolution imagery, analogue-numerical modelling, and hydrocarbon exploration in TBFB. With 25 thematic papers including well-documented regional case studies, it provides a milestone publication as a new in-depth examination of TBFB. TOC:Surficial and deep processes in thrust belts.- Exploration of thrust belts (1): Seismic imaging and traps.- Exploration of thrust belts (2): Fluid flows and hydrocarbon systems.- Structural modeling/restoration.- Zagros/Makran thrust belts.- Carpathian thrust belt.- Tectonics, sedimentation and denudation in thrust belts.

Surficial and Deep Processes in Thrust Belts.- Coupled Lithosphere-Surface Processes in Collision Context.- On Some Geometric Prism Asymmetries.- Exploration of Thrust Belts (1) : Seismic Imaging and Traps.- Understanding Seismic Propagation through Triangle Zones.- 2D Depth Seismic Imaging in the Gaspé Belt, a Structurally Complex Fold and Thrust Belt in the Northern Appalachians, Québec, Canada.- Exploration of Thrust Belts (2) : Fluid Flow and Hydrocarbon Systems.- Fluid Systems in Foreland Fold-and-Thrust Belts: An Overview from the Southern Pyrenees.- The Miocene Petroleum System of the Northern Apennines in the Central Po Plain (Italy).- Structural Modeling / Restoration.- Folds Kinematics in “Fold-and-Thrust Belts” the “Hinge Migration” Question, a Review.- The Use of Surface Restoration in Foothills Exploration: Theory and Application to the Sub-Andean Zone of Bolivia.- Plate Tectonic Setting and Cenozoic Deformation of Trinidad: Foldbelt Restoration in a Region of Significant Strike-Slip.- Kinematics of the SE Canadian Fold and Thrust Belt: Implications for the Thermal and Organic Maturation History.- Zagros/Makran Thrust Belts.- Early Reactivation of Basement Faults in Central Zagros (SW Iran): Evidence from Pre-folding Fracture Populations in Asmari Formation and Lower Tertiary Paleogeography.- Evolution of Maturity in Northern Fars and in the Izeh Zone (Iranian Zagros) and Link with Hydrocarbon Prospectivity.- Mechanical Constraints on the Development of the Zagros Folded Belt (Fars).- Rates and Processes of Active Folding Evidenced by Pleistocene Terraces at the Central Zagros Front (Iran).- The Salt Diapirs of the Eastern Fars Province (Zagros, Iran): A Brief Outline of their Past and Present.- The Role of Pre-Existing Diapirs in Fold and ThrustBelt Development.- Impact of Sedimentation on Convergent Margin Tectonics: Example of the Makran Accretionary Prism (Pakistan).- Offshore Frontal Part of the Makran Accretionary Prism: The Chamak Survey (Pakistan).- Carpathian Thrust Belt.- The Geometry of the South Leading Carpathian Thrust Line and the Moesia Boundary: The Role of Inherited Structures in Establishing a Transcurent Contact on the Concave Side of the Carpathians.- Role of the Foredeep Evaporites in Wedge Tectonics and Formation of Triangle Zones: Comparison of the Carpathian and Pyrenean Thrust Fronts.- Reservoir Properties of Miocene Sandstones in Rzeszow Area (Carpathian Foredeep, Poland).- Relationship between Hydrocarbon Generation and Reservoir Development in the Carpathian Foreland (Poland).- Tectonics, Sedimentation and Denudation in Thrust Belts.- Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Sedimentation in Late Miocene Cortemaggiore Wedge-Top Basin (Northwestern Apennines, Italy).- Meso-Cenozoic Evolution of Mountain Range - Intramontane Basin Systems in the Southern Siberian Altai Mountains by Apatite Fission-Track Thermochronology.- Slab Retreat and Active Shortening along the Central-Northern Apennines.